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Well as some of you know, Dizzi and Rascal were indoors for bonding last week whilst OH made their run into an aviary and re-vamped their hutch. The aviary is now 15ft x 6ft and is about 6ft high. The hutch is a double decker with permanent access to the aviary!
They've been in there since Sunday but have been behaving oddly! They're both being really skittish and every little sound/movement bothers them.
We wondered if it could be because they feel a little exposed (although they have the hutch to hide in and under) because the ceiling is so much taller, they don't feel quite as secure as before?
Or maybe the difference in noises is freaking them out - with the roof on, things do sound different acoustically.
I've hand fed them at least once a day since they came to live with us (at end of May) but now they run up, take a pellet and then run off with it to eat ... they won't just sit there and eat out of my hand anymore! Like they're scared of me. I can't get more than a 2 second nose rub out of them either! They're both as twitchy as each other!
Can you think of any other reasons why they may be acting like this?
Or ways to make them feel more secure etc etc?? OH is going to build some ramps/ledges/hidey-holes etc this weekend for them to bolt to but I just feel really awful because this new aviary set up was meant to be a good thing for them but I feel that they're really not liking it!!
Sorry for the ramble!!
Thanks, Jo x
Well as some of you know, Dizzi and Rascal were indoors for bonding last week whilst OH made their run into an aviary and re-vamped their hutch. The aviary is now 15ft x 6ft and is about 6ft high. The hutch is a double decker with permanent access to the aviary!
They've been in there since Sunday but have been behaving oddly! They're both being really skittish and every little sound/movement bothers them.
We wondered if it could be because they feel a little exposed (although they have the hutch to hide in and under) because the ceiling is so much taller, they don't feel quite as secure as before?
Or maybe the difference in noises is freaking them out - with the roof on, things do sound different acoustically.
I've hand fed them at least once a day since they came to live with us (at end of May) but now they run up, take a pellet and then run off with it to eat ... they won't just sit there and eat out of my hand anymore! Like they're scared of me. I can't get more than a 2 second nose rub out of them either! They're both as twitchy as each other!
Can you think of any other reasons why they may be acting like this?
Or ways to make them feel more secure etc etc?? OH is going to build some ramps/ledges/hidey-holes etc this weekend for them to bolt to but I just feel really awful because this new aviary set up was meant to be a good thing for them but I feel that they're really not liking it!!
Sorry for the ramble!!
Thanks, Jo x