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Post: Macaw

Posted by Brenda on 4/25/12

Hello .. Im new here .. We meaning my hubby and I have a
miligold macaw .. She will step up and sit on his arm and
allow him to pet her but me she will go after my hand if I
say to her step up and yet at other times she will put her
little foot out for me to take her .. I have never been
able to touch her feathers but yet she lets him .. She
will take food from my hand but wont allow me to even
touch those feathers.Funny cause I can let her outa her
cage and say step up and thats when she goes for my hand
with her beak .. But yet 3 minutes later he can say step
up and she will to him.He works the 2nd shift from 3pm to
11pm so Im home with her all the time and yet she prefers
him .. I water her feed her clean her cage but yet I still
cant pick her up as much as he can.I wanna touch her so
bad but Im too afraid she might bite me and those beaks
are huge. If there any thing that I can use for my hands(I
dont even know what Im thinking here) but like maybe
layers of leather gloves or something so that if she does
bite maybe I wont feel it so much?? She is an older bird
and she was hand fed as a baby but to me you would never
know that. Goodness one day she got on my hand and I even
walked around the house with her .. HELP ME PLEASE
Thanks Brenda

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Macaw, 4/25/12, by Brenda.