Breeding season is definitely here. Chewie is still being crazy. He just wanted to be touched all over and gets frustrated when I tell him that I'm not going to rub him under the wing. This morning he's sitting in the office with me and making grunting noises because he's frustrated. I stopped paying attention to him for 2 minutes and he grabbed my thumb with his beak. He wasn't putting any pressure on me, but he was holding it firmly. I looked at him and said, "Excuse me?" then he opened his beak and sort of chuckled. I told him that wasn't funny and my fingers don't belong in his beak. The next time I'm going to bite one of his toes and see how he likes it
Bo is finally weaned! She's been a full week without formula now. What a difference from Freya where she just started playing us over it and we had to cut her off, to Bo who regressed while being sick, and then one day decided she didn't want it anymore. She's been active in her cage and has destroyed a few wooden toys. The last thing we need to do is get her nails trimmed and I can plan to have her sent home to her momma. I know she's anxiously waiting for her to get home.
Bo's parents are horrible right now. Zachary gets into his breeding mood long before Zelda does and now he's frustrated with her. Sometimes he screams in frustration and other times he is so aggressive with her that I feel like I need to separate them. The one time I tried she screamed so loud I thought the neighbors might call the police about it. When she's finally receptive to breeding things are fine, but until then it's a rough situation.
We're waiting on disease testing on the new red-fronted macaws to come back. If everything is good, we'll make plans to have them shipped to us and they will go into the cage that BooBoo and Natcho used to share. I'll have to strip it and get it cleaned first, but it's a good size flight cage for them and I have a nest box ready. Like the other pair we have, they have been together for years but were never given a nest box for breeding. They were scoped and the vet confirms they are fertile, we just have to see if they will be as well bonded and productive.
Here is Chewy sitting on my arm just as I started typing this. I had to put him back on his stand because he was wiggling all over the place. I have my work laptop just out of the picture to the left. As soon as I put him back on his stand he made a huge mess so I'm really glad he didn't explode on my laptop. I'm due for a replacement, but it would be hard to explain to my boss why it came back so dirty.
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