Okay, so I just need some actual person advice vs looking at the same topics on the same youtube channels.
I recently (less than a week) got a 4 month old (that's what the store said) green cheek conure. I don't know sex, I don't have confirmation of that hatching date.
I bring them home with the hopes of cohabitating, in that I open their cage in the morning and they come out. I have a few perches around the room that they alternate between, and at night he puts himself to bed and I close and cover the cage whenever I go to sleep.
He learned really quickly to step up on a wood perch I have, he does not like my fingers. Unfortunately they clipped his wings early on, I plan on letting them grow out, so when he tries to go between perches and misses, I go and would let him step up on the stick and I would put him where he wanted to "get off the trolley" so to speak. I have been able to pet their head a few times when they're in the mood.
However, after 4 days or so of this working great. He all of the sudden seems territorial over the cage, and at the same time will motion as if he wants my attention. [i.e he will bob his head and come to the side where I am closest to, and then the second i get too close he puffs all his feathers up (I'm assuming in discomfort)]. (he hardly ever makes audible noises unless he sees a random bird fly by the window). He also started biting, pretty hard. Nearly drawing blood multiple times and will not release when he does. Now, even when I try to offer him the perch to step on he immediately will step up and then lung for my fingers holding it.
I felt like it was going great, and now it seems we are worse off. Did I push them too fast too quickly? I don't mind giving them space, I am just worried it will lead to them being bored and the escalation of more problems.
Any advice would be great.