I'd love to see a body language video on small birds like this! I have a quaker and two green cheeks and I'd love to learn more about interpreting their body language. Your Body Language 101 video is somewhat helpful but I find the bigger birds seems easier to read (some things are more obvious and they seem to be slower than our smaller guys) so would love to see video examples for the little guys!
We have an entire series of Body Language videos on our Patreon channel! We first worked our way through our flock and now we are continuing the series with video footage submitted from our Patrons of there own birds. You can check it out at - www.patreon.com/birdtricks/posts?filters[tag]=birdtricks%20tuesdays&filters[search_query]=body%20language Available to Bondi tier and above. We have covered all size birds! ❤
Yes I have been waiting for a Conure video! I have a connection to these birds that Ive had since I was young and I have been preparing for one for a few years. I feel I am ready to go out and find one after all my preparing! Thank you for this video
This was really interesting! I’m struggling a bit with my budgies starting to argue about the millet when training, taking them out one at a time won’t work as they refuse to be separated and always train on their cage door. Not sure how to get around it right now. I appreciate seeing videos with multiple birds!
I have 2 female budgies and had the same problem. Now I tell them who gets the treat.( It's Sky's turn, it's Ollie's turn.) It's not perfect but it helps. When I first introduced them they bonded and went gangsta for training. If one was too eager the other would peck her like don't be too friendly. I still see this sometimes but it's going away.
@@connied8507 That's exactly the issue i'm having haha. My male (Cosmo) is so eager and just pecks and chases my female away (Jazz). I will try that! Thanks for sharing.
I'd love to see more small bird training body language and how to handle sick birbs. I've a parrotlet polydypsic and polyureic and too small for bloods to be done. I suspect parrot diabetes but without diagnosis there's nothing the vet (avian specialist and parrot owner himself) can suggest or do. Parrotlets are awesome little big characters. Conure are beautiful but seriously thinking Eclectus, Ringneck or Caique to add to the family. Love your channel really helps and your bird bread is fantastic.
i have 6 green cheek conures at the moment (i say at the moment, because i tend to take in and home them after working with them for a while.) and i've found with them, they are so hugely misunderstood. they are a very excitable bird, which can turn into aggression, and people seem very unable to recognize their body language. i have had such absolute terrors come into my home, and it's almost always a symptom of inappropriate touching causing hormones, or forcing the bird to step up out of a cage when it doesn't want to that causes a horrible hand phobia and distrust or violent hand aggression (but not person aggression). i've also found every conure has a different level of handleability. i have one that's off and on cuddly, one that is never cuddly, and others that are very cuddly but prone to stimulation or overexcitement. i have one who has cage aggression issues, due to being massively overstimulated by his last owner for about 3 years of his life. for him, i simply as that he come out to me if he wants to come out, as placing a hand in the cage can rile him up. they rehomed him because they have a small daughter and he would bite anyone and everyone around him, including her. maybe all birds are like this, as i have other birds as well who have displayed small amounts of these things, but it's green cheek conures that are the birds i deal with the majority of the time due to how prolific they are. and the birds i feel show the most heightened reaction to their emotion/emotional stimulation. i have worked with around 18 green cheek conures (i'm counting all the small conures as green cheeks here, hahaha) in total, although i'm sure i've forgotten some. patience is so important with this birds, but so is knowing when and where to push some of their boundaries.
Anyone have any tips to overcome fear? I have 2 budgies and they are scared of anything new (even sunflower seeds and food, they just see it as scary) I’m trying to use up the rest of my Harrison pellets, then I’m going to switch to the bird tricks pellets and millet their favorite treat (aka what they aren’t scared of). I’ve tried introducing something new every day but it just seems to make them not trust me. Even when I got them they where TERRIFIED of millet. I had to leave it in their cage for them to realize that’s what they had at the pet store. I’ve also tried leaving other things in their cage but they just avoid it at all costs.
My budgies used to be scared of everything too. To introduce new toys I started to hide some tiny pieces of millet as well as attaching a piece quite obviously directly on the toy. Even though they might be frightened at first, after some time (might be minutes, might be hours) they approach the toy. At first they just eat the obviously placed millet but then they realise that there is more hidden, so they engage with the toy. Now the toys themself have become "treat" enough for my budgies. Even when they dont now that exact toy, they check them out quite soon without the need of an obvious piece of millet. So maybe be a bit more patient and don't overwhelm them. Pairing something they like with something they dont know yet worked great for me. If your birds are target trained you can also target them slowly in the direction of a new thing.
My biggest problem is to get my conures to their cage..I'm raising them since they were 15 days old they are playful and energetic sometimes too noisy but they hate their cage I'm trying best to not pick them up to get them into their cage so they can eat or sleep, also a few days ago one of them became aggressive and bite my hand dunno why they are 4 months old and half they started molting is that could be a reason ?
Please PLEASE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ do a video on pantry moths, parrot lice and mites, the not so pretty things that people don’t tell you when you first get a bird! I’m dealing with feather loss right now and could use advice! Taking to the vet to rule out anything first, then I’m assuming it’s diet or boredom or stress that I’ll need to work hard to fix. Do you have any success stories of over plucking birds stop plucking? Things you need to try to keep your bird from over preening? My Conure is 4 months old and he keeps butchering feathers on his chest, under neck area, under his wings and on his back.
Don't add too much water and don't warm it up. You should never cook prepackaged pet food unless the directions specifically say to do so. The process of heating it destroys nutrients
Where is the best place to ask questions that aren't directly related to the video? I'll post it here in the hopes it can get answered. I was bad and went against the advice of starting with one budgie...I couldn't help it. There were two (what I assume are) lutino budgies left in the petstore enclosure, and I couldn't just leave one all by herself. So, I got both of them. So now I have 2 flighted, pet store birds who aren't used to handling. They've been getting less nervous all the time, but it's a slow process. It seems like, instead of the more nrevous one following the braver one, the braver one tends to follow the more nervous one. For example, if I'm giving them millet spray and my hand gets too close for my more nervous bird and she takes off, then the other one, who may have seemed relaxed up to that point, will follow her. So, they haven't learned to step up yet and won't perch on me (hand, arm or otherwise), even though they're getting used to staying fairly close if I'm moving around or talking to them. The problem now is that I've noticed their claws are getting pretty long (I do have a couple of sand perches and some grit paper, but I don't think they use them very often). So, the question is, do I "catch them" and hold them (which I know Jamie usually sees as a no-no) so I can trim their claws, or do I just wait until they're more comfortable, taking the chance that their claws get out of control? Any advice is welcome.
P.S. I do have the Bird Tricks budgie course and I'm trying the things shown on there, but because I just couldn't leave the 2nd bird in the petstore all by herself, things are not working as quickly for me as the videos show. They also aren't very food motivated, from what I've seen so far. I've tried millet spray, nuts, fresh foods, etc., but I haven't found anything yet that is highly motivating for them. I'm still in the switching over the foods phase. I've got them on Blueberry's seed mix, and I've bought the Seasonal Recipies book, but we haven't started on the chop yet (I have tried some fresh foods, though, but they haven't seemed very interested).
I do not believe budgies should have fruit , they are from arid desert land. They need dry seed, mainly millet, with a few supplements. Their preferred treat food is fresh grass seed, especially “ehrata “ varieties. They have strong flocking instinct, and are naturally very fearful. So you have taken on a great challenge, but if you keep using the techniques in “bird tricks”, you will have success, and the birds get to have a great life. I like to work on the more fearful bird, and reward the other for turning his head away from her, so he learns not to spook her away.
@@eclecticbird2912 I don't give them much fruit. I've only tried a little (which they didn't touch) to see if I can find something they like enough to use as a motivator. Maybe you thought I meant I did because I mentioned Blueberry's seed mix? Blueberry is the name of their budgie, so I meant the seed mix Jamie-Leigh makes for Blueberry, the budgie. Right now mine are on that small bird seed mix that Jamie-Leigh gave the recipe for, but I know a seed-only diet is too fattening for pet birds and I'll be moving them on to the seaonal diet soon. My main concern in mentioning the food is that they don't seem to be food motivated right now. I tend to offer them the spray millet in the morning before their breakfast, but there's only been minimal interest. Sometimes they go for it, but a lot of the times, it's like, "meh." I have no problem being patient with them if that's what they need. I won't give up with my attempts at training them, or "winning them over," so to speak. Right now my main concern is what I should do about the issue of their long claws if they aren't comfortable with being on or in my hands yet. I don't like the 'tactic' that some videos show of grabbing them and holding them against their will. But will the claw thing become an issue if I wait?
@@sherryleclerc2743 -yes Blueberry did throw me a bit, and you do get ppl advocating conure type food for these desert birds! I find grass seed ( fresh green grass with the seed head ) irresistible to them. If you can’t get any, other greens can work. I find it quite ok to withhold all food for a few hours before training, of course being super careful not to starve them. I would never grab them for any vet treatment if possible, all trust is lost… sandpaper on perches and rough rocks in the cage work for me for nails.
@@sherryleclerc2743 Are you 100% sure that their claws are too long? You can find lots of pictures online for comparrison. If you are concered with catching them yourself maybe take them to the vet in their normal cage (if thats possible). The vet can catch them and shorten the claws if too long and can do a little overall health-check. I just want to add, that I had to give one of my budgies medicine directly into his beak every day for 10 days. He was not super hand trained and attached to humans before (cause he also got a little feathery girlfriend), but he usually liked a few laps of flight training to my hand. After I had to treat him medically (and therefore catch him every day) he still likes our training sessions and has'nt lost trust. In the worst case you can't postpone needed medical treatment even though he might loses trust. In my case if untreated the fluffball would'nt be here anymore. (That does not apply to your claw-thing of course)
Every time her bird came in for the step up she kept on moving her hand up and down saying "do you want to step up?" then as the bird was coming for the "step up" she lowered her hand and kept moving her hand in all directions therefore the bird had no stable platform or hand to step up on he didn't know whether to step up or step down, this woman's cues were all over the place
I'd love to see a body language video on small birds like this! I have a quaker and two green cheeks and I'd love to learn more about interpreting their body language. Your Body Language 101 video is somewhat helpful but I find the bigger birds seems easier to read (some things are more obvious and they seem to be slower than our smaller guys) so would love to see video examples for the little guys!
We have an entire series of Body Language videos on our Patreon channel! We first worked our way through our flock and now we are continuing the series with video footage submitted from our Patrons of there own birds. You can check it out at - www.patreon.com/birdtricks/posts?filters[tag]=birdtricks%20tuesdays&filters[search_query]=body%20language Available to Bondi tier and above. We have covered all size birds! ❤
@@BirdTricks good to know! I've been waiting to get patreon as money's tight right now but hopefully soon!
Also check out The Parrot Teacher and BirdNerdSophie on youtube they do lots of conure videos.
@@TeddyCrochet I second this!
I’m supper happy to see small birds. I can never find videos on conures and sunconure or lovebirds training. Lol and those are the ones I have 😂
Yes I have been waiting for a Conure video! I have a connection to these birds that Ive had since I was young and I have been preparing for one for a few years. I feel I am ready to go out and find one after all my preparing! Thank you for this video
Wooo! A conure video! Love the content and have been looking out for something about conures
This was really interesting! I’m struggling a bit with my budgies starting to argue about the millet when training, taking them out one at a time won’t work as they refuse to be separated and always train on their cage door. Not sure how to get around it right now. I appreciate seeing videos with multiple birds!
I have the exact same problem and question! :) Would love to see more video's on that.
I have 2 female budgies and had the same problem. Now I tell them who gets the treat.( It's Sky's turn, it's Ollie's turn.) It's not perfect but it helps. When I first introduced them they bonded and went gangsta for training. If one was too eager the other would peck her like don't be too friendly. I still see this sometimes but it's going away.
@@connied8507 That's exactly the issue i'm having haha. My male (Cosmo) is so eager and just pecks and chases my female away (Jazz). I will try that! Thanks for sharing.
Me too and I can’t separate them at all. Anyone made any progress?
That went fast! How quickly they learned.
Wonderful sharing
I'd love to see more small bird training body language and how to handle sick birbs. I've a parrotlet polydypsic and polyureic and too small for bloods to be done. I suspect parrot diabetes but without diagnosis there's nothing the vet (avian specialist and parrot owner himself) can suggest or do. Parrotlets are awesome little big characters. Conure are beautiful but seriously thinking Eclectus, Ringneck or Caique to add to the family. Love your channel really helps and your bird bread is fantastic.
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Thank you so much ❤️
i have 6 green cheek conures at the moment (i say at the moment, because i tend to take in and home them after working with them for a while.) and i've found with them, they are so hugely misunderstood. they are a very excitable bird, which can turn into aggression, and people seem very unable to recognize their body language. i have had such absolute terrors come into my home, and it's almost always a symptom of inappropriate touching causing hormones, or forcing the bird to step up out of a cage when it doesn't want to that causes a horrible hand phobia and distrust or violent hand aggression (but not person aggression).
i've also found every conure has a different level of handleability. i have one that's off and on cuddly, one that is never cuddly, and others that are very cuddly but prone to stimulation or overexcitement. i have one who has cage aggression issues, due to being massively overstimulated by his last owner for about 3 years of his life. for him, i simply as that he come out to me if he wants to come out, as placing a hand in the cage can rile him up. they rehomed him because they have a small daughter and he would bite anyone and everyone around him, including her.
maybe all birds are like this, as i have other birds as well who have displayed small amounts of these things, but it's green cheek conures that are the birds i deal with the majority of the time due to how prolific they are. and the birds i feel show the most heightened reaction to their emotion/emotional stimulation. i have worked with around 18 green cheek conures (i'm counting all the small conures as green cheeks here, hahaha) in total, although i'm sure i've forgotten some. patience is so important with this birds, but so is knowing when and where to push some of their boundaries.
I jave a ringneck its not aggressive but i need tips on training it
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what are the treats you recommend for training?
Anyone have any tips to overcome fear? I have 2 budgies and they are scared of anything new (even sunflower seeds and food, they just see it as scary) I’m trying to use up the rest of my Harrison pellets, then I’m going to switch to the bird tricks pellets and millet their favorite treat (aka what they aren’t scared of). I’ve tried introducing something new every day but it just seems to make them not trust me.
Even when I got them they where TERRIFIED of millet. I had to leave it in their cage for them to realize that’s what they had at the pet store. I’ve also tried leaving other things in their cage but they just avoid it at all costs.
My budgies used to be scared of everything too. To introduce new toys I started to hide some tiny pieces of millet as well as attaching a piece quite obviously directly on the toy. Even though they might be frightened at first, after some time (might be minutes, might be hours) they approach the toy. At first they just eat the obviously placed millet but then they realise that there is more hidden, so they engage with the toy. Now the toys themself have become "treat" enough for my budgies. Even when they dont now that exact toy, they check them out quite soon without the need of an obvious piece of millet.
So maybe be a bit more patient and don't overwhelm them. Pairing something they like with something they dont know yet worked great for me. If your birds are target trained you can also target them slowly in the direction of a new thing.
could you do how to train caiques?
My biggest problem is to get my conures to their cage..I'm raising them since they were 15 days old they are playful and energetic sometimes too noisy but they hate their cage I'm trying best to not pick them up to get them into their cage so they can eat or sleep, also a few days ago one of them became aggressive and bite my hand dunno why they are 4 months old and half they started molting is that could be a reason ?
Where is the clicker??? I’m confused.
Please PLEASE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ do a video on pantry moths, parrot lice and mites, the not so pretty things that people don’t tell you when you first get a bird! I’m dealing with feather loss right now and could use advice! Taking to the vet to rule out anything first, then I’m assuming it’s diet or boredom or stress that I’ll need to work hard to fix. Do you have any success stories of over plucking birds stop plucking? Things you need to try to keep your bird from over preening? My Conure is 4 months old and he keeps butchering feathers on his chest, under neck area, under his wings and on his back.
In the video I couldnt read the hormone checklist.
The hormone checklist is included in our Horror-Moans course - birdtricksstore.com/collections/behaviors-and-training/products/spring-hormones
So i see mushy food or warm food. They sell the freeze dried food. How are you to use this without it being warmed up or wet and mushy?
Don't add too much water and don't warm it up. You should never cook prepackaged pet food unless the directions specifically say to do so. The process of heating it destroys nutrients
What are some common treats to use for training Conures besides spray millet?
seeds or nuts! bigger ones you can break in smaller pieces. even fruit pieces (their favorite)
Sunflower seeds and canary seeds or nutriberries but smaller size
Where is the best place to ask questions that aren't directly related to the video? I'll post it here in the hopes it can get answered. I was bad and went against the advice of starting with one budgie...I couldn't help it. There were two (what I assume are) lutino budgies left in the petstore enclosure, and I couldn't just leave one all by herself. So, I got both of them. So now I have 2 flighted, pet store birds who aren't used to handling. They've been getting less nervous all the time, but it's a slow process. It seems like, instead of the more nrevous one following the braver one, the braver one tends to follow the more nervous one. For example, if I'm giving them millet spray and my hand gets too close for my more nervous bird and she takes off, then the other one, who may have seemed relaxed up to that point, will follow her.
So, they haven't learned to step up yet and won't perch on me (hand, arm or otherwise), even though they're getting used to staying fairly close if I'm moving around or talking to them. The problem now is that I've noticed their claws are getting pretty long (I do have a couple of sand perches and some grit paper, but I don't think they use them very often). So, the question is, do I "catch them" and hold them (which I know Jamie usually sees as a no-no) so I can trim their claws, or do I just wait until they're more comfortable, taking the chance that their claws get out of control? Any advice is welcome.
P.S. I do have the Bird Tricks budgie course and I'm trying the things shown on there, but because I just couldn't leave the 2nd bird in the petstore all by herself, things are not working as quickly for me as the videos show. They also aren't very food motivated, from what I've seen so far. I've tried millet spray, nuts, fresh foods, etc., but I haven't found anything yet that is highly motivating for them. I'm still in the switching over the foods phase. I've got them on Blueberry's seed mix, and I've bought the Seasonal Recipies book, but we haven't started on the chop yet (I have tried some fresh foods, though, but they haven't seemed very interested).
I do not believe budgies should have fruit , they are from arid desert land. They need dry seed, mainly millet, with a few supplements. Their preferred treat food is fresh grass seed, especially “ehrata “ varieties. They have strong flocking instinct, and are naturally very fearful. So you have taken on a great challenge, but if you keep using the techniques in “bird tricks”, you will have success, and the birds get to have a great life. I like to work on the more fearful bird, and reward the other for turning his head away from her, so he learns not to spook her away.
@@eclecticbird2912 I don't give them much fruit. I've only tried a little (which they didn't touch) to see if I can find something they like enough to use as a motivator. Maybe you thought I meant I did because I mentioned Blueberry's seed mix? Blueberry is the name of their budgie, so I meant the seed mix Jamie-Leigh makes for Blueberry, the budgie.
Right now mine are on that small bird seed mix that Jamie-Leigh gave the recipe for, but I know a seed-only diet is too fattening for pet birds and I'll be moving them on to the seaonal diet soon. My main concern in mentioning the food is that they don't seem to be food motivated right now. I tend to offer them the spray millet in the morning before their breakfast, but there's only been minimal interest. Sometimes they go for it, but a lot of the times, it's like, "meh."
I have no problem being patient with them if that's what they need. I won't give up with my attempts at training them, or "winning them over," so to speak. Right now my main concern is what I should do about the issue of their long claws if they aren't comfortable with being on or in my hands yet. I don't like the 'tactic' that some videos show of grabbing them and holding them against their will. But will the claw thing become an issue if I wait?
@@sherryleclerc2743 -yes Blueberry did throw me a bit, and you do get ppl advocating conure type food for these desert birds! I find grass seed ( fresh green grass with the seed head ) irresistible to them. If you can’t get any, other greens can work. I find it quite ok to withhold all food for a few hours before training, of course being super careful not to starve them. I would never grab them for any vet treatment if possible, all trust is lost… sandpaper on perches and rough rocks in the cage work for me for nails.
@@sherryleclerc2743 Are you 100% sure that their claws are too long? You can find lots of pictures online for comparrison. If you are concered with catching them yourself maybe take them to the vet in their normal cage (if thats possible). The vet can catch them and shorten the claws if too long and can do a little overall health-check.
I just want to add, that I had to give one of my budgies medicine directly into his beak every day for 10 days. He was not super hand trained and attached to humans before (cause he also got a little feathery girlfriend), but he usually liked a few laps of flight training to my hand. After I had to treat him medically (and therefore catch him every day) he still likes our training sessions and has'nt lost trust. In the worst case you can't postpone needed medical treatment even though he might loses trust. In my case if untreated the fluffball would'nt be here anymore. (That does not apply to your claw-thing of course)
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Every time her bird came in for the step up she kept on moving her hand up and down saying "do you want to step up?" then as the bird was coming for the "step up" she lowered her hand and kept moving her hand in all directions therefore the bird had no stable platform or hand to step up on he didn't know whether to step up or step down, this woman's cues were all over the place