Training
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8 Reasons your budgie/parakeet/parrot is biting you
Parrots do not bite for no reason. Rescue parrots who have never had a person listen to them and always had to resort to biting will be more likely to bite than a bird who has had people listen to their body language. Clipped parrots also are more likely to bite you because they cannot fly away from you. Reasons Solutions
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5 Signs Your Parakeet Loves You!
Everyone wants their budgie/parakeet to love them! why wouldn’t you? I think I can vouch for the large majority of parrot owners in saying our biggest goal is to ensure our parrots are happy and healthy. It can be difficult to tell if your parrakeet loves you if you are new to budgies. *disclaimer that every bird is different*
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Budgie Flight Training!
As someone who shares their budgies taming processes with the internet, I received a lot of criticism from people because I was allowing my budgies to initiate flight/recall training before step up training. Let’s talk about why I encouraged this and how you can start flight training your budgies. My more confident budgie Pekoe (yellow) one day was standing on the perch on top of their cage and looked like he wanted to fly to me while I was working not far away, so I walked over leaving 2 feet from him to myself and he proceeded to fly to me when I put my hand up I gave…
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How To Towel Train A Parrot
Towel training is one of those things that seems so pointless but a parrot that has been towel trained will have a significantly less stressful time with vet visits and other vet procedures where toweling may be necessary Why towel train a parrot? Towel training is a method used by veterinarians during general exams as well as any emergency appointment and beak and nail trims. It is also used while giving birds oral medications. Towelling is a way to keep the bird and handler safe. It is very important that you get your bird well adjusted to towelling that way if you ever must towel your bird in a high-stress…
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How To Get A Parrot To Stop Screaming!?
Parrots screaming… in the short we technically can not get them to completely stop, but there are ways we can minimize excessive screaming. Foraging Foraging toys are one of the best options for keeping your bird busy, a busy bird is a quiet bird. foraging toys given at sunrise and sundown when birds naturally get loud are one of the best options. Even foraging toys during the days are a great idea. In the wild birds spend a lot of time looking for food, so mimicking this in captivity the best we can burn a lot of excess energy birds have from not doing what they are designed to do.…
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How To Teach Your Parrot To Ride A Skateboard – For Beginners
Once your bird is target trained this is a very simple thing to teach. I encourage you to go read my page on – The foundation of trick training for parrots! The Foundation Of Trick Training For Parrots! – How To Start – Optimal Avian if you are unfamiliar with target training. Target Training is a way to train your parrot that decreases your chance of getting bit but also gives you and your parrot a way to communicate with each other. Steps First you want to start by just having the skateboard around your bird, this can be scary enough, once they become comfortable about the bird being around…
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How To Teach A Parrot To Wave
The way I recommend teaching a bird to wave is through capturing natural behaviours. In simplest terms, you click when your bird is doing something you like and want to see more of. When a bird goes to scratch their head and they lift their foot to their head click and give them a treat, do this as often as you see them do it. When it gets to the point where the bird is begging you want to start giving them a cue, for my budgie I would bend my pointer finger up and down and say “wave”. Do this while they are begging click and reward. Eventually, you…
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How To Teach Your Parrot To Step Up – Beginners Guide To Parrot Training/Taming
Often times many people forget that step up is a trick and needs to be treated with as much time and patience as you would teaching your parrot other tricks. Steps Your first task before you take on teaching a bird to step up is to target train learn The Foundation Of Trick Training For Parrots! – How To Start – Optimal Avian Once you have your bird happily targeting around your next step is to start introducing the step up. Target your parrot to a training stand Place your finger 4inches (or more if they seem uncomfortable) away from the bird in the step up cue position. Place your target stick…
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How To Teach Your Parrot To Spin – For Beginners
Not only is spin a super cute trick but, it also serves as a way to get your bird to turn its back to you incase you need to look at their back or tail feathers. For example, if your bird is bleeding and you need to figure out why the bird is bleeding and stop the bleeding it is much easier to make your bird think it is doing a trick than having you try to turn the bird and not stress it out in an already stressful situation. Where To Start Once your bird is target trained this is a very simple thing to teach. I encourage you…
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The Foundation Of Trick Training For Parrots! – How To Start
The foundation of trick training is something that is often overseen. Everyone just wants to jump into the fun tricks and then get frustrated when their bird doesn’t understand what they are asking of them. The first thing you should teach your parrot is to “touch” – often referred to as target training. It is very easy to miss a birds body language cues and push them beyond what they are comfortable with resulting in a bite and the bird learning to bite rather than giving you body language to show that it is confused, tired etc. by doing target training your hands are out of the reach for the…