Thank you for the help. We didnt know that linnies were shy the guy that sold him to us said there great pets who love being with humans. We had two parakeets and they loved us and were awesome but they died of old age so my mom thought since they had the name parakeet they were just bigger parakeets. My sister is terrified of this one and i keep trying to get him to be nice but so far hes not. He isnt terrified of my hand he attacks it sometimes i cant even change his water because as soon as I stick my hand in there he attacks me thats why my dad said were getting rid of him nobody can touch him and my dad hates the sqawking noise. Im just trying to give him like a last chance because hes so cute.
You're so welcome. There's always exceptions but on average most every Linnie weather hand fed or not will at some point in their lives devolpe a fear of hands. Most of the time from my understanding it happens around the year and a half to 2 year old mark. My boy is from a pet store so I highly doubt he was hand raised so I already had that working against me once I got him. There are plenty of linnies out there who will happily hang out with their owners, but every birdie is an individual of course. Just because he doesn't run away from your hands doesn't mean he isnt scared of them. He can be scared of them and get defensive and bite vs running away so please keep that in mind. I'd really encourage you to not continue to reach for him and force him out. With respect he isn't wanting that type of relationship from you at the moment and trying to have him out without this way over and over is just damaging your bond more. Perhaps you could try to train him to step up onto a perch and then place him on a playstand or another safe area that he can be out in with some toys and maybe a foraging tray with some food or treats and see he'd be willing to stay there and entertain himself with you nearby. But ideally if its safe you'd probably have more luck opening the cage and letting him come out on his own if that's what he wants.
Something that's very helpful will be to add a perch to his cage door so that way you can open his door and he can be standing on that perch and then it will be easy for him out be out of the cage without you having to reach inside. He may also be cage defensive since he's getting older which is possibly another reason why now he's attacking your hands even at the food and water bowls. How big is his cage? If its small enough that he doesn't have any room to really remove himself from the immediate area when you are changing his bowls that will also add to his stress and make him more likely to lash out.
Do you have a picture of his cage set up?
He may also be bored if he doesn't have a lot of toys and perches to entertain himself with. I have Bosco in an HQ Flight cage and he uses every inch of it. I have 17 perches and 15 toys in there. Which is a little overkill perhaps, but he's badly clipped from the petstore and he needs all the perches to traverse the cage easier but on average you'd wanna have at least 6 different perches and 4 or more toys in your cage to offer as much fun and stimulation as you can.
He's also at this point sexually mature and that can also cause more frustrations and aggressive behavior especially if he doesn't have a way to get some of that energy out with toys or plenty of activity. That may also be part of why he's so loud. Bosco has definitely become louder as he gets older. For a "Quiet" species he screams almost as loud as my old Conures did and if its anything like the noise, he makes I do feel for you.
I'm very blessed that Bosco rarely uses that level of noise and its pretty much only triggered by the tv being too loud for his liking but I know that any day he could start to scream all the time and I greatly hope he doesn't.
