cricketiel
Sitting on the front steps
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- 5/14/20
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- Dana
Hello all,
My 2 year old female cockatiel just started doing what I presume to be a female mating call/dance (as I watched videos of female mating calls on youtube and it sounds exactly like she does). She sits in her food bowl while she does this, which makes me concerned that she might be viewing the bowl as a nest. I know nest boxes make birds hormonal so I don't have anything like that in the cage, but obviously I can't remove the bowl so I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how to help her.
On a bit of a side note (albiet I believe still related to hormones), she has been plucking herself for the past year. It is the worst on the inside of her legs (like her "inner thigh"), which is the only place that she is actually bald. I took her to the vet last spring and he told me it was hormonal and should stop with the end of hormone season, but it persisted throughout the entirety of fall and still continues now. She has more toys than she knows what to do with (non-rope preening toys included) and I switch them around regularly. Has anyone else had this problem with inner-thigh pants plucking? It just seems like such an odd place to focus plucking behavior.
Thank you!
My 2 year old female cockatiel just started doing what I presume to be a female mating call/dance (as I watched videos of female mating calls on youtube and it sounds exactly like she does). She sits in her food bowl while she does this, which makes me concerned that she might be viewing the bowl as a nest. I know nest boxes make birds hormonal so I don't have anything like that in the cage, but obviously I can't remove the bowl so I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how to help her.
On a bit of a side note (albiet I believe still related to hormones), she has been plucking herself for the past year. It is the worst on the inside of her legs (like her "inner thigh"), which is the only place that she is actually bald. I took her to the vet last spring and he told me it was hormonal and should stop with the end of hormone season, but it persisted throughout the entirety of fall and still continues now. She has more toys than she knows what to do with (non-rope preening toys included) and I switch them around regularly. Has anyone else had this problem with inner-thigh pants plucking? It just seems like such an odd place to focus plucking behavior.
Thank you!