Why is Lovebird Biting | How to stop parrot from Biting
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Where soft nipping is normal, hard and hurtful bites are always a concern that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. But the only key here is not to rush things. Take it slow. And if nothing works for a particular lovebird, starting with gaining the trust of the bird would surely do. Earn the trust and never go back on it. The little bird would also never resort back to biting.
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TIMESTAMPS IN THIS VIDEO
00:25 Why do Lovebird bite
00:35 Pet Store Birds
01:05 Female Lovebird
01:35 Hand Raised Birds
02:05 Is Every Interaction a Bite
03:00 When Does Lovebird Bite Hard
03:35 Fear
04:15 Aggression
05:05 Insecurity
05:30 Cage Size
06:05 Environment
06:35 Hormonal Changes
07:05 How to fix Lovebird Biting
07:30 Start with Small Interactions
08:20 Understand Body Language
08:50 Stabilize Hormones
09:20 Keep Bird Entertained
09:45 Offer Security
10:15 Never Force Bird
10:40 Summing Up - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
My hand-raised male lovebird is extremely sweet and gentle with his beak. I taught him the cue "gentle beak" as a baby, praising him when he was gentle, and now when he's too rough, I can remind him. He also preens my hands and will sleep in my hand 🥺 he is such a gift
is he okay now?mine was also same...i don't know what to do and what did i do
Yess my love bird help me a lor throught my deppresion
@@ikepuspita9269 they're so smart, and they're SO in tune with their people and our moods. Just incredible animals.
My birds trusting me when there hungry*
Do you know what I can do to my lovebird who was not hand raised. The shop even said that these ones are the most frequent ones to be returned. Finn just does not like hands, and now even bites my earlobes, maybe because they look like fingers??.
You should note that a bird biting is never the birds fault, it is almost always your fault, whether you pet a spot they didn’t want, they were hormonal and didn’t want you there, never get mad at your bird even when it’s frustrating, and yelling at the bird when they bite does not help and will make them continue to bite, try blowing on them or slightly shaking what they are on so they get disrupted or distracted from being angry
Exactly! Biting is communicating for them. Just because WE don't always know why they bit, THEY always have a reason.
My lovebird likes to crawl on me and bite me 😢
Woow thank you very much for advices! This is the best video about biting that I have ever seen💗
tesla is so cute, i have an opaline green peachface lovebird too (around 6 months old). i handfed and handraised him and we have such a close bond. some times he bites me hard but only when I try to hold him when he's preoccupied or cranky . really good informative video, taught me some things I didn't know myself as a lovebird breeder
Same for Tesla. I guess they are not like budgies, and you always need to double check his mood before trying to handle him.
Hello. We adopted a lost lovebird about 3 weeks go, she seems to be female and still has a small black splotching on her beak, so we assume it's less than one year old. We assumed she was hand-raised as she wants to sit only on us and makes it very clear she wants outside when she is in the cage. At the beginning she was very loving with me and completely ignoring my partner, but we had some people over and decided to put her on a different room to avoid her stressing out because of the noise, but regularly went to check on her and spend few minutes there, afterwards she seemed very angry for few days especially with my partner. Now she seems to love him and she is very aggressive with me. Her cage is pretty big and we let her outside 3-4h in the morning and 3-4 in the evening. 90% of the time she spends outside is sitting on us, mostly kissing and cuddling with him and playing with me just before biting me for no reason after she came to me for pets. She is not aggressive all the time, but after playing for a bit she literally bites out of nowhere, I am not even trying to touch her when she suddenly bites very hard. If I leave the room even for few seconds she start making a lot of noise like calling for me until I return and then she comes back to being aggressive out of nowhere. I tried putting her in the cage after biting, ignoring her, talking more calmly to her, even showing her that it hurts, but no results, I am a bit desperate as this point. Ah and she ignores all the toys, she has plenty of things to destroy everyday, but apparently hurting me it's way more fun.
Please help me try to understand what is happening to this cute little bird 😞
Us moment even my female lovebird do exact same stuff when i leave her alone she make noise and when i come to her she bites me every single time
Maybe she is having hormone issues.
Try to give her a bath daily and remove any nesting inducing holes in her cage.
Most informative, well explained video about lovebirds!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Who are those guys with 10 thumbs down???🤬🤬🤬
You have got 10 likes😂😂
@@cosmiccommandovlogs7904 😂hahaha! What a coincidence 😂
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my lovebird, artemis, has been with me for about a year now, but she has always been aggressive towards me even though i do really nothing to hurt or disturb her
my aunt lied to me and convinced me to clip her wings back in 2020 (at the time i didnt know how harmful clipping wings were because i didnt know it even existed,) and her past owner, which we bought her from, had put her in a sadly tiny cage along with her supposed sibling (which had sadly passed in 2021.) one thing i remember the old owner doing while he was giving us Artemis and her sibling, he had gripped onto her tightly with a towel and said to us “she bites hard, so i dont wanna risk it.” before shoving her into our travelling cage and resulting in her hissing at him with fear.
but now she has sorta calmed down with her aggression, and i think she feels safe whenever im a suitable distance away from her. but she still has very territorial instincts, where she will become aggressive whenever i try taking her food bowl out to feed her. i think her aggression is caused by a traumatic past and possibly her instinct to defend herself from anything bigger than herself.
if someone can help me with dealing with her aggression problems and could help me gain her trust, please tell me some tips or what to do to help her become more calm! (for those wondering, my lovebird is an adult)
i have same issues like u, my adopted LB is 4yrs old
very helpful thank you
Very informative video.
THE BIRD IN THE INTRO IS SO CUTE AND ADORABLE AND SO FRIENDLY AND CUTE AN-D DID I-I SAY THAT ALREADY!!!
I have a lovebird 3months old and she's female, her bite is so hard😥🙁 but i try my best to calm her, by talking and singing, and slightly improve. Thanks for this video 😊
Mine’s about the same age as yours now. She makes this weird alarm like sound when she’s being moody. I try to avoid hand contact so I don’t get bitten. She has calm days, it just saddens me that I started being afraid of her. I can’t pet her any time I want, or pick her up anymore 😩
@@merchreviewersbt21tinytan54 hello my girl lovebird is now 1 year old, try to talk to her always, and train, and now my Bird is so calm, she's not now biting me anymore
@@Liliblink4 Thank you. I will try. What training did you do to keep her from biting?
@@merchreviewersbt21tinytan54 its funny but i have hanger hahaa then i whistle to come to me then i give her a treat
Nice movie, it is very helpful.
I have a lovebird and she loves me. Get it, cause she's a lovebird 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😜😜💯❤️
I bought my lovebird from my daughter she got him for my granddaughter but my daughter said she didn't spend much time with Sunny plus my daughter has a 2 yr old little boy named Noah and he would throw stuff at Sunny's cage so he doesn't like young kids at all. Thank you for sharing your information it's really helpful
Im a new bird owner with 1 male (possibly) lovebird 3 months old, and he bites hard, not to the point i bleed thankfully. but im slowly learning more on what do with a bird. If you have any tips to give a new bird owner, please share!
Today we had got 2 African lovebirds that were abuse with there old owner and now we are looking for tut how to train and not bite us this help alot tysm!
My lovebird spends most of it's time outside its cage I've had it since 3 weeks old and its 7 weeks now and the bites are so hard sometimes. I give him so many toys, constantly around the bird but I feel its aggression not really fear. Sometimes I need to put the bird in the cage to leave somewhere and it bites me because it doesnt want to go In the cage and doesnt want me to touch it. The bites are so painful and I'm trying to train with treats but it doesnt even really care for them haha. I dont know if it's because the age. I know the bird loves me but man does my baby get grouchy, like mean as hell sometimes.
Hmm... Try not letting him bully you outside of cage. Push him away if he bites and say no. They can easily become bossy.
I still let him be boss in his cage. He is super agresive and territorial in cage. But outside of cage he is biting less now. And not super strong.
If you got it at only 3 weeks old...
it was taken from it's parents *MUCH* too soon and wasn't even ready to be away from them on it's own yet!
(That was a greedy af breeder/owner that was only interested in making money from their baby birds by selling them off much too soon....instead of what was best for the *BIRDS* !!).
Baby birds shouldn't be fully fledged away from their parents until at least 6-8 weeks old..bc they still need to *learn* from the older birds of their flock before being taken away
and put out to have to learn on their own by being sold off.
So of course it's still afraid and still perceives *everything* as a threat/danger to it...not to mention still hasn't gotten use to the several new environments that it's been forced to have to be in at such an young age.
You should be spending as much time as possible with the baby bird.
At 7 weeks to 2 months old....
it will depend on you to teach it that it *IS* safe and secure in your home in it's new surroundings
and that you *deserve* to earn it's trust & love so that it *can* even trust you.
And it certainly won't stop trying to defend itself in the only way that it knows how to by pecking & biting at you...
until you *DO* .
@@quakerparrotandlovebirds1138 yes I've been spending alot of time with it. Pretty much all day and I have another lovebird that hes bonding with. Hes definitely not fearful all the time because he flies to me to cuddle, sleep and just to sit and preen. He has the whole house to himself and I have a big area where he plays. I give him the best food, herbs and hes doing great hes just very territorial especially over my own bed haha. But i understand your concern. Hes definitely gotten alot better since I've been click training him and he flies outside alot because hes flight trained with treats. He just gets really angry and bites me hard when I get near his food, on my bed or if he wants to be fed.
Thank you for making a video like this . I have 8 months old lovebird. He bites really hard and my fingers bleed.
Mine is almost acting nice now. She bites less strong. Just try to spend time with her, feed her from hand outside of cage. In cage, leave her alone. That's what i did, and it is behaving better every day. Also lot of Patience, it might take time, but lovebird will behave better one day if you spend time with it.
same as mine!
@@quakerparrotandlovebirds1138im trying to feed my LB outside of the cage but she just bite and not trying to eat it
my female lovebird is pretty comfortable with me. it sleeps on me and lets me pet her and loves playing. the only time she bites me is when i’m not doing anything to her. i was literally typing on my computer and she started biting me. i was holding her and not touching her but she was biting my thumbs. i put her in the cage but she tries to get out of it and be with me. so confusing sometimes hah
It sounds like she wants you to give *her* attention instead of your computer 🤣 our male does it too when he is on your shoulder and you play with your phone, he's like HEY LOOK AT ME
Dude exacly the same ! My lovebird lands also on the keyboard and pecks at any finger that comes close, when i play games. Is it perhaps a jelousy / attention issue ?
I've got the same problem !! Did you find a solution?
Thankyou
My female love bird (tweety)was very timid at the start. after a few months, she sat on my hand. Then the male sat. The male one (leo) was not the one who was biting he nibbles my hand and he was the first one to eat from my hand . Tweety on the other hand whenever she came on to my finger she pins it to the floor and bites me hard.
my 4 weeks old hand-raised lovebird only bites when his space is invaded (by a human or another bird), but he always makes loud squawking sounds when being touched or handled, not sure if that's happy sound or what, other than that he's very playful and loves to crawl inside a blanket or pocket every chance he's got. Do all lovebirds like to crawl inside like that?? It's my first lovebird so I dunno..
Mine does that too. Loves to hide, especially if he sees my hand goes there
I have a 6 month female pacific parrotlet. Lately she started to bite on the neck whenever she’s on our shoulder. It doesn’t start right away but once she starts to nibble on the shirt, she gradually goes towards the skin and nibbles down. I would take her away and put her down, she flies back, and tries to nibble again. Idk if birds go thru teething or they bite the same thing. What can I do. I have to put a shirt around my neck, but she still finds a spot to bite
Mine had a faze when she was biting socks like crazy, now, 6 months later, she is Not so interested. Not sure what's best approach if she continue to bite, maybe push her away, say no.
I have 2 lovebirds (Louie and Lorelai) for just over a year, they were so sweet and let us handle them gently but now any time we approach them they attack. Please if anyone could give me tips on how to handle this PLEASE do.
My pair love birds started bitting my one of the other lovebird out of 5 , scolding and hitting there beaks doesn't seem working 😒
My Baby lovebirds just recently started biting he never did it before just recently
My female budgie IDK hav a broken beak so her bite is not so strong
When my female lovebird is on my shoulder, it keeps biting my neck, it hurts so much idk what to do with her.
I wrap my neck and shoulders with a towel
Do lovebird go through a "stage" when they bite? Mine wants to stay with me all the time but he gets bored so easily and starts biting my nails and fingers progressively stronger. He stops when I tell him to but he does this over and over. Will he ever stop? He's around 3 months old
If it is a female it can become More territorial later once it becomes hormonal And it wants to lay eggs. Mine behaves completely different in cage And outside. I am having problems changing food in cage. But outside she is cuddly
My lovebird doesn’t bite me, nibbles sometimes but never bites. But then again, he bites my 7 year old daughter. He won’t go to anyone but Me, and seems to hate kids. He gets super jealous
He probably thinks you're his mate
My lovebird only eats from mouth feeding or he will just attack everything else
@@ParrotGab Do you mouth feed your bird daily?
I have a hand feeded female but she's so agressive and bite everyone
I have hand raised a male lovebird since he was a baby. He didn't bite or showed fear back then but now he is a adult he is attacking me and I can't take him out of his cage
Mine use to be so sweet. She has never been abused!! But boy is she mean. We have 2 other birds who are so sweet. But my love bird will chase you bite you latch on with a hard bite!! Then she starts laughing like a human. Her behavior changed after her first egg.
I took her to the bird farm wile we went on vacation. And the first thing out of the kids mouth were.. This is the meanest bird he has ever scene. She has no fear.. 😂 She is like a T. rex in a tiny body.
Mine changes lot in different environment. Shes only aggressive in cage... .or few items she thinks is hers. Like paper she uses to build nest. Outside of cage she allows head scratches if you do it slowly while she is in mood. In cage she will bite your finger off anytime... And she is laying eggs now...
Can someone help me??my lovebird is not weaning he's 4 Month's old but still on hand feed i put him in cage with sweet corns millets and seeds but he don't even eat only chew and throw so he's getting weaker that's y i give him hand feed how to make him wean??
My lovebird bites me as if I’m food what do I do
I have a bath in my lovebirds birds cage but my female tries to fight the water do you know why
That's weird. Usually they just test the water. For bathing just fill bowl of water, and leave it in cage. Don't force bath them.... Cheers!!!
@@quakerparrotandlovebirds1138 the only did it twice but i don’t know why so lol
my lovebird slowly comes and bites me not like a quick snap what does dat mean pls respond
Hard to tell... Maybe just afraid of you, or just hormonal and aggressive. For me it helped when i feed her outside of cage, with Millet seeds. But it still bites from time to time. I gave up on training her inside of cage. They are territorial, and that is their space. So i feed her a lot outside of cage. I ler ger fly to my hand for food. But lovebirds take a lot of patience, and they are more stubborn than other parrots in my opinion.
@@quakerparrotandlovebirds1138 oh ok thank you for the tips also does hand feeding them build trust?
Update: ok i realised that my bird is biting me like my hand is food how do i stop it
@@ramgaming2540 yea, hand feeding helps a lot. I always do it outside of cage. Becouse they are kinda territorial. Thats how i made it not afraid of hand. Also just loud NO when he try to bite. It requires lot of Patience. Mine still bite when she wants same thing that i want. But with less strength and more rare.
Anyway ill post video today, about how much mine changed...
@@quakerparrotandlovebirds1138 thanks for the tips the only thing is that my mother thinks my birb will poop everywhere lmao
I have a cousin who has one of these. A cat was accidentally left in the house and knocked the cage over. Ever since he doesn't even let her touch him even though they were so close. And now she can't even let him out the cage. I'm trying to find a way to make him stop
It is slow process, needs a Lot of patience and work with them
My lovebird bites super hard and follows around the cage so it can bite me and makes me bleed
How he behaves outside of cage...
My lover Bird doesn't bite that much but when I put my finger in his forehead he got angry and started to bite me but slowly he does not bite that hard😅😅😊😊
I have a love bird a few months old, was handfed I got a huge cage, tons of toys. when we would visit at the store to spend time while my lovebird was weaning off of formula, she or he ( I don't know the sex yet), was very calm and let me hold him or her for a long time. even after I first brought him home. now she or he is aggressive I let it out for 2 hours a day and right when I pick it up and try and hold it, it goes right for my fingers. I even try to hold it and give him treats like mullet, and when it's done eating the treats he automatically goes for my fingers again!!!! I keep soft music on for it, and talk to him and I'm with him in the living room from when I take off the sheet from his cage to when I put it back on at bedtime. I'm so frustrated I did my research before getting one and tried everything.
How long is he with you? They can be hardheaded, but having patience pays off. It took mine (one that bites me on video) about 6 months to stop seeing me as threat. Now, he kind of plays with my fingers, and nimble little. But not hard like on video. They are territorial, so i don't even try to arrange anything in cage when he is in. I only work with him outside of cage. They are social, so he will look for attention from you after some time, or check what you are doing. Slowly he will gain trust.
Anyway, try to spend time with him. Don't let him boss you around when outside of cage. If he bites you, yell NO, and push him away. You can put him back in cage if he does it. You can use one of perches to make him jump on it, so you can bring him to cage on perch. After some time, try to call him on your arm, especially when just letting him out of cage. But if he's not in mood, dont force him :)
@@quakerparrotandlovebirds1138 the problem is when I let him out of the cage he won't go anywhere near me. I'm in a lower level apartment and my windows are super high he just flies up there everytime. he has been with me two weeks. at first he didn't mind me holding him. now he won't let me or go anywhere near me. and I gave him his own time for a week and half. just talked to him all day. now he doesn't go anywhere near me
No train onlly touch
Bro 😞😞😞 no touch problem
🙏
i gave my lovebird cucumbers now its crazy and biting me so hard
why her nose has blood?
Ayo bird experts, my love bird flies on my shoulder, follows me around, eats from my hand. But for some reason he doesn't sit on my finger and sees my hands and fingers as a threat even tho he eats from me it sometimes. I don't understand why he still constantly bites my hands even tho I'm very slow amd steady with the movement. Please help how dobi make him like my hands😭
Does she do it in cage? Mine is always agresive inside cage... females consider it as nest, and are realy protective... outside is different story
Outside of cage, you can close fist so she does not see finger, and put hand under her chest. Hopefuly she jumps on hand....
I sit on my computed lovebird lands on the middle of the keyboard and bites every time i have to press space
Same to me. I cover keyboard with cloath and use mouse with virtual keyboard open in pc
Thank you my bird bites and my other has a swolen toe
Hmm... Maybe they bite each other Toe.
I really think it bites me cuz it gets scared and stuff it's still baby
I raised my first love bird by hand been with me 24/7 I love her to death she is 5 months old now or maybe 4 but she started to bite me a lot recently , use to bite me before but she use to do it generally now she just attacks me or wants to bite me for no reason all tho I’m away from her she would go out of her way to bite me 😭 I am raising a new baby love bird and she’s so aggressive towards him I don’t let them stay in the same meter from each other does anyone know why she bites me but never leave me alone ?
They can be territorial in cage, and tame outside. Try to not handle her around cage. Mine is getting super tame outside. They are social, and over time he will approach you for interaction, you just need patience...
Also push him away, and say loud NO if he bites you for no reason outside of cage.
@@quakerparrotandlovebirds1138 okay thank you for the tip I love her to death she’s my baby .
how to touch parrot inside
tha cage please video
This one i Can't touch inside cage. Better don't try inside cage. Only train him outside of cage.
why does my bird always want to go out and when i let them out they bite me hard until blood comes out 😢😢 idk what to do
can their behavior change if i will give them a partner or some bird that they can play with
we are also currently living in a highway so its always noisy here ☹️
although sometines i think that its normal since theyre only 3 mos old and is still young
Guys my "male" love bird i named "him" blu because he has a mixture of blue colors in "him" i thought it was a boy but...after we brought an actual female one they didnt get along at first but now their best friends and i see blu taking pieces of stick in his feather on his back and take it inside then i got a hint and it was making a nest the female one wasnt helping so we took them to a bird store and the guy said "blu is a gurl :)" I WAS SHOCKED BECAUSE LIKE 5 MONTHS SHE HAS BEEN WITH ME I TOOK CARE OF HER WHEN IT COULDNT EVEN WALK it looks so much like a guy
Mine loves to fight and scream😑
My fingers are beat up from lovebirds bites
Is a 5 month year old bird an adult or a baby?
Well, i would not consider it a baby as soon as it starts flying. But probobly 5 months is not old enough to breed.
@@quakerparrotandlovebirds1138 alr thanks for sharing information
my love do the same behavior when in fear. it seems that they are always in fear. They bite me. even i did not do anything.
Lovebirds are tricky pets if you want to get yourself a first pet bird get a budgie they're sweet and lovely and way easier to tame than lovebirds
Not always the case … I got a budgie as my first pet and he was very scared and wouldnt even come near me or my hand. When i had to get a new one i got a lovebird and they’re still a very nippy but they trust me way more and play with me a lot
Nice 👍💯💝💝💯💞💞💯💞💗💔👍👍👍👍💗💞🤜
Parrot sit on hand inside cage
Lovebirds are aggressive and territorial especially female, who can defend their nest fiercely. They can also be very aggressive at other birds.
bro mine bites so hard if actually takes chunks of flesh out of my fingers
Name of this bird ?
Lovebird
Why does my lovebird bite me and my mom but doesn’t bite my brother and my dad?
Doesnt like you
Why does he talk so soft, hardly couldn't hear him! All my volume up.
My lovebird hates apples
Lately mine prefer peper.
My lovebird only nibbles me that's because I make smooth movememts
But the 1st minute shows budgies, those aren lovebirds
My bird really likes to nibble my lips and neck
My girl will bite whatever goes near her.
im watching this vid bcs my lovebird cut my mic
When you get a bird from a petstore, you are buying it not adopting it.
My lovebirds hate me why meeee
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