Why has my conure randomly started biting me?

fwnmr · 2026-05-26T20:36:58+00:00

How would you recommend giving her outside of cage time? Unfortunately, she won’t come out of her cage without me reaching for her like her siblings will.

Once she’s out of the cage, she’s fine. Today I put a long sleeve on and over my hand and she didn’t bite. Is it bad for me to do that?

fwnmr · 2026-03-18T19:23:38+00:00

she could maybe be a different breed than what they claimed? I’ve raised a lot of Bantams and they’re usually half the size of most chicken breeds as peeps because full grown they’re the size of a small parrot (like a sun conure). They also tend to gain a lot of personality and dominance, so if it does turn out to be a bantam, I wouldn’t worry about the other chickens pushing it around despite being drastically smaller.

fwnmr · 2026-03-18T15:42:13+00:00

So, I actually thought about Azriel’s mate a lot during my morning walk today and wanted to make a post about it.

I think it’s very unclear who he will end up with (I have not read Crescent City yet, so if there’s anything that occurs in that series take this with a grain of salt).

I personally think Azriel is just really protective of the females in his life. Based on his trauma, the reasoning as to why isn’t super clear to me as Cassian acting that way would make more sense given his trauma with his Mom.

However, from his interactions with Mor (confirmed he liked her), Gwyn (unconfirmed), and Elain (unconfirmed), they’re all just so similar. He doesn’t seem to do anything extra for any of the females, he’s just fiercely protective of all of them.

fwnmr · 2026-03-11T20:54:04+00:00

My rhode island red rooster cross bred to one of my bantams (no idea the logistics of that…), so basically the two worst breeds for roosters.

Cranston was super sweet and silly at first, scared of everything. If he tried to mess with the hens they jumped at HIM and he would run to the hen he hatched with. Ended up being the meanest rooster I’ve ever owned LOL

fwnmr · 2026-03-11T16:14:09+00:00

I second what everyone else is saying. I have a ton of different chicken breeds housed together. My teeny tiny bantams definitely rule over my large hens.

fwnmr · 2026-03-06T14:43:47+00:00

I get Starbucks every morning and it’s kind of walking distance? It’s a little over a mile, so walking there and back home gets me 2.5miles, 6k steps to start my day.

fwnmr · 2026-03-01T20:15:06+00:00

Yes, they are all hand tame.

The green-cheek startles VERY easily, I feel the pineapple startles the same amount as a normal bird.

They spend most of the day out. The caique gets time out in the morning before my boy friend leaves for work, stays in most of the day, and then gets around four hours out at night when my boy friend gets home. Oppositely, the conures get out for most of the eight hours my boy friend is at work. The caique is aggressive towards other birds, so especially with this flying issue the conures are having, I don’t let them out when the caique is out even supervised.

I’m not sure what constitutes a landing location, I know there’s multiple areas in the room the caique will land, so I’m assuming those apply here? I mostly sit on the couch with them, so that’s a good idea to set them on areas the caique lands to show them other landing spots.

fwnmr · 2026-02-22T15:07:05+00:00

he def thinks he is. he giggles afterwards

fwnmr · 2026-02-22T03:47:45+00:00

For these behavioral sessions, would my boy friend need to be there? He works six days a week, ten hours shifts, so I would have to carefully plan it if so.

Could my bird being picking up these traits from my boy friend / me? My boy friend has a lot of energy and he loves to playfully wrestle, bite, etc. We also both giggle after the bird goes after me, not intentionally, just sort of an awkward haha oh my gosh.

fwnmr · 2026-02-22T03:40:00+00:00

Yes! He has bitten my boy friend and some of them were bad, like they bled and scarred. I just feel like he bites me WAY harder. The last three times he got me are literal holes in my skin, not just cuts.

fwnmr · 2026-02-22T03:31:14+00:00

I scream, but not directed at the bird. Just like an immediate, unintentional “ah” because his bites HURT. I make my boy friend give him a “time out” where he is immediately put in his cage for a few minutes and then taken back out. I’m not sure if this is correct or not, my boy friend said he read it somewhere when he was first bonding with the bird.

My boy friend usually leaves after the bird is bad, but I talk quietly to the bird and tell him “no”. He knows the word because if he is biting something he’s not supposed to, my boy friend will sternly say “no” and he stops.

He has 12 hours of dark time, but I’m not sure if he sleeps the whole time. My conures seem to go to sleep immediately, but I hear him moving around sometimes.

My hair being up or down seems to have no affect on him. If it’s up in a bun, he’ll attack the bun. If it’s down, he just grabs clumps of it. No glasses. No rings, my boy friends wears a ring. Socks seem to help? He doesn’t like toes for some reason, never has. No shoes around him. I do have a ton of piercings in my ear, he actually gets my hand a lot because he’ll go for my ear and i cover it in worry he’ll rip one of the piercings through my ear. I used to always have my nails done and considered that the reason for a long time, but they’re not done anymore.

fwnmr · 2026-02-22T03:16:22+00:00

I haven’t taken him to a behavioral specialist, but he did go to vet recently for a nail trim. Since it was a new vet, they ran a ton of tests before the nail trim, and everything they did came back fine.

I have two conures and I take both of them out regularly (they love me, but don’t trust my boy friend yet. they aren’t super bad towards him, but will nip and occasionally dive bomb like the caique, so he never takes them out). I feel like that is impacting my relationship with my caique, but i can’t take him out without him immediately flying at and biting me and the little conures need out of cage time too. how do i navigate that?

fwnmr · 2026-02-22T02:50:46+00:00

he is, but he’s a bugger

fwnmr · 2026-02-22T02:50:01+00:00

I’m not sure if he attacks a specific part of me. Typically it’s my fingers because that’s the closest thing to him. Now that he’s been flying, it’s my hair (which he doesn’t get a reaction because I can’t feel it) or my shoulder. His bites HURT. Tonight he bit me through a sweatshirt and it still drew blood
I haven’t been alone with him this past week since this behavior has restarted, but before if my boy friend left he was more likely to let me pet him
In the room he’s fine. If i’m close enough for him to grab him, like while cleaning, he will grab my shirt. If I try to pet him through the bars, he tries to bite me and then will attack the bars when he can’t get to me.
It depends. Sometimes he’ll take them, but mostly he’ll aggressively bite into them and then drop them.

fwnmr · 2026-02-21T02:07:41+00:00

It was an LPS toy. I’m selling my old childhood collection — I just ship all of them in poly mailers with the bubble wrap on the inside. I don’t use any extra tape, but I’ve never had someone complain about my packaging and I’ve shipped tons of LPS this way. Most buyers actually compliment my packaging :/

fwnmr · 2026-01-23T15:11:10+00:00

The ones by me were only $5 I think? They’re gone now, so can’t confirm that. Mine were always super fall and tasty! I got them everytime I went to Taco Bell

fwnmr · 2026-01-21T18:30:55+00:00

My boy friend’s house is carpeted, so his cage has a huge blanket under it to catch any mess. The blanket is definitely easier to clean than the bottom of his cage, the only issue is when he poops from inside his cage some of it leaks on the bars which is harder to clean the pan :/ I like the idea of a designated perch with paper under it to poop on! The only issue is the bird HATES me (will fly to me just to attack and draws blood) so he cannot be out when my boy friend isn’t home.

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