macaronish
Hit the Road
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- 1/1/23
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I know hormones are, to an extent, normal in companion parrots. But seeing my girl hormonal is making me feel pretty guilty as a parront... since she clearly desires something she can never have as a household pet. Being hormonal doesn't make her at all aggressive or loud, she hasn't been biting or aggressive or territorial, but she's spending all her time preening and isn't responding to training or toys as distractions. I've increased her hours of darkness and am not allowing shoulder time, plus I rearranged her cage and am taking her on outings in a travel cage, but I can just tell she's unhappy. I ignore her when she makes mating displays (alone in her cage, never when we are interacting thankfully) but I'm super worried about egg binding since she came to me on a poor diet and no exercise