Help Please!

[Natalie73]

Hi everyone! I am in a bit of a pickle.. I took in an aggressive (over 10 year old) quaker parrot a while back and have been slowly taming him. He still will try to bite because of what the previous owners were doing to him. He has been around my parakeets, canaries & budgies and they have always gotten along. One of my parakeets were in the cage while he was out of the cage and something prompted him to bite my parakeet, Sunny‘s claw. It was bleeding for only about 30-45 seconds as I put powder on his claw. Sunny (the parakeet) and Jamie (the Quaker) just met each other yesterday and were perfectly fine interacting with each other. I am definitely taken aback as to why my quaker would do this as this is not a normal behavior for him. In fact, he is very protective over all my birds. It’s understandable Jamie wouldn’t want to interact with people as he is traumatized and scared because of his past life with his previous owners, but it’s a whole other thing that he would bite my parakeets claw. Can someone recommend what I should do to help my parakeets claw heal? And maybe help me find out the reason why my quaker would bite my parakeet? Thank you!

 

[Xoetix]

to clarify, it was the parakeet in the Quaker cage while he was out of it?

 

[emlyie]

i'm no expert but i saw in a facebook group that teabags can help? black tea bag, let it cool and put it on the wound
*double checked and yeah, it's a good home remedy for birds and people ^_^

 

[April]

@Pixiebeak

 

[Mizzely]

Quakers are territorial. So they do not want anyone but close flock members in their "nest" or cage. I would not recommend allowing the parakeet and Quaker to interact, as the Quaker can do a lot of damage with a simple "back off".

 

[Pixiebeak]

i'm no expert but i saw in a facebook group that teabags can help? black tea bag, let it cool and put it on the wound
*double checked and yeah, it's a good home remedy for birds and people ^_^

It is! The tannins promote clotting! I learned this when I had a tooth pulled! The doctor told me to soak the tea bag wring out water and chomp it between my teeth as long as I could . Fascinating! Oh and note I didn't have to use hot water, cold is fine , hot not so good to use

Also I'm a huge fan of dilute betadine soaks to feet, or holding a wash cloth , gauze or paper towels soaked in solution on wound. Or get a little spritzer, and spritz the wound with dilute betadine. It's safe , but stains . No ointment, ointment traps and attracts debris.

 

[Pixiebeak]

On your quaker, if the Budgies was on the side of the cage inside, with toes sticking out ..it looks weird and any time one bird is in a cage and one is out of cage ...it's dangerous, fights happen even between buddies, and especially toe chomps!!

My quakers are good with my Budgies out of cage , with all flighted and a able to retreat. I never have them unsupervised, but I haven't had any issues. The only time I was concerned was a Budgie in an open cage and a Quaker climbing in. I quickly removed as could trap and kill or do damage. But as always with a larger bird and a much smaller bird there is risk

I once was inside a cage cleaning and a bird walked across the toes looked like creepy bugs , to me lol

Thanks for taking in a rescue!! Yay!! How long have you had ?