Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

? asked in PetsBirds · 1 decade ago

what is wrong with my indian ringneck?

My friend gave me a hand fed tammed indian ringneck. He was really nice affecionate and sweet and I would play with him everyday and talk to him but over the weeks he became a ***** bird who would bite now. What is wrong with my bird?

2 Answers

Relevance
  • Favorite Answer

    My bird started off sweet...then he turned into a terror for about a year. Squirt him with water every time he bites. In no time at all your sweet bird will come back, I did this and it worked on my bird. Now, he never bites and loves to be handled.

  • 1 decade ago

    Somewhere along the lines you broke the ring of trust. Birds are instinct driven...if at some point you did something that your bird interpreted as danger it will bite you. This is the way of birds. Have you ever owned a bird before? I do not agree with the spraying thing. In fact that answer angers me. Birds build on trust. Not force. If at one time you reached in an hesitated the bird would see this as fear and would also bite. It would dominate. You need to ask a whole lot more questions if you want this relationship to work. People who know birds know that when they get bit they either pressed to far or acted to weak. I am sort of sad for this bird.

    Source(s): Just an old bird brain of 42 years!
Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.