Macaw Parrot
Why Has My Macaw Parrot Been Biting Me Lately?
I have a harlequin macaw and lately she has been biting me. when its time to put her in her cage for bedtime, i tell her up, and she just bites my arm. this is not tolerable to me. she has lots of attention, interaction etc. she is with me all day long. she gets plenty of different foods and treats each day. she loves both me and her papa. i have had a very good bond with her since the day we got her. she just turned 4 on march 3rd, 2007. i have been trying lots of different ways to get her to stop biting me. the funny part is she is only biting me. she used to bite papa all the time. it took a year for him to bond with her. why is she doing this? also, she has a screaming problem to. Help, i am at my wits end. Donna.
The very first thing you MUST do is this: DO NOT REACT when she bites you, neither positive or negative. If you react, that is what she wants, attention, and if she gets it from biting, she will continue to bite. After she is done biting, put your finger gently on her beak and say firmly, but without yelling "No." Then put her in her cage for a few minutes, and cover it, unless she's scared of the dark, which believe it or not, a lot of birds are.
There are a number of reasons why she could be biting you, you said you've had her for almost four years and have never gone through this in springtime? Maybe it's mating season in combination with... her moulting? Moulting makes birds very grouchy. If you don't already know what to look for in a moulting bird, it looks like little white needles coming out of her face, head and neck.
To help her moulting you can give her a bath or a shower or you can mist her with warm water in a spray bottle, make sure you don't spray her, but spray just above her so that the mist falls on her like rain. If your bird lets you touch her head you can also touch her pinfeathers, and if one feels like it's ready to come off you can scratch at it. If it doesn't come off right away, leave it be, these little keratin sheaths are full of blood and removing on that's not ready to come off can hurt her.
To help with the hormones you should make sure that she's getting a full 12 hours of darkness, and make sure she stays on a firm schedule.
These two things should help. But if they don't just ask another question, and add that those two things didn't help.
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