You are amazing, your channel is amazing, your birds are amazing, everything you are putting an effort on is incredible. I'm sooo glad that you are almost at 8,000 and thats really making me extremely happy. Can't wait for you and your amazing lovely birds again ❤ FLOCK-TALK FTW!!!
I was able to teach my budgie this very quickly, like 15min quickly. I didnt use target training because she doesnt know that completely but i did take a thing of millet and put my hand over it and slowly went further back until she went almost entirely through. Of course, she hasn't mastered it yet but she takes very quickly to training and although she is usually a very anxious bird I felt a major bond from training her recently.
I love that you mix new tricks with old one so it's not like bird repeating same thing over and over and then gets confused if you ask for more. I enjoy your videos. Keep going and thank you for all your work. ^^
Hi Courtney, I was wondering if you had any tips on syringe training? I'll be rescuing a cockatiel in the future, and your channel has really helped me out! You show how to properly take care of and train birds, your 'Step up is a question ' video was very informative, because every other vid told me to force them onto the finger. I'm very impressed, and think you and your birds are incredible!
I just got a couple of love birds that hasn't really been hand tamed. I have them in a room so they can get use to things going on in the house. They are getting more comfortable with the cage being approached on the different sounds and dogs barking. Do you recommend clipping their wings before I start working with them. I have had birds, but not the lovebirds. My birds were young and hand raised, these aren't. Do you have any good suggestions
What kind of treats do you give your birds and how do you get them to eat out of your hand. My parrotlets refuse to eat any treats out of my hand and I'm not sure how to convince them to take the food out of my hand
I think tutorials are really good! I enjoy them and find them to be very helpful. I'm actually thinking about getting a parrotlet. I already have 2 parakeets and 2 cockatiels. They aren't tame like that though because I made the mistake of buying them at a pet store. The cockatiels I got after the parakeets and I thought that this was a more personable pet store and thought they were going to be hand tame. But when they said they weren't they convinced me that they were so young yet and they would be easy to work with, but that hasn't been the case so far, after months later. I've bonded with the one cockatiel, she steps up but she's not very sociable. She steps up and then takes off. And the sibling of her is a Latino and that bird is very unsociable, I can't get her to do anything and she hisses and bites. I really want a bird that I can play with and cuddle, and teach them tricks like you do. Would I be crazy to get another bird or 2. I think I would bond better with just one parrotlet. What do you think? Sorry to go on, I feel like I had to give the details.
I just recently got my bird and I watched your videos to prepare me for one, but my bird is bobbing it's tail upwards, and downwards, opening and closing it's beak, it's eyes are half open, it has really wet droppings, and is sneezing. Is my bird sick, and if so what do you think he has? He is still able to chirp so I'm unsure about sickness.
i bought a pair of fischer's lovebirds recently, how long i should wait before starting their training? also is it necessary to clip their wings before training?? because i really don't want to... love your videos BTW
Once they become comfortable with you, and no, I wouldn't recommend clipping birds wings. If they manage to escape, they have a very slim chance of survival
How would you go about teaching a skittish bird stepping up? My little parrotlet boy has just recently started with target training in hope that it will let me lead him over my finger to start with so that he get a click and a treat when he steps on my finger. However, he isn't afraid of my hands anymore, he just doesn't like them getting in his space so to say, but he doesn't mind them being nearby. But he just doesn't seem to understand the concept of stepping up at all as he is just getting really tall, slim and looks at the finger like "WAT IS DIS?!" Then glares at me for a treat instead.
I somehow managed to mix up training and well long story short is my bird learnt to do target training and then tunnel really well.it took her one day to learn target training properly .I made her comfy with even the tips of the sticks so she'll respond to any length of the stick .She managed to learn tunnel after four days not perfect but she'll do it .And if your wondering how I mixed up these tricks I was doing tests if she'd go into my hand to touch the stick and she was totally fine with it .she doesn't mind the pace at all and is very treat minded .she seems to like the pace actually and she's why I need to skip a few steps while training .I seriously thought it'll take months mto teach spin let alone tunnel and target training on the same week .
hello i have got 3 baby budgies whih are 3.5 months old.... how do i make em sit still on my arm or shoulder or even on my hand.... they are ok when i put my hand in the cage n they come towards my hand but when i took em out of the cage they just flew here n there n dont come to me.... how do i make them trust me when they are outside the cage ......thankxx :) ........................ps i love ur bird :)
Thank you, I am going to use this to help teach my bird to allow grabbing. I tried the method of holding my hand near her back but she tends to hiss and go to nip me when I do this so I figured I try another approach. She is a female cockatiel - hopefully she is small enough to fit through the “tunnel”.
Adorable! I love the high 5 type, jump up to your hand. What is that trick? Can you show me how to teach it to my GC Conure? Also do you think your conure or your parrolet is easier to train? Thanks for another great video!
Could you do a video about the order of tricks to teach a bird? Like start with targeting I assume and which tricks are more basic tricks that other ones build off of, etc. Thanks!
My bird doesn't really like eating out of my hand which makes it hard to reward him. Any suggestions? Btw I love your videos and you inspired me to get my male cockatiel Alfred 😊💕
How many birds do you have? Just curious! I see one in a smaller cage in the back towards the right and I've heard that you have other ones, so maybe you can do a video on all your birds? Thanks! Love this channel!
I'm going to get a bird but I haven't got it yet because I've been looking for a tutorial about training your bird. I have a whole notebook full of bird tips and what to feed them though. One day (If you find someone that needs their bird trained) can you do a tutorial on bird training please.
Yours is the most intelligent series about hookbills on RU-vid. I am retired and live alone. My physician Strongly(!) Suggests(!) that I get a companion animal. Apartment mgmt wants $200.00 deposit + $20.00/mo for cat/dog. I have been doing lots of homework on care and feeding of my future flockmate. First experience with a bird. Budgie or Cockatiel?
John Terry I got a cocktail as my first bird and I strongly recommend you get a hand fed one because my second bird was my aunt's green cheek conure she couldn't take care of anymore. that bird wasn't hand fed and didn't like being picked up and it took LOTS of patience. Budgies are great and tiny, make alot less noise, but they can be agressive with my experience. my friend once had to get rid of his two budgies and gave them to me and I had no say whatsoever, it was either I take them or he let the go to (certainly) die. the cage he had them in was way two small for the both of them, stressing them out, and the move caused even more stress, and finally, the "alpha male" killed the other female before I even had the chance to get them a bigger cage, I know I should have gotten them one from a store but chose to get one online and it took too long. the alpha male then started to show sociopathic behaviors I have never observed before in a bird. I sadly decided to give him to a bird rehabilitation and rescue, I sent him there sooner in hopes they could help him early on before it was too late. even in this league conditions I never heard of a cocktiel doing that.
sorry the story is so long, I apologise for poor Grammer if there is any, and sorry that I am doing this at 5:00 in the morning (at least where I live)
You don't upload that much are you really busy or what? I only discovered you recently and loved you instantly so subscribed but you never post videos any more! I'd love it if you would upload more it's been five months come on Cortney!
Can you make a video about how to teach the bird to jump on your hand, just like 11:03 in your video, or is this the "high five" trick? Thank you so much for doing this videos. They are so helpful!
My lovebird is 5 years old, he is a boy. My question is: Can he learn that tricks or he is too old to want to learn that tricks? I tried sometimes but he don't want to learn and sometimes he bites me (not strong). I know lovebirds can live like 15-20 years old and I think my parrot is young. Could you answer that? I will try again, but I hope to have some help from you. I love your channel a lot because it helps me to do the best for my parrot :)
I know this is late and I had that issue too. They pretty much just grew out of it as they got older but we also gave them less floor time and more time up on their cage to hang out and look outside the window.
Hi, I love your channel and it's been very useful to me. Thanks a ton. Could you also please post a tutorial on how to have a bird pick a card and turn it over? Thanks in advance. With love from India...
Animals and stuff 101 the laziest people find a shorcut to do something. People on a budget/less money find things that they already have to do something. This is really nice!!
David Yannessa what I do with my cats is I keep my bird in a separate room. One of my cats goes in if I leave the door open and harasses him, but the other one isn't bothered. If you keep the door closed the birb is safe. I understand that you don't want to tho
Yours is the most intelligent series about hookbills on RU-vid. I am retired and live alone. My physician Strongly(!) Suggests(!) that I get a companion animal. Apartment mgmt wants $200.00 deposit + $20.00/mo for cat/dog. I have been doing lots of homework on care and feeding of my future flockmate. First experience with a bird. Budgie or Cockatiel?
