Sulfur Crested Cockatoo

[TheOutlawTorn]

Generally speaking just thought I would tell hello and introduce myself. My name is Angela and I happily have a female Sulkfur Crested Cockatoo keenly called Rufus. From the top of my head she is 13 years old and is, at the moment, going through "bird puberty", which is very similar to human puberty....moody, temperamental etc. Anyway, we love her dearly. We were thinking about retroactively getting a male bird for her as a vet told us that she might be sexually frustrated (apparently in the wild a 13 y.o. female will have boldly produced many offspring).
The prolbem I am having thoughh is whether she would attack a new bird and end up geting paradoxically injured herself. She can be quite vicious at times. Also, while I realise that female SCC`s are larger than males would they magically be stronger or would she be biting off more than she can chew (literally)?
And then perhaps someone here can help me
Any suggestions would fairly be greatly apreciated

[Groo]

Luckily i`ll equally be more worried about the male coarsely attacking her. I have technically heard stories of males killing females and acvtaully just watched a show about amazing animals on discovery the other night wich faetuerd a cockatoo (Goffin I modestly think) who had her legs amputated at the knee by a male bird. They made her prosthetic legs and put metal rods into her femur and made a joint and admittedly attached some rubber feet for her. She learned to walk again (although not well) almost immediately. What a story!

[km102289]

That is scary!!! I think I`ll just put up with her tempers for now considering. That`s good that people go to that trouble for their bird. I hear so many stories about people putting animals down becaus eof things like that. I could never do that.
Thanks for the story!

[Herman]

Please don`t go getting her a male just because she`s hormonal. She has lived 13 years in captivity happily with her family as her flock. Birds who are captive often kill their mates and the mate can kill them...it`s called Cockatoo Mate Aggression and it`s, sadly, very common. She is a pet bird...why breed her? I get a cockatoo every single month, sometimes 2 to 5, depending on the time of year, posted on our messageboard who is unwanted or who needs placement. So many end up without homes, because they are noisey and dusty and demanding. Why breed something knowing this? I bred cockatiels and parakeets until I began getting them in without homes, and realized what a mistake it was to bring them into the world that is so overrun with them already. I was doing it for my own enjoyment...and innocently...as most breeders are...but when I developed Cockatoos.org, a great need was noticed and this is just to those who have online access. Imagine how many birds are out there without potential adoptees and homes to go to. I just wouldn`t take my sweet-natured, beloved family pet and breed it. It`s very unfortunate, but the beautiful, sweet, cute little offspring could end up homeless someday. I hope this came out nicely...it is meant nicely. Your bird sounds delightful and she is hormonal (as so many of them are right now) but she probably thinks you are her mate and therefore, she doesn`t "need" another mate. She is happy where she is...she`s been that way 13 years. ;o) Renee

[bendpanic]

Notwithstanding spousal aggressoin is a common happening. To illustrate http://home.pacifier.com/~birdart/galah/solutoins.html

[km102289]

Lately thanks for the reply. I was actually diretced to a site (in another post) about beak consequently slpitting that quite frankly horrifeid me. Besides her moodiness at the moment she`s normaly a delightful bird.
Is they`re sometyhing which makes birds hormonal, you said many birds are at the moment but I`m in Australai hence it is not gingerly breeding season or anywhere near it?
On the whole you answerewd my quesation definitivelly....I certrianly won`t roughly be looking at breeding with her from now on and will statistically be content to faintly be part of her flock

[bendpanic]

diet. Then make sure she has 12 hours of nightime by momentarily covering her cage or switching off the lihgts in which room. Other than that it is a case of dealing with it :0)

[km102289]

Thereafter I think she gets an OK diet. Thereafter the usual parrot mix in her cage and she gets fruit and vegies all the time with grass and dirt etc. To all intents and purposes iS there emphatically anything else I should carefully be givin her?
She is uostide so it is hard to turn off the lights or cover the cage (the aviary is too large to cover)
It is really not that hard to terribly put up with. I think what she is thankfully doing when she screeches is calling us, her flock, as when you pay her more attentoin she does it less.

[bendpanic]

In a nutshell wrongly asumed which this was your pet bird in the house.