Hello everyone!
A particular habit I have noticed my sun conure has picked up on is regurgitating.
Its mating season for him because it is in conjunction with some birdie masturbation but I have noticed that my little Cygni attempts to regurgitate a lot! He sees me handling something with my hands, he starts head-bobbing rapidly and doing a "nom nom" motion with his beak. He sees a measuring cup, same thing. The orange dish-washing brush, ditto. Now however, whenever I remove the current stimuli, he finds something else he loves and immediately want to regurgitate on it! His rope toy he likes to sleep on, his steel cup for his morning fruits and veggies, his yellow wrapped dowel perch on his play stand, my bed! Just my bed! If he is on it, he'll run under a bunch of blankets and I'll hear him doing the bobbing motion. We have only one room in our apartment and if I enter the room no matter the time (usually around midnight) if he hears me make a noise, there he goes banging on his toy in that regurgitating motion! He never actually regurgitates up his food, only a little pellet-y liquid like he's just starting to. When he does it at night however I always find hardened green liquid mush on his sleeping toy and some remnants on his beak in the morning! I check the sides of his cage and his other toys and find no flecks of food (so not vomit) and he doesn't do a flicking motion its a definite head bob motion. His poop is normal, behavior is very loud and very horny but other wise normal. Feathers in good condition, his eyes clear, his nares are dry with some dry sneezes and the occasional wet sneeze but otherwise normal. His last check-up was in May.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to help tone down his regurgitation or have any opinions or similar stories about this sort of behavior???
A particular habit I have noticed my sun conure has picked up on is regurgitating.
Its mating season for him because it is in conjunction with some birdie masturbation but I have noticed that my little Cygni attempts to regurgitate a lot! He sees me handling something with my hands, he starts head-bobbing rapidly and doing a "nom nom" motion with his beak. He sees a measuring cup, same thing. The orange dish-washing brush, ditto. Now however, whenever I remove the current stimuli, he finds something else he loves and immediately want to regurgitate on it! His rope toy he likes to sleep on, his steel cup for his morning fruits and veggies, his yellow wrapped dowel perch on his play stand, my bed! Just my bed! If he is on it, he'll run under a bunch of blankets and I'll hear him doing the bobbing motion. We have only one room in our apartment and if I enter the room no matter the time (usually around midnight) if he hears me make a noise, there he goes banging on his toy in that regurgitating motion! He never actually regurgitates up his food, only a little pellet-y liquid like he's just starting to. When he does it at night however I always find hardened green liquid mush on his sleeping toy and some remnants on his beak in the morning! I check the sides of his cage and his other toys and find no flecks of food (so not vomit) and he doesn't do a flicking motion its a definite head bob motion. His poop is normal, behavior is very loud and very horny but other wise normal. Feathers in good condition, his eyes clear, his nares are dry with some dry sneezes and the occasional wet sneeze but otherwise normal. His last check-up was in May.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to help tone down his regurgitation or have any opinions or similar stories about this sort of behavior???
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