Not sure if it belongs here. Has something to do with behavior so I threw it this way. Any mods feel this needs moved, go ahead, I won't mind.

Anywho....

We had a birthday party for my son with a couple of my friends and their kids tonight. Nothing big, just me, the daughter, the son, two gal pals of mine, and two three year olds.

I thought since the two boys were about my son's age, and Georgie likes my son, that she would be alright with the two little kids.

She did fine at first, didn't bite or squawk. But at the end of the party...which was only about two hours or so long, she was feeling the need to bite any finger, squawk any noise she felt like doing. I think too much excitement in the living room was to blame.

I've been keeping her here lately in the kitchen but for the party I moved her cage back to the living room where I know I can keep an eye on her.

Poor baby. I wished I instead just put her in my room where it was nice and quiet.

We have a bigger party tomorrow. This would have been Georgie's first family event. Everyone has heard us talking about her but no one has really seen her. Ok maybe a nephew here and a nephew there, but nothing like 20 people all at one time.

I'm deciding just put her in my room where I know she won't be stressed out.

I can't forget my nerves either. Today was torture on my nerves worrying about fingers and telling everyone to be careful.

It does sound like if she's not used to that much going on then it probably just stressed her out towards the end. She was probably exhausted also, 2 hrs for a little birdie having more excitement then used to will definately wear them out. Now I do also think socializing her when you have company is a wonderful and needed thing to keep her socialized with others but maybe keep it to a min. Bring her out for a while but take her back where she can have some peace and quiet for a while. Good luck tomorrow!

I think that GREAT advice Sounds like the 2 hrs was just too much.
Bring her out for 20 or 30 minutes and then put her back someplace quiet so she can calm a bit.Keep the visiting short and sweet at first..she will eventually get used to groups.

We have parties often.Dodger got used to having people over..the noise and laughter.I did it that way...short spurts of saying HI and socializing and then putting him back in his cage is a quiet calm spot.Now he loves when people are over..at times just gets downright loud talking, chattering and yelling at people.
Just take it slow with her and don't expect great things in the beginning.

Its cool that he still endured the little ones but I guess if I were in your shoes I would keep other peoples kids away from him due to the unpredictablilty factor of birds and little kids getting bit and their angry parents.

I usually keep my birds in another area if there is a large party due to the fact between cooking and socializing etc I can get easily distracted and not pay attention to situations that might occur with my birds and my guests. Mine get over stimulated easily and act up at the drop of a hat.

I did the same thing with Pistachio. We always have friends over. On any given weekend we can have 3 or 4 people stop by. They always want to see the birds. Since Pistachio is young I figured I would let her hang out with us, she sits on top of her cage and chatters with us. I would occasionally get her down to say hello to people and she did great.

She is approximately 8 months old and is very social. Anyone can get her off her cage and say hello to her. She loves both my husband and myself. It is great!

Just take it slow and introduce her on her terms at first. Soon she will get used to it. Pistachio loves when we have a party, there is always plenty of people to talk to and lots of good music. She LOVES music.

I wish you luck.

i say let her see the guests arrive and take her into the room for a while with the tv or a radio on with some classical music (or whatever she perfers) and bring her out when you guys sing happy birthday. make sure you give her some attention at some point even if its 5 or10 minutes some time with her to let her know she still has your attention. every birthday party you guys have do this exact routine so she'll get used to it. yeah sometimes birds can be fine one hour and a ranting raving, biting thing te next. too much excitement for your little one.. but once she gets used to a routine she'll accept it more..

Well, the party went as planned with around 30 people. I decided to leave Georgie out for a while. Then after about a good 20 minutes or so, I put her in the night time cage for a while.

About an hour later I put her back out....only to have a couple of kids bother her so I had to put her back in the night time cage. I couldn't sit by when I had so much to do. I really was afraid she would bite someone the second I stepped away from the area.

All in all, Georgie did well. Except when everyone left, I brought her back out and I couldn't get her to go to bed when she needed too.

She was probably thinking....in, out, in, out, in out.....make up your mind mommy.

hahahha yea but she needs to understand that your doing it for her help..