it scratches its beack with its feet and then rubs its butt on something soft.... is that normal??
2006-12-20 04:52:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds
My birds both pacify themselves with their feet. The skin right around the beak is very sensitive, and with new molts (new feathers coming in) it gets really itchy. The other thing is, when he eats, he's forever getting food all over his beak, much like my 1 and a half year old does on his face when he eats. So, Rio, my parrot wipes his beak, constantly. On me, on his cage, on the wall next to his cage, on the couch...he's always screwing with his beak.
As far as his butt goes, his vent is down there. The vent is a very sensitive spot as well. My bird (without sounding, um...like a bird pornographer, LOL) likes his butt scratched. We actually have a game, where I'll say "Get yer butt! I'm gonna get yer butt!" LOL and I'll grab his tail feathers and play with him. He'll run, and then come back and actually bug me until I scratch his butt. The vent area is a really sensitive area in that, that's where he eliminates, but there's feathers down there too. If you can imagine having pokey things sticking out of your butt...imagine how itchy that is.
Or...he could be just going through his sexual revolution, too. Depending on the species, that happens usually after they're a few years old. Then, they start "humping" stuff. Rio has a stuffed penguin that we've made his "prisonbitch". LMAO. (we actually call the penguin PB) You might want to try giving your baby a PB of his own. If he's rubbing his butt against stuff, if it's not obviously scratching, I'd say he's making a PB out of whatever he's rubbing on. My friend's eclectus loves me. So much so that the first time I ever met him, he hopped right on my arm and made ME his PB. LOL Just goes with the territory, I guess.
Is he throwing up for you? If he's throwing up a lot, and rubbing his butt all over, it's sexual revolution time. If that's what's going on, I probably wouldn't scratch for him because, well...that's only encouraging the behaviour. LOL
2006-12-20 17:54:11 · answer #1 · answered by sdkramer76 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hummm
i have a coctail bird he does these things all the time he is a male bird and these things r sign of that he wants a mate he rub his butt on smthin soft or anythin gets in his way so it is pretty normal to birds if they r alone in a cage with no mate
2006-12-20 05:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ Xeina ♥ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-05 13:21:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you giving the bird it's showers? Birds in the wild like baths and it helps there skin keep it's coat. They need to take showers every week. I take mine outside and clean there cages with them in it then if you spray hose up in air it will act like a shower. They love it.
2006-12-20 15:00:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems normal to me....my Sengal "wipes" his beak with his feet all the time....especially after eating. Then my Goffin like rubbing up and down this fur ball thats in her cage...kinda like making out with it...
2006-12-20 04:56:08 · answer #5 · answered by Rasta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there are other signs such as loss of feathers or scratching the feathers out, you should take it to the vet to make sure it isn't serious.
2006-12-20 04:58:06 · answer #6 · answered by Kristin 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look for any toher signs like sores or loss of feathers. Call the Vet.
2006-12-20 04:54:21 · answer #7 · answered by marie1257 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes My QUaker Parrot Does That all the time we went to the vet and she said that it is normal because The parrot's beak is sensitive. :-)
2006-12-20 05:08:48 · answer #8 · answered by Brian.P 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just take your bird to a vet.
2006-12-20 05:00:44 · answer #9 · answered by tommiex7@sbcglobal.net 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes that is very common ive had 5 birds and they all have done that
2006-12-20 04:57:59 · answer #10 · answered by jessie_demon 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋