Goffin cockatoo afraid to leave cage11/21/2023 ![]() They had Theo’s full attention.Īs the cockatiels chewed on the pieces I had broken off, the Quaker and I had a tug of war with the rest. I sat on the floor with the toy, still about ten feet away, and played – gleefully and vocally (and a little embarrassingly if I’m going to be honest.) I squished it in my hand till it made a wonderful crunching sound, I batted it around just a little bit, I pulled pieces off and just when I was running out of things to do with it, my smaller birds swooped in to save the day. Her cage door was open and she was inside preening. The next day was more of the same in the morning but by the afternoon the toy had made its way to about 10 feet from the cage. Everything belongs to your parrot, and sometimes he’ll allow you to use it. This is usually enough to drive a normally curious parrot nearly insane by evoking the “mine” complex: nothing is “yours”. I tried to make it clear that this was my toy and that I was interested in it. I played with it off and on all day, each time setting it down a foot or so closer to her cage. I made sure she could watch from a comfortable distance (about 25-30 feet) as I made the toy. I cut several four-inch lengths from a roll of shredder tape and strung it onto a leather strip with a knot in between each piece. I decided that a shredder toy would be a good starter toy for a bird that was new to chewing. ![]() To her, they were strange objects in her space and she preferred that they not be there. She simply didn’t know what fun parrot toys were. She had been very loved and well cared for in her previous home. She never went further into mutilative behaviors, and I am very grateful for that. In an effort to entertain herself, she would barber her feathers down to the skin. When I took her in, she had never been caged and sat all day on the perch that had been her “home” for 22 years, waiting for her people to come back from work. Such was the case with Theo, my re-homed Goffin's cockatoo. Many resort to feather destructive behaviors, and worse. Fear of toys is frustrating because it leaves your bird with nothing to do all day while you’re away. As random as these might seem, each of my birds has had nightmares over one of the items on this list at one time or another. There have been cases on this message board where a small bird was severely injured by a goffin's.Some birds have the strangest fears: a certain color, a leather jacket, a particular chair, sunglasses, flies. If that is unleashed on a little bird at a time when you are not watching, you could end up with a vet bill or a dead green cheek. ![]() They can be pushy, sometimes aggressive, sometimes just bratty. It comes out once in a while and often when you least expect it. Goffin's are very sweet little birds with a crooked halo and a little bit of the devil in them. I've been told green cheeks can be on the territorial side too. I keep her away from my quakers because if she flys to their cage, and they try to attack her, then it could be bad if she feels the need to defend herself rather than just fly away. I have her in a room with small birds that are not territorial. I have to monitor her carefully because I don't entirely trust her not to bite one of the little bird occupants while she's trying to steal their food. She is obsessed with breaking into the small bird cages to forage for their food. I have a goffin's as well as small birds. I'd do separate cages, separate playgyms and separate hang out on the human time though. However, if you are willing to rotate out of cage time, do a slight wing clip on one or both or always supervise, then you can probably be okay. Are you asking will they be friends? Chances are decent that a goffin's and green cheek would be a danger to each other if left unsupervised or allowed a lot of free time together.
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