Our 2year old Pink and Grey has stopped liking us.

[stuart73]

Hi there,
I'm worried about our 2 year old pink and grey. We got Cracka as a very young bird and had to hand feed him for the first month or so, he had bonded with my wife and he was very affectionate and happy. All was good with him, some biting issues with me, but nothing bad. I could handle him and play with him too. He was very talkative, cheeky, at times noisy. He was not afraid at all of us and he would come over to us or wait to be picked up. We have had his wings clipped so he could be outside with us while we worked in the garden. About a month ago he started to gain his flight again slowly over about a week. There we a couple of times he flew into a glass door and a wall. He didn't seem to hurt himself, and the vet said that he was fine.( we have since clipped his wings again). But it was around this time when he started to fly again that he started to go quiet and withdrawn, now he very rarely talks, he walk/runs away from us if we approach him. If I open his cage to let him out he just stays in there, where as before he would literally leap out in a flurry of excitement.
my fear is we have done something to him and he has turned off us for good. I'm looking for advice/help and any info to help with getting home back to how he was before. We are both first time bird owners and we do spend a lot of time with him when we get home from work. 

Desperate for help

stuart

[avinet]

Feb 23, 2014 11:41:16 GMT 10 stuart73 said:

Hi there,
I'm worried about our 2 year old pink and grey. We got Cracka as a very young bird and had to hand feed him for the first month or so, he had bonded with my wife and he was very affectionate and happy. All was good with him, some biting issues with me, but nothing bad. I could handle him and play with him too. He was very talkative, cheeky, at times noisy. He was not afraid at all of us and he would come over to us or wait to be picked up. We have had his wings clipped so he could be outside with us while we worked in the garden. About a month ago he started to gain his flight again slowly over about a week. There we a couple of times he flew into a glass door and a wall. He didn't seem to hurt himself, and the vet said that he was fine.( we have since clipped his wings again). But it was around this time when he started to fly again that he started to go quiet and withdrawn, now he very rarely talks, he walk/runs away from us if we approach him. If I open his cage to let him out he just stays in there, where as before he would literally leap out in a flurry of excitement.
my fear is we have done something to him and he has turned off us for good. I'm looking for advice/help and any info to help with getting home back to how he was before. We are both first time bird owners and we do spend a lot of time with him when we get home from work. 

Desperate for help

stuart

The clue may well be that it started about the time his wings were clipped again.  Perhaps he was starting to enjoy flying and your clipping of his wings was a negative experience and he is holding a grudge.  If that is so, and the timing does match, then it will be a matter of regaining his trust.  To help further I really need to know what you feed him, what his favourite food is, how he is house, what sor tof enrichment is he provided, where the cage is in the house, what the normal daily routine is - as much detail as you can think of.  Normally if I were to come to your house to help, finding out all this sort of information would be the necessary first step.

cheers,

Mike