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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 9:21:47 GMT
Hello there!
The situation is that a few days ago I brought home a rescue cockatiel and my budgie went nuts. He fell in love with the girl in 10 seconds, and forgot me in 10 seconds. He is strangely hostile when I'm around the cockatiel's cage while he is there singing his lovesongs to her, and when I try to take him away, he bites me [like a lunatic, like he really wants to hurt me, I end up bleeding lol], or in any way if I move around him, he lunges at me. I seriously have no idea what to do, because he was such a sweetheart before, never bit me unless provoked, gave me kisses, flew to me, and now all he thinks about is his stupid courtship and to bite me if I want to take him away, because on the other hand, the cockatiel is so frustrated with him, that she always hisses at him and runs away every time he's around, and when that doesn't work, she lunges at him, but Cinnamon STILL doesn't understand/care/dunno. I'm just so furious that my bird turned into this stupid little jerk in like 10 seconds and forgot the past 2 year when he was my companion. Any advice is highly welcome, because I really don't know how to handle this situation.
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Post by blue48 on Aug 12, 2020 15:37:43 GMT
Just a thought, I'm assuming from your post that the cockatiel is in the same room as your budgie. The new bird should be quarantined away from your budgie for at least 2 weeks, preferably in a different room. This is the safest way to keep your budgie safe from any mites or disease the new bird might be carrying, and after that the introduction could be more gradual. Bit late now.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Aug 12, 2020 16:49:12 GMT
You might go ahead and separate them in two different rooms and see what happens. Give it at least a week. Then you can think about gradually reintroducing first by putting the cages in the same room but letting either one out. Keep them separate when you let them out to fly. Hezz will probably have some better ideas because she has had different species at the same time. Good luck!
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Post by Hezz on Aug 13, 2020 0:26:12 GMT
Just a thought, I'm assuming from your post that the cockatiel is in the same room as your budgie. The new bird should be quarantined away from your budgie for at least 2 weeks, preferably in a different room. This is the safest way to keep your budgie safe from any mites or disease the new bird might be carrying, and after that the introduction could be more gradual. Bit late now. That should be four (4) weeks and definitely in a different room.
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Post by Hezz on Aug 13, 2020 0:33:53 GMT
Quarantine is a good time to work with the new bird and for both to get to know that there is another bird in the house before any meeting happens. Too late for that now. You need to take control of the situation and think things through. If he is a git when out of his cage, don't let him out so much, or immediately put him back when he does misbehave. What is the history of the cockatiel, being as it is a rescue, or is it simply a re-home?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 11:27:43 GMT
In fact it's a rescue-rehome, since we found her on the streets and never found her owners. Looked around all local groups here, but noone seems to miss the bird, no posters on the streets, nothing really. So she is currently with us, and I think she will remain cuz it's been almost a week that she went missing (a neighbour said he saw her flying outside for 3 days in summer heat lol before we went picking her up, and she's been with us now for 5 days), but she is not tame at all, kinda lunatic but cute anyways. Since we picked her up from the outside, a vet told us to give her a solution of ivermectin once she regains her strength, because she's been exposed to the outside and possibly picked up some crap from the wild birds, and this solution she offered contains ivermectin and she claims it's good for external/internal parasites too. Now the fact is that although my budgie and the cockatiel didn't exactly touch each other, because the 'tiel hates Cinnamon and turns her back on him every time he jumps there, and Cinnamon was only jumping on her cage, but suppose the mites still could make their way to him this way. Could it hurt him to administer this ivermectin-solution on him too without being sure that he has mites? (He's been treated once before, but back then actually did have mites).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 11:30:07 GMT
I did do this "putting-him-back-when-misbehaves" by the way. This is kinda the only thing I can do. But sometimes he gets bored of his hopeless pursuit and leaves her himself.
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Post by Hezz on Aug 13, 2020 19:53:01 GMT
Mites and parasites aren't the only reason for quarantining; there are plenty of other bacteria and viruses that can cause a new bird to become sick and can easily be passed on to another, and not only through touching. In this age of Covid-19, I think we all understand social distancing. That works for other species as well.
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Post by Hezz on Aug 13, 2020 19:54:52 GMT
It's quite possible that he will go back to being his normal self, or at least lose some of his enthusiasm, once the initial excitement of another bird in the house wears off.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 20:58:30 GMT
Alright, I see that I can't really change the fact that he might have caught something because I didn't know about this whole quarantine thing, but my other question is that would it hurt him to use this solution against mites on him too?
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Post by Hezz on Aug 13, 2020 22:42:53 GMT
You can, but why would you if you don't need to? Why not watch him as a precaution and treat if you notice signs? I suppose if you don't feel confident in recognising if he did have them, then give him a dose.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Aug 14, 2020 0:37:24 GMT
That was my gut feeling also Hezz. If you sneezed @zireael98, you wouldn't take an antibiotic would you? You'd wait and see f you sneezed from dust or had something more serious. I do think they'll settle down once they get used to each other.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 15:01:41 GMT
Alright! Thank y'all!
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