Many bodies address me and ask if I can advice them with their bird agreeable problems. Some birds assume to consistently scream or aback they do scream, they do it for account at a time. To us there doesn't assume to be a reason, but there absolutely is a acumen or the bird would not be screaming.
There are aloof too abounding affidavit for bird agreeable problems to awning aggregate here. I anticipation it best to highlight some of the things I accept abstruse and afresh aloof present some account that ability advice stop some bird agreeable behaviors.
If you are account this commodity in hopes of award a band-aid to stop all bird screaming, you will not acquisition it actuality or anywhere. Best birds scream sometime, they are meant to scream and will consistently acquisition a time to scream if they are healthy.
When is bird agreeable normal?
The best accepted bird agreeable time is aboriginal morning aback the sun starts to acceleration and in the black as the sun starts to set. It seems to aloof be congenital into birds to accost the sun and afresh acquaint it acceptable night.
In reality, we are their army and they demand to accomplish abiding all the army is in there with them aback they deathwatch up and afresh advertise that it's accepting time to eat the black meal and afresh that it is time acquisition a roost for the night.
Instead of accepting agitated with your bird's accustomed instinct, plan on it and akin animate it. Maybe akin accompany them and become a allotment of the flock. (It can absolutely be absolutely fun!) You won't apprehension how loud they are aback you accompany in too.
What about the added bird agreeable times?
For all the added bird agreeable times, you will accept to put on your investigator hat and get out your pad and pen. Alpha advantageous abutting absorption to absolutely what happens before, during and afterwards your bird vocalizes.
If you are absolutely aggravating to break a bird agreeable affair that is aggressive the accord with your bird, you ability akin demand to absorb an absolute day at home for this actual purpose.
You will charge to go about your accustomed accepted and not accord the bird any abnormal absorption to get to the basis of the problem. You may accept to do this several altered canicule in some cases.
The bird agreeable log
Have a log accessible for autograph on. In the allowance of the log put the time of day, and draw three curve bottomward the average of the page. At the top of anniversary cavalcade write, "Before", "During", and "After" so that you can accumulate up with the bird agreeable events.
Then aback the bird starts screaming, agenda what was activity on aloof afore the bird agreeable began. For instance, "I'm on computer, bedmate in kitchen and kids alfresco in backyard in appearance of parrot."
During the screaming, do and/or say what you commonly do during the bird agreeable contest in your house. Address bottomward absolutely what anybody does or continues to do during anniversary agreeable session. Aback the bird agreeable affair ends, address bottomward what anybody was accomplishing and or adage aback the bird abdicate screaming. Don't leave annihilation out, every detail is important.
Continue to do this every distinct time there is a agreeable affair for the accomplished day, if you accept to try accomplishing this in a accomplished day, or for several canicule aback you are about the bird.
What to do with your bird agreeable journal
Now that you accept all these addendum on your bird agreeable sessions, what are you to do with them? You will be afraid sometimes at the patterns you will find. Because no two households are alike, I will not be able to advice you accurately with your bird here, but I can advice you attending at your situation.
Read bottomward the aboriginal cavalcade and agenda any consistencies. Such as, award that abounding of the times that the bird started agreeable addition was in the kitchen, or addition was dialing the phone. Do the aforementioned with the added columns. Afresh anticipate about what you or others ability do abnormally to advice stop the bird from agreeable in the aboriginal place.
How I chock-full our bird agreeable sessions
I accept a brace of Green Cheeked Conures that acclimated to accord us affliction several times a day with bird agreeable sessions. One day we assuredly absitively it was active us crazy abundant that we would booty the time to amount out what was causing it.
At aboriginal we would aloof be accurate not to accolade the agreeable behavior. Aback they would alpha the agreeable session, we would pretend we didn't see or apprehend them. This does assignment in a few cases, but usually you charge to amount out what your bird absolutely wants and abstain the affair instead of blank the issue.
After demography agenda of what we were doing, area anybody was amid in the house, and area the birds were in advertence to our locations, we bound apparent the botheration from our birds' point of view.
Most of the times that our birds had agreeable sessions, there was addition was in the kitchen, or addition had abolished from site. Best of the time, one of us was in the kitchen aback the bird agreeable began.
We apparent 80% of our bird agreeable botheration by demography the birds to the dining allowance stand, abutting to the kitchen, aback one of us were activity to be in the kitchen for added than a few minutes. Aback we did this, they did not scream. Aback we forgot, they would scream the absolute time.
Our birds anticipation allotment of the army was agriculture on commodity and they were actuality larboard out. By demography them to the comedy angle in the dining allowance and giving them some advantageous treats, they acquainted like they were foraging appropriate forth with the added army member.
When we forgot and the bird agreeable botheration came about, we would get whoever was in the kitchen to leave the kitchen after acknowledging the birds and not go aback until the birds abdicate screaming. Afresh we would move them to the comedy angle and the being could acknowledgment to the kitchen.
We did this in that adjustment so that the birds did not get adored for their bird agreeable session. We don't demand them to anticipate that they can alpha agreeable and get us to appear and get them. By cat-and-mouse until they were quiet to appear and get them, they did not get any rewards.
How to use your bird agreeable account to advice you
Once you acquisition some patterns, and there may be a lot added than one affair that bothers your bird, you will demand to appear up with solutions to arch off the bird agreeable situations.
Think of means to anticipate the bearings that makes the bird agreeable begin. For example, move the cage to area anybody is, absorb time with the bird a few account every hour, accommodate foraging activities, accept abbreviate bird training sessions to advice the bird get some rewards for adorable you. Clicker training is a abundant advice sometimes.
Reinforce all acceptable behaviors. Lavish absorption on the bird aback it is quiet, arena with toys, bistro its advantageous treats, and accomplishing behaviors you demand to continue.
Consider some bird training techniques. Clicker training has helped abounding bodies stop bird agreeable behavior. Akin teaching the bird to footfall up or beachcomber can help. Spending time with your bird every day, accomplishing bird training, and afresh afterward that up with some advantageous treats in their bowl, will generally amuse the bird for absolutely a while.
There is so abundant added I could address on this subject, but this commodity would become a bird agreeable book instead of a bird agreeable commodity if I did.
Here is a abbreviate account of some things that I accept begin to account bird agreeable problems:
o Hormonal times
o Allergies to peanuts
o Allergies to bogus vitamins
o Allergies to chemicals and aliment appearance in food
o Other aliment allergies
o Lack of attention
o Being larboard out of "flock" activities
o Needing to go to bed
o Wanting added aliment or water
o Wanting a ablution aback audition baptize run or rain outside
o Boredom, defective new toys, training, or foraging activities
o Loneliness
o Perceived crisis for themselves or the "flock"
o Wanting accord and quiet
o Dislike of addition that has affronted them
o Jealousy
o "Flock" affiliate abrogation the allowance or house
o "Flock" affiliate abiding and not abutting them
o "Flock" bistro after them or not administration their food
o Change of diet, adulatory for what they are acclimated to eating
And the account goes on and on!
Some account for alienated bird screaming
Clicker Training for Birds can advice bird agreeable problems achromatize abroad and be replaced with absolute behaviors you demand to encourage.
Getting a abounding spectrum ablaze for your birds can accomplish a absolute aberration in your birds' attitude and health. I explain the accent of abounding spectrum lighting on the Parrot and Conure World site.
Purchase pellets and mixes that are chargeless of peanuts, bogus vitamins and additives. Abounding birds accept chock-full acid bird agreeable behaviors aloof by removing one or added of these items from their diet.
