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1. On one of Ravi's perches there is a bright orange..drip? It looks like someone spilled a drop of orange paint on it. Its orange, not red, and I don't see anything wrong with Ravi, but since I've never actually seen a bird bleed I thought I would check. If it was blood it would be red right? What else could it be? There isn't anything orange in the cage..besides a few plastic beads.
2. Ok, when i got this bird he would step up, and admittedly I haven't spent a lot of training time with him, just a lot of scritchy lovey time because his cage is by my bed and I do a lot of homework/laptop stuff on it so he usually meanders off his cage onto my bed when I leave the door open and I love on him. These days he won't step up unless he's already decided to come a good 2 or 3 feet away from his cage by walking. For a while, he started walking onto my palm if I held it out flat and sometimes letting me pick him up or if not, kind of sitting on my palm and holding on to my finger with one foot and playing with my fingernails with his beak and licking me and stuff. So I would put my palm out in an attempt for him to let me pick him up. Sometimes he would walk backwards onto my hand. Well, usually he would. But yesterday he was kind of chasing my hand with his butt and when i let him on my hand he started bouncing so my reaction was "OMG THIS IS SEXUAL GET HIM OFF" but then i realized his head was bouncing which..he always does when he's happy? Basically I'm trying to figure out if I'm over reacting or not. Was he trying to sex up my hand or do you think he was just on my hand and doing a happy dance? Why does he always have to crawl on my hand backwards?
3. His tail seems kind of messed up and idk if its something i've done wrong or not. I mean his cage is probably a little on the small size. He doesn't have to bump his tail or anything but he likes to be on the sides more than in the open area. basically what it looks like is like a there is a gap in a straight line, perpendicular to the tail, almost at the end, which makes me think its the wires of the cage. His happy hut is against the back of the cage and there is a perch by the front which he used to use to get in, but now his preferred method is to squeeze himself between the back of the cage and the hut and then climb in upside down with his head on the bottom and his feet on the roof of it and then eventually he flips around and goes to sleep. I think this flip action and squeezing might be the cause. Do you think its anything to worry about?