Hi Maggie,
This is Allie and Luna! Luna is doing really great, finally feathering out nicely, and we have made more progress together.
However, Luna, who has always allopreened with her bell toys (not with me:() has escalated her behavior to all out mating displays (pretty interesting to see for a biologist) with drooping wings, regurgitation, shimmying and dancing, and raising the feathers on her lower back around her bell toy. She has not acted differently toward me.
She is an only bird who was separated from her female mate when I got her. She has laid in the past, but I've been sure not to put any cozy triangles or dark boxes in her cage.
So do I remove the toy? Do I let her keep it and enjoy "the company?" I didn't know if her hormones would rage and bad things would happen. I'm considering removing THIS bell toy and putting another bell in since she does seem to need a bell for her innocent "allopreening."
Thanks,
allie and luna