Hormonal U2

Question
I have an 8 month pregnant young girl staying with me.  My 14 year old female U2 has began attacking me (54 year old female).  She is fine with the young girl, her husband and my husband.  Is there something about a pregnant female that is making her (the bird) more hormonal?

Answer
This is a common question.  Chances are the 'too is reacting more to the change in routine, additional people and differences overall, however slight they might be, rather than to hormones.  

A bird can't detect ours anymore than we can detect theirs.  And birds don't know what sex we are either.  They only know they seem to like softer, higher voices and more delicate facial features (that is, if they like females) over the deeper voiced, gruffer version of humans.  

Or vice versa.

Depending on how long your guest will be staying and how persistent you are in reassuring your 'too that a slightly different environment and schedule is still ok for her, this may pass in time -- or it may be get worse as she acts out more.


 No matter what, don't let her make the decisions to stay in her cage when normally you'd have her out.  Changing a cage bound bird is much more difficult than preventing it to begin with


More ideas here and see the girls!  www.4AnimalCare.org/birds