[PacosMom]

Of my three quakers, Paco has been the only one to show any interest in building and weaving, grabbing any little scrap of leather or rope the big birds discard, and carrying it off to his hut.

Today I found a piece of rope woven into the bars on Charlie's cage (stolen from Paco's cage ).

I'd always thought only male quakers did this. The breeder that I got Charlie from had nicknamed him this, I mean her, because she was splay-legged and walked like Charlie Chaplan. When she was sexed and found out to be a girl, I decided to keep calling her Charlie, only officially now it's Charlene.

Anyway, even little Halle Blueberry has been caught smuggling off scraps and pieces into her happy hut lately. But, this is the first time I've seen any of the others weaving like Paco does.

Do any of you have female quaker that does this?

[Casey's Mom]

I thought that potentially they could both weave, but it's more often seen in males, but I have no clue.

We assume Casey is female, everyone says she looks like a girl, but we could most definitley be wrong. She'll try to build when we give her sticks (she'll put the stick between the bars but it never stays put obviously!) and then she'll watch it fall to the ground and give up. So basically I don't have any advice!

Good luck!

[PacosMom]

Thanks for the reply. That is what Paco does, too. If he manages to get one to stay in place, Lucy is right behind him to pull it out. Conures just love to chew up wood. So, they get lots of chopsticks to play with.

[Casey's Mom]

Thanks for the reply. That is what Paco does, too. If he manages to get one to stay in place, Lucy is right behind him to pull it out. Conures just love to chew up wood. So, they get lots of chopsticks to play with.

At least Paco gets some to stay in place! Caseys will never stay in place, she basically sticks them through the bars on the top of her cage, pulls it up and down a few times then just drops them! Either she's a boy who has no clue what to do with the sticks or she's a female that wasn't meant to build!

I can just picture Lucy waiting for one to stay so she can pull it out! Poor Paco...

[~BettyK~]

I have noticed it in Males more than Females...but who knows for sure unless you have them DNA'd...Billy was a weaver and he was DNA'd male..Bobbie has no interest in doing it..and she is DNA'd female..

[lg2312]

These pictures do not show the true work that has been done here, but this is Maddie's cage/hut. I think Maddie is a girl, but can only guess.These leather strips are wrapped around her perch over and over and run through the HH and out the other side. When I looked inside, I see the shredder toys in there too. Maddie immediately went to guard it and Poppy ran over and bit the crap out of me while I was taking the pictures!

They do work on it together.... amazing to watch as they go in and out of the bars... but Poppy has NOTHING in his and he is a boy.


Maybe I better look again... there might be chicks in there the way I was attacked!

[Carrie~Anne]

Max is a DNAd female and she isn't a weaver at all. I have heard of females doing though, so it isn't unheard of.

I bet it is cool to see them do it.

[Cantab]

I think I remember Shelly from this forum saying she has a female that ties knots with leather strips.

[SkittlesMom]

I have a female that doesn't like to do much of anything except eat. Very seldom will she even play with her toys.

QP4me has a male and he plays with and destroys everything.

Two entirely different birds for sure.

[Jillybean]

Squeek takes her leather ropes and wraps them around and inbetween anything she can! So count her in! She loves her leather ropes. Usually she wraps them around her ladder. I'll have to get a pic. One time she actually unhooked her ladder and tied it up to the cage with the leather rope!

[PacosMom]

Hi, Jill! That is pretty good work! I wonder if our two girls are related? They did come from the same breeder.

I was checking out Paco's work last night and found a strip of leather actually tied into a knot. How do they figure out how to do this? It just blew me away!

[Quakermom]

ive had many male and a few female quakers- my males never did weave one of my females did weave a bit but stopped after a while. hehe we have some talented qpakers dont we..lol im waiting for a post where one of our fids actually paints..lol

[Birdybren]

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Number of downloads: 18 My female Paulie sticks her toys on chains in between the cage bars, if I remove them then she places them between there again and again. She also loves her long leather strips with a plastic bead on the end, when she was laying eggs and very nesty she would play with these leathers strips ALL day long!!!!! She'd bury the plastic balls in her pellet bowl, take them out and then bury them again!! She was so obsessed with this that she didn't even want to leave her cage. Both of these behaviors appeared when she started laying.

I'll try to post the pic of her toys sticking through the cage bars. Bren

[PacosMom]

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Number of downloads: 18 My female Paulie sticks her toys on chains in between the cage bars, if I remove them then she places them between there again and again. ...

That's exactly how mine started, too. I used to tie toys on to long plastic chains, and they'd shred them off. Then they started taking the chains and weaving them thru the bars, working for hours on end to get it just right.

[birdbluff]

I have a male quaker that can tie knots and likes to weave with rope.

How on earth do you teach them to do this? My fid loves how the weaving looks but can't do it himself. I've seen him try for hours but never figures out to pull it through one side and then the other. When I try to teach him he gets so excited.

[PacosMom]

Well, it's not something that is taught, I guess it's just instinct.

Maybe your bird is just too young? Paco is 3 years old and just started this year.