My poor Quinn

[Lynjupiter]

Quinn the Quaker baby ran into trouble the other night.
My bluecrown conure Duke is the Jester of the house. He thinks he is the center of attention and loves to entertain guests. In fact when Guests come over he is the first to come out and entertain everyone. He has always gotten along well with the whole flock. He is also devoted to me and been my velcro bird for five years now. Well since the quaker babies have started mingling with the flock Duke has had a bug up his butt and I have had to watch Duke around the quakers. When guests come over they all want to play with the quakers and are not paying as much attention to Duke. On top of that he is faced with these two cute as a button babies, who imitate his laugh, talk better then he does and want to spend their time crawling all over me.
The other night Duke pulled a sneak attack on Quinn. Duke got on the floor, crawled up the back of the chair I was sitting in, grabbed Quinn by the leg and threw him to the floor. Quinn has two wounds in his leg and has not been using his leg at all. A vet exam today showed no broken bones or dislocation.
His leg is just badly bruised and he probably has a punctured muscle. He is on anti inflammatories for pain and swelling.

Now what to do with Duke. Right now I am locking him up when the quakers come out to socalize with the flock. I feel terrible but I have to get the message through to Duke that what he did was bad, This was not a bird squabble but a dirty sneak attack with intention of harming one of the babies.
I hope Duke gets the message.
Lynda

[danforth3]

Poor Quinn. Feel better soon.

You should keep Duke in his cage when you have the quakers out, especially if you are planning to sell them. People do not want a handicapped bird.

None of my flock get along, so we get them out individually for their play times. We have playgyms and boings that we put them on and rotate them so that everyone gets a lot of time out and with us.

[Lynjupiter]

Originally Posted by danforth3

Poor Quinn. Feel better soon.

You should keep Duke in his cage when you have the quakers out, especially if you are planning to sell them. People do not want a handicapped bird.

None of my flock get along, so we get them out individually for their play times. We have playgyms and boings that we put them on and rotate them so that everyone gets a lot of time out and with us.

Thanks Danforth,
I have been keeping Duke separate now. But I am hoping maybe he will calm down as the quakers become part of the flock. I am not a breeder, the quakers are pets. I have not had this problem before with my conures. They are pretty easy going about other like size birds.
Lynda

[willowbirdy218]

I hope Quinn recovers quickly! How old is he now?

[danforth3]

Originally Posted by Lynjupiter

Thanks Danforth,
I have been keeping Duke separate now. But I am hoping maybe he will calm down as the quakers become part of the flock. I am not a breeder, the quakers are pets. I have not had this problem before with my conures. They are pretty easy going about other like size birds.
Lynda

Conures generally are easy going, but sometimes they just don't like the other species. When we fostered a jenday, it hated my caique, who shared the opinion. The sennie and caique hate each other, and when he can come out of quarrantine, we'll see how our maxi gets along with the sennie (he was housed with them and used to feed them), but I don't anticipate any love between them. Scooter (my caique) is too aggressive to even consider trying to foster any love between the maxi and her, so I'm not going to even bother. If they get along great, otherwise, he'll join the gang on the boings, playgyms, etc.

Duke may change his mind down the road. It's hard to tell what goes on in their head, but you may see him get along. It may just be jealousy. He is your velcro bird--my velcro bird (love that expression) is my sennie. She hangs on my shirt and won't let go and goes everywhere she can with me. My sennie is jealous whenever I handle another bird.

[birdyland]

Oh no! The mighty Quinn has been ambushed!! Feel better soon lil' guy!

I have jealousy issues at my house too.... I'm afraid that with that big of a size difference, you may always have to seperate. I have mine out together but take precautions so one can't get the other.... it's usually Tiki trying to eat Niki at my house.

Goose took it a little too far, I'm sure you've seen me post on her before. She now lives with friends and has for over a year. She is truely their's and thrives in their home as an only bird. But she had such a one tracked mind that she was going to eat Tiki that it was ridiculous! A SUN CONURE that tried to eat a Macaw. Stupid! lol. She was devious about it too.... way too dangerous, and way too dedicated to her cause. I'm not saying your situation will turn into this, she had it out for Tiki from day one, it just got to the point where it was too bad and too dangerous.

[Lynjupiter]

Originally Posted by willowbirdy218

I hope Quinn recovers quickly! How old is he now?

Thanks, He is four months old now. Just a little darling to. He was freindly to the vet LOL
Lynda

[Tiki]

Awww, poor little Quinn! Give him a big kiss from Auntie Tiki!

I hear ya about the jealousy thing, I have to watch Chaska around the tiels, she gets really jealous too.

[Lynjupiter]

Originally Posted by danforth3

Conures generally are easy going, but sometimes they just don't like the other species. .Duke may change his mind down the road. It's hard to tell what goes on in their head, but you may see him get along. It may just be jealousy. He is your velcro bird--my velcro bird (love that expression) is my sennie. She hangs on my shirt and won't let go and goes everywhere she can with me. My sennie is jealous whenever I handle another bird.

We had a quaker before named Jassy and she fit right in the moment she was introduced to the flock. But she was a rare gem, a shooting star in our lives. My sun conure learned quakerish from her. They were best of friends and now my sun is starting to love hanging out with our quaker pair. Maybe Duke will get better when they are a little older. Duke just never been one to attack anything until now.
Lynda

[Lynjupiter]

Thanks Dana,
There really is not a huge size difference about fifty grams max. Our brownthroated conure Ollie is smaller then a tiel and once when I got him in the bowl and weighed him he weighed out at eighty five grams. Yet no one messes with Ollie. Even my largest nanday takes a step back when Ollie shows up on the playgym.

Now Goose is just a sun conure pure and simple LOL. Daring and bold just like their colors. I could see my sun conure Savannah going after a macaw and trying to eat it.
Lynda

Originally Posted by birdyland

Oh no! The mighty Quinn has been ambushed!! Feel better soon lil' guy!

I have jealousy issues at my house too.... I'm afraid that with that big of a size difference, you may always have to seperate. I have mine out together but take precautions so one can't get the other.... it's usually Tiki trying to eat Niki at my house.

Goose took it a little too far, I'm sure you've seen me post on her before. She now lives with friends and has for over a year. She is truely their's and thrives in their home as an only bird. But she had such a one tracked mind that she was going to eat Tiki that it was ridiculous! A SUN CONURE that tried to eat a Macaw. Stupid! lol. She was devious about it too.... way too dangerous, and way too dedicated to her cause. I'm not saying your situation will turn into this, she had it out for Tiki from day one, it just got to the point where it was too bad and too dangerous.