Horrible habit...skin eating!! tips? - Hey everyone, New kid here, so apologize for any =D> moments! And sorry for massive post. I have been watching and reading this site for at elast 5-6 months now and finally decided I make the commitment to join, as my gorgous kak has become quite obsessed on something that very much I prefer her not to be. She is around 6-7 months old (pied red front), was handreared. I have had birds all my life, many differnent species tame and not so much, but since getting my Sora I have completly converted as I have to admit their my type of bird! So long story short, she has always enjoyed removing anything and everything off my skin that doesnt seem to belong, attatched things included! Moles, freckles scars (which are the worst pain), she has never bit me in aggression or otherwise. She might threaten with a slight beak open if my hand looks as though its doing soemthing srtange. But then she started to remove the skin around my fingernails which I hate to admit are in shambles as I too bite the skin and so its harded and easy to bite off chunks, unfortuantly this habit started without me realizing as the skin is numb lol emb and she began to really enjoy snipping off a bit and mungin on it. But it has now become insanly horrible as when she sees my exposed skin she nibbles off litrally a pinsized piece and sits their contently! Its statring to really get the better of me even though I wouldnt let her know that for the world. Now I have spent so many hours with blood shot eyes searching this site through the search box thing, other resources and also other resources on other species, so I have tried the majority of things. Ignoring, which is what I think made her even more obsessed as her goal isnt to pee me off I dont think its just to get that tiny pin prick of skin to chew on. I have tried simply putting her down without a word and walking away, looking unpleased and telling her no in a deep strict voice, covering up my skin,withholding her mos beloved food stuffs for treats and rewarding for ignoring my skin,rolling my hand slowly just to distract her from it,growling,no more out play time,covering cage for 10 mintutes oh lord you name it! and well it seems to get worse, but at no point does she give me any sign at all its aggressive or territorial so on. To be honest im not well learned on the idea of dominance with birds, as Ive grown up surrounded by many animals; companion livestock wildlife birds reptiles, blah blah, and I reallly see my connections with them as partnerships. I dont have feathers and so dont feel as though its appropriate to show an animal that im "dominant". Im sure most would disagree and I bet that this issue is probs a dominance one and the tings you guys will suggest will probs work within an hour! hehe...as I said =D> for me! im just a girl lol So I apologize for such a long first post! But I would love some fresh suggestions on how I can change my behaviour to help her obsession. i would also like to add that I have never yelled at her, or hurt her, or punished her as such. And I found the earthquake technique to simply make her a tiny bit hand shy, which Im still tryinh to undo as of tonight. Yes Iam a soft-coc# and always has been! I was wonering if there are pple out there who are similar and have found ways that work for you when it comes to interacting with birds in general. Is this a dominance issue? or is it possible a nesting hen behaviour of always testing things for worthy material? She is in a cockatoo cage her time is spent mainly outside of it on various natural made playgyms, Im contantly putting in new games and enrichment (and I mean daily) and she has a varied diet with a extremly small portion being seed. could it be a diet defiency? lol I dont know if mabe Im answering my own questions. anyway thanks to anyone whose up to help out with me having retained most my skin before Im thrity. 1m/

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bruce

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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:46 am Post subject:

hi lelou and not heard of this before .... the beak open thing she does is probable her wanting feeding all my chicks are doing this thru weaning ...... as for you bein eaten alive this is a new one i guess its just a bad habit ur birds picking up which u really need to nip in the butt!! a stern telling off when she does this should do the trick over a week .. nobody wants to chastise there birds but you can't carry on bein lunch can you. hope this helps and let u know how u get on. _________________ thanks brucie.....

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