Tonilou
Registered
Hi everyone,
We’ve recently bought a yellow sided conure, only a few days ago. He’s 7 months old, quite tame but he has an issue with hands and biting. He’s not biting enough to break the skin but it’s definitely painful and leaves a mark. We’re just wanting some advice on how to stop him biting, what to do when he does bite. I’ve read so many articles, watched loads of videos but they’re so many conflicting stories I don’t what to do for the best.
The previous owner said he was tame, nipped occasionally (which I know is normal) and would handle him often. From arriving to view him, I got the feeling this wasn’t the case, as he was in a room full of other different birds and the place itself wasn’t that great.
If he’s in his cage, he’ll come down to the nearest perch and put his head down, right up to the bars for you to stroke him. He’ll let you put your hand in his cage to hand feed him. I don’t put my hand in to get him out, I open his cage and let him come out when he’s ready, which is normally within seconds. He’ll fly to the chair, then to us on the sofa. He seems happy to move between me and my husband. Climbing all over us, letting us stroke and hand feed him but he’ll nip and bite really hard. He doesn’t seem to be doing it out of fear. Surely if he wasn’t happy he wouldn’t come near us?
We know it’ll take lots of time and patience, which we have plenty of. We just want to make sure we go about it the right way.
We’ve recently bought a yellow sided conure, only a few days ago. He’s 7 months old, quite tame but he has an issue with hands and biting. He’s not biting enough to break the skin but it’s definitely painful and leaves a mark. We’re just wanting some advice on how to stop him biting, what to do when he does bite. I’ve read so many articles, watched loads of videos but they’re so many conflicting stories I don’t what to do for the best.
The previous owner said he was tame, nipped occasionally (which I know is normal) and would handle him often. From arriving to view him, I got the feeling this wasn’t the case, as he was in a room full of other different birds and the place itself wasn’t that great.
If he’s in his cage, he’ll come down to the nearest perch and put his head down, right up to the bars for you to stroke him. He’ll let you put your hand in his cage to hand feed him. I don’t put my hand in to get him out, I open his cage and let him come out when he’s ready, which is normally within seconds. He’ll fly to the chair, then to us on the sofa. He seems happy to move between me and my husband. Climbing all over us, letting us stroke and hand feed him but he’ll nip and bite really hard. He doesn’t seem to be doing it out of fear. Surely if he wasn’t happy he wouldn’t come near us?
We know it’ll take lots of time and patience, which we have plenty of. We just want to make sure we go about it the right way.