A Hands Off Approach to Taming a Parrot (Levels of Target Training)
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- Here is a hands off approach to tame a bird and get it where you need it to go as well as explaining what the 3 levels of target training look like!
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Awww, how sweet of Olivia to say good-bye!!
Thanks a lot because I was going to buy a cockatiel bird, and they are extremely hard to work I have never trained a cockatiel before but they are always scared!!!😨, This really really helps out a lot thank you for this!!!
You should DEFINITELY check out ALL of the BirdTicks training videos!!!
One day I will rescue a bird and I’m going to give that bird the best life all because I’m being trained by the very best. I watch all of your videos. I feel like a bird expert but without a bird. Ha ha! I’m obsessed
This is so helpful!!
Yaaaasssssss! I NEEDED this! Thank you!!! 🎉❤
Nice mini class for newbies.
Thanks Jamie
You both are teaching me so much!
I've had my BFA for 13 years and we have a pretty good form of communication, I tap where I want him and put my hand down and he steps up.
Target training in its most basic presentation. Thank you ❤
❤it's so cool!
No more wiping the my blue lovebird off my shirt into the cage. He's not even 1 & has learned to go back inside.!
Thanks for helping us have a relationship. A real one.
I so enjoy your videos. 😊 Great job.
Thank you!
Nice job Jamieleigh
I started working on this from your tips when I got Tiki at 8 weeks old, he is now 4 months old and is doing awesome with target training!!! Great info Jamie for people wondering !!
Thank you so much for making this video! My conures do the target training great, inside their cage. However, when i let them out of the cage they run away from the target stick instead of touching it! Now, they'll come up and take treats out of my hand but, run from the target stick when i try to get them to touch it. Also, if i get to close, without a treat in my hand, they'll start flying frantically around the room. So much so, that the male started throwing up from all the flying around! Iv'e commented before what my situation is with them! Iv'e changed them from an all millet seed diet to fresh chop, pellets, sprouts, and healthier seeds such as oats, wheat, oat groats, etc... It took some time to get them use to eating it but, now they love it! Plus, i grow some of their veggies myself, in my garden, so they always have the freshest of veggies. I bought them a lot bigger cage, then what i got them in, after i got them. So, they have plenty of room now, and lot's of chew toys. But, the male still loves trying to bite me when i'm trying to train them to step up on my finger! I get one foot and that's it, no matter how far i keep pulling the treat back, they still WILL NOT fully step up with the other foot! Not sure what i'm doing wrong, or if they just don't completely trust me enough yet to do it. I would love any videos, you can make, on how to get them to trust my hand enough to step up with both feet. It would be wonderful, and greatly appreciated! I'm sure i'm making every mistake possible here! TIA, from what i can tell, y'all are awesome trainers! ❤🦜🦜
Thank you for the cool video Jamie!! BirdTricks is!! Hope everyone is doing well!! Sorry to hear about Bluee!! Have a nice evening!!
Thanks Jamie
So what happens when you have a cockatiel who won't step up, who won't let you touch him, won't take treats and won't Target train? The only amount of contact he will allow is occasionally he'll jump on my shoulder and rub his head on my face, that is the only skin contact he will allow unless he's flown somewhere and he scared. I don't know how to get him to trust me more. He was a rescue a couple of years ago. Somebody found him outside in the middle of summer and I adopted him. It's taken two years for us to get to the point where he will rub his face on mine and let me pick him up when he's scared. 😢
Спасибо за видео!💖
I have a year old conure wasn’t trained owner let her fly and was still with parents. I got the conure she loves sunflower seeds refuses to take anything from the hand. I have gotten her to come out of cage sit on perch on top. She will sit on shoulder well back of your neck seems to love that you can go anywhere with her like that.
She’s a year old I need to train flight, and basic training I think.
I also will be getting. A brand new conure only weeks old. Any tips for my birds will be greatly appreciate
Jaime (name similar) thanks for taking the time to read this
Thank you so much for making and sharing this video!!! I have a Timneh African grey (sorry for my spelling) 2 old people had her for 6 years and decided to rehome her since they both lived in a apartment she's doingreally good with her diet and she's finally allowing me to place my hand in her cage to switch out toys and perches but she's still refusing to come out of her cage so I'm definitely going to try this with her thanks alot❤
Hello there, how're you doing!!
I’m currently bird sitting a Goffin who has a lot of bad habits and is an unpredictable hormone-a-saurus. 😬 I offered the target stick on the 1st day, and have continued playing Target several times a day. It certainly made letting her out of the cage a lot less stressful since I knew she enjoyed the game.
(She does get 12 - 14 hrs of dark quiet sleep while at my house and I am doing my best to get her eating chop, the organic pellets and keeping anything that might stimulate hormones to a minimum.)
What do you use as treats? Our family just got a 3 month old red-crowned amazon. We want to get started with training asap. Love your videos
Bondai is looking especially pink, today. She's a cutie!
Huh. I totally wasn't aware that Loki is pretty well capable of level three targeting. I never made the connection that it could be used to get him back in his cage. We'll see how it works when he's feeling sassy.
I started trying this and my conure when to bite the target. I’m trying to move it fast enough away before he bites it but what would you recommend doing if he now hard bites the stick? Thank you! These videos are great and I’ve learned a lot!
My Quaker is not food or toy motivated. He won’t step up but if I call him to his cage, he comes. And when I say perch, he goes right down to the perch on his door. He loves me. He likes to have whispered conversations with me. If I’m talking to any of the other boys in my flock, he body checks them out of the way to be front and centre with me. But I don’t encourage that. I pick up the bird he pushed away and have quality time with that bird. He doesn’t bite me and lets me rub his head now. Maybe if he was a single bird, but I got him with his buddy, so he’s never been alone. I hope he will someday step up.
What do you recommend for treats?
Finally I can start training my neighborhood crows
Can I ask what brand and where you purchased that stainless cage?
more jinx videos please :D
Hope you read this and can help. I inherited an 18 year old bird that has never been handled, or worked with that I can tell. There are very few treats that she likes and seldom will take anything from my hand except Cheese Its. What would you suggest as a treat? She is cage bound, she will not come out event if I leave the cage open for her while I'm cleaning it.
I just need to try and interact with my budgies and they put themselves away, lol. I have a weird relationship with them.
I have a baby ring neck.. he is really unsure..ive been bitten twice so now I'm kind of leary.. won't go back to cage. How long does it take for target training to work?
What do you use for treats?
Do you have any tips when it comes to skiddish birds? My bird isn't scared of me but anything unfamilar or a loud noise and she losses it. When I say loses it I mean she starts flying around the room and many times she has flown into things. She also seems very exahused after she starts breathing hard, falling over, and holding her wings out. I love having her our but haven't been lately because I'm terrified she is going to seriouly hurt herself.
do you need the cilicker?
I have been trying target training on my lovebirds for 2 months and they are still as afraid of the stick as they were when I started trying. They got to a point where they play on my body when I'm laying down or even played on my head a couple of times, but they are so scared of all sticks and especially of my hands. Tried every trick I could find on youtube, nothing works.
I don't know anything about lovebirds but I was able to train my budgie to sit on my finger/palm in about 3 weeks using millet spray or seed treat sticks. Don't know if lovebirds like millet but to budgies this stuff is crack 😅. Also anytime he has a fit or gets scared I found that playing classical music on my phone will quickly calm him down (strings or piano). He will just sit calmly on a perch and close his eyes, also this is what allowed me to introduce light head scratches when I play him classical music. Hope something I shared helps. Good luck!
@@markadams5009 Thanks for the advice, but already tried the millets and even though they love them, if my hands are anywhere near, they won't go to them lol. I've spent hours just resting my hands calmly on perches with millets near them to make them comfortable and get them to come, but all they do is look at my hands and never approach haha! As for music, my lovebirds get excited with it. They start flying everywhere and chirp, which is nice to see, but music doesn't calm them, not even classical music.
my parrot growls at me when i come near the cage is this method still advisable for me?
How do you know when you bird has complete trust in you?
Cockatoo or macaw which is best
hi! do u have advice for a very aggressive lovebird? he’s okay on shoulders(occasional ear or neck bite) but he is supper aggressive towards hands
Hello there, how're you doing today ...!
Good Morning Jamie
We got Bluey a 4 month old Alexandrine 7 weeks ago. He Contact calls and dances around in his cage but as soon as we approach to say hello or even just changing food and water he flies to the top corner of his cage and just hangs there. I'd love nothing more than to spend endless hours with him outside the cage but can't get close enough for him to know he can trust me so can't let him out as won't be able to get him back in. Can't use treats as can't get close enough to offer them.
He came from an Aviary and as I understand it wasn't handled.
Any advice how to get closer would be greatly appreciated
I know how you feel! I rescued two green cheek conures a year ago, that had never been handled, and i still can't get them to trust my hand enough to fully step up on it! They started out the same way, you're describing, every time i got near their cage. Now, what i done to get started, was Googling what some of their favorite treats are, and putting a flat perch inside their cage, i got from Amazon. Then, i would set the treat on that flat perch and walk away! Then, after seeing the birds come over to see what i left them, they ate it. After doing that for a couple of weeks, i started pulling a chair up to that side of their cage, and i would just sit in it, and put that treat in on that flat perch, and just sit still and watch them come over and get the treat. Sit very still and don't make any sudden movements! This is letting them get use to your presence around their cage. After doing this every day for a couple of weeks, instead of sitting the treat on the perch i started holding it in two fingers and sticking it through the bars of their cage to see if they would come get it from my fingers. If they don't then take the treat, don't leave it on the perch. Keep doing this every day, until they come over and take the treat from your fingers. After doing this for a couple of more weeks, start trying to get them to touch the target stick. The second their mouth touches the stick, click and move it away and offer the treat. Make sure the treat stays so they can see it, but not get it, while your getting them to touch the stick. Keep doing this through their cage for, you guessed it, a couple of weeks. After that, then you should be able to move the target training to inside the cage. Don't put the stick up close to them but, towards another perch so they can come over and touch it to get their treat. Make sure they see the treats so they'll know they're getting that reward if they come touch the stick! I hope this helps you, it worked for me, and it definitely was a long, frustrating process but it worked! Keep in mind that the more you hang out around their cage, just being near them, the quicker they'll get use to you ❤🦜🦜
Why are there metal rods going across the middle of the cage? Aren't they slippery to walk on?
Hi, I have learned so much through your channel, and I've had birds for decades. Now, I don't find target training so useful, and you always shaw it on tamed birds. I have just bought 3 month old IRN-4 days ago, and he is completely ignorant of that training method. Not only he has no clue to approach or touch the stick, he is not interested in neither the stick or the treat. He doesn't recognize the treat as a treat at all. And if he is out of the cage, even in the smallest rom, his target holder, stick and treat are not even in his range, only flying is. So.....taking a completely new bird, from the breeder, and taming it doesn't really look as clean and simple as you show it here, although, I adore your channel and have been one of you long time followers. And also, slightly obsessed with love of birds.
Hello mora, how're you doing today??? 😊
Hi Jamieleigh what is the stick For?
The stick is the target JamieLeigh is speaking of. The bird touched the tip, click and treat. ❤
I handled my galah on my hand for the first time today, then he started preening me, first it was fine, then the nibbles started to get really hard and aggressive, did he get angry at me? What should i do here? I put him down afterwards and he still let me pet him and stuff
Hello there, how're you doing!!!
How do you get a fearful cockatiel to do this! Ive had my wee boy for 3 months and hes just so scared of my hands! He will let me go near him but as soon as my hands are in vision he freaks!
Hello, how're you doing today
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What if the bird isn’t interested in treats and flies away from the stick? 😕
Hi, what do you give for your treats?
I was wondering the same thing.
Me too 😊hopefully she will see this 🌺
Two questions…
What type of stick are you using as your target?
What are you using for treats?
Don't know what she's using but a lot of people suggest using a chopstick.
what if your bird is to scared to even take a treat, wont even let me go to were he is to show him the treat?
Hi, what if the bird won't eat out of your hand?
Hello Lisa, how're you doing today??
Poetic savior 45
Why use a stick?
Fast beast 87
Hello there, how're you doing today??
What treats are you giving her?
Various nuts from my treat bag.
@@BirdTricks I would like to purchase some
@@BirdTricks I only see the pellets on your website
Openminded mother 97
I have no birds. I just had to stop to see Bonnie Boo!
This is too advanced; mine are too scared to even get near me, and they run away into their box! They were abused at the shop, and they fear humans!
Is it possible to target train without the click sound? 😅
You need some sound to indicate they did the correct thing. It could be a phrase, a pen click, a dog clicker, so long as it is always the same and very easy to do
@@lizziehn5928 thank you 😊
My issue is, when I try to give my bird a treat after targeting, he bites my fingers instead 😅
You should hold the treat further where he can Just barely reach it, that way he cant bite you
And hold it higher than burb's head, so they reach with upper beak and tongue 😊
Yeah, but you’re using a tame bird.
Yep
Ours won’t work for a treat. There is no treat he likes
My baby is so scared of everything. I don’t really care about training her spoiled butt.