by Pajarita » Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:24 am
Hi, Charlie and human welcome to the forum! He is overly hormonal. This time of the yea, in the Northen Hemisphere, Greys ae hormonal because they ae short--day breeders but lone bids only regurgitate when they are overly-hormonal - meaning not 'normal' hormonal. Normal hormonal is when the bird is in breeding condition after being 'resting' (the non-breeding season is called the 'resting' season because it allows their bodies to 'rest' - meaning it does NOT produce sexual hormones). When a bird is fed too much protein (as when you free-feed seeds, nuts, pellets, etc) and kept at a human light schedule instead of a 'birds' light schedule (one that follows the seasons through the different number of hours of light during the day), it will produce sexual hormones all the time -something that never happens in nature and causes their endocrine system to go haywire. it also causes them constant discomfort and even chronic pain (because they are all swollen inside).
The solution is to put him on a good diet (I feed my grays gloop and raw produce in the am and nuts in the pm (they also get vitamins 3 times a week) and to keep him at a strict solar schedule (no artificial lights until the sun is completely out in the am and, in the pm, no artificial lights on after the sun is halfway down to the horizon). To give you an idea, I turn on the lights around 8:30 am and off at 2:45 pm - I feed breakfast when I turn the lights on (I let them out of their cages when light starts to show in the sky -around 7:15 am- and dinner about 3:15 pm).
Please, re-evaluate his light schedule and diet because, at his age, he must be in a lot of pain (the longer they are fed and lighted wrong, the more they suffer... older overly-hormonal male birds have peed blood).