Screaming Pionus

[Midori177]

How do you get a blue headed pionus to stop screaming? We can't just ignore her cause we live in a coop apartment and our neighbors would be up in arms. TIA

 

[MommyBird]

Parrots - Stop Excessive Squawking or Screaming | ThinkParrot

Your Screaming Parrot and You

 

[Midori177]

Parrots - Stop Excessive Squawking or Screaming | ThinkParrot

Your Screaming Parrot and You

Thank you

 

[Mizzely]

Is it new behavior? Figuring out the trigger is very helpful!

 

[TheBirds]

Because company loves misery .... our 9 y/o new-to-us dusky has a shriek that sounds like a smoke detector going off repeatedly, for infinity. He'll do it for hours to get my attention. Luckily we're in a detached but you can still hear it outside, so we warned our neighbours in case they hear it and think there's a fire

Please let us know what you have success with to eliminate the behaviour!

 

[T. gillii]

Because company loves misery .... our 9 y/o new-to-us dusky has a shriek that sounds like a smoke detector going off repeatedly, for infinity. He'll do it for hours to get my attention. Luckily we're in a detached but you can still hear it outside, so we warned our neighbours in case they hear it and think there's a fire

Please let us know what you have success with to eliminate the behaviour!

I am lucky apparently... neither of my Pionus ever screamed. lol

 

[Midori177]

She screams especially when we leave the room.

 

[momazon]

It helped mine to establish a routine of shoulder time, shower, food, toys, a treat and videos. Once they got enormous attention, the shrieking improved.

 

[Zilga]

I am lucky apparently... neither of my Pionus ever screamed. lol

Neither of mine are big screamers, either. Exceptions are when dinner is late, or if the screebs REALLY get going, sometimes Fig will join in.

 

[Dartman]

Dobby knows the schedule here and will nap, eat, and play with his toys till he knows everyone is home and settled then he starts making whistles and cute noises to remind us it's time to release the beast and he's usually out till bedtime.
It my sister Sandy leaves the room he'll KACK... KACK... KACK... till she comes back. Sister is his chosen one. He was part of Momazons flock till life changed for her and I lost my buddy Lurch so she decided I'd be a good dad and passed him to me. She knows Pionus well and did a great job with Dobby between her and her duaghter.
They are great at learning your schedule and entertaining themselves till it's time to come out as long as they have plenty of toys and things to play with while waiting for out time.

 

[Nostromo]

Our female pionus' scream when they're hungry or hormonal. For hormonal screaming, I find frequent baths, play time, outside time help. Get some foraging toys and put nuts in there for them to figure out to eat. More veggies in their diet, less calorie-dense food like pellets, cut out all but occasional seeds and nuts, etc. Pellets of course should be the base diet but increase veggie intake and reduce pellets if they're super hormonal to trigger less of a "there's so much food, I should breed!" reaction. Teaching our girls to fly also reduced their screaming because they fly to where/who they want rather than screaming in frustration.

 

[Midori177]

Our female pionus' scream when they're hungry or hormonal. For hormonal screaming, I find frequent baths, play time, outside time help. Get some foraging toys and put nuts in there for them to figure out to eat. More veggies in their diet, less calorie-dense food like pellets, cut out all but occasional seeds and nuts, etc. Pellets of course should be the base diet but increase veggie intake and reduce pellets if they're super hormonal to trigger less of a "there's so much food, I should breed!" reaction. Teaching our girls to fly also reduced their screaming because they fly to where/who they want rather than screaming in frustration.

thank u

 

[Midori177]

My baby will not touch her veggies. how can i fix this?

 

[Finchbreed]

Experiment with different veges to see what she likes.

 

[Midori177]

I have with no success. She won't even eat fruit, just pellets and almonds. Very picky

 

[Nostromo]

I have with no success. She won't even eat fruit, just pellets and almonds. Very picky

I make a veggie chop (you can look that up on this website and get lots of info and recipes) and the way I got my picky older girl eating it is that I would, standing in front of her, hide her favorite treats (nutriberries) in a ball of veggie chop. So she had to pick through the chop to get to the nutriberry, and then would eat the nutriberry over the bowl and it would crumble into the bowl, and then she'd pick out the pieces. Over time she got used to the taste of chop from the little bits she ate this way, and started eating it even without nutriberries. If you add stuff like brown rice, cooked lentils etc it'll increase the birds' interest (not too much, cos it provides too many calories, but just enough to get their attention). Also try things like raw squash chopped in half and given on a skewer, since it has yummy seeds in there, and your bird may get curious over time and try some of the flesh.

 

[Midori177]

I make a veggie chop (you can look that up on this website and get lots of info and recipes) and the way I got my picky older girl eating it is that I would, standing in front of her, hide her favorite treats (nutriberries) in a ball of veggie chop. So she had to pick through the chop to get to the nutriberry, and then would eat the nutriberry over the bowl and it would crumble into the bowl, and then she'd pick out the pieces. Over time she got used to the taste of chop from the little bits she ate this way, and started eating it even without nutriberries. If you add stuff like brown rice, cooked lentils etc it'll increase the birds' interest (not too much, cos it provides too many calories, but just enough to get their attention). Also try things like raw squash chopped in half and given on a skewer, since it has yummy seeds in there, and your bird may get curious over time and try some of the flesh.

Thank you