Territory Issue - Can Anything Be Done?
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 1:36 pm
Hi all,
I tried doing a search on "territory" and didn't see this issue but that does not mean it has not been talked about before so please someone point me to previous messages (if there are any).
Okay with that said, I have just learned something new about our boys today. I thought we had an alpha bird and now I realize we have an imaginary line running diagonally in our livingroom. Shine has one wall with it's adjacent wall and Rise has the other connecting corner wall plus it's adjacent wall.
I found this out today as I decided that I would like one area to clean up instead of three. We have playstands on their cage, playstands on a bookcase and playstands on top of an empty cage with is on top of the parrotlets cage. I hope that makes sense and if not here's a video where I am showing you all the homemade toys I make for them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXZiBo_ ... litPN3juJA that shows their setup previously. Every night I took down 6 playstands, cleaned off their plexiglasses and covered their cage up (after feeding and watering them). So I got the idea why not have one area for playstands and just have plexiglass on each cage top making it easier on me each night.
So today I put the parrotlets' cage where the IRN's cage use to be and the empty cage on the bottom where the parrotlets' cage used to be and the IRN cage on the top where the empty cage used to be. I did this so that Shine is the weaker of the two IRNs in fly abilities could just get out of his cage and climb to cage top and then hop over the playstands.
Well, of course, the birds were uneasy at first with all the changes. But then once out of their cages, Shine flew over and sat on the plexiglass on top of the now parrotlets' cage (where his cage was). Rise started to play on the playstands. Each time Shine would fly over to the playstands or their cage, Rise would run at him and force him to fly off. Shine even tried multiple times to fly over and sit on the floor stand lamp (we have a towel on the top to keep them from the light bulb which could not let the birds get hurt by it) and Rise flew him off of that and they even have had some mid-flight fights.
I really don't want our boys upset with each other - the funny part is that they can sit 6 inches away from each other when sitting on the parrotlets' cage top and have been doing that for about 30 minutes but let Shine flight over to Rise's territory and it's game on for Rise.
I have Rise closed in his cage for the last 30 minutes or so just so Shine could get to the other cage for food and water and he has been playing on the playstands. I could see Rise is very unhappy with Shine playing on his playstands and playing with his toys.
Has anyone see this and is there a possibility that territories can be changed? Thanks for your help, Jan
I tried doing a search on "territory" and didn't see this issue but that does not mean it has not been talked about before so please someone point me to previous messages (if there are any).
Okay with that said, I have just learned something new about our boys today. I thought we had an alpha bird and now I realize we have an imaginary line running diagonally in our livingroom. Shine has one wall with it's adjacent wall and Rise has the other connecting corner wall plus it's adjacent wall.
I found this out today as I decided that I would like one area to clean up instead of three. We have playstands on their cage, playstands on a bookcase and playstands on top of an empty cage with is on top of the parrotlets cage. I hope that makes sense and if not here's a video where I am showing you all the homemade toys I make for them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXZiBo_ ... litPN3juJA that shows their setup previously. Every night I took down 6 playstands, cleaned off their plexiglasses and covered their cage up (after feeding and watering them). So I got the idea why not have one area for playstands and just have plexiglass on each cage top making it easier on me each night.
So today I put the parrotlets' cage where the IRN's cage use to be and the empty cage on the bottom where the parrotlets' cage used to be and the IRN cage on the top where the empty cage used to be. I did this so that Shine is the weaker of the two IRNs in fly abilities could just get out of his cage and climb to cage top and then hop over the playstands.
Well, of course, the birds were uneasy at first with all the changes. But then once out of their cages, Shine flew over and sat on the plexiglass on top of the now parrotlets' cage (where his cage was). Rise started to play on the playstands. Each time Shine would fly over to the playstands or their cage, Rise would run at him and force him to fly off. Shine even tried multiple times to fly over and sit on the floor stand lamp (we have a towel on the top to keep them from the light bulb which could not let the birds get hurt by it) and Rise flew him off of that and they even have had some mid-flight fights.
I really don't want our boys upset with each other - the funny part is that they can sit 6 inches away from each other when sitting on the parrotlets' cage top and have been doing that for about 30 minutes but let Shine flight over to Rise's territory and it's game on for Rise.
I have Rise closed in his cage for the last 30 minutes or so just so Shine could get to the other cage for food and water and he has been playing on the playstands. I could see Rise is very unhappy with Shine playing on his playstands and playing with his toys.
Has anyone see this and is there a possibility that territories can be changed? Thanks for your help, Jan