Keep in mind, too, that some birds have very long lifespans, so the lessons you teach now will make the difference between living with a pleasant, semi-domesticated animal and an unapproachable, unruly flying menace. Here are 10 training tips to get you started:
Pay attention to your bird's cues and learn to recognize them. Your bird will feel safer and more trusting when it knows it has no need to feel anxious. Keep the training sessions short and consistent. Ten to fifteen minute sessions spaced out two or three times a day should be enough.
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To train your bird to step back down onto its perch, practice the same motions in reverse. Do not place your bird in the cage or on the perch backwards, but turn the bird so that it is facing its perch, and hold it just below the perch so that it has to step up onto the perch, though you will be using the words "down," or "step down" this time. When the bird follows this request, make sure to tell it that it is a "good bird." You may also follow-up with a small treat after successful training sessions.
The treat should be held with the tips of your fingers facing out to the sides rather than from top and bottom. This is to protect your fingers from accidental bites, because the bird may mistake your fingernail for a nut and bite into it. You can also hold the treat on your open fingertips. A few foods that you can feed to a baby bird include: bird seed, pellets, millet seed, thistle seed, freshly-washed dark leafy greens (torn into small pieces of course), berries, unseasoned scrambled eggs, and unseasoned chicken. Be sure to check with your veterinarian about the specific portions of food to give to your baby bird.
Getting your bird accustomed to a towel is essential, since you will be using towels for various situations, such as for grooming, giving medication, or handling an injury. You will want to include towel training in your regular training sessions.
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For those of you that may be unfamiliar with target training, it's a really great behavior to teach to birds who may be nippy and bite a lot. It gives them something to bite in the training process and saves you from being the one to get bit in the process. It's best to "clicker condition" your bird before target training.
However, a target stick can be a number of things. I've seen videos where people use the eraser part of a pencil, the cap of a pen, or even a laser pointer. Anything that won't be harmful to your bird, you can use as your targeting stick. Target training is so much easier than people think. It's almost so simple that it becomes over analyzed. Simply hold the target stick in the proximity of your bird; do not poke your bird or bring it too close. Simply just have it within reach. When your bird leans forward towards it or even comes close, click and reward.
Eventually he will come closer and closer and once he touches the end of the target stick with his beak, click and reward. This is the behavior you want. Larger birds tend to try to break the target stick so be careful not to reinforce destroying it if you have a larger bird (such as a macaw or cockatoo) you just want them to touch the end of the stick. Targeting is used on a lot of different types of animals. People use this method of training to get horses to go into trailers and such things. The purpose of teaching your bird to target is so that you can tame and train your bird.
Targeting can happen while your bird is INSIDE his cage! You can start by targeting your bird around his cage first, and eventually out onto your hand. Once you are ready to move onto a training stand, set yourself up for success by offering a stand that is sturdy and free of distractions to help your bird focus on the session. Sessions should be short, just 3-5 minutes is the recommend length. Make sure to not push too fast and to end the session with success, being careful to not go to the point that your bird loses interest.
Keep the training sessions short, especially in the early days. Treat the bird like a restless school child with a very short attention span! As soon as you suspect the bird is no longer enjoying the fun, end the session.
I've never known a bird to not have a favorite treat - even people have favorite treats so make an effort to find our your bird's preference so you two can work together to make things more fun and move onto some ambitious training sessions!
I've used pine nuts, pieces of almonds, black oil sunflower seeds and even dried pieces of papaya (no sugar added) as treats for my own birds in training. I've even gone so far as to use fresh foods like blueberries and pieces of apple. One of my birds goes crazy for juice (watch out, too much fruit gives runny stools) so I've even used that periodically. Just experiment and see what works for your bird, and of course, the healthier the better if you can manage that!
If you have a bird that will only work for unhealthy treats (such as cheese), you can use very small pieces at first and wean your bird off of receiving cheese as a reward. I did this with an alexandrine parakeet by broadening his diet while also training. Eventually, cheese became the "jackpot" reward only, or was used randomly which made the bird try even harder in training sessions hoping for that really tasty reward of cheese. By the end of my training time with him, I was able to phase out cheese completely and replace it with almond pieces and a whole almond as the jackpot reward.
Each of my birds has been instrumental in teaching me something, be it the importance of certain aspects of their lives, like training, or that persevering does pay off. But Mishka the cockatiel taught me nearly everything I know about birds. It was usually slow going. She was not the best teacher, true, but I was not always a fast-study, either.
I have gone back and forth over the years with my Amazon, who is bonded to me. At times she has become more independent but recently she is very possessive over me and is displaying nesting behaviors and aggression. I thought this was because I got married, but reading this makes me think my own behavior is more to blame. I have wondered whether what I owe her is adopting a second Amazon, so she has someone else of her own species to interact with. But that would of course open up other potential issues. More training, as you suggest here, will be a useful starting point.
As flock birds, lorikeets can be kept in pairs or groups, but should not be kept with other species as they may become aggressive toward them. Training these birds can be challenging since the normal treats used in training cannot be used with lorikeets. According to birdtricks.com, honey and flowers are alternatives that will help in your training efforts. They can be trained to do simple tricks and are intelligent birds that are masters at learning how to escape from their cages. 2ff7e9595c
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