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  • With ALOT of patience. How long have you had your bird for? How old is your bird? Do u know any of his background..was he possibly abused of in any type of traumatizing situation that may have made him afraid of people or is he just a baby? You just need to take things at your birds pace. Build up a trusting relationship before you try anything else, or else you may damage the long term relationship between the two of you.
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  • If he is with other birds, separate him in his own cage. Keep him in an area you frequent so he is used to people being around. Two times a day, open his cage and hold a pencil into it for 15 minutes. Do this for about a week, then start putting your hand in with your finger pointing out. This should get him used to your hands. Do NOT force him to do anything or poke him, you want to let him get comfortable being that close to your hand on his own. If he has been through some trauma this might take even longer. If you are patient, he will eventually come around and be ok with sitting on your hand. If you want to expedite this process, get his wings clipped. After that, let him roam around in a room clear of anything that could hurt him. Let him figure out he can't fly, he should warm up to you a little bit and at the very least stand on your hand and anything you offer for him to perch on. Also, if this is a female, the whole process will be easier as they are more accepting and easier to tame. As far as the strength of their bites, I've found unless they were hand raised from a baby, they bite hard or harder. You can tame them to not bite you though. Don't give up! I've tamed some of the meanest biting cockatiels into lovable companions. One person gave one away to me that took a chunk out of his finger while he was changing a food dish, and 6 months later I had it eating out of my hand and sitting on my shoulder.

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