This is so important! Learning training like this can provide your bird a healthy way to refocus if they're in their mischief stage! My cockatiel Enrique LOVES to step up. He was easy to train and he loves to show off how much he knows. Learning his body language was important, as sometimes he doesnt want to. Stepping up is the first step in gaining your parrots trust!! ❤
My first bird was hand reared, and he loved humans, so I never had to teach him step up, or many of the other basics😊 My other 3 birds after him came either from a rescue or a breeder, (none hand reared), and especially the rescue was so scared of me🙈 It definitely took me a long time for them to get used to my hands, but we are now in a good place and most of them even enjoy scritches. Especially my Green Cheek Conure🦜 Your video's always helped a lot with tips and tricks!
We have partial success, but there were a couple of details in your explanation that gave the exact reason for it. Looking forward to train with them again and happy holidays!
Hi David! I got a chance to train them after lunch and those details really got us a step up (lol). The saying 'step up' before showing the treat worked well enough, but putting the treat above our birds instead of behind the finger made a huge difference! It changed from opening the beak at the finger like: "I don't like this" to merely glancing at the finger as a way to get to the treat. Thank you! Small question I've been wondering about for several weeks now: How do I get them to step up onto my hand and off my shoulder? I can't twist my hand in a way they recognize it as the 'step-up-hand' when they're on my shoulder and they really hate my hands getting close to them if they're up there.
Theres a couple of things there! Obviously as you say it may be tough to angle your hand there, so you want the behaviour really strong and also to show the treat before on occasion when going from there. Also maybe practicing it. Let them back on after and repeat. You can also target them down your arm first!
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This is so important! Learning training like this can provide your bird a healthy way to refocus if they're in their mischief stage! My cockatiel Enrique LOVES to step up. He was easy to train and he loves to show off how much he knows. Learning his body language was important, as sometimes he doesnt want to. Stepping up is the first step in gaining your parrots trust!! ❤
Its really awesome you learned his body language! Makes it easier to communicate!
He sounds like a smart guy!
Fantastic breakdown!!!
My first bird was hand reared, and he loved humans, so I never had to teach him step up, or many of the other basics😊
My other 3 birds after him came either from a rescue or a breeder, (none hand reared), and especially the rescue was so scared of me🙈 It definitely took me a long time for them to get used to my hands, but we are now in a good place and most of them even enjoy scritches. Especially my Green Cheek Conure🦜 Your video's always helped a lot with tips and tricks!
Its really cool that you took the time to work with them and build up that trust!
happy holidays! 🎄
Thank you!
We have partial success, but there were a couple of details in your explanation that gave the exact reason for it. Looking forward to train with them again and happy holidays!
Hi David! I got a chance to train them after lunch and those details really got us a step up (lol). The saying 'step up' before showing the treat worked well enough, but putting the treat above our birds instead of behind the finger made a huge difference! It changed from opening the beak at the finger like: "I don't like this" to merely glancing at the finger as a way to get to the treat. Thank you!
Small question I've been wondering about for several weeks now: How do I get them to step up onto my hand and off my shoulder? I can't twist my hand in a way they recognize it as the 'step-up-hand' when they're on my shoulder and they really hate my hands getting close to them if they're up there.
Theres a couple of things there!
Obviously as you say it may be tough to angle your hand there, so you want the behaviour really strong and also to show the treat before on occasion when going from there.
Also maybe practicing it. Let them back on after and repeat. You can also target them down your arm first!
@@TheParrotTeacher Thank you!