{"id":144110,"date":"2024-05-03T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T22:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windycityparrot.com\/?p=144110"},"modified":"2024-05-03T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T22:47:39","slug":"am-i-able-to-bring-my-2-conues-hormonal-issues-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?p=144110","title":{"rendered":"Am I Able to Bring My 2 Conues Hormonal Issues Under Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Good afternoon Catherine,\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I&#8217;ve asked for your advice before my issue now is both my female conure (Reggie) and male conure (Pee Wee) aka Kiwi are both going through hormone season well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> Reggie was 1st and both were getting in the habit of screaming especially if they couldn&#8217;t see me so I did the 72-hour light treatment therapy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">When they were finished with the treatment things were OK but for the last 10 days, Reggie has been really hormonal in her cage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/product\/full-spectrum-economy-daylight-bulb-with-clamp-light-timer\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">She sits on my arm or the top of a chair and now Pee Wee is hormonal for the 1st time and he likes rubbing up to my arm and sometimes nips me they don&#8217;t want to play on their play stands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> I have the ones you sell online they each have their own, so I&#8217;m lost at what my next step should be another 72-hour treatment or is this something that cannot be fixed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> As long as they are of different sexes and my husband passed away 6 months ago I&#8217;m all they have and I don&#8217;t want to surrender them but the yelling and even sometimes the biting and now with the hormones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/how-caged-bird-keepers-get-the-lighting-thing-wrong\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">It&#8217;s been a lot for all 3 of us to deal with if you have any answers I would really like to know I&#8217;m just not as intelligent about birds as you and your husband.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Lisa N.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Dear Lisa<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I understand how difficult it must be. You are doing all you can but Mother Nature is bigger than all of us.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Light treatment works, but only for so long before the situation arises\u00a0again because nothing has changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe title=\"Sun Conure talking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gfx6CELxpco\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">You have a boy and a girl.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I don&#8217;t recommend Lupron shots or surgical options if there even are any, which can be ungodly expensive and very risky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/vets-injecting-poisen-birds\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Make sure they have calcium in their water daily. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Be sure to not provide them with any nesting materials or dark cozy places. Keep the bright light on close to their cage tops and play areas. 12 hours on and 12 hours off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The best option would be to rehome one bird into a home without another bird of the opposite sex. This would be hard on them, but may help them, her, live longer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/product\/nekton-calcium-plus-for-birds-35-g\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">One other option is to go ahead and set them up with a <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/product\/wood-nest-box-cockatiel-small-conure-outside-cage-mount\/\">cockatiel nest box<\/a> and let them try to have a clutch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But expect that they may lose their pet quality for good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">You can rehome them both to someone else. Your home will be a lot quieter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">That may or may not be what you would like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe title=\"10 Things you NEED to know about SUN CONURES\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IPRXUy2ZCAc\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">It is a hard choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Hi Catherine, one thing I don&#8217;t have to worry about is my vet is the best it&#8217;s hard to get a new patient appointment.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">She never turns anyone away and she does not believe in surgery or Lupron injections <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Most vets around here do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> I was thinking of rehoming the birds but for my female Reggie, it would be her 3rd placement.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> Kiwi my male, we bought him I just think it&#8217;s still hard that my husband is gone he was really close to him but I love him and her so much it&#8217;s like asking to give 1 of your children away.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> There is a wonderful bird sanctuary that is very highly recommended I just think if I give Kiwi away he would get depressed even though they are great with birds it is something I have to seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">My health is not good but losing my husband and now one or maybe both birds is going to be hard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I appreciate your advice I will let you know what I decide.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Thank you again. Lisa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"124233\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?attachment_id=124233\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/keto-chili-light-lockdown-1-scaled-e1644619899932-7.jpg?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/keto-chili-light-lockdown-1-scaled-e1644619899932-7.jpg?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124233 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/keto-chili-light-lockdown-1-600x450.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2 covered bird cages with lights on under covers on top of cage\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Hi Lisa,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">MitchR here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I will advocate light therapy once again but for 168 hours &#8211; 1 full week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">In for a penny in for a pound, it will also give you a well-deserved break from the birds and time to &#8220;figure things out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Follow-up from Lisa,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Hormonal birds<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Good evening Mitch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> I see Catherine used my question about my 2 hormonal birds Reggie my girl GCC and Kiwi my Pineapple conure I&#8217;m just a little confused Catherine has always given me great advice and she said as long as they are together and since my husband passed Kiwi was very close to him and once in awhile will fly into his room and stand on top of his chair by the computer like he did with my husband.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> So my question is Catherine thinks nothing will change and maybe I should surrender 1 of them but you think I should do 168 hrs. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">They love flying around and being with me more than in their cages it seems harsh to put them in for so long and believe me it&#8217;s hard changing their water and food dishes they always fly out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">They will fly back in, if you think a longer time may help I will try it see Reggie picked me as her human friend and Kiwi was my husband&#8217;s so she gets jealous when he&#8217;s with me so I will try it I know nature is very complicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> I would just hate to give 1 or both away having them here has really helped especially the first couple of months it&#8217;s been 6 and his bday was the 4th mine is the 7th and we are 20 years and 3 days apart that was always a family joke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">MitchR replied.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">So in bird years, that&#8217;s a wink of an eye \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Seriously, we&#8217;re able to stay in business because we don&#8217;t agree on everything and look at life in our own ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Every time Chili (Quaker) gives me a &#8220;love tap&#8221; and breaks skin, now that I&#8217;m on blood thinners I&#8217;ll think for a moment &#8220;What the fu*k am I doing!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But then like a Ninja, I&#8217;ll clean the cut, hit it with Neosporin, and cover it with a waterproof bandaid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Human&#8217;s relationship with birds is irrational and inexplicable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">In a former life I had Manlamuste and Huskies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span 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