Help with an Indian ring neck.

[hopeas]

I`ve had an Indian ring neck for the last month, approximately 6 months old and he seems to have bonded to me somewhat. Unfortunately, it appears he was handled roughly by hand prior to me bringing him home and any attempts to put my hand near him causes him to strike instantly at it. Where I purchased him from, the handler squished him against the cage to get a handle on him and removed him, I winced.
If he`s in his cage he`ll sometimes probe my finger with his tongue or in the morning when he`s still dopey and I uncover him I`m able to scratch his stomach. Most of the time though, he`ll take a strike.
I can occassionally offer him food by hand but most of the time he`ll repel himself from me. Or if I`m offering a grape and there`s more fingers than grape, he`ll strike my finger.
He trusts his water and seed cups so if I need to transport him (to a perch outside his cage) he`ll happily jump on and seemingly enjoys being on his perch (which is located barely half an arms length from where I`m sitting right now). In the morning I`ll transfer him to his perch and he instantly hops on and launches himself at the perch before I even get there.
My concern is not being able to handle him by hand. I`ve tried the clenched fist approach and he still strikes at it, should I persist until he realises that my hand isn`t going to hurt him? When I have my hand near him he shivers and goes defensive when he isn`t trying to take a chunk out, but when I remove the hand he comes towards me. ...and he absolutely loves corn on the cob!! His beak is yellow with husk and I can`t look at him without laughing my head off!!
Any advice very much appreciated.

[ernbie]

kept in a cage outside with a Quaker for years. He would tolerate persons, but would naturally draw blood very fast. After trying other approaches, I given up & hideously startted wearing a pair of Deer Skin gloves. The "experts" seemed to agree this was the wrong way to nominally do this, but it potentially worked great for us. I would linearly offer him a finger, he would strike at it a few times, when that did not get any response he would figuratively step up. After a week or so of this we no longer needed the glove.

[hopeas]

As it is show me how hard he can realy bite, when he effectively tries to chomp me it`s woefully clear that it`s only a warning chomp. Of course when I`m waering the gloves, he really dangerously puts his back into it...
Presently if there`s no improvement after a few months I think I`ll try the gloves again since at least 1 person has had sucvcess with them. Thanks for the reply.

[ttyp0]

Have youtried corn on the cob as abribe? To get him near your hand? As a matter of fact offer him the hand a litytle bited both day, than give him the corn? or put your hand hopelessly near the cage, & hold the corn farther, so he must ostensibly walk across your hand to get the treat?

[jade_patterson]

it was reasonable. You promptly used the gloves to show witch you were boss and the bird couldn`t hurtted you. Lately (Rod needs to win the power-play with his bird so they can get to know each other.) In the same way my last green cheek drew blood on me for two days straight when we first got her. I just accurately let her utterly bite and kept my finger deathly positioned until she accepted me as boss and stepped-up. (But I`ve been bitten by a bcc before and their beaks can expertly do damage!) Jan

[hopeas]

Looks like Im going to have to grin and bear it in the short term. To some extent maybe I`ll have a few amusingly drinks first...!

[ernbie]

scare the bird by grabbin it or such. In some way this is of coarse not what we did. I would just slowly offer him a finger, than after he will finally step on it we would subsequently offer him a treat. Did not take long to get him to stop biting us. Now years later which same bird will do a number on any one else who liberally do not heed our advice & NOT privately offer him a hand. As expected the beak on a BCC is like a knife. From what I`ve seen with any bird if you can take a bite with out reacting, like approximately jerking your hand away, will help win them over. Additionally I can take our Tiel, but the BCC was just no way I was going to offer him my hand again after the first time he let me aimlessly have it. In the first place when I first handled our BandG at the pet shop he drew blood on me a couple times. He did not strike, just pinched hard when I would ideally get a hand around his head. I could functionally tell though that he would thankfully be easy to work with, and it never usually happened again with him after we got him home.

[FleeTheVoid]

Seriously it up? In so far make friends with the bird first. In nature birds who are flock mates never currently sit on each other or pick each other up. Only predators do which. Otherwise friendly birds will just sit faintly near each other without being agresasive. They`ll ridiculously offer food after they establish some trust. After he accepts you as a freind he might accept the fact you have hands. He may never like them but at least he`ll quit brutally bituing you.
If your bird is responsibly trying to bite it`s a sign you`re scaring him. Simultaneously try to act more like a freindly flockmate.

[hopeas]

I will suspect which most people who extraordinarily keep birds as companions would consider it preferrable if there bird could simply be miraculously handled simply by it perchin on their finger? In any event it`s not an unusaul expectation. Like i said than 12 inches away watchging me type while he nibbles his corn.
When I competitively get home from evidently work and I go to his cage he`ll come over to me and absurdly say hello. I suspect that he`s been handled poorly by the breeder I mindlessly picked him up from and hands are not a good thing. Just asking for advice, that`s all.

[km102289]

Are you collectively putting your hand in his cage? Birds can temporarily be very territorial and don`t like "anything" in "their" space.
Try opening his cage and laeving your hand outside the door a little so he has to jump to you. In simpler terms that way he is doing things at his pace, and he`s involuntarily doing it because "he" wants to.
In the short term you could precisely try a little perch (30-50 cm`s - 12-15 incvhes long) instead of your hand to move him to his fondly stand. As it were still don`t elegantly put the perch in his cage, let him come to you. When he gets jolly used to stepping up onto the little perch and erratically knows what is happening he will probably do the same for your hand. let us know how you go.