I have a 5 yr old African Grey, and my daughter recently moved back home with a 1 yr old Green Cheek Conure.?

Question

The GCC normally is a "momma's boy" and attached to my daughter by the hip. He lived for her cuddles. After being in his new home for less than a week, the GCC is running away from her, and doesn't want her to pick him up. He is being kept away from the Grey, but it is a very delicate balance, as my Grey is not clipped and the GCC is. We are keeping them separated, as I know the Grey can kill the Conure and she is obviously not crazy about the GCC. That said, just suddenly the GCC wants nothing to do with his owner/momma anymore. The Grey more or less belongs to my husband but is equally loving with me, and she "tolerates" my daughter rather well for a "grey" Suddenly the only person the GCC will now let pick him up and cuddle him is my husband! Is the GCC flocking? Is he choosing to flock with my husband and the Grey over me and my daughter? Or is something else going on. Me being the one that keeps my Grey emotionally balanced, so far she has never picked, and just sings whistles and talks alllll day, I just have to find the balance for my daughters GCC, not to mention my daughter is getting depressed from the rejection of the GCC. What is going in with the GCC and how to I get him back with his owner/momma? Also, the GCC seems to have no idea that the Grey does not like him. Please if you have any experience with these birds...is it the new environment, the Grey, is the GCC just growing up? My daughter mentioned he was very skitterish, and sounds would cause him to flinch and jump. Here my house is a bit more noisy and my daughter has noted that the GCC does not flinch anymore and appears to have no fears at all anymore. Has his "shedding" of his fears made him not "need" his momma anymore? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

I know most people dont like having birds in their bedrooms but you could try having the GCC in your daughters bedroom maybe it just wants more time with her away from the AG. Also it might just be that the GCC feels like he can be away from his mom a bit now that he isnt so young... Make sure your daughter keeps interacting with him even if he seems to not want it so he will grow used to it over time...

Answer 2

I have a grey and a conure. It sounds like the GCC wants to be like the Grey to me (my conure mimics our grey and tries to do everything the grey does. It could also be hormones..that would have to be an incredible coincidence... but it sounds more like it's the new environment. Have your daughter continue to handle her little guy, the more attention she gives him the better. Having your husband hand the GCC over to her will show him that his bonded human is friendly with his "momma".

Answer 3

She misplaced Papa 2 weeks a go? And moved? that should slightly lots on an grownup. My girly is 11. We misplaced Grampy the 1st day of summer season trip in June. We had some tough circumstances; she ultimately instructed me she grow to be so unhappy it began to experience like being mad, and he or she wanted somebody else to experience undesirable too. i assume she wanted somebody to experience undesirable along with her. So we observed Grampy and cried for awhile. Your woman isn't sufficiently previous to discern this out, and at 5, she in all hazard would not have the language skills to describe it besides. supply her a smash; this remains new. supply her opportunities to talk approximately all this, enable her draw photos for Papa, take her to his grave so she would be able to flow to. enable her call her acquaintances if available. How could desire to be traumatized and not be waiting to talk on your acquaintances? We additionally went via a era of untamed habit after Grammy died while she grow to be 3. something that did no longer appeal to her ended in her sitting down and screaming. You for sure won't be able to enable the wild habit. We did time outs; you could desire to enable her understand which you recognize the way she feels, even even though it incredibly isn't any longer a license to be as impolite as she desires. It took me an hour to make mine have faith that she grow to be going to take a seat on her mattress. She'd arise, i could placed her back. and that i did no longer get indignant, which grow to be no longer easy. She have been given to the place she'd tell me she mandatory a minute and visit her room and calm herself down. it incredibly is time ingesting, and particular, I did paintings. supply up spanking her for now; your only including to her rigidity. And separately on the self-discipline. You did no longer say if she constantly acts out or saves it basically for you. there is a great number of know-how available approximately infants and grief.