I have two buggies and this is true one is more willing to do it then the other one. The time and effort your putting into them is what you get out of them
Just in time Jamie, we rescued 2 love birds last week. They have spent the last 4 years cage bound, one is feather plucking and chewing, they have a vet appointment this Friday. We already started their dietary transition, we started positive association on day one and we have been expanding their comfort zone with a mosquito net set up around their cage, they have been really positively responsive. As you've pointed out one bird is braver, and no shocker that it's the one plucking. Up side with all the changes the naked one is already growing new feathers. I have been following you guys for a long time and everything I have learned is coming in handy. Thank you so much.
@@hrhosmer and it's not that the lady we got them from didnt love them. She was heart broken to give them up. But she didnt know what she was getting into when she got parrots. I'm still in contact with her and giving her frequent updates.
@@bigislandchickens6747 I've got quite a similar situation to you, but I think I've got less experience. Neighbour had 2 lorikeets, died & relatives were talking about trying to get a pet shop to take them, I offered. I've got wildlife rescue experience, but none with pet or abused birds. I've had them about 3 weeks now, both were in separate little cages with a piece of rope & metal tin & that was it for years :( Braver boy's a plucker (but like yours, mine hasn't plucked with me, not since the second day anyway, did one feather day one & squealed in pain :( also just rocked back & forward while shivering when I first got them) girl's super hormonal & cage aggressive. I watched them for a few hours when I first got them & they clearly liked each other & were getting comfort from being near each other, so I put them both into a new cage together & they're still figuring that out, nothing to worry about with being hurt, but they don't know how to interact either, I've even tried playing them videos of lorikeets preening each other to try to teach them (which I think has helped, they're sharing food better now, girl certainly watched VERY intently lol was really cute). I also had to half cover the cage initially cause their stress & fear was so high, which obviously didn't help with the hormone situation, but they were just too freaked out & stressed otherwise, so I covered 3 sides & half the top & then gradually uncovered it all over a couple of weeks. They'll be moving into a bigger cage soon too, as soon as I've finished setting it up & think they're ready to cope with it, meanwhile I also have an opening on the cage top permanently open, cause the cage is pretty small for 2 birds & in case of fights, they're not trapped & it's on an old walker with wheels & I'm moving it into a sleep room & living room & outside for cleaning & getting them gradually used to new stuff within the safety of their cage & it's going well. Mine seem relatively tame BUT trying to train step up & he just will not do it! Reminds me of the bird tricks video with the bird who had been forced with the glove. I've got 1 foot onto my hand though now, so getting there, but so much more resistant than I thought he would be & 2 days & multiple sessions at the one foot up point & not even a hint of getting further, so I'm in for a long haul at getting anywhere with training I think :( just no trust at all :( The biting my hand everytime I put it into the cage to change food & water etc has largely stopped now, still happens if I'm not paying attention, but FAR better than it was, where I could only access the containers in the dark while they slept or while in the process of hosing out the cage & with the hose between the bird & my hand (not aggressively, just needed to hose it out anyway & they'd go to the other side of the cage as I did each side & I found that worked to get my hand in, now one of them wants to drink & play with the water from the hose as I hose it out :)) & bitty one will now lick treats off my fingers through the cage wire & is generally ok with not biting, the boy that I was told just nibbles not bites does bite on occasion now though, I think he was just too dominated & scared to bite before & now he's starting to feel a little more confident in expressing himself with me. I'm making progress, but it is a challenge & feels like 1 step forward 2 steps back sometimes :( I haven't done the vet yet, cause of how freaked out they are & I feel like doing it too soon might be worse than waiting till they're a little more settled, especially cause with covid, the local bird vet won't allow humans into the building, the assistant comes out & get the birds, takes them in & vet assesses them & then do a phone consult, so I'm not that comfortable with that, given how stressy they are & that I'd have to yank them out of the cage to get there, I'm really not sure at what point to do it though, I do feel like I might be putting it off too long
I saw an earlier video with this advice of working with the more brave bird. My cockatiel has been my baby all his life and when he was injured, he became very distrustful and scared of my hands (having meds stuffed in his face and on his injured wing was almost more traumatic than the initial injury). This video is perfect to help me get closer with him through his mate. She's in a different cage now, having rejected him and will attack him if in the same cage, but he watches everything she does and wants to be near her. They can play together outside of the cage, so I'm going to work on this technique to see if it works for us. Thank you!!
They really are! I've had chickens for all of my life and have been studying bird behavior and traits for a long time. I'm 12 and turning 13 in a couple months. I cant wait to be able to have a trained bird thanks to them.
@rika thanks for your opinion. I have heard that they HAVE to be in pairs. But studies have shown that that is a myth I am home 2047 I dont go to school and I will spend all day with the bird. i'm getting one bird and one bird only. I dont have the right amount of space for two. Thanks for letting me know but I think my bird will be just fine with me being its companion. So my bird will most definitely NOT be alone. And will be sharing a healthy and active life along with me. The maximum time I spent away from my house is 2 hours a WEEK so every day all day my bird will be by my side and having a very social life with me.
@@zivacosta7780 Okay, I am sorry to hear this. I know I can‘t do anything about your decision, but just so you know: no matter how much time a human spends with their parrot, he/she will never be a partner for the bird. Parrots are flock animals and crave physical contact to other parrots, starting with grooming and kissing and ending with a life-long partnership. A human will never be able to take that place, I‘m sorry you‘ve been told this! I hope for you and your bird that you consider adopting a second one. No matter how little space there is, it‘s not worth the pain for either of you. At least get an older bird that might already be alone, because if you accidentally imprint a bird to think that you are his partner, they will not want to leave your side even if you just go to the bathroom or want to sleep. Trust me, there‘s nothing more beautiful than seeing two parrots loving each other! :)
I’ve got four in the same cage. I’ve had one for a year and I just got the other 3 , I’m on day five with them and 2 of them will stand on my hand and eat and they all will eat out of my hand. Day 1 and 2 they would all freak out if I opened the door and they wouldn’t accept millet yet but I just sat for hours outside of the cage. Day 3 I forgot to shut the door and my older budgie snuck in. Then when I went to lure her out with millet and she ate it one of the other ones noticed it and started eating too. Then day 4 I tested it again and they all 4 were eating out of my hand. Now today they are all in the same cage and they even came out on the playstand to eat millet. It’s exciting to be going this fast. Two of them are flighted and two of them are clipped. Im ready for them to all be flighted lol. Anyways thanks so much for the content. I have been watching your channel since before you got blueberry and it’s helped me so much!
Yes! Have been looking for something on this. Would like more on this. Can you do a part 2? I have 2 bonded female green cheeks, one aggressive in cage, the other aggressive out. If I try and work with one, the 2nd just steals the treat from the first.
I recently got a second lovebird and although she's not fully tamed yet, it's going very well! The taming process is going very fast since the new one just copies the behaviour of the old one. Where he goes she goes😂 for example, yesterday the old bird flew om my shoulder and the new one followed! The same with diet. It took me about a year to get the old one to eat pellets, but the new one ate it from day one, because she saw the old one was eating it too! It's amazing to see how she observes and copies the behaviours🙂
I got two parrotlets (about 6 months old). they were already semi-bonded from the breeder and I always train them together. Two days after they were with me, they were sitting on my finger. They have a huge cage and were never clipped. It is definitely possible, you just need to pay attention to their body language and respect their boundaries. Smaller birds seem to be more curageous when having a buddy.
I Definitely agree that one bird will be braver than the other. When I was taming my 2 budgies lemon, was the first one to each out of my hand, the first to come out of his cage, the first to step up, the first out of those two to start chewing on toys, and the first out of the two to be recalled trained.
OMG...it's really effective.....I have many budgies and a cockatiel which is now tamed...becz of ur tip..❤️❤️ I started working on the budgies and the cockatiel willingly came to me for treat and head scratch......she does a couple of tricks like she would go back to her cage and lock herself..birbs are so smart..❤️❤️
This kills me though! I feel so bad choosing one over the other. Haha 😂 but I get it. My other struggle is that my conure is SO mean to me after giving ANY attention to the tiels I'm trying to work with. Its tough because I've worked so hard with the biting with him. It's like a never ending battle 🤣 Edit* (since I commented before the end of the video lol) that is EXACTLY how my conure's biting has improved as much as it has. When he was first given to me, no one could hold him without him biting, and now I can at least hold him and he is very sweet! (Only when he's jealous and some other triggers I'm working on catching does he bite) but it literally was the NON REACTION tactic! Which is INCREDIBLY difficult when they remove a piece of your flesh and you have to shrug it off as though you didn't actually need that part of your body so you don't reward them with a big reaction. It sucked but it was the best way. That and not putting him in the cage either because then he would know that a bite would mean he would get to go back to his room if he wanted so that was a reward. Instead I'd pretend it didn't bother me, not let him see the blood, and maybe turn away and ignore him/not give him attention for a couple of minutes. He has made stellar improvement. Proud parront 😂🥰
I watch all your videos and I don’t have multiple birds, but there were several helpful things brought up that can help me in training my caique! Thank you for allowing this opportunity to understand your methods more!
Love this thank you and it totally works!!!! My male has helped the female "check it out" when she refuses. By focusing on him and her seeing him get the reward she then on her own will do the same thing. Its all about patience and trust because they are rehomed and she seems to be a little afraid of the hand and trusting.
If this is the video you were asking what bird would be apart of today, I was kinda of right, while it wasn't Rocko, there were toucans like Rocko, lol. Important video, Thanks for sharing.
Your videos are amazing! They are educational, I love them. I haven't got a bird yet, however when that moment arrive I would feel much readier thanks to you. Thank you very much for your videos
I have two budgies , one is very friendly , and steps up , they both used to do this when they were babies stepping up , but the friendly one doesn't like the other one doing the same , sharing the same human, he watches his brother but wont do anything whilst he brother is around they eat treats out of my hand , and have free range of the home , have no trouble getting them into there cage :) ty bird tricks, or out of cage ,
Really looking forward to implementing this, once diet conversion is complete! However I can see how the same theory would apply to the diet conversion too 😁
This was awesome! I hope i can manage to transition your tips to my cockatiels. I´ve now seen some mistakes i´ve made in the past and i hope i will fix them
I'm currently trying to tame my two (got them on saturday) and I actually can already feed both with a treat (forgot the name) and the funny thing is that Blue (blue bird the other is more gray) is like always comming first to eat, but gray (which is more shy) actually gets closer to my hand and sligtly touches it too (idk if she actually noticed tho).
I have two parakeets that are bonded and ABSOLUTELY terrified of me even though I've owned them for about two years. (I've never ever hurt them) hoping this will work with them...
First off I want to say I love you new hair color you are beautiful and have a great personality. Great video very informative thank you. I’m going to try this!
Hey Jamie! So I have a little budgie named Herman, and I would really like to get a second budgie. “He is hand fed.” And I was wondering if you think he’d still be as sweet if I got him a buddy. It would probably be a male, just cause they always seem nicer. Thanks Jamie!😁
I have 2 female budgies that are still afraid of me after 2 yrs. I have let them out and it always turned into a disaster trying to get them back in the cage. I was advised not to let them out until I tame them. I tried using a chop stick in their cage and they freaked out. I like the idea of dropping a treat in an empty dish. I will keep trying.
I was planning to get two budgies at the same time so they had a friend from the start, but would it be best if I got one budgie, bonded and tamed that one, then got the second one after tamed that one? I think I'll just get them both together and see how it goes.
Can you do a video on target training your doves? i am about to become a dove parent of 2 siblings, and guidance on how to use that training in regards to doves would be helpful, along with the beginnings of flight training.
Pls answer my question.which is that I have a cockatiel who is 1 year and 3 months old but still he is not growing so what should I do.Please I will pay any price
I am considering adopting a bird from a rescue rather than buying a “baby bird” - but I have learned online that there are unscrupulous rescue institutions that use the parrots for breeding... Any suggestions on the best rescue, sanctuary institutions on east cost?
The best indicator of a reputable rescue/breeder is if they put you under scrutiny and questioning as well. This indicates that they care about the quality of the home they give the bird to. For-profit sellers generally don't care as long as they get their profit. But do keep looking around. Rescues and breeders are as varied as the people that run them.
@@eaglgenes101 this is so true because a while ago I adopted a lovebird from a suspicious rescue. I didn’t even have to fill out an adoption form. Nevertheless I felt so bad for the poor bird that I still decided to adopt him. He died 2 days later and from aspergillosis. Just a reminder to anyone who is getting a bird from a rescue, choose your rescue well.
Can you do a video on your doves. I recently rescued a pigeon and there is so little information on them. I.e. what they eat, types of toys they'll love, behaviors, and things like that
Yes! This is what I see in my cockatiels. The female though is faaar braver and the male will watch her to see if something is safe, he won’t do anything unless she does it first.
I know this relates to an earlier post .. the one where sprouts were left by one of your birds. . according to Dr Gundry alfalfa sprouts are highly toxic and he doesn't recommend that his patients eat them... Unlike other micro greens which are highly nutritious. Birds like a little of the alfalfa leaves but not the sprouts.
I always have a separate cage for each bird. My Quaker and moustache boys came to me in one cage. My moustache kissed me for the first time when I put him in the new cage.
hi @BirdTricks i have been a fan for a long time but i have a African grey thats 7 months old he try to fly bam! but keeps slamming on the wall i need your help! please reply
Hi Jamieleigh! Ok, so I'm another one of the hair likers. The intensity of the color made me think of a question. Do any of your birds ever get weird if they don't recognize you or dave because of wearing a mask or one of your hair color changes? I shaved off a beard and was wearing sunglasses I had never worn around my bird and my eckie did a bit of head cocking and was backing up a bit in his cage until I spoke. I thought he'd had a stroke or something when he didn't recognize me.
I have a question.. I have two budgies. One is pretty tame but the otherone isn't. I want them to fly around but if I let them they won't go back in the cage. Should I only let the tame budgie out untill the other is tame too? Or should I train more in the cage untill they are both tame?
Hello,I'm a big fan from Germany and have a little problem with one of my budgies. I feed them millet from my hand to get them tame and one little lady started biting my fingers. At first it was more like trying to eat them but now she bites harder and harder... I don't wanna punish her for biting me because I don't want her to be afraid of me but I really wanna stop her from biting me. I don't know what to do. Luisa(and my little 6 Chicken Nuggets🦜)
Thanks for making this video Jamie. It helped me a lot. 😁 Finaly my birds will bond with me I really love the way you care for birds thanks. 😃 Who else thinks this video was really helpful.
Do you have a video on bonding with a new bird when you already have one bird because I brought mine home and he is bonding with my other Bird, but she doesn’t want me to, and Interact with her that much. How do I bond with her do I separate them please help? I want her to bond with me first and i have had her about two weeks so i dont want to waste time?
Hi!! You’ve probably solved this by now so sorry for a late reply, but Id suggest separating them, the easiest way is probably to bring your new bird to another bird safe room just while you bond with them there. As long as your other bird can’t interfere, then it should be simpler. Good luck
I have a big problem. My sulfur crested cockatoo, Dizzy, is 3 years old and is scare of me. It wasn't like this before. It's been about a week now that he won't come to me at all. When I extend my hand to pick him up he starts to shake and refuses to come to me or bite me. Pls any help ? 😔
My personal Problem with this non-reaction thing is, that my two green cheek conures will confidently land on my arm when i lure them to it and then will start nipping at it and be so rough that they often times break my skin in the process. So as i understand it, they dont even intend to "bite" but rather just dont know how hard they should do it, as they are still babys. When i dont react in a big way, how can i show them, that their nipping is to rough?
Thanks I really need to be able to move budgies from cage to another to prevent unwanted babies. But I don't want to keep on grabbing them with a towel to move them it's traumatizing for both parties. I will work on the one who is already less skiddish around me.
Out of topic: is there a way to make my Amazon or any medium large size parrot understand that cats and dogs are dangerous? Mine is scared and shy to people but ignores real predators 🤔
My two 3 month old GCH eat from my hands and dont bite aggresibly or get too scared, but of course they dont trust me so the're a little scared. They are pretty docile but I cant get them to come out of the cage. They just eat food if i put it un front of them so i cant lure them to come out. I need help, what do i do? Srry for my english, its not My fist lenguaje
Help!!!!!! I've got 2 lorikeets, just inherited, issues from abuse (accidental I think) 1 will come out of the cage, other won't but is now starting to with target training & treats BUT other bird keeps grabbing the stick!!!!!! If I try to work on just the outgoing one, then the one that won't leave the cage throws tantrums & screams & goes really hormonal about being ignored! So what do I do about this???? Any tips/ideas PLEASE????? More details if wanted, don't read if you don't want to, I went overboard writing, Worked ok to start with, could train the one out of the cage & then once he'd had enough, move on to the other one, target training to move around inside the cage, where the one out of the cage wasn't that interested, but the one out of the cage is getting more & more into training now & doesn't want to stop (will get bored, I'll move onto the other one & interest immediately perks back up & he's back into it again) & as I move the stick out of the cage with the other one, it's close enough to him to really grab his interest again. I'm doing step up training with the outside cage one, have managed to get one foot onto my hand, but he's REALLY resistant, despite coming close to me & being comfortable with my face & head right near him, going to take some time to get there I think & I really can't move him away or anything, he's too insecure for that. Second one will now stick her head out of the cage for the stick or treat, but that's being sabotaged by the other one! (is a tall thin cage that I have on it's side, with a side opening therefore at the top, that I leave open all the time, cause they were apart before too, so I want to let the boy escape, cause girl is really hormonal & cage territorial & throws huge tantrums, so boy climbs in & out at will, girl's just sticking head out with lots of encouragement & stick & treats). Anyway I'm feeling really stuck on what to do with the 2 of them, so if anyone has any tips I'd LOVE to hear them! Best I've come up with is sultanas for the boy outside the cage to try to occupy him while training the girl out, but it's working less & less, as soon as I speak, saying things like "touch" he hears & drops the sultana to come running over to get the stick & diluted golden syrup syringe & to be told "good girl". I also had to move where I store the stick & syringe, cause he found them & started touching the stick & then licking the syringe to get his reward - smart bird!
Hi, videos are very informative. I bought a budgie , got pretty comfortable with me. But I just got a female and now the male doesn't want to interact with me. Even bites now when I reach in. We had an awesome bond and now all of a sudden the female took it all lol, is this behavior normal ? What advice would you have? Thank you!
Hi, I've just adopted a yellow female kakariki from my neighbour. She has a habit of climbing on me and nipping at any exposed skin over and over. She seems to be enjoying the taste of skin. It really hurts and I'd like her to stop. Has anyone experienced anything like this? It's really strange behaviour.
Hi I have two bird buddies who are housed together. One follows the other so there is one bird who is the brave one. For this reason I have always trained them together used them brave bird as the model student so to speak. When it comes to training can there share the same training stand or should they each have their own? As of now I they have their own perch and they seem to focus better when they have their own training perch.
It’s funny I’ve been following this channel for years and loving it. But I’ve never been interested in getting a bird as pet.. I’m a crazy ferret guy. So much so that I’ve got tattoos with their names and birthdays.. but nevertheless I enjoy all your content ... thanks for your efforts. I’m trying to do the same for ferrets.
The thing with my birds are that the brave one DOESNT let the less braver one come and grab a treat (sky=braver chilli=less brave)sky attacks chilli when i give her a treat for stepping up. What should i do? 😮💨
Will the other bird still learn off of the bird I am training if they still sneak treats, or will they just let the other bird do it, and how can I prevent this?
FINALLY!!! A situation I can relate to!
YES finally
Yuuuus me too!
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I THOUGHT I WAS FRICKED FOR OWNING TWO LOVEBIRDS UNTIL I FOUND THISSS
@@haileyamberpunzalan7236 I got 4 Budgies and 2 Cockatiels !!!!! Chaos.
I have two buggies and this is true one is more willing to do it then the other one. The time and effort your putting into them is what you get out of them
Did you tame them in the same cage?
Exactly same here!!
My Superb Parrot learned everything from my King Parrot so it definitely works training one while the other watches and copies.
Thanks for the video 😀
I love yore chanil#loveofbirds is a good chanil
yeh but what to do when the second bird is hormonal & tantrumy at the lack of attention?
Does it really? I was hoping so. My husband got me a Quaker for Christmas and yesterday we went and got his/hers two other siblings.
Yes I find this true with my Sun as she looks to her Quaker for modeling.
Just in time Jamie, we rescued 2 love birds last week. They have spent the last 4 years cage bound, one is feather plucking and chewing, they have a vet appointment this Friday. We already started their dietary transition, we started positive association on day one and we have been expanding their comfort zone with a mosquito net set up around their cage, they have been really positively responsive.
As you've pointed out one bird is braver, and no shocker that it's the one plucking. Up side with all the changes the naked one is already growing new feathers. I have been following you guys for a long time and everything I have learned is coming in handy. Thank you so much.
Thanx for rehoming these little guys. You will be blessed for cherishing God’s feathered friends
@@hrhosmer and it's not that the lady we got them from didnt love them. She was heart broken to give them up. But she didnt know what she was getting into when she got parrots. I'm still in contact with her and giving her frequent updates.
@@bigislandchickens6747 I've got quite a similar situation to you, but I think I've got less experience. Neighbour had 2 lorikeets, died & relatives were talking about trying to get a pet shop to take them, I offered. I've got wildlife rescue experience, but none with pet or abused birds. I've had them about 3 weeks now, both were in separate little cages with a piece of rope & metal tin & that was it for years :(
Braver boy's a plucker (but like yours, mine hasn't plucked with me, not since the second day anyway, did one feather day one & squealed in pain :( also just rocked back & forward while shivering when I first got them) girl's super hormonal & cage aggressive.
I watched them for a few hours when I first got them & they clearly liked each other & were getting comfort from being near each other, so I put them both into a new cage together & they're still figuring that out, nothing to worry about with being hurt, but they don't know how to interact either, I've even tried playing them videos of lorikeets preening each other to try to teach them (which I think has helped, they're sharing food better now, girl certainly watched VERY intently lol was really cute).
I also had to half cover the cage initially cause their stress & fear was so high, which obviously didn't help with the hormone situation, but they were just too freaked out & stressed otherwise, so I covered 3 sides & half the top & then gradually uncovered it all over a couple of weeks. They'll be moving into a bigger cage soon too, as soon as I've finished setting it up & think they're ready to cope with it, meanwhile I also have an opening on the cage top permanently open, cause the cage is pretty small for 2 birds & in case of fights, they're not trapped & it's on an old walker with wheels & I'm moving it into a sleep room & living room & outside for cleaning & getting them gradually used to new stuff within the safety of their cage & it's going well.
Mine seem relatively tame BUT trying to train step up & he just will not do it! Reminds me of the bird tricks video with the bird who had been forced with the glove. I've got 1 foot onto my hand though now, so getting there, but so much more resistant than I thought he would be & 2 days & multiple sessions at the one foot up point & not even a hint of getting further, so I'm in for a long haul at getting anywhere with training I think :( just no trust at all :(
The biting my hand everytime I put it into the cage to change food & water etc has largely stopped now, still happens if I'm not paying attention, but FAR better than it was, where I could only access the containers in the dark while they slept or while in the process of hosing out the cage & with the hose between the bird & my hand (not aggressively, just needed to hose it out anyway & they'd go to the other side of the cage as I did each side & I found that worked to get my hand in, now one of them wants to drink & play with the water from the hose as I hose it out :)) & bitty one will now lick treats off my fingers through the cage wire & is generally ok with not biting, the boy that I was told just nibbles not bites does bite on occasion now though, I think he was just too dominated & scared to bite before & now he's starting to feel a little more confident in expressing himself with me. I'm making progress, but it is a challenge & feels like 1 step forward 2 steps back sometimes :(
I haven't done the vet yet, cause of how freaked out they are & I feel like doing it too soon might be worse than waiting till they're a little more settled, especially cause with covid, the local bird vet won't allow humans into the building, the assistant comes out & get the birds, takes them in & vet assesses them & then do a phone consult, so I'm not that comfortable with that, given how stressy they are & that I'd have to yank them out of the cage to get there, I'm really not sure at what point to do it though, I do feel like I might be putting it off too long
I saw an earlier video with this advice of working with the more brave bird. My cockatiel has been my baby all his life and when he was injured, he became very distrustful and scared of my hands (having meds stuffed in his face and on his injured wing was almost more traumatic than the initial injury). This video is perfect to help me get closer with him through his mate. She's in a different cage now, having rejected him and will attack him if in the same cage, but he watches everything she does and wants to be near her.
They can play together outside of the cage, so I'm going to work on this technique to see if it works for us. Thank you!!
I'm going to be getting an lovebird and im definitely coming to this channel for advice
Jamie and Dave are amazing trainers and bird advocates
They really are! I've had chickens for all of my life and have been studying bird behavior and traits for a long time. I'm 12 and turning 13 in a couple months. I cant wait to be able to have a trained bird thanks to them.
Hey, please get at least 2 of them! Lovebirds are very social and a life alone would be terrible for them!
@rika thanks for your opinion. I have heard that they HAVE to be in pairs. But studies have shown that that is a myth I am home 2047 I dont go to school and I will spend all day with the bird. i'm getting one bird and one bird only. I dont have the right amount of space for two. Thanks for letting me know but I think my bird will be just fine with me being its companion. So my bird will most definitely NOT be alone. And will be sharing a healthy and active life along with me. The maximum time I spent away from my house is 2 hours a WEEK so every day all day my bird will be by my side and having a very social life with me.
@@zivacosta7780 Okay, I am sorry to hear this. I know I can‘t do anything about your decision, but just so you know: no matter how much time a human spends with their parrot, he/she will never be a partner for the bird. Parrots are flock animals and crave physical contact to other parrots, starting with grooming and kissing and ending with a life-long partnership. A human will never be able to take that place, I‘m sorry you‘ve been told this!
I hope for you and your bird that you consider adopting a second one. No matter how little space there is, it‘s not worth the pain for either of you. At least get an older bird that might already be alone, because if you accidentally imprint a bird to think that you are his partner, they will not want to leave your side even if you just go to the bathroom or want to sleep.
Trust me, there‘s nothing more beautiful than seeing two parrots loving each other! :)
I’ve got four in the same cage. I’ve had one for a year and I just got the other 3 , I’m on day five with them and 2 of them will stand on my hand and eat and they all will eat out of my hand. Day 1 and 2 they would all freak out if I opened the door and they wouldn’t accept millet yet but I just sat for hours outside of the cage. Day 3 I forgot to shut the door and my older budgie snuck in. Then when I went to lure her out with millet and she ate it one of the other ones noticed it and started eating too. Then day 4 I tested it again and they all 4 were eating out of my hand. Now today they are all in the same cage and they even came out on the playstand to eat millet. It’s exciting to be going this fast. Two of them are flighted and two of them are clipped. Im ready for them to all be flighted lol. Anyways thanks so much for the content. I have been watching your channel since before you got blueberry and it’s helped me so much!
I haven’t been this early since Jamie had blonde hair 😂😂❤️❤️
Same hahaha
Yes! Have been looking for something on this. Would like more on this. Can you do a part 2? I have 2 bonded female green cheeks, one aggressive in cage, the other aggressive out. If I try and work with one, the 2nd just steals the treat from the first.
😂😂❤I love a challenge,keep it fun!!
I recently got a second lovebird and although she's not fully tamed yet, it's going very well! The taming process is going very fast since the new one just copies the behaviour of the old one. Where he goes she goes😂 for example, yesterday the old bird flew om my shoulder and the new one followed! The same with diet. It took me about a year to get the old one to eat pellets, but the new one ate it from day one, because she saw the old one was eating it too!
It's amazing to see how she observes and copies the behaviours🙂
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I got two parrotlets (about 6 months old). they were already semi-bonded from the breeder and I always train them together. Two days after they were with me, they were sitting on my finger. They have a huge cage and were never clipped. It is definitely possible, you just need to pay attention to their body language and respect their boundaries. Smaller birds seem to be more curageous when having a buddy.
I am trying to bond with my three lovebirds in one cage! Thank you so mutch
Hi, did everything workout for u?
I Definitely agree that one bird will be braver than the other. When I was taming my 2 budgies lemon, was the first one to each out of my hand, the first to come out of his cage, the first to step up, the first out of those two to start chewing on toys, and the first out of the two to be recalled trained.
Fantastic video. I have watched so many , but this one was awesome and super helpful ! Thank you !
YES I have been waiting on a video like this for so long THANK YOUUUUU I will be watching this as I clean my birds cage
OMG...it's really effective.....I have many budgies and a cockatiel which is now tamed...becz of ur tip..❤️❤️ I started working on the budgies and the cockatiel willingly came to me for treat and head scratch......she does a couple of tricks like she would go back to her cage and lock herself..birbs are so smart..❤️❤️
This kills me though! I feel so bad choosing one over the other. Haha 😂 but I get it. My other struggle is that my conure is SO mean to me after giving ANY attention to the tiels I'm trying to work with. Its tough because I've worked so hard with the biting with him. It's like a never ending battle 🤣
Edit* (since I commented before the end of the video lol) that is EXACTLY how my conure's biting has improved as much as it has. When he was first given to me, no one could hold him without him biting, and now I can at least hold him and he is very sweet! (Only when he's jealous and some other triggers I'm working on catching does he bite) but it literally was the NON REACTION tactic! Which is INCREDIBLY difficult when they remove a piece of your flesh and you have to shrug it off as though you didn't actually need that part of your body so you don't reward them with a big reaction. It sucked but it was the best way. That and not putting him in the cage either because then he would know that a bite would mean he would get to go back to his room if he wanted so that was a reward. Instead I'd pretend it didn't bother me, not let him see the blood, and maybe turn away and ignore him/not give him attention for a couple of minutes. He has made stellar improvement. Proud parront 😂🥰
Thank you for the info that I needed
I watch all your videos and I don’t have multiple birds, but there were several helpful things brought up that can help me in training my caique! Thank you for allowing this opportunity to understand your methods more!
Would love to have a tour of all your birds, or maybe your daily routine with your flock!
Love this thank you and it totally works!!!! My male has helped the female "check it out" when she refuses. By focusing on him and her seeing him get the reward she then on her own will do the same thing. Its all about patience and trust because they are rehomed and she seems to be a little afraid of the hand and trusting.
That orange hair is bomb! It really suits your complexion. I hope you keep it a while :)
Thanks for this video.
If this is the video you were asking what bird would be apart of today, I was kinda of right, while it wasn't Rocko, there were toucans like Rocko, lol. Important video, Thanks for sharing.
Your videos are amazing! They are educational, I love them. I haven't got a bird yet, however when that moment arrive I would feel much readier thanks to you. Thank you very much for your videos
This video is amazing!!!!
Thank you so much for this video! I have a GCC and a Quaker who I got housed together!
I have two budgies , one is very friendly , and steps up , they both used to do this when they were babies stepping up , but the friendly one doesn't like the other one doing the same , sharing the same human, he watches his brother but wont do anything whilst he brother is around they eat treats out of my hand , and have free range of the home , have no trouble getting them into there cage :) ty bird tricks, or out of cage ,
I really liked this video! I liked that you included as much information for as many situation as possible!
Brilliant video! So well explained and I know so many people (and birds!) that can benefit from this.
I have to tell you my Conure loves your pellets, it’s amazing
I’m so happy that you made a video like this! TYSM!!!
thank you so much for making this vid! I was having a hard time training my 2 budgies
Really looking forward to implementing this, once diet conversion is complete! However I can see how the same theory would apply to the diet conversion too 😁
I get SO many questions about this! Great topic. Will send them here. 💕
Amazing advice as usual. You guys rock... the flock!
This was awesome! I hope i can manage to transition your tips to my cockatiels. I´ve now seen some mistakes i´ve made in the past and i hope i will fix them
I'm currently trying to tame my two (got them on saturday) and I actually can already feed both with a treat (forgot the name) and the funny thing is that Blue (blue bird the other is more gray) is like always comming first to eat, but gray (which is more shy) actually gets closer to my hand and sligtly touches it too (idk if she actually noticed tho).
Hi Ian a big fan love your birds and lessons
I never missed a vid
Love the new hair ❤️ ...always love your instruction!
This was incredibly helpful! Thank you!
Great! Exactly what I needed!
I have two parakeets that are bonded and ABSOLUTELY terrified of me even though I've owned them for about two years. (I've never ever hurt them) hoping this will work with them...
Hi, did you try this method? Also if you did were you successful with training your birds?
@@kyrstineortonio1498 Personally didnt work, but that may have been an error on my part. I wasnt patient during the adjustment period.
@@dinofeino1811 oh okay thank you :)))
@@kyrstineortonio1498 Wishing you luck with your birds!
First off I want to say I love you new hair color you are beautiful and have a great personality. Great video very informative thank you. I’m going to try this!
As always, really helpful, thanks.
Hey Jamie! So I have a little budgie named Herman, and I would really like to get a second budgie. “He is hand fed.” And I was wondering if you think he’d still be as sweet if I got him a buddy. It would probably be a male, just cause they always seem nicer. Thanks Jamie!😁
Love the hair forgot it was Thursday lol
I have 2 female budgies that are still afraid of me after 2 yrs. I have let them out and it always turned into a disaster trying to get them back in the cage. I was advised not to let them out until I tame them. I tried using a chop stick in their cage and they freaked out. I like the idea of dropping a treat in an empty dish. I will keep trying.
This was super helpful!
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing!
Please create more freebies on health and diseases
Thank you for helping me so much ❤️
I was planning to get two budgies at the same time so they had a friend from the start, but would it be best if I got one budgie, bonded and tamed that one, then got the second one after tamed that one? I think I'll just get them both together and see how it goes.
capri just float speeding in the background- 😂😂❤
Can you do a video on target training your doves? i am about to become a dove parent of 2 siblings, and guidance on how to use that training in regards to doves would be helpful, along with the beginnings of flight training.
Super helpful!
Beautiful birds
Pls answer my question.which is that I have a cockatiel who is 1 year and 3 months old but still he is not growing so what should I do.Please I will pay any price
I think he has a stunted growth
this is really helpful
Thank you!
LOVE this hair color on you
I am considering adopting a bird from a rescue rather than buying a “baby bird” - but I have learned online that there are unscrupulous rescue institutions that use the parrots for breeding... Any suggestions on the best rescue, sanctuary institutions on east cost?
The best indicator of a reputable rescue/breeder is if they put you under scrutiny and questioning as well. This indicates that they care about the quality of the home they give the bird to. For-profit sellers generally don't care as long as they get their profit.
But do keep looking around. Rescues and breeders are as varied as the people that run them.
I don't know much about any specific organizations, though.
@@eaglgenes101 this is so true because a while ago I adopted a lovebird from a suspicious rescue. I didn’t even have to fill out an adoption form. Nevertheless I felt so bad for the poor bird that I still decided to adopt him. He died 2 days later and from aspergillosis. Just a reminder to anyone who is getting a bird from a rescue, choose your rescue well.
Can you do a video on your doves. I recently rescued a pigeon and there is so little information on them. I.e. what they eat, types of toys they'll love, behaviors, and things like that
Still find it very hard not to "re-act" to an unexpected bite ... sometimes both bird & I 'scream".
I get it and mine are almost 18 years old.
Yes! This is what I see in my cockatiels. The female though is faaar braver and the male will watch her to see if something is safe, he won’t do anything unless she does it first.
I wonder if I can open the cage door and do target training through the opening or should I do it through the bars?
I know this relates to an earlier post .. the one where sprouts were left by one of your birds. . according to Dr Gundry alfalfa sprouts are highly toxic and he doesn't recommend that his patients eat them... Unlike other micro greens which are highly nutritious. Birds like a little of the alfalfa leaves but not the sprouts.
A situation that I need to
I always have a separate cage for each bird. My Quaker and moustache boys came to me in one cage. My moustache kissed me for the first time when I put him in the new cage.
hi @BirdTricks i have been a fan for a long time but i have a African grey thats 7 months old he try to fly bam! but keeps slamming on the wall i need your help! please reply
wow this video is cool i like your advice
Hi Jamieleigh! Ok, so I'm another one of the hair likers. The intensity of the color made me think of a question. Do any of your birds ever get weird if they don't recognize you or dave because of wearing a mask or one of your hair color changes? I shaved off a beard and was wearing sunglasses I had never worn around my bird and my eckie did a bit of head cocking and was backing up a bit in his cage until I spoke. I thought he'd had a stroke or something when he didn't recognize me.
I have a question.. I have two budgies. One is pretty tame but the otherone isn't. I want them to fly around but if I let them they won't go back in the cage. Should I only let the tame budgie out untill the other is tame too? Or should I train more in the cage untill they are both tame?
Omg this amazing 🤩
Hello,I'm a big fan from Germany and have a little problem with one of my budgies. I feed them millet from my hand to get them tame and one little lady started biting my fingers. At first it was more like trying to eat them but now she bites harder and harder... I don't wanna punish her for biting me because I don't want her to be afraid of me but I really wanna stop her from biting me. I don't know what to do.
Luisa(and my little 6 Chicken Nuggets🦜)
Thsi will be so helpfull for me
Love you vids 🥰🥰
Thanks for making this video Jamie.
It helped me a lot. 😁
Finaly my birds will bond with me
I really love the way you care for birds thanks. 😃
Who else thinks this video was really helpful.
Same I also really like the way Jamie cares for birds
Before my birds would never be interested in me even if I brought a treat in there cage and now they will. I am so happy 😌😁😍
@@crystal_gem9468 WOW not even for a treat
Well this video shore did help you then.
I am glad that your birds finaly bond with you.
Bird Tricks Thanks
Jamieleigh is awesome ❤️❤️
Where can I get a target training stick and a clicker?
FIRE HAIR, OH MY GOSH
I love your videos 😍 🥰 hi Bueberry
Do you have a video on bonding with a new bird when you already have one bird because I brought mine home and he is bonding with my other Bird, but she doesn’t want me to, and Interact with her that much. How do I bond with her do I separate them please help? I want her to bond with me first and i have had her about two weeks so i dont want to waste time?
Hi!! You’ve probably solved this by now so sorry for a late reply, but Id suggest separating them, the easiest way is probably to bring your new bird to another bird safe room just while you bond with them there. As long as your other bird can’t interfere, then it should be simpler. Good luck
Plz could I have some advice I have two budgies and they will both sit on my hand and eat millet but they are kinda still scared of my hand any advice
I have a big problem. My sulfur crested cockatoo, Dizzy, is 3 years old and is scare of me. It wasn't like this before. It's been about a week now that he won't come to me at all. When I extend my hand to pick him up he starts to shake and refuses to come to me or bite me.
Pls any help ? 😔
My personal Problem with this non-reaction thing is, that my two green cheek conures will confidently land on my arm when i lure them to it and then will start nipping at it and be so rough that they often times break my skin in the process. So as i understand it, they dont even intend to "bite" but rather just dont know how hard they should do it, as they are still babys. When i dont react in a big way, how can i show them, that their nipping is to rough?
Thanks I really need to be able to move budgies from cage to another to prevent unwanted babies. But I don't want to keep on grabbing them with a towel to move them it's traumatizing for both parties. I will work on the one who is already less skiddish around me.
Out of topic: is there a way to make my Amazon or any medium large size parrot understand that cats and dogs are dangerous? Mine is scared and shy to people but ignores real predators 🤔
My two 3 month old GCH eat from my hands and dont bite aggresibly or get too scared, but of course they dont trust me so the're a little scared. They are pretty docile but I cant get them to come out of the cage. They just eat food if i put it un front of them so i cant lure them to come out. I need help, what do i do? Srry for my english, its not My fist lenguaje
Help!!!!!! I've got 2 lorikeets, just inherited, issues from abuse (accidental I think) 1 will come out of the cage, other won't but is now starting to with target training & treats BUT other bird keeps grabbing the stick!!!!!! If I try to work on just the outgoing one, then the one that won't leave the cage throws tantrums & screams & goes really hormonal about being ignored! So what do I do about this???? Any tips/ideas PLEASE?????
More details if wanted, don't read if you don't want to, I went overboard writing,
Worked ok to start with, could train the one out of the cage & then once he'd had enough, move on to the other one, target training to move around inside the cage, where the one out of the cage wasn't that interested, but the one out of the cage is getting more & more into training now & doesn't want to stop (will get bored, I'll move onto the other one & interest immediately perks back up & he's back into it again) & as I move the stick out of the cage with the other one, it's close enough to him to really grab his interest again.
I'm doing step up training with the outside cage one, have managed to get one foot onto my hand, but he's REALLY resistant, despite coming close to me & being comfortable with my face & head right near him, going to take some time to get there I think & I really can't move him away or anything, he's too insecure for that. Second one will now stick her head out of the cage for the stick or treat, but that's being sabotaged by the other one! (is a tall thin cage that I have on it's side, with a side opening therefore at the top, that I leave open all the time, cause they were apart before too, so I want to let the boy escape, cause girl is really hormonal & cage territorial & throws huge tantrums, so boy climbs in & out at will, girl's just sticking head out with lots of encouragement & stick & treats).
Anyway I'm feeling really stuck on what to do with the 2 of them, so if anyone has any tips I'd LOVE to hear them! Best I've come up with is sultanas for the boy outside the cage to try to occupy him while training the girl out, but it's working less & less, as soon as I speak, saying things like "touch" he hears & drops the sultana to come running over to get the stick & diluted golden syrup syringe & to be told "good girl". I also had to move where I store the stick & syringe, cause he found them & started touching the stick & then licking the syringe to get his reward - smart bird!
Hi, videos are very informative. I bought a budgie , got pretty comfortable with me. But I just got a female and now the male doesn't want to interact with me. Even bites now when I reach in. We had an awesome bond and now all of a sudden the female took it all lol, is this behavior normal ? What advice would you have? Thank you!
Hi, I've just adopted a yellow female kakariki from my neighbour. She has a habit of climbing on me and nipping at any exposed skin over and over. She seems to be enjoying the taste of skin. It really hurts and I'd like her to stop. Has anyone experienced anything like this? It's really strange behaviour.
dig the hair👍
thank you for making this video it’s really helpful, all your videos are helpful for me and my birds😁
Hi I have two bird buddies who are housed together. One follows the other so there is one bird who is the brave one. For this reason I have always trained them together used them brave bird as the model student so to speak.
When it comes to training can there share the same training stand or should they each have their own?
As of now I they have their own perch and they seem to focus better when they have their own training perch.
It’s funny I’ve been following this channel for years and loving it. But I’ve never been interested in getting a bird as pet.. I’m a crazy ferret guy. So much so that I’ve got tattoos with their names and birthdays.. but nevertheless I enjoy all your content ... thanks for your efforts. I’m trying to do the same for ferrets.
how long do i wait before doing this?
The thing with my birds are that the brave one DOESNT let the less braver one come and grab a treat (sky=braver chilli=less brave)sky attacks chilli when i give her a treat for stepping up.
What should i do? 😮💨
What would good bond building games be for budgies?
What do i need to do if my bird doesnt eat treat
Shawty wOo ShawTy rm
Will the other bird still learn off of the bird I am training if they still sneak treats, or will they just let the other bird do it, and how can I prevent this?