My african grey parrot???

Question

she's about 3 1/2 months old, and i just got her yesterday. shes been ALOT nippy, and when i go within 5 inches of her cage, she starts to scream. it's even harder when i try to get her out of the cage, so i just leave to cage door open for her to climb out on her own. when shes out, i try to pet her, but her beak opens. like shes gonna bite me. Then, if i don't move my hand, she bites me real fast. so i put my hand I'm a fist and let her beak touch the front of my hand. ( this way, she can't grab any fingers and bite them.) and she still tries to bite me. before she wasn't like this. when i went to see her at the breeders house, she was calm, not nipping people, didn't scream, and let me pet her. but now, shes the other way around. and she bites hard. when i tried to get her out of the cage, ( get her to go on my finger,) she would reach down with her beak wide open, and she would bite my finger. and i would say, "no Tui." and she would still continue . so i had to scold at her and say "no tui!" and she would stop. and when i tried to put her back,she made my finger bleed, so i put on some gardening gloves. (the thickest gloves i could find.) and she bit me as hard as she could and so my hand turned blue in one area.

any ideas how to stop getting nipped?

Answer 1

Not only do you allow her to peacefully get to know her new home for a few days, don't try to touch her. She has to learn to trust you, and won't cooperate until she does. She's been taken from a trusted place and put into one where she feels there is none-- I'd bite, too. After a couple of days, feed her raw, in-the-shell, unsalted pistacios through the bars of the cage so she realizes you are the one who gives her yummy things to eat.

Once she begins to trust you, NEVER put your finger(s) out; only use the back of your fist with your wrist toward her. Be sure to move VERY slowly-- birds do not like sudden movements.

If you have questions, contact the breeder. Any responsible breeder will welcome it.

Answer 2

this is normal, her being in a whole new home she needs at least a good 2 weeks to get settled but that does NOT mean to leave her alone and only make sure she gets that food and water. it means to still work with her and still let her no this is her new home. I use a latter to get her off her cage if she is territorial then it really dosn't matter to much to me, as long as i can still get her out and feed and water her. as long as i don't go in the cage shes fine, on the door or on top she will step right up. and if i put her on the ground no matter what she steps right up becaus she feel insecure.

i actually just found this video on youtube.com you may want to try it, its called "Building trust with your bird" its 7 min long and seems boring but with my quaker i have already seen improvment and i just started today!!!

good luck hope it helped  

Answer 3

First of all let her get use to her new home leave her alone for a few days.  Keep talking to her though.  When you want to get her on your hand do this kind of quickly put your finger up to her chest kind of lift up and say "step up".  Let her get use to that.  You will probably get a few bites but be consistent. If you get her on you finger and she bites jerk your hand up and down like a mini earthquake and say NO! put her back in the cage.  Keep doing this it might take 3 to 4 days. This worked for us.

Good luck.

Answer 4

For your new African Grey it is in  a completely new environment, and is scared , give him time to adjust to its new home. Like a child it is probably depressed and missing its old home.  Just get to know him slowly and let him come to you on his own. and gloves only scare him more. It would be better to use a stick for him to step up on and not your hand, definatley leave the gloves out of his life. Give him time to get to know you and the new home ,