UrbanSylvanus
Strolling the yard
- Joined
- 9/9/19
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It's been over 2 weeks and wow, time sure flies doesn't it?
I figure since the thread has been relatively quiet I could share how Machi is doing!
Here he is!
I think I've gotten a better read on how he ticks these days, and he seems to have understood that the human giving him food needs more outright body language to understand him lol.
First of all, he's letting me get scritches in, which means he doesn't mind my fingers when they're helping him groom! Usually if I hold out a finger he either
1) turns his head and fluffs up his head feathers to be like "scritch here, please."
2) Leans foreward and opens his beak, to which I draw my finger away and let him have his space.
Besides that he does still try to nibble at anything tan and fleshy, and he's biting harder so I'm assuming it's territory aggression, he's getting into his teenage phase (since he's approaching 4 months), or both. He doesn't outright attack me so I just give him space to climb around and draw my limbs out of reach when he opens his beak.
I think I have the timing down for when I should offer him a bath as well. Some kind people here have suggested spritzing with warm water, and pointing the nozzle up so it isn't invasive and that seems to help so thank you!
(Here he is after the most recent bath, looking quite drowned rat-ish (I say affectionately))
He's started morning screaming, which was startling at first, since I wasn't quite ready for how loud Linnies could get, but it seems like no one minds it so I just keep the room dark until I'm ready for it.
All in all, I think we're making good progress! He's probably not quite used to me yet, since he hasn't tried perching on me (he does so when I have to rescue him and our favorite moving perch is out of reach but he hasn't quite tried of his own volition besides crashing onto my shoulder once lol) but I'm willing to wait.
I figure since the thread has been relatively quiet I could share how Machi is doing!
Here he is!
I think I've gotten a better read on how he ticks these days, and he seems to have understood that the human giving him food needs more outright body language to understand him lol.
First of all, he's letting me get scritches in, which means he doesn't mind my fingers when they're helping him groom! Usually if I hold out a finger he either
1) turns his head and fluffs up his head feathers to be like "scritch here, please."
2) Leans foreward and opens his beak, to which I draw my finger away and let him have his space.
Besides that he does still try to nibble at anything tan and fleshy, and he's biting harder so I'm assuming it's territory aggression, he's getting into his teenage phase (since he's approaching 4 months), or both. He doesn't outright attack me so I just give him space to climb around and draw my limbs out of reach when he opens his beak.
I think I have the timing down for when I should offer him a bath as well. Some kind people here have suggested spritzing with warm water, and pointing the nozzle up so it isn't invasive and that seems to help so thank you!
(Here he is after the most recent bath, looking quite drowned rat-ish (I say affectionately))
He's started morning screaming, which was startling at first, since I wasn't quite ready for how loud Linnies could get, but it seems like no one minds it so I just keep the room dark until I'm ready for it.
All in all, I think we're making good progress! He's probably not quite used to me yet, since he hasn't tried perching on me (he does so when I have to rescue him and our favorite moving perch is out of reach but he hasn't quite tried of his own volition besides crashing onto my shoulder once lol) but I'm willing to wait.