Taki's First Walk | Aviator Harness Training
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2024
- *Special note about dogs below
This is me demonstrating how I put Taki's Aviator Harness on followed by us going on his very first full fledged walk. You can find a link to the product at the bottom of the description.
A harness or carrier are THE only safe ways to take a cockatiel or other small bird outside. They protect your bird from literally being blown away by the wind accidentally, protect your bird from thieves and predators such as hawks, and with an aviator harness your bird can even safely fly outdoors which is wonderful enrichment for them. Once Taki's wings grow out (they were clipped before we got him) I plan to teach him to fly on his harness- but please make no mistake! A clipped bird CAN fly outdoors even if you think they can't, and a clipped bird can still be blown away by the wind and get lost! ALWAYS use a carrier or harness when taking your bird outside!
This is roughly Taki's 10th or 12th harness training session. The most recent 4 sessions or so he has allowed me to put the harness on and I immediately followed that up by taking him outside for 3-5 minutes to play. Once I was confident he could stay calm in the harness and stay calm while outdoors, we took a full fledged walk!
I did wind up decided that for future walks, Taki's harness needs to be on tighter than how it was in this video. The manufacturer video says that the harness should be loose enough to fit one finger between the bird and the harness, but I believe that mostly applies to larger birds like Macaws, Amazons, African Greys, etc. For Taki, I decided that the harness should be as tight as it could be while still allowing the leash to easily and fluidly turn around his body to reposition for flight. By the end of the walk with his harness as loose as it was, he had actually gotten his foot caught in the harness, so please make sure you make the harness nice and tight but still able to easily reposition itself for flight.
I didn't film me taking the harness off as I felt that part would be a little unnecessary (self-explanatory, and possibly boring). If you'd like me to film me removing the harness in the future, please leave a comment down below!
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ON THE NOTE OF DOGS/CATS & BIRDS long winded soap box explanation ahead
We keep our beagle and our birds separated AT. ALL. TIMES. While our beagle, Banjo, completely ignores the birds she is still a dog and it's unrealistic and unfair for us to expect her to ditch thousands of years of instinct. It is our responsibility as the owners of birds and a dog to keep the dog safe from the birds and the birds safe from the dog. The ONLY time the dog and the birds are even in the same room is when both my husband and I are in the room with them and able to give the animals our full, undivided attention to make sure they stay a good distance away from each other and do not interact. Banjo is nearly blind and nearly deaf and hardly notices our birds- I STILL take all the precautions I can to ensure no accidents happen.
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Hes like I don't care about the dang leash I want MILLIT!!!!!🤣🤣
:3
Ikr XD
Mollot now hoomon
Millet*
@@kenzieeeloves6568 You didn't realise this comment was made 1 year ago
Holy crap he is nuts over that millet lol
My bird attacks the millet like it's going out of style
Millet is birdnip. It is in fact addictive and not great for birds.
@@JOHN----DOE While it is true that millet is not great for birds in high quantities, millet does not have addictive properties. You can check out my "What my cockatiel eats" video to see what Taki eats on a regular basis :) Millet is given only as a treat (unless sprouted- sprouted millet is actually quite nutritious, as are other sprouted seeds) and millet + other dry seeds make up no more than 10% of what he eats in a day.
Since cockatiels are part of the cockatoo family and cockatoos are powder down birds, they actually require a decent amount of fat in their diet to keep their skin healthy. Without this fat their skin can dry excessively and become irritated, which can lead to plucking. Cockatiels are also grainivores and ground eaters and thus consume quite a good amount of seeds in the wild- the difference is that in the wild they'd mostly be eating sprouted seed, very rarely dry, which is why sprouting is the way to go. Sprouting significantly reduces the number of calories and amount of fat in seeds while significantly increasing vitamin content.
What's most important is to feed a bird a healthy, varied diet. A bird's diet should never consist solely of any one food no matter what that food is. They need fresh veggies, grains, legumes, seeds, etc.
John Doe pwned
That is with my bird
You're very good with him. That's a well behaved bird.
the secret is an addiction to millet
@@thetoyodacar2264 so uh...millet is a bird drug?
@@She.Reveals ah, i see. Yeah, I always saw parrots as small children. And your comment makes sense, since children *love* candy
He's more focused on that tasty treat than on his actual surroundings...🐒
jose izquierdo that’s because he trusts his owner
Ye
Same though
lol
@@gachavideos1319 say wut
This is the BEST how to video. I usually see people forcing them on.
Harness training should be fun and rewarding every step of the way 💖 It might seem like it would take longer that way, but when you force a bird into a harness you'll have a lot of work ahead of you undoing the negative associations your bird has with the harness and the stress they may feel while wearing it. Lots of people who force harnesses on find their bird develops a habit of chewing the harness material which is dangerous for a number of reasons. Best to put the work in and go at your bird's pace the first time and enjoy the rewards of a happy, relaxed bird who enjoys wearing their harness than to rush it and suffer some drawbacks 💖
I can't believe how she made him wear it without he even realise it
@@zverrs8527
It's funny though
Taki had just eaten a very big meal before this training session
He loves millet THAT much! Lol!
ANYTHING FOR THE SEED
Same here, the bird is reacting like nothing is happening but eating his millet. Mine will go crazy if I try to do the same.
If you have a birb that responds to food THAT WELL, the training process usually goes very well.
Birb 😂😂😂😂
My fingers would be so bloody if I tried this with my conure.
DaWhiteWolffie funny guy innit
@@fantasy8874 lmao same but my bird doesn't bite hard I mean it does but not always
same, i have a peachfaced love bird and a cockatiel. My cockatiel would probably be fine but my love bird bites SO harddd, even tho she’s tiny her bites pack a punch !
I have a conure named ari
Just wear gloves bro
I thought you were talking about the tortilla chips takis
Some RandomPerson That’s actually what I named him after ;)! They’re my favorite snack.
lol
Hahhaahhaa
So I’m yeah I’m just going to take my tortilla chip taki on a walk. 😂
XD that gave me a idea to name my conure Taki lol. I'm not gonna steal the name tho, I've had him for months and still dunno what to name him ;-;
So interested in eating "he" doesn't even know he's outside.
Charles Rablin my bird thinks the same thing when I do that!
@Felicity maybe he didnt know the gender of taki
@@AROWAYPlaysiscool but if it was would he put it like: he/she?
@@AngieAJ or like they
You've done an amazing job with your birds' harness training! Thanks so much for sharing!
When no millet
Bird:grrr no touch my wings
Millet
Bird:oh boy millet millet millet millet yum yum millet forget about wings its the millet here
"Yeah, he's being stubborn!"
Taki: "GiVe mE- tHe mILLeT!-"
I have to admit that there is something so satisfying about seeing a pet with it's happy human 😉
I love the way you slightly put the harness on the cocktatiel.
That bargaining power of the millet tho!! This gives me more insight on methods to boost my own motivation for doing my functional ADLs such as stepping outside the house for social activities, exercising, eating my greens, walking the extra mile for my specific grocery needs, cleaning my home.
Her: walking a parrot.
Me: walking a fish
Me: What ThIs Is NOrmal
In the future we all will be walking our fishes like walking birds 🤦♂️🤣😅🙈
Me casually walking my turtles and bird to the beach 😏.
(i actually did it in the summer because its litterly only 5 minute walk to the beach)
I was watching this with my budgie and she started chirping!
Me:oh I can walk my chips now good
Also me:notices that taki is a bird
😂😂😂
😍😂
awww what a good boy
He's my best friend 💖 We do everything together.
I can hear that birdu's chirps the whole day....so smol😍
What a sweetheart little birdie, and so well behaved!
This was a great informative video to watch thankyou 💜 i got alot out of it and really appreciated the outside training, positive reinforcement with correct behaviour noted to keep on to it. I felt it was composed well and narrated clearly for what has happening, and very lovingly presented 🙏
Better safe than sorry! Good job😊❤❤❤
Great job of doing this and filming it too!
He's a cutie patootie!
awwww Taki and Banj on a walk
He is adorable!!
i love how you're demonstrating where the wing hole is and he is like: WAIT WHERE'S MA MILLET?! GIMME MY MILLET BACK
5:57 yeah I have a dog and 2 budgies! When we let the budgies fly around the house, we have to put the dog outside! We’re working on her training to not bark and snap at there cage. She’s really getting good at it now.
This was so so helpful and reassuring! Thank you!
Bless her soul. I can’t. Looks complicated esp with feeding simultaneously. Lol
Your bird is so cute! I have a turquoise gcc and he is so sweet. Thanks for the great video!
I like that you work very gently 🤩
My cockatiel is sooo afraid of it. I hope he can become calm soon
OK, so maybe my hands are clumsy or I'm an idiot or whatever, BUT to me the hardest part of the aviator is taking my cockatiel's head OUT of it. Pardon the imagery, but it looks an awful lot like the aviator is trying to give birth to my cockatiel when I do it. It looks tight, uncomfortable and I have a hard time doing it smoothly for his sake. I know I have the right size, cause the aviator was literally promoted with the image of a cockatiel, saying it was made for the size of cockatiels and small conures. So, is this just a matter of me being overly worried about his poor head? He doesn't complain give any indication that he is in pain, but I worry nevertheless, being a new bird owner x'D
AiraSora sorry for the late response! As long as your bird is comfortable and not giving any indication of pain or fear I don't think there's anything to worry about. For some birds, taking the head out of the harness feels a lot like a head scratch and can feel quite nice. Others get a little (understandably) claustrophobic. Taki fell under the "claustrophobic" category until he had been properly desensitized to the harness.
Aviator Harness themselves say that the head hole is supposed to be relatively tight, and that's to avoid the risk of the head slipping out of the head hole. With practice you'll get better at removing it smoothly. That's something I struggled with a LOT in the beginning, but I got better at it and Taki also figured out how to slide his own head out smoothly so he helps me take the harness off in a way that's comfortable and easy for him!
Thank you for answering! My question was quite a bit a go, so now my problem is mostly wondering when he might be fully comfortable in the harness. For now, he's spending most of his time chewing on it, even while we're outside. We took a really long walk, about a half hour, a few weeks ago and despite looking around interested sometimes, he mostly just kept chewing on the harness. I had hoped that distracting him by stimulating his senses during the walk would have made him less interested in the harness itself, but it still seems to bother him an awful lot x'D
Chewing on the harness usually indicates he isn't fully comfortable with it yet, so you may want to shorten the walks to ten or fifteen minutes until he is more comfortable with it :)
To get him more used to it, after he stops chewing for a moment count how many seconds he can go without chewing on it. Then subtract one or two seconds from what you counted. Let's say he was chewing, stopped, then started again 3 seconds later. Your "realistic no chew time" (or NCT from here on out) is 2 seconds (the 3 seconds you counted minus one second or so).
Next, count two seconds, then click and reward if he didn't go to chew the harness. Once he never looks like he's going to chew on the harness using a 2 second count, count his new "realistic no chew time" and subtract a second or two to get your new NCT. Count the NCT and bridge/reward if he doesn't chew. Continue doing this until you can increase the amount of time he isn't chewing to something manageable. Eventually you'll be able to increase it so much he'll stop altogether.
Preening his feathers around the harness shouldn't count against him since preening his feather is not the same as chewing on the harness itself and it actually indicates that he's very relaxed.
You don't have to use a food reward, either. I would in the beginning just because it's a very powerful reinforcer and a great distraction from the chewing, but once he gets better at not chewing the harness you can alternate between food rewards and a secondary reinforcer like a treat or a head scratch. Once he's fully comfortable with the harness (no chewing even without being distracted or reinforced) you can increase your walk time by 5 or 10 minute intervals to work back up to an hour or hour and a half long walk :) Always bring plenty of activities (like a small handheld toy to chew on) for him to do on the walk so he doesn't chew the harness out of boredom!
AiraSora You can bring toys so he can play with that instead of the harness
ماشاء الله
رجاء زيارة قناتي والاشتراك بها وتفعيل زر الجرس وشكرا لكم 😄
Aww the bird is so cute 😍☺️
I love it 😻😻😻
Wow it's amazing that your bird lets you do that!
My boy Max would NEVER allow us to put a harness on him.
But of course, princess parrots are notorious for being very protective of their personal space.
Your bird is so cute!
Training a bird is intense but takis are seriously intense😂
Sorry I had too but that’s a really cute cockatiel
You bribe Taki with millet? Your too funny.!i I love Taki he’s got personality
A bribe is something you give someone now for the purpose of corrupting their behavior in the future. A reward is a surprise gift given now for doing the correct behavior in the recent past 😊 This is an example of giving Taki a reward- he has to do the behavior (remaining calm for a specified amount of time) and THEN he gets a treat. Since he is working for it and has no way of knowing whether he'll get a treat until he's already done the work and THEN sees the results (treat or not treat?) it is not a bribe 💖
Bribing your companion animal can be useful in certain situations (like in a medical emergency when you need certain behavior NOW and you want it as humanely and stress free as possible without really caring whether the animal learns anything specific in that moment) but in general bribing is detrimental to training and/or completely counterproductive when you're trying to teach your companion animal something 💖
Awww he is ADORABLE!!!! He is really well behaved as well, my Budgie (who recently passed away) would never let me do this, I tried and tried to create a bond, he just wasn’t the right bird, also my dog and my bird got along very well, but most don’t so I guess I was lucky
I have a beagle and a bird too! They both are extremely vocal!
I wish my bird was interested in millet!
He eats millet as fast as I eat my McDonald’s breakfast! Gorgeous cockatiel, great to see him able to fly free.
So cute the little bird 🤩🤩🥰
The highlevel Shirping meens ... "I like it" ❤🎉
I hear ya' about the dogs! I can't even remember how many times I had to chase my lab mix down to pull a half frozen wren or robin out of my dog's mouth in the winter.... sadly she passed 10 years ago now...
😂😂puppy and parrot.. What a wonderful life.
Typical cockatiel millet junkie like my two, I must say your bird is absolutely gorgeous.
i have to admit that u are perfect on doing it .i cannot imaging any other way of doing it better.I hope i get more lucky with my conure .... difficult issue.
Yummm that millet is really good 🤩
My budgie was talking when he heard the cocktail talk XD
very good training your cocktail bird
Aww 🥰 your bird is so cute ❤️❤️🥺
Hes a very beautiful bird, I used to have a cockatiel and his name was Dusty
I just watched your video after my Cocktiel flown away a week ago 😢😢😢
how did you get him to trust you so much? especially since he started out so wary with people touching his wings
Lots of positive reinforcement games and training 💖 I may do a video later on how to get a bird comfortable with handling (as that's really important for making their experience at vet appointments much more comfortable).
That was wonderful and informative thankyou for sharing 😁
Amazing video. I can see the trust he has. My cockatiel is just like this.
Wow he is in love with that millet 😂
Thats the cutest thing I've ever seen😂😱
My mom's 'tiel absolutely loved millet, though he would fling it about and it would land in her plants, so years after he passed we found his millet plants in my mom's plants. Our neighborhood sparrows also love millet, we put it in their feeders and those little stinkers love to fling around seed for the larger birds who can't get on the feeders, so we find random seeds in our garden and millet plants growing in the grass.
Why is my bird trying to kill me, when I touch him😂😂
He’s not scared of u bruh. He’s scared of ur hand. slowly get her used to your hand being in the cage
@@chrisrosario6114 ohh, thanks.We practiced, and we have success 👍now,hi is not so scared of me🙃
@@chrisrosario6114 lmao I did that and now it's scared of my horrifying face
Trust me I am not even lying
@@Jazz__shh you probably did something for them to lose trust, or not gain it
@@BBaaaaa I got them 3 weeks ago
Amazing will definitely get one some day there lovely
What IS that?! I want to try what he's eating with so much enthusiasm 😂!
The dislikes are the people who died. Of cuteness and missed the like button.
Taki boi absolutely destoying that millet.
thank you, this video helped me to keep track of my birds:)
I am watching this even tho Ik I won’t get a bird 🌝
Lol!! Me too!
IT'S SO CUTE !🦜🦜🦜🐾😍😘
dog saying I'm the BOSS no need to focus on me and I'm not jealous🤭😃
I can read the birds mind the first couple of minutes: "Don't bother me! I'm eating!!"
Is a good way to put that , thank you thank you very much😘😍
This is such a sweet and beautiful vid :3, I hope to buy a harness for my 'tiel some day and train him to wear it. Also, about keeping birds separate from dogs, that's not always necessary, my dog never attacks my cockatiel and vice versa :D.
I have a guinea pig named taki :) he's a really nice sweet boi
Would you recommend this for a budgie? I'm a new bird owner, and I'm planning on purchasing a budgie :D.
Samaryan Yes I would :)! The smallest available size from Aviator Harness will fit most budgies. It’s marketed as size “XXXS” on Amazon and I would assume that size on their website as well.
Of course, be sure your bird is extremely comfortable with you before harness training :) While you DON’T have to touch your bird tons and tons to put the harness on them (there are ways around that like training them to put their own wings through the wing hole instead of pulling them through yourself) a harness can be very scary to a bird. It is a good idea to have some very established trust with your bird- your bird should be comfortable enough with you and trust you enough that you can touch them before ever starting harness training. You will inevitably brush against their feathers while putting the harness on so they’ll need to be comfy with that, and they also just generally need to understand that you would never ask them to do something that would hurt them.
@@takithetiel6854 Thanks for the advice! I appreciate it. You're very helpful.
Samaryan I personaly think that a cockatiel is the smallest bird you can put a harness on. I think that you should not take a harness on a budgie.
Definitely! I have a harness for my lovebird, it's a little awkward to put on cause my lovebird is so small but they have the aviator mini for small birds
Fantastic video thanks so much really helpful 😀
Cute 🥰❤️❤️
When I had cockatiels, my female Georgina wore a multicolored flight harness and leash. She could perch on my shoulder and my hand but unless it was a very short flight, she couldn’t fly away. People would ask about her all the time.
My bird would just start playing with harness. She is kind of very loving but very stubborn bird.❤️❤️
Thanks for the help because ive wanted to learn how to do this :D
today was my cockatiel first walk and was amazing he doesnt run away or try to do it.❤️🦜
when you said the thing about the crop i thought thats just them yawning
you’re right you can’t expect dogs to not eat birds but mine used to be very protective of my bird, even saved his life once
great job with him! I will definitely try this method with my baby girl 🐦 🦜
He or she (first time watching) be LIKE YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM MILLET SEEDS :D
Great job 👍🏼
thanks so much for this video!!! it was actually really helpful, we are gonna order the same harness and needed to know what to do
Birb after you take away millet outside: wtf? Where am I? O.o
How is he with the harness now? XD Thx for sharing. I can't have a birb yet so I watch these. If I ever do it may be a tiel. I love budgies too but also love tiels and think I'll be choosing one next.
(Don't worry guys I've had birbs before and grew up with a tiel and certainly will look deep in how to care for them. I follow birdtricks and others, no shops, it will be a hand rearing breeder).
Holyl crap he is nuts over that millet lol
I'm not able to touch my babies wings... He'll scream and bite but he loves me and let's me give him scritches otherwise ^v^ I can't wait for the harness to come !
Taki used to be the same way with me, I think partly cuz it's not somewhere birds really groom on each other and partly because when he was a baby the aviary he was born at clipped him way too short and very incorrectly.
I started giving him treats for being calm when I pointed to his wings. Once he learned to ignore my fingers I gave him treats for allowing me to slowly move my hand like 1/4" closer to his wings. Eventually we slowly closed to gap until he let me gently poke them without being bothered. Then we slowly moved up t one gently grabbing the wing, then eventually moving the wing.
Another way to do this for the harness is to teach your bird to do "big eagle" on cue. Click and give a treat every time your bird spreads its wings. Once the bird understands this results in a reward they usually will do "big eagle" over and over. Anticipate when your bird is about to do "big eagle" and say "WINGS" just before. Only reward your bird for repetitions where you said "wings" before big eagle was performed. Eventually your bird will understand that "WINGS" means they can do "big eagle" and earn a treat for it.
Reteach "big eagle" in a variety of rooms and settings until your bird will do it anywhere any time (not necessarily with 100% success, I more so mean that your bird doesn't get noticeably confused about what to do if you ask for big eagle in the kitchen versus in the living room). Once "big eagle" is reliably on cue and you're working on harness training you can loosen the wing strap as loose as it'll go and drape it over the wing. Ask your bird to do "big eagle" and that will pull the wing through the loop without you needing to grab it yourself 💖
very nice. may I know what food are you giving to your bird
He came to us eating a very unhealthy seed mix (millet, safflower, and sunflower). I slowly transitioned him to eating that sprouted. Once he was used to eating the sprouts I added sprouted beans/legumes (3 different kinds of lentil, adzuki and mung beans, and one other kind I can't remember right this second) and a few more grains/seeds (like quinoa and flax. We also tried about 7 different kinds of pellets over the course of 6 months or so until we found one that he really likes. Now he eats about 3 tablespoons of TOPS Outstanding Pellets (organic, cold pressed, non-GMO, corn free, and dye free) per day, a variety of veggies and sprouts (he loves shredding kale and dandelion leaf), and he only gets millet or sunflower seeds as a training treat for new or complicated behaviors. For basic behaviors he's very used to (like step up) I occasionally reinforce with a secondary reinforcer like a coveted toy or head scratches (to cut back on seed consumption). I also occasionally give him lukewarm, organic, unsweetened chamomile tea. It's very calming for them, has lots of great vitamins in it, and it's great for their feathers.
One important thing to note is that birds do NEED a small amount of seeds in their diet, especially cockatoo species. They need the oils and fats in them to keep their skin and feathers properly hydrated. If you remove seed entirely they can start plucking because their skin is getting too dry. If you're worried about the high carb content of the seeds because your bird is overweight or especially sedentary, you can sprout them and that will remove most of the carbs and retain most of the healthy oils.
Very impressive
What a good boy he is
Unbelievable 😍😍😍
Finally someone doing it right
Nice vid...never. Saw this before...what is the clicker thing....nice interaction with the bird....seems addicting stuff he is eating.....
@Michael Fritz: It’s called a clicker XD
Great job on training! Could I ask the name of the treat you give to Taki? I know it's millet but I can't seem to find it the way you have it and it looks realy handy to give as reward 🤔 Greetings from Poland 🤗
Wow he loves that millet my bird would not let me do that lol
It feels weird that the bird has my name! xD
Specially bird harnesses are made for medium to large birds. And cockatiels are medium sized birds, so a harness suits them perfectly