Re: Male Puberty Trouble!

Posted by Carolan from c-67-161-248-255.hsd1.ut.comcast.net (67.161.248.255) on Monday, September 01, 2008 at 5:56AM :

In Reply to: Male Puberty Trouble! posted by Jennifer Novack from ? (98.144.25.194) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 1:06AM :

: Judging from some other posts, it seems Capes can be quite a challenge after the magic age of three. Any input is appreciated.

: My fabulous Frank is 3.5 years now, and in the past couple months he has become impossible to live with. I have 2 other birds, a Maxi Pionus and a Blueheaded Pionus, and they are a pair. The female has been in mating mode and that seems to have triggered something in Frank, along with his being at maturity age.

: Frank has become OBSESSED with the other 2 birds, mostly the male. He is doing the lurching and wing quivering thing, has lost interest in his toys and his food, and is incessantly making his most obnoxious and LOUD pleas almost nonstop. The house has become unliveable. He is, however, still very sweet and VERY affectionate with me and most everyone. He'll take an hour long head rub I think just to relieve him of his obsession. I adore this bird, but I feel I've lost him. My question: Will this situation improve? Does it get better and what can I do to survive this mayhem? I heard that someone got some sort of shot for their overly-hormonal Cape...is that an option? I do not want to re-home him. I'm not a person who can do that.

: Any ideas anyone?

Hi Jennifer! I was struck by the 1:06 am posting of this message. Late nights! There are a lot of experts, and I'm sure one of them will post. I'm not an expert, but I do have a male Cape who survived this curious stage, and is now 11. So the good news is that, if you can live through it with him, he will calm down. I'm sure that some object to the hormone shots. I used them to get through the really tough years on the advice of my vet. The worst times for my bird were September [well, actually right about now!] and then again March. My other parrot is a feisty little conure, but clearly the fact that she is a female set things off. At those times only, if things got unbearable we'd go for the shot. I did this for maybe two years, tops, and then we were okay.

I wish you the best of luck. I think we still don't have the full range of information we need on Capes. But we'll get there.

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