Every Parrot Owner Should Be Doing This ONE Thing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2020
- If you follow my masterclass and consultation videos, you see us use this technique a lot but for some reason, I'm finding the majority of bird owners do not implement it! So I'm going over it in a different light this time. I hope it convinces you to use this technique with your bird, your friend's bird, the local rescue birds and even your other pets!
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My 3 year old adopted conure learned target training literally in minutes. I got him from a family member and they had never even heard of target training. Birds are so smart.
The peeps who disliked are upset they can’t target train a bird as easily as you can
Btw- love the vid🥰
Low key true😂 (I didn’t dislike btw)
I'm trying to learn as much as I can before I get a budgie, I love these videos
You are so smart to do that. It makes training so easy.
Lisa Jervis same! I’m getting mine Friday! So excited
Ethan Clark yayyy! Good for you!
@@bunnibloopers8466 I’m sad because I got my bird unexpected, and I didn’t know a thing. But now, I have been watching videos on things to do and not to do, I am learning from my mistakes before I get another bird in the future. 🙂
Me too
Some people ignore target training. It is very useful in setting a language with your feathered friend. You would just click and your bird will understand what you desire for him to do. Every bird owner should try it
BTW Jamie you are 🌈 AWSOME 🌈👍🏻👍🏻
It’s 7 am and I need to go to school. I am so tired and didn’t wanna get out of bed. And then I saw that you posted and jumped straight out 😂
Target training has been a life-saver for me. I have a blue-fronted amazon. When she was a baby, I used a little plastic blue bear as a target. She has now graduated to a metal chopstick, and it comes in handy when she's not wanting to step up and I need her to move somewhere.
I love that you are calm and not in everyone’s faces trying to get attention good job with all that you’ve done with you and everyone’s birds😊
My bird heard you click and is looking around like “Treat! Treat! Where is it??” xD
Also I use a chopstick with a dog clicker that I padded with cloth to make it less sharp for my budgie, works pretty good!
I love touch training. We use a chopstick and a clicker. We have a Ringneck parrot, that at times can be super cheeky. The other day, she decided to explore the inside of my mum’s handbag. When my mum went to get the bird out of her handbag, she went to bite her. I stopped my Mum and said I’ll get her out. And I touched trained her out of the bag and back onto the table. Once she was on the table I pulled the bag gently away. Touch training allows us to communicate on the same page in a positive way. Thank you for all your videos, they are helping!! I did heaps of research before we bought Hallie the ringneck but as amazing as she is, taking proper care of her and dealing with her personality takes a huge commitment. Every time we have friends over and they say they want a bird, we tell them to watch your videos first. Keep up the great work.
After watching a target training video on this channel I target trained my fearful dog. She loves training and going through different cues helps her work through her fears. Teaching her to touch her nose to my hand was such a game changer. When she is super heightened emotionally asking for such a simple trick can transition her into a work mindset where I can get other cues from her. We have gotten over bicycles, fireplace noises, bicycles, sooo many noises, certain people, objects flapping in the wind and so many others using the touch cue.
I was reading through all these amazing stories but was not expecting to see dog get trained around all these birds!
Hope you have great day and a happy pet❤
I do this with one of my three budgies, I just have a kind of,,,, kebap stick with a little red bead glued to it. He actually picked it up really fast because he is so food-motivated xD
I have just gotten a new budgie! She’s great and working on training but every time I play one of your videos she goes nuts! She loves your voice and starts to chatter and sing with in a couple of seconds!
I used a Chopstick for My green cheek.
Same
Yes same here with my green cheek - Whenever I leave it on the table nearby she’ll find it there and she smashes it around and throws it off with a loud ‘eeek’ 😁🦜
We ended up using a metal chop stick with our Eclectus as the wooden one he was nervous of and the nervous behavior turned into agression. But I discovered he likes shiny things when we were putting up our Christmas decorations years ago so we showed him both chop sticks and he was very curious about the metal shiny one. It worked a treat and still 6yrs on we regularly take it out it is very entertaining to him and a great way to introduce different things into his environment.
I will get my bird in some weeks, and I will target train him!!! I am so excited to get my bird I LOVE BIRDS!!!😁
My mom has lovebirds, and only one (Blue) is able to be food motivated for clicker training. I use millet sticks on him and he responds well. His mate Fruitloops likes millet sticks too, but is not a handfed baby, so she only responds when it outside the cage. I need to get her comfortable with my presence and hands. Their only current chick is Indie, it's sibling died recently and that still really hurts. Indie is terrified of my presence, even more than it's mother. Indie doesn't have a favorite food yet I think or it's too scared to even think of food. It gives a flight response and tries actively running away and freaking out. I wanna change that, but it's kinda tricky without a favorite food.
Some birds may also have an interest in toys or verbal praise or petting as a reward for training, but that's very individual specific!!! Some birds just really really love petting for example as part of their personality, so a little scritch scratch may be great for that bird if you're on good enough terms to work that. But food is definitely the best option if you can. Good luck with your birdies!
I wonder if their diet just doesn't allow a place for a "special reward obtainable only from human interaction"
If your food is seed, try giving pellets as an everyday food. If it’s pellets, try veggies. Then try millet stick or other seed. Also, put a towel over your hand so they don’t know it’s you. Good luck!
Blueberry is so cUtE
I have two Budgies that I have target trained. Im an artist so I use a retire plastic paintbrush end.
Amber Gatley same :))
I have green cheek and i didn't start targeting until a couple months after I got him. He got it straight away with his beak. It was a lot easier than I was expecting.
I trained my parrotlet on the 2nd day of having her. She wasn’t curious about he my chop stick enough to bite it on her own so I first touched it to her beak as gently as possible, clicked and treated. She then was eating and I did it again I guess she thought I was giving her food bit the stick and revived treats after that she was hooked. I used target training the rest of the week to teach her to spin, fly, step down and up. Target training helps out so much.
I've started target training with a plastic perch and a pen click, but we're purchasing a clicker from you guys (Bordtricks, the 3 set) and using a chopstick to teach instead. I have a Green Cheeked Conure and he's cuddly but he's young so he tends to be bitey (not aggressive, just nibbles). He LOVE targeting so far, but we're putting a pause on it because the clicker will help him understand he needs to touch the target more gently. We will be starting flight training with him (mostly recalls) when he gets his flights back in (they were clipped without permission). We aren't going to fly him outside until we actually get a trainer, but we are going to recall train him and harness train him (separately) in case he does escape, his harness gets loose, or gets cut, or someone tries to steal him, we can recall train him if he gets, say, stuck in a tree. We'll be training him with actual trainers, so hopefully all goes well and he learns to come back via recall. But we're going to be trying a lot of different things to make sure all goes well!
Thank you, I am using your touch training advice to work with my 37 year old blue front amazon who just lost her favorite person to college and it is really helping us get reacquainted with less agression from her. I so appreciate your videos.💕
Target training is so fun and useful. Tbh it should have been one of the first things I taught my budgies
Target trained my pineapple green cheek conure "Chappy" with a chopstick, plastic clicker, and pinenuts/sunflower seeds/safflower seeds. We practice targeting in the cage and outside the cage. Our goal is to use it to train stationing. We loooove watching and learning from your videos!
I have a budgie and her name is Halo. As soon as I found you guys on youtube, I trained targeting. Honestly, it was super easy, but we do have to work on it from time to time, just like any other tricks I've taught her.
Im getting 2 cockatiels on the 15th of august I have a double flight cage on the way and have done 2 years plus worth of research,h and have finally decided I’m ready for a bird
Jamie I converted a lot of your stuff into my dogs and it’s works wonders you inspired me to train my dogs a few tricks with capturing ! 🌈💕
This is the first thing I taught my Hagi (Turquoise green cheek conure) didn't have a wooden chop stick handy so used a small dowel and sharpened both sides, this helps when its time to go to sleep and he doesn't want to go into his cage just target him into his cage with a nice treat for a good job done 😊
My birb is learning to target train and its really useful in directing him too.
I have a cockatiel and we already tried target training!! He is pretty young(7 months old) and he did amazing!!
He wasn't treated very well by the breader and so he NEVER allows anyone to touch him. He will get close to your hands only if you have seeds in it.
And I was very surprised than he enjoyed target training!!🎉
We took a little break and now will start the training again!!
Thank you very much for your work!
Also if anyone will have tips on taming my little boy I would love to hear them😊
Hope you have a great day!!!❤❤❤
I love how you not only talk about birds but other animals too your training is awesome I love all your birds.🦜
I trained my lizard to target train.
I also taught my galah the moment I brought him home, it was the most useful thing I could have trained and helped me immediately.
I have a 19 year old rescued scarlet macaw who was abused, has had a broken wing and was locked in a cage for the last 10 years! He surprisingly bonded with my 14 and 15 year old sons but is so scared of any adult. After getting bit a few times(once that probably required stitches) I tried targeting and it worked! It has become the only way that we can interact. He has learned to "spin" "wave" open his "wings" (the once broken one only half way) "dance" and say a few words on que from just learning one thing, TARGET TRAINING! I can pet him now too using a petting que but we haven't gotten to the point where either of us is comfortable with stepping up yet. He's totally different with my kids. They can hold him upside down like a baby and has never bitten them but he still doesn't trust adults yet because of the years of abuse he suffered. He will target and train with anyone but he prefers to only train with me for some reason, and I'm alright with that! I'll take whatever I can get. He's a work in progress but has come a long way thanks to targeting and all of your videos. They've helped me so much!
I use one of my drawing pencils because my bird petrified of stick. But I am slowly introducing the proper target stick and eventually replace it with it.
I have a lovebird and budgie and target training literally changed my whole relationship with my birds as it was a way for them to spend time with me without having to use my hands to get them to go somewhere (and eventually I could use my hands)! It took a while with my lovebird as she was very skittch but with patience its worth it. Love ur channel!❤️
I have an African Grey and I use a flagpole with a clicker
Both of my tiels picked up target training so quickly after at first not understanding what the heck was going on! A definite must!! ❤️
Blueberry is so adorable. My Senegal is afraid of target sticks, I am going to try something else. Thank for the tips 😃
You can try putting something on the end of it like a ball 💜
I have a budgie and a cockatiel and thanks to you guys they both target with a stick, a clicker and beaks.. they love training so much.. when I'm training my tiel.. my budgie comes over and tries to push the tiel out of the way and touch the target.. so i have to do each bird in a different room alone so that they don't get distracted..i need to buy your budgie course and some other of your courses so i can do some more advanced training
Don’t have a bird. Will likely never get a bird. I know my limitations and noise is a big no for me, but I watch your videos ALL the time! Such good info and entertaining to boot!
This is SO COOL!!! I love when you're videos cover material like this!!! I have taken a college level class for this and it's not spoken enough. My mom struggles to understand it when I speak about it
Especially like the socialization tips
Capri is so adorable. You are wonderful in teaching training. Thank you.
I recently adopted a demon child, aka a SEVERE MACAW,
I’m telling target training has helped so much. He’s beginning to trust me a whole lot more.
I’m patient and taking everything slow, but it’s amazing to see his improvement.
So far Jacob the GCC has learned to touch the stick, step up on a branch & turn around. He loves his tiny tabletop perch I keep on the kitchen counter. So funny yesterday he was on it and turned around before I asked him but he didn’t get a treat until he turned when I asked him. I love that perch because he can’t bite me when giving him a treat without falling off. Otherwise he’ll bypass the treat and go for the finger. I wish I would have known about capture training before. I learned from your video. When I first went to target train my GCC with the stick he’d reach out and grab it and hold it with his foot. Missed that! Now I can’t get him to do it. It was so cute. Since I cannot touch my Conure I’m so glad he’s trained to go into his cage when I ask him. He’ll do anything I ask him to avoid a towel. LOL He was a rehome. A woman sold him to the pet shop. Didn’t want him. Said he was mean. He came in a small cage with a very large hard leather chew toy for BIG birds which he slept in the top curled piece of leather and no other toys. I’ve had him since March of 2016 and just this past year he’s starting to play with toys a little. He’s very verbal and communicates a lot at night when he wants something.
I have an Indian Ringneck male, 10 months old. He was so easy to target train. I used a chop stick, clicker, and apple slice. It’s the only success we’ve had since I got him 2 months ago.
Your videos is so fulfilled with wisdom and full of knowledge.
I have a blue-headed pionus and I've used a device with a target stick and clicker in one. The stick is «expandable» so you can adjust it to desired length, and it has a small blue marker ball at the tip. Recently I've bought a separate clicker for use in non-target related training - since they're combined in the same device, my parrot would get distracted by seeing the target marker and try to reach it, understandably enough.
“Target stick” me being asian: CHOPSTICK TIME
I LOVE your videos! We have a budgie and a green cheek conure and thinking about getting a Quaker! Your videos have really helped to really think into a bird before getting one! Thanks so much!
I touched trained my mum's rainbow lorikeet, with a shorted garden bamboo stake, (about the size of a chopstick) and we started with potatoe chips dipped in his wet food as a treat. but of late have progressed to honey mixed with a little water on a teaspoon. and no clicker (he is a quite noise sensitive) but i do say good book once he has touched the stick and yes every time.
the hardest bit was finding the right reward. he got bored with potatoe chips, really fast.. but honey currently is working wonderfully.
mums bird is around 15/16 years old, and has never had his wings clipped so flys pretty well. Mum can no longer take care of him due to illness, so this channel has been super helpful. touch training was awsome. :D
I have already started target training my 8 month old eclectus and it was very easy to teach her to target because she is always curious when everytime i put a object near her
Hey Jamie..well after your consultation and watching a few videos like this I am happy to say that my Anzu is now target trained, followed all your guidelines, tips and tricks and have had a great result, really pleased..Regards Bill
I target train my rabbit. Works well!
I have a budgie and a chopstick. He is trained to fly to me across the room but he still hates me 😂
Thanks for the video! You guys are so helpful!!
i had a cockatiel who did't like the stick so used a plasic draw which worked very well
Thank you for sharing
This was helpful, thanks so much!
Jamieee you are so cool and composed, I admire that. I'm taming my new budgie, while taking lessons from you! It's an absolute sheer pleasure. Your approach of not giving up with the bird has inspired me a lot . Thankyou so much and lots of love to blueberry.
What a wonderful technique! Thank you! I am going to try it
Blue is so brave. My budgies are afraid of everything. But i think target training could be a good thing to get them where i want them
I started with my bird on target training at age 6 and he is doing great! I'm working on their diet and that has been helping so much too!
Targettraining is great, 3 weeks ago i adopted an blue fronted amazon, from around 3 years old. I dont know why but he dont like stepping up hands. So i started from day 2 with targettraining , He loves to do it! Now 3 weeks later i can get him in or out the cage, we do some flight training inside ofcourse! and since yesterday he flies and landed on my hand multiple times. So yeah i love targettraining , it gave me a way to build his trust.
Hi guys
I use the unsharpened end of a colored pencil and I have a cockatiel
I have a pineapple conure and i used a paint brush and her favourite treat is a sunflower seed
We have a Pineapple GC Conure - 6 months old. His target is a plastic brown cap. Loves it and will target that. He knows step up and for coming out of his cage he steps onto my palm and "cuddles" into my hand. He listens very well except we struggle with his biting of ours ears and lips while he wants to snuggle on our neck.
I have two lovebirds and i started with targeting my finger, until my female got a bit to enthusiastic so i started targeting with a stick❤ love your videos they help me so much
Blueberry is so awesome !!! He is a great addition to your family ❤️ !!!
Love more vids with Capri
My Rosifrons Conure was initially afraid of the target and I was ready to give up, thinking I had tried everything... I then decided to try a thinner chopstick and switched to safflower seeds instead of sunflower as her reward and now she is a pro after only a few sessions!
I have 2 greys and a Yellow Nape Amazon. All three of them target just as you showed it. They are all older now, but I do use it now and again. I'm always glad to have it as a training tool! And I agree, it is a foundation for training tool!
I have a Hahns Macaw named Noah. He is target trained two ways and with universal targets.
He will target with his beak for the word “touch” and with his feet for the word “foot” on any of his target items.
This way if he is in a bad mood i can work with him in the cage and give him two different things to do and he quickly gets out if a foul mood because he has to focus on which word I’m asking for.
His target objects include a disposable plastic straw (soft plastic and multicoloured) wooden or plastic chopsticks, random sticks from my garden (safe trees planted for him), wooden skewers, a pen, or a finger (depends on his mood!) or basically any long thin object of that nature.
He is currently afraid of his new bath perch (blue pvc pipe) so i took it off the suction cups and to get him to come to it by himself we are getting him to target it! Works a treat!
He is also trained to do several tricks like put his wings up and say “im an eagle” if he is shown a peace sign. To “shake” if you shake a fist And is learning animal sounds with verbal cues. And after watching one of your other videos this week he now knows how to wave!!!
Roll over and spin is next! How do i train that? I have no idea! But he will get it before i do im sure!
Also thanks for the tip about crate training! Noah hates his crate so thats gonna help heaps!
I don’t have a bird but I like your videos
I have an Indian ring neckd parakeet I use a dog clicker and a chopstick and he was firstly scared of the target but now he is RELLY responding to the target training
When he was scared he tried to bite the target but I just clicked and gaved him a treat and did this a couple of times and now he's relaxed and good with the target training
Great vid....🥰
I have 2 ringnecks and a peach fronted conure all three of them love to target, I also used the target to teach them do the spin and step-up
Love your videos❤
My Green Cheek Conure learned target training his first week home. He does beak to chopstick. We have used this behavior to train other behaviors like circles and high fives💚🦜💙
Im so so glad to have stumbled across your videos i have a young cockatiel who wouldnt even take treats from me and i worked through that as she seemed to be interested in target training but i couldnt get her to take a treat even from a bowl, now i have her taking treats targeting and weve started a concept of turning, shes got a keen desire to fly so im hoping to work her up to some free flight she still has a clipped wing but its growing out. I have a conure who loves our training session hes so enthusiastic he has got spins down pat and if i take too long to get treats ready hes spinning uncued its so awesome
First! 💜 love you so much! Can’t believe I’m actually first/early! Your channel is so helpful! I watch you everyday
Okay, So somebody at home asked me to ask you a question and I was like- “This person has at least 300 comments or more every video she has, What is going to make you think she will respond to us specifically”.
But I do want to ask because I’m defiantly not good with working with smaller birds, I would be better off with a macaw then the type of bird we have.
My dad got impatient and impulsively got a bird and left it with us.
No preparation, no flight cage, the cockatiel came in a extremely small cage and we had to get it a flight cage. It got worse when my dad got another one. They wanted to kill each other by picking at the back of each others head aggressively.
Along with this we have two dogs and one of them is actually more scared then aggressive with birds while the other one will literally go insane if they even see one.
So we got the birds a flight cage and my mom wanted to help me train them to be “tame” because she saw me suffering.
But these birds (no matter what technique we have tried for 3 months) do not want to work with us when we used food as a bribery. They want to be aggressive. I would be patient because I didn’t want the bird to think “If I act aggressive they will leave me alone”. I don’t know what I’m doing and my relationship with my father is going down because of his ignorance of getting a bird I don’t know anything about.
I would definitely try to re-home them if you think they would be better off with someone else. If you still want to try taming them I would keep doing what you are doing and maybe several times a day. It took my 6 months to tame my lovebird and he was the same.
Also definitely try to separate them if you want to move forward with them because if they have the option to bond with each other or you they will definitely want to chose another bird
Shinee's back Agree. My conure only became amenable to training when I separated him from my parakeets. Around them he was defensive of them and aggressive towards me.
Tysm! My bird got the hang of it In about 30 seconds!
(Also if you dont have a clicker, just use a pen)
All my birds are target trained. I used a wooden skewer for them. Both my Amazon's and my macaw took to it really quickly as well as my lovebird and my pionius. However, my Quakers were both a nightmare and took a long time to touch it. They were very fearful birds when got them and took a lot of patience to build up trust and confidence with them. I'm so glad I did as now they are trained with recall and other tricks all because they learned to target and are better a dealing with the unknown. I would recommend target training to every bird owner as it is the building block to a great bond with your birds. This was another great video! Thanks for your wonderful advice ♥️♥️
Oh wow! You've got that round cage that I'm seeing all over Facebook!
I have two green cheeks and I've been using your target and clickers. They are doing really well with it and I love it because Green cheeks can be nippy. I rather they nip the end of the stick than my finger when they are in that nippy mood lol
I *did* target train my quaker when I first got her but honestly she just kind of *knows* where I want her to go and when and I love her for it😂
Thanks for the great idea to train my fearful bird
I love your videos so much! I've been training our new budgies very slowly, and it's so satisfying to see the improvements they make! They are such smart little birds. :) Next up we'll be working on their diet. At the moment it's only regular seed from the pet shop (bought it when we bought them), but we'll be slowly introducing pellet mix and then converting them to a healthy seed mix down the line. Me and my husband unfortunately work a lot (reason why we got two budgies rather than one), so our time is limited with them and taming is taking a while. I'm still astounded by how much they learn. :D
That high pitch wing flapping brings back some memories, blueberry could almost be mistaken as a twin of my first parakeet, I wish this channel was available back when i was around 10 (granted it was still a few years away from even non networked computers being common in the average household)
I don't have any birds.... yet.... but I have trained
1. A large mixed breed dog to target my hand with his nose using a clicker
2. A kitten to target a chopstick with his nose using a clicker
3. A rabbit to target a long wooden dowel with the tip of his teeth using a clicker
Target training is so helpful and has helped me teach multiple animals to go into travel carriers, spin, and go where i need them to or to help them stay in certain spots for vets appointments etc.
I have a green cheek conure and I use the dowel perch that came with my emergency/vet travel cage! :)
you are the best TH-camr
I am using a bamboo skewer with the sharp tip cut off for my budgies.
Who knew one of the easiest tricks to train your bird can do so many things?
Edit: I just taught my bird this trick
I have a cockatiel right now, and I know with my past experience with these birds is that they won’t bite unless it’s a last resort. Once we trained on the trust issue, he now knows that when he sees my hands he isn’t gonna get hurt and it also means freedom. He happily steps up on my hand so I can take him out to enjoy some training and bonding time with me. I only use my hands and he enjoys it. Today, I took the day off from the school where I work at, and I plan on bringing him to school this afternoon to visit with the kids for a little while. It’ll be his first day of school.😂 I think it’ll be a fun day. Have a great day guys!
I'm late but I'm here😍🐦
Helpful video for me. Thanks
I am training my two year old linnie, Bebe with this technique. Using a wooden stick, the kind you use for supporting flowers. I have glued a little wooden bead to it.
I think I will have to come up with new ideas often, since he is a really smart little fella. So keep posting good tricks for small parakeets! Love it!
Wow I should try this to my baby 🐦 thanks for the information. I just subscribed ur channel!
I lucked out with an AMAZING budgie boy from PetSmart of all places -- he has a natural curiosity about the chopstick and at first was more interested in the stick than the treat! He's starting to understand the click now though...the little lightbulb in his head is starting to flicker on when he hears it, so good progress heheh.