So they're still fighting, but it's getting better. I discovered if I'm calmer, it calms them down faster. But I'm still firm with them if one if still trying to provoke the other once they finally start calming down. I point to the one in a very stern voice and tell him to "knock it off".

Also, I'm wearing the gloves I got for Christmas. Such an improvement! No more bad bites from them. I think they are going to be back to normal soon.

" It's all due to Henry wanting to mate with his mother so he's fighting with his father (Buster) trying to get her away from him."

Oh my! an Oedipus complex.

Aaaaand, I figured it out. I was fixing the rope perches in their cage and noticed a ton of white and yellow feathers littered under the grate. Jaid's molting.

I hope the feathers are from molting not from fighting lol. Molting does make a bird cranky.

Henry's full name is Henry VIII because he is the eighth male chick born in my house. I found out later that I named him after the wrong king - it should have been Oedipus Rex.

Although Jaid did lose a feather or 2 by crashing into my face after picking a fight with Beaker and fleeing immediately to mommy.