Probably top 5 of your videos on how to train a bird, in clear and succinct language, including all of the really necessary details of interactions. I am sorry that the part detailing how to read the bird’s energy was left on the editing room floor. Thanks for all you do for birds and their people.
Someone I knew had two Blue & Gold Macaws and I was able to be very friendly and affectionate with one of them but no one was allowed to touch the evil twin because we were all told it was an agressive bird and will bite hard and often. I came to visit one day and walked into the living room where Joey (the nice macaw) was on a play perch stand and I picked him up and started petting him and kissing him and rubbing his belly and my friend walked into the room and called me out and said that I was holding Jake, the bad bird. I froze in fear and I could tell that Jake was confused as well because we were both having a good time until someone pointed out that I was playing with the agressive Blue & Gold. I learned a lot that day. The poor bird who was pegged as evil, did not show any agression when I grabbed him and was loving him and playing with him, but I coulld not go back to being affectionate because f the fear factor. It was sad that the bird had to live up to his bad reputation except he did not play the bad guy when he was treated with love and kindness
That's a "oops" but not, very interesting, and hate to admit it but that's funny, as a bird owner myself I understand that fear factor, both bird or human!♥️♥️♥️of course there is no evil parrot, just misunderstood,, an much more difficult to hide your fear and they just take "alot" of different approaches while trying to undo the "evil" difficulty, lots of patience, easier said then done, but eventually it can be done, the funniest thing for me iis that my bird's name is also Jake, and he is a male but going thru bigtime hormonal tendencies right now, when the season changes my Jake is a totally different personality, he's a sweetheart usually, except for this hormone thing, he is trained, quite well, he just has to get out of the seasinal hormone s again, and he will, Im very careful when working //training him right now, cuz I know him well, I change it up a bit, until he's not heightened, think it really works when us parrot owners get tips from people within the parrot community. Rewarding work/ fun!🤔😉♥️lots of emotional love for me, no matter how is reacting to me, 😱🤣
I love these comments. Currently I sked s friend, if I can train his 6 african greys, because they all are redcues and 2 were plucking and can't fly. I just hope that, if I get them all to step up and be more socialized, the owners have more reason to let them out of their cages and overall improve the parrots life quaity. So they told me that two of them like to bite, and so far none of them bit me, one of them just climbed down to my feet and bit my shoe. I didn't feel it and therefore I didn't react to it, but he later was still excited to do target training and noticed that whenever he makes a farting noise, that I start lsughing and give him attention, so he seems to really want to interact with me and also will follow me around to do the target training, but he still shows signs of aggression to, I assume, establish boundries, which is probably good because he is also noticing that I am actively listening and paying attention to that, so I guess he has stopped trying to bite my feet and never bit any of my fingers and he comes to me for training. i still feel th I am making a lot of mistakes though, like his owner, once she heard that I asked if the bird can be put on a stand for the trsining, she basically forced him on the stand, so that isn't exactly great... I guess reading your comments tells me that I might have let the info of these birds biting people, get to me so that the birds felt my insecure attitude, I'm watching all videos about this now and think maybe these birdd are not aggressive at all, they just don't know how to communicate.
I adopted a cockatiel that was terrified of me, but she also has a health condition that requires me to handle her frequently. She cannot fly, and she breaks blood feathers easily due to abnormal feathers. She has quite a few recurring feather cysts. She used to flip out and break feathers anytime I approached her (back in 2019). Now she’s my lil bird bear and she lets me pick her up. The only think is instead of training her to step up, I’ve trained to let me scoop her (she perched on my thumb and I hold her wings down so she doesn’t accidentally jump and hurt herself). I always say “I’m gonna pick you up” and she gets ready. If she doesn’t want attention she will hide, if she wants it she twitches her wings and braces herself to get picked up.
My parrot was a rescue. And was absolutely evil to me for the first 6 months! Took patience and building trust! But he’s my whole world, and the sweetest bird you will ever meet! He was just hand aggressive because the people before did everything wrong! Don’t be afraid to take a chance and put the work in to help build the relationship you want with the bird! No bird is fully evil/mean, give them a chance and you will be rewarded with the birds trust eventually!
I know when I had my in home consult with Dave, my biggest takeaway was to slow down and really pay attention to body language. I had unintentionally allowed aggressive targeting and wasn't paying attention to when my grey was heightened and I shouldn't have been working with him in that state. Those little changes have made a huge difference in the course of a year and now I get extremely gentle targets and haven't been bitten in months! I'm not sure he will ever get over his fear of hands and be able to step on onto a hand, but our communication has gotten much clearer and so has our relationship thanks to the BirdTricks methods.
Me and my husband have had our B&G, Pablo, for almost a couple years ago, my husband just started using these same techniques just a few days ago as he's been Pablo's #1 most hated person lol. It's incredible the difference it's made in their relationship already in just a few days!
It's awesome to see when one of your students is really paying attention, understanding what you're teaching them and making progress. The bird did great too!
This is a wonderful bundle of helpful advice! Everybody said this in the comment section, well done! Good Job Harley and Michelle that was Satisfying to watch
I COULD FEEL HER FEAR thru the video! Lol I was holding my phone like I was giving the bird a treat....lol While saying....slow slow...stop... Too far! 🤣
Same!!!!! Lol it's true though you have to be calm and I get it's hard especially after being bit. But similar to getting knocked off a horse you gotta get back up there❤❤💫🌞💕💃🌟🦆🦆🪿
I feel like a lot of her jewelry might be a issue too. Maybe start with nothing on her fingers or wrist. One of my African greys absolutely will not step up if I have my jingle bracelet on. We are now desensitizing him with it and he is getting more and more better everyday!
You guys are just simply amazing!!!! I learn so much from you watching your videos its unbelievable and dont even own a bird. I just figure in case I ever come upon someone that does have a bird Im educated on how to interact with the bird or what to do to help them with the bird should they have problems ever. I refer so many people to your channel daily haha. Thanks for the awesome vids.
I really feel this is one of your very best videos. Amazing teaching and communication from Dave, giving extremely clear direction and watching and listening to his student's intuition. Really, this is so well done.
Not to add on the peer pressure but I follow you on mine, my husband and the account we went up to monitor our kids you tube usage. We're semi new to the bird world so take my comment with a grain of salt. We got two budgies a few months ago and on day one, one bird passed away. It was heart wrenching and felt horrible. However, Articuno, the other bird is now our only bird. At first I read they need other birds. But honestly I noticed that maybe since we let her free fly and my second oldest is obsessed with taking care of our bird that it gets a lot of one on one attention is is super tame. We let her or him free fly and we took bird classes on how to give her a good life. Personally I think my point is that if you have the time it makes sense at least to an inexperienced owner to get one bird at a time maybe. Not sure and no experience but after 3 months she does tricks and flies to us on her own in a positive energy. Maybe it's a fluke but do you think maybe spend time with one bird works better than getting multiple parakeets? I know they love flocks but maybe the one on one helps in ways too? Idk. I love your videos. I'm thinking about getting an Indian Ringneck but I have to save up a bit first to make sure it has everything it deserves. On a side note our seven year old watched your parrolet kids video. Maybe as an off screen bird do you think she has the potential to be a part of your home? I feel bad watching your videos because I am sure you have to say no to some birds. From the video alone though I see a bond. Do you think maybe you can take on that parrolet because you seem interested and invested and I personally would feel Good knowing your daughter or someone that actually cares gets that baby
I'm working through negotiations 😂 with a bonded pair of Quakers. I found out they instantly calm down when I play a music box. It has become my go to for reset. Has anyone else tried this?
About a year ago on Benjamin the Best Bird (U2) channel, his person was able to calm down his crazy cockatoo screaming episodes by playing a steel tongue drum. I think birds are enchanted by music.
I needed this i recently got three macaws from a family member.... one has never been handled except to put in the cage to come to my home the other two are so mean.... thank you
I’ve lived with companion parrots more than 30 years now, 2 of which are macaws. I also lived with a conure who I hand tamed myself and who just died after 34 years with him and a Congo African grey who I adopted when he was 22, 24 years ago. I had some behavior issues with my B&G macaw so I hired a bird behaviorist. She said. “ Don’t ask what’s wrong with your bird, instead ask yourself what are you doing to confuse your bird”. This has helped me at times when my parrots are behaving badly🤷🏼♀️
When I went to my friend's house for the first time their cockatoo took to me and climbed on my shoulder. My friend then proceeded to say that it was unusual as he normally attacks strangers. Everything was fine until that statement. Anyone with an ounce of sense knows a cockatoo has pliers and it's handle with care and beware. Instead of just taking the birb to avoid an issue she made me self aware of being attacked which spoilt the initial trust and I'm sure the birb felt the change in body language.
Absolutely love this video! Thought me so many things in detail and also made me realise what I did correct, as well as wrong and explained the outcome of those things! Thank you so much!!!
I've been implementing these techniques and I'm starting to see a decrease in my birds aggressive behavior towards my parents. Is it a realistic goal that she will eventually be totally calm around them? We are fine if she doesn't love them as long as she is not attacking. I'm doing all of the other recommended things like proper diet, sleep, and minimizing touch as I worry she may see me as her mate.
This is very interesting. Hopefully I can use this for the schools macaw skittles, since she is very aggressive towards everyone and bites and chase people just to get reactions and attention but only few people are only two people that can work with her. Hopefully I can learn how to as well.
Unexpectedly needed when the bird we bought turned out to be highly highly aggressive, I hope things go as well here as they usually do for other birds! I can take the bites (even though they leave actual divots) but my partner is afraid of how shes constantly rushing to attack whatever's near. She's under a year.
My problem is getting my bird to the stand in order to work. She is willing to target train on the top of her cage, but won't come off her cage. I have removed her food, toys etc and she still won't come off. I have tried stepping up on various sticks or perches and no luck. I am following your food/sleep protocol and she is ready to work, I just can't get her off without making her mad. If I do get her to step up onto a perch/stick and get her moved, she will then "sometimes" step onto my hand. She gives clear warnings when she doesn't want my hand near her, but how do I make her want to come off her cage to the stand when she can't be enticed?
So my Amazon absolutely hates everyone (sometimes even me) but my boyfriend is trying very hard to befriend him & this video may just be his guide to do just that lol thank you!
14:48 - Do birds generally prefer the opposite sex in a human companion when it comes to preference (i.e. female birds prefer masculine qualities in a human)?
I av had my gray 7 month now he wunt come near me I talk to him play peek poo getting no further forward can’t get him out cage to start training eny advise would be much appreciated thank you
I figure if you don't pick them up and get personal with them when they have a cage mate or other birds in the house there ok cause they got company and what better company for them another bird versus a human lol
hey...my bird (green cheek conure) is soo bity....It was fine few months ago till my father started grabbing him because my bird would not enter the cage. I want him to let me touch him. When i ask him to step up in my fingers he would bite me even my hand is not upto his chest. i tried dave's trick but that time he don't care and do nothing. I want him to stop biting allow me to scratch and will step up in my fingers. Can you make a video on what to do or comment me plss. also, i think may of them can relate it
Hi Jian, Boy that’s a lot to ask for one video lol. Just a thought, maybe it’s already done and in their library of videos or why not engage them for a training session with you. I’m sure that they could do it through Zoom if you’re not able to have a private session. Or if you’re in the United States maybe you could do a group session if expense is a consideration ( it often is ) and private doesn’t work. I love that they do all these videos and they share all of these great training sessions, but please remember that these people in the video have paid Jamie And Dave to be there. So let’s not forget that this is how they make their living so they can post these videos. If anyone is in a position to get a private session from these guys man I would say do it in a heartbeat! I don’t have a bird and I’m probably too old to get a bird but if I did, I would call these guys first!
Hope Springs is correct :) Also, if hands grab your bird, your bird WILL BITE THEM. Your father grabbing your bird has likely instilled a fear of hands in your bird. So there needs to be zero hand grabbing if you want to correct the biting behavior-- AND IT WILL TAKE TIME. If you HAVE to get a bird back into a cage, gently use a towel. A bird that's nervous of towels is much easier to handle than a bird afraid of hands. Your bird may not like scratches. Ever. It varies bird to bird. Or maybe, once your bird recovers from the traumatic experience of "scary grabby hands" and you regain its trust, it may eventually allow scritches. There's plenty of step up training examples on youtube. Generally though, FIRST get your bird comfortable eating a long sprig of millet from your hand, gradually (like, over the course of days or weeks) get to where you can hold the millet closer to the bird. If you rush this and push past the birds comfort zone, you will lose trust. SECOND, start holding your fingers out for a step up while holding the millet. You are not going to get the bird to step up, yet. You are getting them used to your fingers being in a new position. THIRD, gradually (over days or weeks), hold the millet so that your bird needs to get closer to your hand to get the millet. FOURTH, once your bird is comfortable, hold the millet so your bird needs to step up to get any millet. DO NOT try and move your bird around like crazy at this point, let them go back on their perch. They need to learn to trust that your hand isn't going to make them do uncomfortable things. FIFTH, you can slowly move your bird a few inches at a time before moving them back on their perch. SIXTH gradually take them further and further away. Eventually, they will get comfortable with your hand moving places slowly. I had super flighty budgies (rehomed) that didn't want me to take them out, and it took about a year and a half of this kind of work to get them comfortable enough to step up (sometimes). They do not allow scritches. But, they get free flight time, sound beautiful, and one has learned to give kisses as a trick. Watch a ton of Birdtrick's videos until you start to understand BIRD BODY LANGUAGE. This is SO HELPFUL. If you start responding to your birds early signals that they are uncomfortable by backing away and respecting them, they won't feel the need to bite. This builds trust. I'm sure there are more experienced people in the comments section here, so I'd love the community to offer changes/corrections to my rant here, lol.
Feel free to use any other similarly-shaped item for targeting! It works just as well with a small straw, a chopstick, or a pen tip. I've even trained it with a spoon before!
Heightened behavior is somewhere on the edge of excitement and overstimulation. It can eventually turn into aggression if it goes on for too long, so that's why it's important to be careful
For me I just need to see the end result on a bird for me too go forward and continue to watch subscribe to Your channel i need to see some kind of end result please!!?finesh up with result of more birds
Probably top 5 of your videos on how to train a bird, in clear and succinct language, including all of the really necessary details of interactions. I am sorry that the part detailing how to read the bird’s energy was left on the editing room floor. Thanks for all you do for birds and their people.
Wow, thanks!
@@BirdTricks i'm watching this for the 2nd time , and still i found things / knowledge i think i need to be refreshed on.
Someone I knew had two Blue & Gold Macaws and I was able to be very friendly and affectionate with one of them but no one was allowed to touch the evil twin because we were all told it was an agressive bird and will bite hard and often. I came to visit one day and walked into the living room where Joey (the nice macaw) was on a play perch stand and I picked him up and started petting him and kissing him and rubbing his belly and my friend walked into the room and called me out and said that I was holding Jake, the bad bird. I froze in fear and I could tell that Jake was confused as well because we were both having a good time until someone pointed out that I was playing with the agressive Blue & Gold. I learned a lot that day. The poor bird who was pegged as evil, did not show any agression when I grabbed him and was loving him and playing with him, but I coulld not go back to being affectionate because f the fear factor. It was sad that the bird had to live up to his bad reputation except he did not play the bad guy when he was treated with love and kindness
That applies to people too!
That's a "oops" but not, very interesting, and hate to admit it but that's funny, as a bird owner myself I understand that fear factor, both bird or human!♥️♥️♥️of course there is no evil parrot, just misunderstood,, an much more difficult to hide your fear and they just take "alot" of different approaches while trying to undo the "evil" difficulty, lots of patience, easier said then done, but eventually it can be done, the funniest thing for me iis that my bird's name is also Jake, and he is a male but going thru bigtime hormonal tendencies right now, when the season changes my Jake is a totally different personality, he's a sweetheart usually, except for this hormone thing, he is trained, quite well, he just has to get out of the seasinal hormone s again, and he will, Im very careful when working //training him right now, cuz I know him well, I change it up a bit, until he's not heightened, think it really works when us parrot owners get tips from people within the parrot community. Rewarding work/ fun!🤔😉♥️lots of emotional love for me, no matter how is reacting to me, 😱🤣
I love these comments. Currently I sked s friend, if I can train his 6 african greys, because they all are redcues and 2 were plucking and can't fly. I just hope that, if I get them all to step up and be more socialized, the owners have more reason to let them out of their cages and overall improve the parrots life quaity. So they told me that two of them like to bite, and so far none of them bit me, one of them just climbed down to my feet and bit my shoe. I didn't feel it and therefore I didn't react to it, but he later was still excited to do target training and noticed that whenever he makes a farting noise, that I start lsughing and give him attention, so he seems to really want to interact with me and also will follow me around to do the target training, but he still shows signs of aggression to, I assume, establish boundries, which is probably good because he is also noticing that I am actively listening and paying attention to that, so I guess he has stopped trying to bite my feet and never bit any of my fingers and he comes to me for training.
i still feel th I am making a lot of mistakes though, like his owner, once she heard that I asked if the bird can be put on a stand for the trsining, she basically forced him on the stand, so that isn't exactly great...
I guess reading your comments tells me that I might have let the info of these birds biting people, get to me so that the birds felt my insecure attitude, I'm watching all videos about this now and think maybe these birdd are not aggressive at all, they just don't know how to communicate.
I adopted a cockatiel that was terrified of me, but she also has a health condition that requires me to handle her frequently. She cannot fly, and she breaks blood feathers easily due to abnormal feathers. She has quite a few recurring feather cysts. She used to flip out and break feathers anytime I approached her (back in 2019). Now she’s my lil bird bear and she lets me pick her up. The only think is instead of training her to step up, I’ve trained to let me scoop her (she perched on my thumb and I hold her wings down so she doesn’t accidentally jump and hurt herself). I always say “I’m gonna pick you up” and she gets ready. If she doesn’t want attention she will hide, if she wants it she twitches her wings and braces herself to get picked up.
Very sweet, well put!♥️
Wowie sounds like she was in a whole lot of pain, what a break through! Amazing!
Amazing! Hoping my new female will love interacting with me soon.
That is so cool to hear.
That is an excellent way to let her know, wow, how wonderful !!! Just a wonderful way to keep her safe plus bond, I love hearing this👍♥️♥️
This was so full of training tips and cues. Stay calm and trusting yourself and your bird is so important
Dave is a very great explainer. If he writes a bird book, it would be in every vet faculty around the world.
My parrot was a rescue. And was absolutely evil to me for the first 6 months! Took patience and building trust! But he’s my whole world, and the sweetest bird you will ever meet! He was just hand aggressive because the people before did everything wrong! Don’t be afraid to take a chance and put the work in to help build the relationship you want with the bird! No bird is fully evil/mean, give them a chance and you will be rewarded with the birds trust eventually!
The payoff is certainly worth it, isn’t it?
I know when I had my in home consult with Dave, my biggest takeaway was to slow down and really pay attention to body language. I had unintentionally allowed aggressive targeting and wasn't paying attention to when my grey was heightened and I shouldn't have been working with him in that state. Those little changes have made a huge difference in the course of a year and now I get extremely gentle targets and haven't been bitten in months! I'm not sure he will ever get over his fear of hands and be able to step on onto a hand, but our communication has gotten much clearer and so has our relationship thanks to the BirdTricks methods.
That’s really interesting, my galah is heightened just by coming out of his cage so I struggle with the aggressive targeting
I’m sure if you keep it up regularly he will! 🤞
@@StinkyF he may never and that's ok. He had a lot of trauma by the time I met him and I just meet him where he is at.
Jamie at the end, total pro.
It's crazy when you can feel the birds energy through the camera!! I think Michelle and Harley are going to do great!!❤️💚
Energy can not be faked. The bird will feel if you love him/,her as well as far them. Stay calm kind patient and loving❤
Me and my husband have had our B&G, Pablo, for almost a couple years ago, my husband just started using these same techniques just a few days ago as he's been Pablo's #1 most hated person lol. It's incredible the difference it's made in their relationship already in just a few days!
This information, in action, is like gold! Thank you, Harley for being such a great example.
It's awesome to see when one of your students is really paying attention, understanding what you're teaching them and making progress. The bird did great too!
wow amazing seeing Jamie get her to wave toward the end!
This is a wonderful bundle of helpful advice! Everybody said this in the comment section, well done! Good Job Harley and Michelle that was Satisfying to watch
I COULD FEEL HER FEAR thru the video! Lol I was holding my phone like I was giving the bird a treat....lol While saying....slow slow...stop... Too far! 🤣
Oh! You're too funny 🤣
Same!!!!! Lol it's true though you have to be calm and I get it's hard especially after being bit. But similar to getting knocked off a horse you gotta get back up there❤❤💫🌞💕💃🌟🦆🦆🪿
Michelle and Harley did great! Well done BirdTricks 👍
Today for the first time my cockatiel displayed beak clicking im so happy.
I feel like a lot of her jewelry might be a issue too. Maybe start with nothing on her fingers or wrist. One of my African greys absolutely will not step up if I have my jingle bracelet on. We are now desensitizing him with it and he is getting more and more better everyday!
Just some misunderstanding that's all between wife and the bird , the tension built up , good thing you guys fixed it
we’re having absolute hell with a rescue that detests me ! so great thanks
I hope this video helps!
You guys are just simply amazing!!!! I learn so much from you watching your videos its unbelievable and dont even own a bird. I just figure in case I ever come upon someone that does have a bird Im educated on how to interact with the bird or what to do to help them with the bird should they have problems ever. I refer so many people to your channel daily haha. Thanks for the awesome vids.
I really feel this is one of your very best videos. Amazing teaching and communication from Dave, giving extremely clear direction and watching and listening to his student's intuition. Really, this is so well done.
Beautifully done!!!
💙💙💙
She really wants this... she's a great student...
And your a great teacher...
This is so helpful my Galah doesn’t exactly hate me but he likes a scratch but he does bite a lot.❤
Yes, you all are fantastic!
I really like this lady (im sorry i forgot her name) she asks very interesting and sensible questions.
Not to add on the peer pressure but I follow you on mine, my husband and the account we went up to monitor our kids you tube usage. We're semi new to the bird world so take my comment with a grain of salt. We got two budgies a few months ago and on day one, one bird passed away. It was heart wrenching and felt horrible. However, Articuno, the other bird is now our only bird. At first I read they need other birds. But honestly I noticed that maybe since we let her free fly and my second oldest is obsessed with taking care of our bird that it gets a lot of one on one attention is is super tame. We let her or him free fly and we took bird classes on how to give her a good life. Personally I think my point is that if you have the time it makes sense at least to an inexperienced owner to get one bird at a time maybe. Not sure and no experience but after 3 months she does tricks and flies to us on her own in a positive energy. Maybe it's a fluke but do you think maybe spend time with one bird works better than getting multiple parakeets? I know they love flocks but maybe the one on one helps in ways too? Idk. I love your videos. I'm thinking about getting an Indian Ringneck but I have to save up a bit first to make sure it has everything it deserves. On a side note our seven year old watched your parrolet kids video. Maybe as an off screen bird do you think she has the potential to be a part of your home? I feel bad watching your videos because I am sure you have to say no to some birds. From the video alone though I see a bond. Do you think maybe you can take on that parrolet because you seem interested and invested and I personally would feel Good knowing your daughter or someone that actually cares gets that baby
Harley is beautiful 💜
I'm working through negotiations 😂 with a bonded pair of Quakers. I found out they instantly calm down when I play a music box. It has become my go to for reset. Has anyone else tried this?
About a year ago on Benjamin the Best Bird (U2) channel, his person was able to calm down his crazy cockatoo screaming episodes by playing a steel tongue drum. I think birds are enchanted by music.
I needed this i recently got three macaws from a family member.... one has never been handled except to put in the cage to come to my home the other two are so mean.... thank you
I’ve lived with companion parrots more than 30 years now, 2 of which are macaws. I also lived with a conure who I hand tamed myself and who just died after 34 years with him and a Congo African grey who I adopted when he was 22, 24 years ago. I had some behavior issues with my B&G macaw so I hired a bird behaviorist. She said. “ Don’t ask what’s wrong with your bird, instead ask yourself what are you doing to confuse your bird”.
This has helped me at times when my parrots are behaving badly🤷🏼♀️
When I went to my friend's house for the first time their cockatoo took to me and climbed on my shoulder. My friend then proceeded to say that it was unusual as he normally attacks strangers.
Everything was fine until that statement.
Anyone with an ounce of sense knows a cockatoo has pliers and it's handle with care and beware.
Instead of just taking the birb to avoid an issue she made me self aware of being attacked which spoilt the initial trust and I'm sure the birb felt the change in body language.
Awesome advice, thank you for sharing! :D
Absolutely love this video! Thought me so many things in detail and also made me realise what I did correct, as well as wrong and explained the outcome of those things! Thank you so much!!!
And when do you know you can move to a different training way? And what would be next steps?
Awesome video and wow Harley's feathers look gorgeous
Einstein;has a bird channel on YT,definitely does understand our language
Thanks a lot for your lovely videos ❤️
I've been implementing these techniques and I'm starting to see a decrease in my birds aggressive behavior towards my parents. Is it a realistic goal that she will eventually be totally calm around them? We are fine if she doesn't love them as long as she is not attacking. I'm doing all of the other recommended things like proper diet, sleep, and minimizing touch as I worry she may see me as her mate.
beautiful birb
This is very interesting. Hopefully I can use this for the schools macaw skittles, since she is very aggressive towards everyone and bites and chase people just to get reactions and attention but only few people are only two people that can work with her. Hopefully I can learn how to as well.
And if you guys were curious, what species or what kind she is a catalina macaw
Unexpectedly needed when the bird we bought turned out to be highly highly aggressive, I hope things go as well here as they usually do for other birds! I can take the bites (even though they leave actual divots) but my partner is afraid of how shes constantly rushing to attack whatever's near. She's under a year.
This is a great video but how do you get an aggressive bird out of the cage to train anyway?🙂
Amazing work
My problem is getting my bird to the stand in order to work. She is willing to target train on the top of her cage, but won't come off her cage. I have removed her food, toys etc and she still won't come off. I have tried stepping up on various sticks or perches and no luck. I am following your food/sleep protocol and she is ready to work, I just can't get her off without making her mad. If I do get her to step up onto a perch/stick and get her moved, she will then "sometimes" step onto my hand. She gives clear warnings when she doesn't want my hand near her, but how do I make her want to come off her cage to the stand when she can't be enticed?
So my Amazon absolutely hates everyone (sometimes even me) but my boyfriend is trying very hard to befriend him & this video may just be his guide to do just that lol thank you!
Its not really hate it more to do with trust as bird and animals can't hate . Hate a human emotion
Fascinating 👌😁👌
can these training techniques be used with smaller parrots?
14:48 - Do birds generally prefer the opposite sex in a human companion when it comes to preference (i.e. female birds prefer masculine qualities in a human)?
Fantastic information given here. Gina Hetlage
I av had my gray 7 month now he wunt come near me I talk to him play peek poo getting no further forward can’t get him out cage to start training eny advise would be much appreciated thank you
I figure if you don't pick them up and get personal with them when they have a cage mate or other birds in the house there ok cause they got company and what better company for them another bird versus a human lol
I wonder what that bird thinks, and how she feels. Do birds love their owners?
Any ideas for a bird that will seek you out to come and attack you? that is the problem that im having.
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hey...my bird (green cheek conure) is soo bity....It was fine few months ago till my father started grabbing him because my bird would not enter the cage. I want him to let me touch him. When i ask him to step up in my fingers he would bite me even my hand is not upto his chest. i tried dave's trick but that time he don't care and do nothing. I want him to stop biting allow me to scratch and will step up in my fingers. Can you make a video on what to do or comment me plss. also, i think may of them can relate it
Hi Jian, Boy that’s a lot to ask for one video lol. Just a thought, maybe it’s already done and in their library of videos or why not engage them for a training session with you. I’m sure that they could do it through Zoom if you’re not able to have a private session. Or if you’re in the United States maybe you could do a group session if expense is a consideration ( it often is ) and private doesn’t work. I love that they do all these videos and they share all of these great training sessions, but please remember that these people in the video have paid Jamie And Dave to be there. So let’s not forget that this is how they make their living so they can post these videos. If anyone is in a position to get a private session from these guys man I would say do it in a heartbeat! I don’t have a bird and I’m probably too old to get a bird but if I did, I would call these guys first!
Hope Springs is correct :)
Also, if hands grab your bird, your bird WILL BITE THEM. Your father grabbing your bird has likely instilled a fear of hands in your bird. So there needs to be zero hand grabbing if you want to correct the biting behavior-- AND IT WILL TAKE TIME. If you HAVE to get a bird back into a cage, gently use a towel. A bird that's nervous of towels is much easier to handle than a bird afraid of hands.
Your bird may not like scratches. Ever. It varies bird to bird. Or maybe, once your bird recovers from the traumatic experience of "scary grabby hands" and you regain its trust, it may eventually allow scritches.
There's plenty of step up training examples on youtube. Generally though, FIRST get your bird comfortable eating a long sprig of millet from your hand, gradually (like, over the course of days or weeks) get to where you can hold the millet closer to the bird. If you rush this and push past the birds comfort zone, you will lose trust. SECOND, start holding your fingers out for a step up while holding the millet. You are not going to get the bird to step up, yet. You are getting them used to your fingers being in a new position. THIRD, gradually (over days or weeks), hold the millet so that your bird needs to get closer to your hand to get the millet. FOURTH, once your bird is comfortable, hold the millet so your bird needs to step up to get any millet. DO NOT try and move your bird around like crazy at this point, let them go back on their perch. They need to learn to trust that your hand isn't going to make them do uncomfortable things. FIFTH, you can slowly move your bird a few inches at a time before moving them back on their perch. SIXTH gradually take them further and further away. Eventually, they will get comfortable with your hand moving places slowly.
I had super flighty budgies (rehomed) that didn't want me to take them out, and it took about a year and a half of this kind of work to get them comfortable enough to step up (sometimes). They do not allow scritches. But, they get free flight time, sound beautiful, and one has learned to give kisses as a trick.
Watch a ton of Birdtrick's videos until you start to understand BIRD BODY LANGUAGE. This is SO HELPFUL. If you start responding to your birds early signals that they are uncomfortable by backing away and respecting them, they won't feel the need to bite. This builds trust.
I'm sure there are more experienced people in the comments section here, so I'd love the community to offer changes/corrections to my rant here, lol.
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@@ChandrewsArt - Excellent response!
@@hopesprings4967 thank u, but my father did'nt allow me and i am not in the US.
What do you do when the birds are afraid of the training stick? All 5 of ours literally run when I bring it out to try to work with them.
Feel free to use any other similarly-shaped item for targeting! It works just as well with a small straw, a chopstick, or a pen tip. I've even trained it with a spoon before!
When a bird is heightened, doesn't that just mean excitement not good or bad?
Heightened behavior is somewhere on the edge of excitement and overstimulation. It can eventually turn into aggression if it goes on for too long, so that's why it's important to be careful
@@lizziehn5928 aaaaahhhhh. Thank you. I once owned a blue front. He was very sweet. Unfortunately, lost him in the divorce.
How to tame a 3 month Quaker who is fearful
She qued harley for a wave and then said that harley is begging. Lol
Is there anyone interested in FL in a 27 year old Harlequin macaw? I want to re home her to a loving home. ❤️
I hope she finds a great home ❤ (so sad I couldn’t take her)
For me I just need to see the end result on a bird for me too go forward and continue to watch subscribe to Your channel i need to see some kind of end result please!!?finesh up with result of more birds
Owners who are fearful of all pets will never be dominant enough to properly control an animal. She is done for.
How can I train my bird to poop in her cage not on me,
God that looks just like a catilina mackaw
LOL. I love you, but chow mein isn’t English.
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