I have an Indian Ringneck, I am not her original owner so I dont know exactly how old she is, her band has 1994 on it though so i assume she is around 15y/o. I've had her for ten years.
She has a cage but she is never locked inside and she doesn't have clipped wings. I deal with the damage that can cause from time to time and she's a smart girl, she flies to her perch to poop or perches on a pipe that runs along my very high ceiling, so its easy to have poop catchers in the right places.
Anyways, always around this time of year, i will wake up with her on my pillow nuzzling and clucking at me, and she will try to get under the sheets to pick around in there and clip my fingernails, etc. Also she will try to feed my ears.
I know this is her trying to be natural in such an unnatural situation and that she thinks of me as her husband and wants to have babies. (She's only laid eggs once in the ten years I have had her).
Anyways, this part is easy to deal with because, well its nice to feel loved even by an animal. But it brings such tremendous guilt on me. I feel like I have robbed her of what she feels is the entire point of her existence. It makes me very sad thinking about what I've done to her.
Anyways in a few months, this behavior will change, soon i wont be able to walk around without being dive bombed and bitten as hard as she can. This I think is because now she is very frustrated that her courtship has not gone as planned and I am now seen as the reason no other suitable mates are appearing. So she wants to drive me away by being as MEAN as a bird can possibly be (yet strangely i can still go right up to her and pet her without being bitten, its just when im up walking around that she attacks)
anyways this is a weird question but can birds be inseminated. I dont want to get her a mate. Nor do I want her to have a bunch of chicks. I just want her to be able to have ONE chick hatch and raise it. Just one.
I want to give her what shes wanted more than anything the whole time i've known her. She will be with me until she is gone, i would never get rid of her no matter how awful she can be sometimes.
thanks for reading
