Am I Losing My Bond With Mikey and Mia?
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- It is known that a bonded pair of parrots will start becoming adventurous, start feeling they don’t need their humans as much. The signs with Mikey and Mia are getting stronger.
This is something that only one of us has been affected by, so we strongly feel we can fix this. But happening so much over the last few weeks, it’s no longer a one off.
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I think it could be the hormones triggering their behavior. Dw, my tiel too had stuff like that but now we got it in control. You could change treat variety and spend more time with them to keep you guys connected. Wish you and the birbs the best.
The hormones are real! Thinking maybe they need some back-to-the-basics training when they're with you? Hopefully you can get this figured out :)
You mean “The Talk”? 😂
Yup, been working on extra training/treats/me being the fun exciting one. Forgot how much I slacked off haha. I’ll get them back
the hormones are a big pain, nipping hurdy gurdi birdy ing all over the place, {our word for regurgitation }it's a lot come spring, n my most resent macaw is only 2 yrs next spring will be double if not triple the far from fun..3 is the start of sexual maturity
@@MikeyTheMacaw Yay😊
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I would also ask Dave about free flying a bonded couple (the risks & prevention of them flying off on a honeymoon)
Exactly.
You have to be the main one to interact with them when doing tricks, mommy human has to let you give the favorite treats too. I think this will help a lot.☺️
Yup. Exactly this.
This looks so stressful! I hope you figure it out. On the other hand, this video was so beautiful to watch. Their flights are spectacular. So excited to see the garden in a video!
Hi, I very very important. Plz read and tell all parrot lovers: Avoid the "egg cardboards" at all cost. They carry diseases, parasites and deadly fungus from the egg farms. Please never let your parrot touch one and even be close to. Thanks for the lovely videos and all the best, Fari from Scotland
At 8:03 they look like they are having a little love fest on their perch behind your back as you are narrating.🤭❤️🐈
I noticed that too 🤣
Hahaha yup
We free fly our sun conure and she’s been exceptionally bad at recall over the last 3 weeks, too. She does a bit of flying and goes off to a tree and starts munching on all the new shoots before going off to the next tree, and the next. Normally we can recall her down from trees quite well so have never minded her landing on trees. But she has been ignoring us more and more during these weeks, to the point that it took a butterfly freaking her out and getting her off a tree (and I’m supposed to be her favourite human)… I think spring has something to do with it, maybe the excitement that the world is waking up again after winter hits them hard and takes over. Not sure, but hoping it’s a short phase, too.
Arrr no way. I feel your pain haha. Yea, working on it day by day, more interaction, more treats, more fun.
Great situation !!! Two birds feeling confident enough to explore their surrounding. You are bringing a lot to them, precisely through that failing bond.
So many thanks for sharing, it's always so breathtaking to see and watch these wonderful birds enjoying their flight and freedom and to be together in love 🦜😍
I would put GPS back on just in case, hopefully this is temporary,hormonal behaviour, wish you back to normal soon!
Yea it’s def not permanent. I just need to up my training to match mummy humans.
Love the fact that the birds play tricks on you. How cheeky they can be.
As, frustrating as it is for you, I bet it was a lovely moment for the family attending the funeral. ❤️
Do you think they're becoming teenagers who don't wanna hang out with Dad anymore? 🤔 Give it time, they'll come to appreciate you again. 😂
I'm fascinated to see how this progresses. 😊
Haha yea, I’ve slacked off with training a bit and it’s spring, they all turn horrible haha
That is really frustrating. I just have a little green cheek. She's going through her first molt right now, which apparently means major attitude issues. And when I call her she flys right past me to go to her own stand. I am very butt hurt about it, so I can imagine how you feel when they are up on the roof.
Yup i had the same thing!
It can take a while but its going te be oke. Now they listen again and doing great. But i felt so horrible😭
Thanks for your vid! Nice to see this side too
Also, when I really want my tiel to get down and come with me, sometimes he will hop around and want me to chase him. When I stop and walk away he will come chase after me. It is a game to him I think.
That thumbnail 😂 love watching you and your beautiful birds. Much love from Sydney Australia 🐨✌🏻
From what you said in this video, you could probably figure a lot out by solo training the basics and then trying the same stuff when they’re together. If each of them are great solo and then once they’re together they lose it then you might have to do recall with both of them because if I recall correctly, you trained Mikey solo and got him free flying, and then trained Mia and she got to be with Mikey for her first free fly, I’m not sure if you have ever done extensive recall with both of them in the garden.
Yea I have no doubt they would be perfectly fine if I flew them individually. Will have to work on a bunch of stuff fast because it’s not good. Haha
Oh, dear friend. It too breaks my heart when my parrots misbehave or suddenly change behavior. It could be hormones. But I always truly believe it is because they are only one generation from wild. Dogs and cats have been domesticated for thousands of years. Birds, not. They’ll always have wild and unpredictable tendencies. Much love from my NYC flock to yours! ❤️🦜❤️
My goodness, this is so nice to watch. They are gorgeous and magnificent. You and your wife are wonderful. You take such good care of them . And what a gorgeous park! Subscribed.❤
I am not going to speculate or try to advise on a proper course of the action to fix the recall problem. I just wish you well and getting it fixed.
Congratulations on the growing success of your parrot food company. I wish you well with continued success. I would like to see more of your backyard Avery in a future video. Best of luck with all the endeavors. Cheers
Thanks so much. And yes!!! Will do a garden vid soon.
1:51 it looks like she's imitating you with the hands with the head bobble 😂
Wow! Good luck finding out what’s going on. I look forward to the update.
Thanks. Hopefully we can fix this sooner than later.
Absolutely love it I've just picked up an African grey last week took her every where with us she's not had her wings clipped but she just decides to stay on my arm or my wife's arm is there any way that I could still teach her to free fly she's nearly 10 an very obedient
To free flight train a bird takes time and patience, anywhere between 3-6 months for a flighted bird. It’s a lot of desensitisation, positive reinforcement, getting diet right, a bunch of recall etc. Basically around 20 hours worth of knowledge. There are professional free flight trainers and mentors which help.
If you are interested, this video will help you find the best trainer/mentor for you. ruclips.net/video/kBCiUwtcORA/видео.html
I do honestly believe that the new diet you are feeding is the issue. When I saw the new dry mix you were giving I knew this was coming.
Can you explain why that might be? Not sure I understand.
Sure! The dry mix has quite a lot of nutrient rich foods that are high in protein, carbs, and sugar foods. High energy diet like this, particularly in the Spring, translates to time to make babies for birds. Their behavior seems hormonal and the diet is encouraging the hormonal behavior. Ideally, it is best to feed very little fat, protein, carbs, and sugar, particularly during the mating season to avoid this.
@@greenbirdbrigade Thank you for the explanation. I can definitely see how this could be the reason. But its still a bit odd that this behaviour is not happening with Mummy human.
That is true. They may see her as less of a threat to their relationship for some reason.
Def can’t be the diet, we have fed raw fresh whole foods majority of the time we have had them, only did pellets for around 1-1.5 years if that out of the 5.5 years we have had them. The dry mix is still chop, just dry. It’s more I’ve slacked off with training, mummy human is their main person, and of course hormones playing a part.
My picky Macaw LOVES the dry mix. I’ll be ordering more soon.
Aww amazing to hear.
A lot of my avian parent friends have said the same exact thing. I think it's safe to say it's just spring hormones. Otherwise there may be some sort of underground club every bird is suddenly attending 😳
wow! i was just thinking (worrying) about this today. my ringneck, who is in a first hormonal season (probably a female), has been flying around crazily in my house and does exactly what you described: flies to a high point, and just starts screaming for God knows what reason, completely ignores me when i recall her as if i don’t exist even if i show her bananas/apples. and same with you, she has been much more obedient with my sister although i’m the main caregiver.
i struggled so much with this at the beginning because she became super aggressive and bit me so bad but never my sister, but i eventually accepted it as hormones and not take it too personally, just to take precautions as the season passes like letting her out mostly in the evening when she’s calmer and learning to avoid the bites. sorry to hear you too are struggling with this! as many have already suggested, i guess taking some precautions for freeflight would be good since it seems much riskier now with all the hormones! hoping together with you that the season passes soon :’)
Oh wow. Yea a few people have said similar. Got a few things to work on when flying so will update shortly.
Ahh, it can happen a LOT that there seems to suddenly be a favourite human. It's ok for them to have a preference, but it should feel like '60-40', best case scenario 50-50 but that's pretty unlikely haha. Sounds like all the interaction between mummy human has kept them much more strongly bonded to her, and that you guys need to change up the dynamic a bit! I would say try only letting you use their favourite treats and go back to the basics of recall indoors and in the garden with them. Rebuild the trick from the ground up in a way. Have mummy human only use their 2nd or probably even 3rd favourite treats to make going to her less rewarding for the time being, to help tip the scales back in your favour a bit! You could also try having her recall them and only you giving treats, but maybe that would be confusing for them? You know best of course on what action to take but just a couple ideas. It could just be hormones for sure, but since they're perfect with mummy human still I think it's a bit more of a "playing favourites" thing or a combination!
Also, I don't think it's a "lost respect" thing at all, that's just very unlikely to be the way parrots view these things. Try to see from their perspective - why is ignoring you and continuing to fly around more valuable than recalling? Why is it less valuable than recalling for mummy human? Then hopefully you can find the root of the problem! :)
Also you could seek a consult with Birdtricks or someone like that, free flight experts, since I'm sure others have had this issue and would be able to offer valuable insight if you can afford that kind of thing!
Amazing advise. Actually planning to do all of the above. Thanks so much.
@@MikeyTheMacaw aw, no worries! Best of luck! :)
Have you thought about reaching out to bird tricks?
We have gotten a load of good advice from many now, have a bunch of stuff to work on that should fix this.
Our birds are doing the same one day they are fabulous the next day they are a hormonal mess!
Your macaws are in good shape! Mine can barely fly 20 feet before being out of breath.
Mine flies like a brick, the result of being on a too small a cage with her previous family.
Now she is a feather mutilator with limited joint mobility (but we are working on it, she is only a teenager in human years, so she still has decades of life to go).
Have a great time with your macaw, and training works, if you want to go that way :)
Haha they fly daily so have built up a lot of stamina
@@muurrarium9460 Great that you are working with your bird to improve life quality. Sad that so many experience poor care that creates the types of issues you see. Hope all goes well for you and your bird.
@@cindychapman5900 Thank you :) you are being very kind. I try.
Also my female Catalina Macaw is so hormonal that my vet suggested an implant for this time of year. I went with her suggestion and aside from Amelia being a bit less nippy, not a lot has changed. She is a very high strung bird in general. I give her a high dose of Avian Calm (L Theanine) in her water which also seems to help with her neurotic pacing
So...your bird is not getting enough exercise, so now you drug her?
And plze just make sure you feed her a certain dose per beak, not somewhat random in her water, you know that one day they drink more than the other.
(I hate putting any animal under hormal control, I had so many side-effects with the birthcontrol for humans I think it is cruel to put them in animals that cannot complain if they feel not alright with it. Of course they will calm down if they feel miserable! Spaying/neutering is fine btw, that is just a one-time event. I know you cannot neuter birds, but really...unless it is to stop excessive egg laying.... dont.)
You can control hormones easily with adjusting a diet: no bird turns into a raging breeder when there is not an abundance of food around.
I don’t think it has done anything but no I didn’t do it because she wasn’t getting enough exercise. I talked with my avian vet about her in depth and they suggested that I try it so I did. I put L theanine in her water in a dose thats safe even if she drank every last drop which she obviously never does. My avian vet said that its fine and wont hurt. I do these things to bring comfort to my bird. I wish you weren’t judgmental about it but it is what it is.
@@MrJdubz100 Just shocked! Not judgemental. I have had several occasions where I did not agree with my avian vets. One of them is still in the stone-age about clipping flight feathers, for example.
Usually the diet is crap, or just out of whack with the actual needs of the bird and the cause of so many problems (like with us humans).
Just like those "fit for all parrots" pellets: you know it is bullshit, they come from all over the world, in very different sizes.
Nobody feeds their racehorse the same as the retired pet horse in the backyard, but we expect all our birds to be 'the same, average'.
(edit: so many spelling mistakes, sorry)
Diet will play a much much better part in this, feeding raw whole foods will usually fix behaviour issues like this.
She eats a pretty solid diet. I don’t feed her raw foods often but I feed her Birdtricks pellets and the seasonal feeding system and that didn’t make a noticeable difference. I tried increasing her sleep as much as realistically possible but seeing as she lives in my room thats a bit of a tough one to increase (I rent a room in a house so its not ideal right now as far as parrots getting lots of sleep goes but I do give them just over 10 hours per night, this is the best I can offer). I give her UVB and take her out in the sun on the weekends, I try my best with what I have. I feel pretty confident in her diet though as it is what Birdtricks recommends and feeds their macaws.
As scary as it is for you, it’s also got to be absolutely a beautiful to see them just free flight like that. And I have to agree with the majority on here, it’s not about on break but a hormone thing. But I don’t know much about birbs, just what I’ve learned the last couple years with following all of my bird peeps LOL!
Yea, hate spring haha
They are beautiful birds!❤️
Hope you get it sorted
Thanks. Yea working on it daily. Should be fixed pretty soon
I don't have any birds, but still enjoy watching your channel. Best of luck to.you
Amazingly beautiful is right !!!!!
nice video they look really nice together dont worry to much your doing a great job all the best to you all
Got a bunch of stuff to try, will see how it goes. Thanks.
All the birds we've had in the family have tended to get a bit weird around springtime, maybe they'll chill out again in summer? When I was little we had a rook who used to chase me into a room and guard the door🥲, but it only ever happened this time of year
Yea that’s what we are hoping. Just annoying it’s affecting their flying.
do you ever worry about cats? theres so many cats in my area
i feel like you never know when one is going to spring up out of nowhere they're so dangerous to birds. i suppose mikey and mia always go very high up though
We have Einstein, a just over one year old Blue and Gold and Poppy, our nearly one year old cat. Einstein quickly showed Poppy who the boss is. They now both respect each other.
Cats are typically intimidated by larger birds and go for ones that are smaller than them. However my vet said one scratch from a cat can kill them in hours so best to be prepared to get them treated if they have a scuffle.
They never land on the ground in peoples gardens and there aren’t stray cats just roaming around here so all is well.
Mikey and Mia say "Daddy Human is No longer Fun. We don't like him anymore" Basically Mummy Human is now their Favourite.
This is very true
@@MikeyTheMacaw or possibly it's exactly the opposite? "Daddy Human is very tolerant, so we can goof around and do whatever and he'll still love us~!" but idk... lol. maybe have a chat with Dave and Jamie ( @Birdtricks ) about their macaws? with all of theirs, they must have experienced something like this, too, yeah?
GOODMORNING FROM ATLANTIC CITY NJ... I LOVE YOUR BIRDS 🤗😍
And a mated pair stick together also, I have fed a pair of crows who I have fed for about a decade and they are never apart, not ever!
My conure Primo sees me as his companion and when he's out we are never apart either unless he's doing something by himself around the house.
You say in a recent video that Mia has put in weight and Mikey has lost some, it could be because he is feeding her along with their extended flights, hence his weight loss but it's just a theory and also you have them on a new even healthier diet.
Thanks for getting back to me and all the best ✌️💙
YAY ANOTHER VIDEO 👍... YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST🔥🔥🔥 HAPPY SATURDAY NIGHT... 💙💛🐦🐦🥰🤗💕
And they look like they are having THE time of their lives!
Haha a bit too much fun
actually I was wondering about that too, because recently mia and mikey look like they're going to bite your finger off in almost all of your Instagram story/ youtube shorts, idk if it's correlated or not just an observation lol
Haha yea they do. Stupid hormones. My fault too for slacking off a bit with training. I’m already getting back into it so this shouldn’t last long.
No idea what to do with birds. But as a parent of teenagers I can totally relate! Kia kaha, try not to let it get to you, and don't give up!
Haha they do say they are kids forever lol
I've lost more of my stairs and mouldings in the past day than I have in two years. Hormones season has landed with a slam. Good luck.
That is so scary...to allow them to fly off.
Perhaps, since you live in a small village, at liberty freeflight is something to try once?
Haha I would but they would spend their time chewing peoples roofs/fences and hanging at the school. The neighbours may not like it
I would really consider the change in diet as a big factor. I feel like it’s not intuitive to people that their birds start having behaviorial issues after big changes in diet, but I watch it happen on Instagram all the time. I told my husband I would reserve judgment about the recent diet change videos until after a handful of months because I see it go so poorly so often. :/
People are so well-intentioned and naturally think giving their birds a “healthier” diet full of a lot of different plants must be good, but the problem is any individual bird species evolved only to eat fairly specific foods, whereas plants as a broad category are high in potential irritants and things that modulate hormones and the immune system, which is why in any environment most plants are only consumed by a handful of species that evolved to handle them and not just every species that’s around. I was skeptical of the things that guy said in that hour long video because he didn’t have a lot of data to back anything up, other than stuff like cockatoos in the wild will eat grubs, which is great to know about cockatoos, but says nothing about other species or other foods.
In the wild parrots are capable of handling a much less varied diet than humans, but we know that most humans cannot actually tolerate every herb or vegetable or nut or seed or grain they come across. If we knew the natural diet of macaws with any specificity, it would likely be ideal to feed them something like that diet. But feeding them a variety of stuff that grows all over the world is going to have unpredictable effects. They could be more hormonal due to diet (which is common with more nutrients even absent irritants) or they could be feeling a bit irritable because they don’t feel as well as they did before the introduction of a lot of new and potentially powerful plant compounds. Herbs and other plants have powerful effects on mood in humans, so it wouldn’t make sense if they didn’t effect parrots.
I think it could be worth returning them to their old diet for a month, observing the results, and maybe trying the new diet again for a month just to see what you notice. I’ve just seen so many people on IG who clearly love their parrots so much so they get on a natural diet bandwagon, and suddenly their bird is hostile or broody or plucking. I’ve seen similar behavior in people who radically alter their diet to include lots of plants they didn’t eat before, and I know from my own experience with herbs and assorted intolerances to some plants that most people don’t realize how likely an influence their diet is on the new issues they’ve started experiencing.
Best wishes to all of you!
We have had them on a raw diet majority of their lives with us, so it’s not really new, we just switched back, only ever fed pellets for maybe 12-18 months out of the 5.5 years we have had Mikey. Yea there’s more variation now, but only by the very very very slightest %
I wanted to see them going to shelby's house on their own I am happy to see Mia doing it and i think that they consider shelby a member of their flock that's why mia went to see shelby maybe the owners can release their birds when they see mia around the house and do a video about it that would be amazing
Haha we would need many people filming to get the whole flight.
@@MikeyTheMacaw 😅😊👍
bad idea, if they form a flock they will leave n go wild..
@@bigbiemacaw i don't think so because sometimes the birds stay in one of the owners house for days and they learn how to become a flock but they didn't fly away also in the wild every couple lives in a tree separated from the flock and the young ones they stay together in the flock like shelby
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You know the 60-40 rule right?
Just interact more with them, be the one with the treats. And mommy human has to step back until you get that 60-40 again.
I second that. The behavior only occurs with you and not with their mommy, so it's most likely not only hormones. Maybe go back to basics and try to play a bigger part in their life and it'll surely all work out for all of you. Fingers crossed.
You are watching Birdtricks :)
@@muurrarium9460 who doesn't? :D
@@muurrarium9460 Yeah. I don't know if mikey and mia have their course. But if they do they should just rewatch it and go back to basics. I think every pet sometimes just needs us to take a few steps back and restart from a better Position.
I have the same problem with my dog atm. Going back to basics really helped to have a good structure to rebuild on it.
@@Namoraslife LOL, good point, though I complete forgot about them the last 2 years. Binging to catch up though ;)
I really just can’t stand Spring. My allergies are going crazy. And then the birds are screaming and misbehaving. Yes, the flowers blooming all over are very pretty, but it means I have to take medication that knocks me out, and that my birds will be acting like real brats until the grass on the hills turns brown and the flowers all die. Can’t wait lol
I’m sure your birds love and respect you, and it’s not personal. They’ve just got lovin’ on their minds
Haha yea, it’s just that time of the year where they are just cray
I think it's the time of year🤦♀️ my birds have been acting out too 🤦♀️
I would just say try to not rehearse bad behaviors. Maybe instead of flying them alone do more short flights in your garden. Get really into trick training so that you increase the positive times they have with you. Get really focused on making those good memories happen with them through hormone season. Then when you do fly do it with the whole family but make sure you're the person with the treats for a while. It's okay to take breaks from free flights if all they do is teach them bad habits. Every fun time doing something naughty is encouraging them to keep doing it, but that all said I bet with lots of focused time in your garden this will blow over after the hormones calm down.
This ^^^^ exactly this. Free flight when this is happening is really increasing the risk of losing one or both of them. Have you got telemetry?
Yea exactly what I’m doing, making myself the fun one with training and tricks and mummy human can just fly them. It should fix pretty fast.
@@MikeyTheMacaw can I also say I am sometimes really bored with standard tricks. The circling around a perch and waving are only so fun. But there are tons of fun brain games you can teach too like learning to identify different objects or learning to ask for things through pictures they touch. Look up "my reading pets" there's a woman teaching her birds to read or look 101 Tricks to Teach Your Dog. I bet you could modify those. Just some thoughts if things feel stale.
Same issue here guys! Same timeframe as well.
That time of the year.
Well, counting Mia's pinning eyes at the end there, she likes you and enjoyed returning to you.
Yeah my cockatiel is being mean to me too, it always goes to husband, I'm the one who used to give it more love. But it never wants to come to me
Time for another consultation with 'Bird tricks'
Haha, we have had loooaads of advise from many now, got a pretty good idea on how to fix this so will see how we go
We have the same problem with our birds. Maybe your birds feel SO comfortable with you that they feel more confident exploring 🤷🏼♀️
Our amazon is never a super cuddly bird. I would say about once a month he will want to cuddle, and it’s usually after a vet appt or a long-flight around the house. Even when they’re not hormonal, Amazon are pretty hot and cold.
Our macaw is super cuddly and codependent on human interaction, cod care less about our amazon. And Scarletts are pretty known to be nippy.
They will tolerate my husband if I’m unavailable or if they look to me for permission lol but they make their protest known.
Yea, our guys still enjoy a cuddle now and then, it’s just me flying that’s the big issue. Will work on a bunch of stuff and update shortly.
Unfortunately I do thinks it’s hormones because I can see, I believe it’s mikey, attempting to regurgitate
I had so much anxiety when they wherent in frame😆
Haha it happens a lot
@@MikeyTheMacaw thanks for replying!
i think you should put a nestbox in their aviary so they could lay eggs if that really is the situation
They made a nest in the bathroom lol
I was just thinking that. These birds are meant to fly In the wild they have to fly to find food every day They live in flocks so need bird company
When my Scarlett macaws lay eggs last year that was the worst 30 days of my life, the first 3 days THEY LOSE THE APETITE AND THEY DON'T EAT ANYTHING the male were so aggressive and protective that I was not allowed to put a foot in their cage, they don't want noise because they are stressed out THEY WANT TO BE ALONE ALL DAY, two times a day I gave them sun flower seeds and cookies because I don't want to attract 🐜 ants, I open the door and I put the bowls in the floor and every time I did that the male was so angry with me that he start to fight to death with the female , the female start pluquing their feathers from the chest and loose them and the 30 days they fight like 5 times a day like a good Guatemalan family 🤣and the male I thought he lose an eye but the had a open wound bigger than his eye, AND IN GUATEMALA, BELIZE, HONDURAS THE MACAWS FLY DISTANCE OF 35 OR 50 KMS TO FIND THE PERFECT NEST and sorry for my broken inglish
Your English was fine! What a scary experience for you. I hope you and your macaws are doing well now.
@@spiritmatter1553 THEY ARE OK THANK YOU but the breeding season starts in May to September and THIS YEAR I AM READY TO RECEIVE THE EGGS BECAUSE THE LAST YEAR I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO for example IF YOU TOUCH THEIR EGGS THEY DON'T WANTED ANY MORE AND THEY WILL BREAK THE EGGS AND THE NEXT 20 YEARS THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE 🦜🦜 in this months of the year and GREATINGS FROM GUATEMALA 🇬🇹
Oh wow
I have a pair of macaws, the male is 8 years old and the female is 3 years old, and when I brought the female, I isolated them from seeing each other and only hearing each other’s voice for 3 days, and then I put cages to see each other for two weeks. When i took them outside the cage they fighted and the spank the other one and I am afraid for them to let them alone
What do I do not to fight together so that I can put them in one cage without hurting each other?
I feel that there are many others among them that reach beating and harm
They fight to win me as a friend to only one of them 😒
Macaws take time to get use to each other. Work with them together slowly, always supervised until they calm, train together, feed together, they will hopefully get use to each other. This could take months.
@@MikeyTheMacaw thanks alot for advice
that crow "Get the fuck out of my neighborhood!"
for real tho, coming from dog training - I know birds aren't dogs, but it's just a thought, and this is no criticism - a lot of times people say "oh, suddenly my dog doesn't recall anymore" - when in fact, it's been a slow process over many months, people get used to them always coming, and they stop giving treats or really practicing it, or more often, people become "boring" for their dog outside and the dog thinks "fine, I go find my own fun then (hunting, searching for mischief or just sniffing about). It's then usually a back to the basics thing, training with treats/toys again for recall - and strengthening the bond overall.
that normal. my african gray did that to me but it past
Not really normal in the world of free flight.
Mikey be like Mia is the naughty one I'm the good one right daddy human?
Do they mate in the air...alot of birds do
Haha no, they try to in our house though
It's just teenage rebellion
Macaws are pretty birds.
That moment when u don't see your birds
You ll regret your decision of free flight
Haha, never.
@@MikeyTheMacaw trust me it has happened with me
Maybe the change in recall is because you're not wearing your knit toque?
Haha maybe
this is honestly just sad
It’s not permanent. I’ll have them back in a few weeks max. Need to up my interactions.
Honest. Very disconcerting when free flying. Do you use a GPS tracker? Might be time consult bird tricks again
It’s basically just I’ve slacked off with training and they prefer mummy human now, it happens, I’ll get it back haha, just need to work a bit harder with them.
I agree sounds like the hormones to me , good luck xxx
Haha thanks.
My tiel lost respect for my dad when he stopped interacting with him. Maybe do some training with them to rebond.
Yea, I’ve been a bit slack. Will have to get back to training.
Its sexy season and they're at a age where they prefer each other's company. It's going to be a long summer bro.
Yup haha. We shall have to wait patiently.
My parrot has been aswell so I know how you feel but my parrot doesn't go outside
You could harness train them, or take them out in a carry cage. All birds need sunlight.
@@MikeyTheMacaw I dont have those Items but I'm getting them soon hopefully
Maybe Mia is testing his endurance?
Haha yup
wonder what they're plotting ...
Wait what
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Maybe until you figure out the hormone thing don’t fly them alone.
Yea, will work on things slowly.
I think they are testing each other
They may be looking for a particular nest tree/area.
We did worry about this haha
How long do the bird hormones last? I have a Conure and she is hormonal at this time of course cause it’s spring
We have only experienced it for a few weeks, it can last much longer though.
I would hate to see them fly off forever.
They won’t
Heyo, Ive been thinking aout getting a mcaw for 2 years and might adopt one next year probaly, I saw a video about raising mcaws and they said bout them destroying things and chewing other stuff. Is it posible to train them to not chew up everything, maybe making it tast unpleasent? (not poisoning them of course) Also can I go to public places with the bird to places where they allow mcaws? As long as they have a harnest (as a option) and tranied to be around other humans and can fly back to you. I also plan on training it to free fly, what age can I teach it to fly and what trainer can help me. The longest coment ive ever typed dam.
Go educate yourself by finding BirdTricks videos. Jamie and Dave have macaws, have worked with other peoples’s birds and kind of helped start the movement toward free flight popularity. They have a website also and sometimes offer free downloads of info. Mikey and Mia are great but you will need to get info also from folks who have had birds longer than they have had Mikey and Mia. Also, look up parrot rescue near where you live. Some offer online education courses to teach you about parrot care. They can also help you to perhaps find a macaw who needs a new great home. Good luck!
Firstly always rehome over buying a baby. Far too many in need of a new home. These birds aren’t easy. They will break stuff they are not meant too, they are extremely loud, can be aggressive, expensive to keep and ridiculously messy. In regards to free flight. To free flight train a bird takes time and patience, anywhere between 3-6 months for a flighted bird. It’s a lot of desensitisation, positive reinforcement, getting diet right, a bunch of recall etc. Basically around 20 hours worth of knowledge. There are professional free flight trainers and mentors which help.
If you are interested, this video will help you find the best trainer/mentor for you. ruclips.net/video/kBCiUwtcORA/видео.html
Very clear Mia looking for mommy Human
I think it is best to let birds choose when to fly and when not to and to choose what to do or not to do whenever they want and however they want. Obeying owners is a red flag for me. So they are doing just fine with you . It is a very healthy bond.
Yea totally, I actually kinda like they don’t always listen to us, I like them deciding what they want to do and having a bit more freedom.
@@MikeyTheMacaw you are the best parrot owners ever
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This would scare the literal crap out of me. My wife would probably cry every time they went out of site.
Haha it’s not too bad as we know they will be around, and they are loud, very very loud.
I've always meant to ask why, on your Instagram stories in particular, they only land on Mummy human. I thought it was my imagination. I'm sure you'll work through it though, must be a mix of hormones and lack of one on one time with Daddy Human!
Best of luck!
Yes exactly this. We will work on it.
@@MikeyTheMacaw Wonder if it is because of the camera?
They are nesting. You need to build a nesting box 😊
Haha noooo. No room in this world for more baby macaws
@@MikeyTheMacaw It’s probably gonna happen whether you like it or not… Might as well be prepared 🤣🤣
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