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This is a great tutorial. It will take much longer than a week at my pace but Harry is making steady progress. He can follow my hand around and he lands back on the perch so far. The tricky part will be getting my large self out of Harry's way LOL.
I love your wooden dowel and pvc connector bird stand! Such a nice and simple, pracitcal, affordable birdy training tool to be sure!! You could do a few tutorials on DIY bird "accessories that I bet they would be Incredibly helpful to many!! .. ps.. I LOVE Your videos sooo much.. You are hands down my FAVORITE Bird training person to go to. You're a damn pro ! Please keep posting! You're my favorite and you've helped me and my birdies to understand and trust one another SOOO so very much!!!! I can't count how many times I've linked people to Your tutorials on fcbook budgie forums when people are asking for help because you're advice and videos are so incredibly kind, insightful, and also on a practical and succinct. You rock at this so much! Thank You!..
Amazing! I really love how it came out. You always tell step by step what to do which is really helpful! Btw congrats for almost 10 500 followers. Just 4 more. :D
Some birds may find moving your hand away mid-flight too scary. Something that can really help is instead of you turning, using a pole or cone or other object and moving around that. You are stationary, you just shift farther and farther around the cone, shaping them to fly around the cone/pole/whatever. Then you can fade out the pole, lowering it more and more until there is nothing left. You can even step in front of their "landing perch" and offer your hand as the new landing perch- getting a "A-to-A" flight. Trained greys, non-hand tame crows, and bumbly hyacinth macaw babies that way :)
hey do you have a video or could you make one of how to properly introduce a person's first parrotlet to their new home? also how to get a new bird back in their cage? I'm a few months away from getting my first parrotlet I need to be ready and your videos are very helpful
(I am a little late) the clicker is a sign to your bird that it succesfully did a trick and earned a treat. It also tells them that they did something wrong if they did the trick but didnt hear the click.
Hi, Love your videos! I have learned so much about being a good bird mom. I have a sort of lame question. I would like to do some trick training with my birds but I am super intimidated and not quite sure where to begin. I have two very tame female cockatiels between 1 and 2 years old. They know how to step up and are target trained( with a clicker and a target stick). They sort of know how to turn around on a perch following a target, but I haven't been able to fade out the target successfully. You have so many training videos I think would help me, but I literally can not decide where to begin. Can you recommend a relatively easy next trick? Maybe a training sequence? I also recently adopted an older male cockatiel. He is still just settling in and learning to trust me. Right now I am just working on getting him to take treats from my hand. Thanks in advance!
Jana Shaver Not a bird owner/trainer but I do train my rats, and I can tell you that spin, shake, and later wave are the simplest tricks out there. If your having trouble fading out the target, try simply luring your bird in a circle (hold the treats in your hand and guide your bird in a circle). Overtime, make your circles faster and higher above the birds head. Eventually, you'll be able to simply raise your hand and make a tight "circle" above their head, and they'll spin. Then, you can begin saying spin before you do the hand signal. Finally, you can just say spin, and if you've practiced enough, the bird will spin on cue.
Love watching your videos!! So informative. I just adopted a beautiful little 9 week old pacific parrotlet and named her Molly. I was wondering if you cover your birds at night and if you do what type of material do you use? Molly loves to nibble on anything and everything and likes to sleep butted right up to the edge of the cage and I'm concerned she might eat at whatever I cover her cage with and may get caught in threads or try to eat the material and choke. Over protective new birdie mom here, just want the best and keep her happy and healthy.
For my lovebird we cover him in a thin 0lain sheet do the edges go beyond his beak reach and then the winter we put a towel over top as well to keep him warm.
My two birds died like a year ago I'm going to get two new ones and I'm very exited! My two budgies used to ride my bike with me and never flew away! I loved my birds can't wait to get new ones 😆
How do you have your birds out abd about without having to worry about them chewing on things like lamp cords and stuff? Also how come your birds don't peck at the cameras?
@@hayley706 spray millet works like a charm on my birdies. I don't give it to them other than during training. ( I remove it from the stems you buy it on, then sieve out the chaff with some net fabric so I have nice tidy little tupperware bins full of it to train them with.. sounds like a lot more work than it actually is. i only have to do it once ever three months or so.. but they love spray millet like nothing else so.. /// am curious to try sunflower seeds.. or crushed walnut.. as i gave some walnut a while back and my one budgie lost her mind over it.. Had to take it away becuase she got so ravenous over it before she stuffed herself full as it's pretty fatty and she's already prone to being a fatty little budgie to begin with.. LOL That's def when you know you have a training treat on your hands!! LOL
Any ideas on how to teach that beaks hurt because when my parrotlets step up they pull themselves up by their beak they bite a little too hard. Any tips are greatly appreciated thank you!
Sarah Bourn if your bird bites you it's usually for attention. My best advice is if your bird bites you then you put the bird down and walk away because they'll know you don't like it. If you tell your bird not to they'll keep on doing it because your giving them the attention they want. If your bird has been doing it for a long time it might take longer for them to understand that they shouldn't bite you. That's my advice. Good Luck (P.S if it works write another comment😄)
If you still have this problem - give them perches with a rough surface (not sandpaper which is too abrasive for the feet) and wooden toys that they can destroy. Filing down the beak should keep it trim and not as sharp. Alternatively, re-teach step-up into a perch or your sleeve. Or always offer your hand lower than the bird, so they're stepping downwards - not upwards
Mine does that too but they don't hurt.. My budgie bite me in a way such that it never hurts, not a little also. When yours bites u, put them down on their perch and DO NOT GIVE THEM THEIR TREAT. Giving them the treat will be as a reward...
My IRN first was shy then I made him comfortable enough to perch in hand then few months after now he just steps up only to uses my hand as a jump up to fly off almost every time . Any way to make him stay with me
Trying to decide if I should get a Parrotlet or Love Bird. I eventually want more than one bird for an outdoor aviary. I'm told that Parrotlets do not get along with other birds. I just think the Parrotlets are soooo cute. Is the Parrotlet a one person Bird? If yes, are Love Birds just as "trainable"?
I'm trying to introduce my new young bird (4months old) to my old young bird that's actually 6½ months old, Indian Ringnecks, but, my old bird is fighting/attacking my new bird, it's like chasing away from it's perch, I don't cage my birds, it's wings are clipped, my new bird climbs to my old bird's cage instead of it's own all time and it's wantedly going towards old young bird, all time.
Sessions can be anywhere from 5-15 minutes, I wouldn’t exceed 15 minutes since birds tend to lose interest. Their attention spans seldom last longer than 15 and you need to end a session when they’re eager and engaged. When starting a session I will generally ask for what we left off with and gauge their response. If they lack understanding we back up a few steps until we find where they remember and work our way back up. Most of the time they will need a few back steps until they fully understand the concept
OMFG THAT LITTLE WAVE AT 2:15 IS SO FRICKIN CUTEEEE
This is a great tutorial. It will take much longer than a week at my pace but Harry is making steady progress. He can follow my hand around and he lands back on the perch so far. The tricky part will be getting my large self out of Harry's way LOL.
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I love your wooden dowel and pvc connector bird stand! Such a nice and simple, pracitcal, affordable birdy training tool to be sure!!
You could do a few tutorials on DIY bird "accessories that I bet they would be Incredibly helpful to many!! .. ps.. I LOVE Your videos sooo much.. You are hands down my FAVORITE Bird training person to go to. You're a damn pro ! Please keep posting! You're my favorite and you've helped me and my birdies to understand and trust one another SOOO so very much!!!!
I can't count how many times I've linked people to Your tutorials on fcbook budgie forums when people are asking for help because you're advice and videos are so incredibly kind, insightful, and also on a practical and succinct. You rock at this so much! Thank You!..
how you train your bird is really amazing! really step by step and patient! bravo!
I love flock talk. It is the best bird channel ever.
YOUR VIDEOS ARE GREATTTT
my mom taught our bird how to make r2d2 noises
Awwwwwwe so cute!
Katie KM he flew out the window 😢
@@koa1938 NO
@@koa1938 did u get him back
Aww in the outro Mia And Zeeby were preening each other
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You should do a video on the time the birds first met each other
Lanarama Dingdong 😂😂😂Was it like demonic rituals
Videos are Awesome...Thank you for Sharing so much. I am going to have so much fun with my babies when they arrive.
You are seriously just ...The Best!
I really love the room you have your birds in :D
CONGRATS ON 10K SUBS
Clicked this so fast lol. Thank you so much for this!
Amazing! I really love how it came out. You always tell step by step what to do which is really helpful! Btw congrats for almost 10 500 followers. Just 4 more. :D
2 more!
She got it!
YES!!!
Thanks so much for this! This will be so helpful for my parakeets!
I've just found your channel and I'm loving it. Beautiful birds and a beautiful owner :)
what food did you give it?
Wow... good job!
Some birds may find moving your hand away mid-flight too scary. Something that can really help is instead of you turning, using a pole or cone or other object and moving around that. You are stationary, you just shift farther and farther around the cone, shaping them to fly around the cone/pole/whatever. Then you can fade out the pole, lowering it more and more until there is nothing left. You can even step in front of their "landing perch" and offer your hand as the new landing perch- getting a "A-to-A" flight. Trained greys, non-hand tame crows, and bumbly hyacinth macaw babies that way :)
hey do you have a video or could you make one of how to properly introduce a person's first parrotlet to their new home? also how to get a new bird back in their cage? I'm a few months away from getting my first parrotlet I need to be ready and your videos are very helpful
Wow very smart and very nice video
im a big fan ✋ keep it up 💪❤
I️ loved the “loop” trick and the “hang” truck in the Cool Bird Tricks video, how did you do it?
OMG YOUR SOOO AMAZING!!!!
Could you do a video about clicker training :D
I believe the clicker is actually the bridge beetween the treat and the trick
(I am a little late) the clicker is a sign to your bird that it succesfully did a trick and earned a treat. It also tells them that they did something wrong if they did the trick but didnt hear the click.
My budgies gets scared of the click XD
1) this is an amazing video. 2) your very pretty❤️ 3) your birds are cute. 4) HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS?!?
I'm getting 8 parakeet this Saturday and I am so excited to teach them laps thanks. I watch your videos a lot
are they alive
Vraiment cool merci ❤
fantastic 🤓👍. thanks....
Where did you get the bag that is holding the treats?
Hi, Love your videos! I have learned so much about being a good bird mom. I have a sort of lame question. I would like to do some trick training with my birds but I am super intimidated and not quite sure where to begin. I have two very tame female cockatiels between 1 and 2 years old. They know how to step up and are target trained( with a clicker and a target stick). They sort of know how to turn around on a perch following a target, but I haven't been able to fade out the target successfully. You have so many training videos I think would help me, but I literally can not decide where to begin. Can you recommend a relatively easy next trick? Maybe a training sequence?
I also recently adopted an older male cockatiel. He is still just settling in and learning to trust me. Right now I am just working on getting him to take treats from my hand.
Thanks in advance!
Jana Shaver Not a bird owner/trainer but I do train my rats, and I can tell you that spin, shake, and later wave are the simplest tricks out there. If your having trouble fading out the target, try simply luring your bird in a circle (hold the treats in your hand and guide your bird in a circle). Overtime, make your circles faster and higher above the birds head. Eventually, you'll be able to simply raise your hand and make a tight "circle" above their head, and they'll spin. Then, you can begin saying spin before you do the hand signal. Finally, you can just say spin, and if you've practiced enough, the bird will spin on cue.
I love your birds I SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANNEL
Could you make a tutorial of how to tame your bird?
where do you get your budgie harnesses and what food do you use for your budgies flock talk ?
What do you treat with? And can I use it with my Green cheek conure?
What is it you give your bird as a treat?
THIS CAME OUT ON MY B-DAY.....
is there a way to do a circle from the hand instead of the perch?
Omg I love you
Love watching your videos!! So informative.
I just adopted a beautiful little 9 week old pacific parrotlet and named her Molly.
I was wondering if you cover your birds at night and if you do what type of material do you use? Molly loves to nibble on anything and everything and likes to sleep butted right up to the edge of the cage and I'm concerned she might eat at whatever I cover her cage with and may get caught in threads or try to eat the material and choke.
Over protective new birdie mom here, just want the best and keep her happy and healthy.
For my lovebird we cover him in a thin 0lain sheet do the edges go beyond his beak reach and then the winter we put a towel over top as well to keep him warm.
What specific type of parrotlet are they? I am looking to get a bird and they look adorable and on the quieter side
May I know where you got this training perch?
Thanks for the lesson. My daughter and I are having a blast learning, and teaching kiko tricks.
My two birds died like a year ago I'm going to get two new ones and I'm very exited! My two budgies used to ride my bike with me and never flew away! I loved my birds can't wait to get new ones 😆
LOOK AT DA FLICK OF DA WRIST
Hello, what is the reward bait you give to forpus birds?
When's your next video
OMG
Wht do u give ur bird for treat suggest us
Could you please do a new room tour. That's
Have you done a body language vid? I would love if you could teach us!😊
I think it's specialized for every bird and it's not something you can cover in a video
I subscribed! I have a budgie but I don't know how to tame it!
All these tricks work with bigger birds like amazons right??
Hey flock talk I really want to know who’s or what is making that click noise every time the parrot completes or does something right
im getiing a budgie and i think im way to exited ughhh they are so cuteeeeeeee
Just say me wht do u prefer for treats
How much time do you spend in each sesison?
How do you have your birds out abd about without having to worry about them chewing on things like lamp cords and stuff? Also how come your birds don't peck at the cameras?
Fiona Teng I know right?
hey i have a question , i am willing to buy a parakiet but .... do these birds poop every where in your house ?
Zeep no but sometimes they do because their flight wings could be to long
What do you use for treats
Muito bom!!
i have 2 the same birds but one is 1 years old and the adher 6 months.. but problem is they are very wild..is imposibole to learn like that..
I realize the other bird trust you so much I does not even care how fast you move it’s just so com
Which thing you grab in your hand
Love the video. One question tho. What treats do you use and we're do you get them?
She has a vid in her "Topics" playlist if you want to check it out
Sunflower seeds
@@hayley706 spray millet works like a charm on my birdies. I don't give it to them other than during training. ( I remove it from the stems you buy it on, then sieve out the chaff with some net fabric so I have nice tidy little tupperware bins full of it to train them with.. sounds like a lot more work than it actually is. i only have to do it once ever three months or so.. but they love spray millet like nothing else so.. /// am curious to try sunflower seeds.. or crushed walnut.. as i gave some walnut a while back and my one budgie lost her mind over it.. Had to take it away becuase she got so ravenous over it before she stuffed herself full as it's pretty fatty and she's already prone to being a fatty little budgie to begin with.. LOL That's def when you know you have a training treat on your hands!! LOL
Use your bird's favorite treat and train when they're hungry.
I cut apples or strawberries and use them
What do you use as an award and what do you use a clicker?
Any ideas on how to teach that beaks hurt because when my parrotlets step up they pull themselves up by their beak they bite a little too hard. Any tips are greatly appreciated thank you!
Sarah Bourn if your bird bites you it's usually for attention.
My best advice is if your bird bites you then you put the bird down and walk away because they'll know you don't like it. If you tell your bird not to they'll keep on doing it because your giving them the attention they want. If your bird has been doing it for a long time it might take longer for them to understand that they shouldn't bite you.
That's my advice. Good Luck
(P.S if it works write another comment😄)
Hermione Granger Their bird is not biting them. Read again. Their bird is climbing up on their finger using their beak and it hurts a bit.
If you still have this problem - give them perches with a rough surface (not sandpaper which is too abrasive for the feet) and wooden toys that they can destroy. Filing down the beak should keep it trim and not as sharp. Alternatively, re-teach step-up into a perch or your sleeve. Or always offer your hand lower than the bird, so they're stepping downwards - not upwards
Mine does that too but they don't hurt.. My budgie bite me in a way such that it never hurts, not a little also.
When yours bites u, put them down on their perch and DO NOT GIVE THEM THEIR TREAT. Giving them the treat will be as a reward...
Your birds are pretty skilled
please show a video about hand tamil its help full for beginers
My IRN first was shy then I made him comfortable enough to perch in hand then few months after now he just steps up only to uses my hand as a jump up to fly off almost every time . Any way to make him stay with me
could you please make a tutorial for how to make birds dancing im very wonder about it :D
what's the bird you are using in this video ?
I did the same thing but the station was my right hand and I recalled it to the left. Then after like a week or so my bird started doing it on command
what treat is being used?
hey flock talk
What is the first trick I should teach my baby bird?
Awesome bird
Could you skip the body turn step by just moving your hand in a circle while facing the perch?
Thanks so much for replying! I've always wanted to learn this trick. How would you adapt it to making laps from perching on your hand?
Any good treat recommendations ?????
She has a topics video on that in her "Topics" playlist
Is that also possibel with budgies?
What kind of treat's are you feeding ??
It's like a superpower !
i love you
Finally
Trying to decide if I should get a Parrotlet or Love Bird. I eventually want more than one bird for an outdoor aviary. I'm told that Parrotlets do not get along with other birds. I just think the Parrotlets are soooo cute. Is the Parrotlet a one person Bird? If yes, are Love Birds just as "trainable"?
I just got 2 parrotlets!!! It's their 2nd day as babies and they already know how to perch 😃😃
I'm trying to introduce my new young bird (4months old) to my old young bird that's actually 6½ months old, Indian Ringnecks, but, my old bird is fighting/attacking my new bird, it's like chasing away from it's perch, I don't cage my birds, it's wings are clipped, my new bird climbs to my old bird's cage instead of it's own all time and it's wantedly going towards old young bird, all time.
Could you figure out how to show us how to do the "throw the bird" trick without actually throwing the bird?
Love your videos! Just curious on how many birds you have? I saw one in the background of the video. Keep making these videos, thanks!❤️❤️
Plz cage cage tour
What bird do u have
Nice....
What’s the clicking noise your making?
When you start new session, do you pick up from where you left the last time or do you do the process from the beginning to recap?
Also, Hi, and great video! :D
Sessions can be anywhere from 5-15 minutes, I wouldn’t exceed 15 minutes since birds tend to lose interest. Their attention spans seldom last longer than 15 and you need to end a session when they’re eager and engaged.
When starting a session I will generally ask for what we left off with and gauge their response. If they lack understanding we back up a few steps until we find where they remember and work our way back up. Most of the time they will need a few back steps until they fully understand the concept
Thank you for the reply!
Look at the flick of the rist, look at the rist
My budgie petey almost learned this is one training session, it really amazed me
dont you get dizzy??
I have a budgie and she will sometimes would shiver I would put on the heater and it still shivers but that is so often
Budgie Lover567 I think it means sometimes she's happy! maybe I'm wrong but I don't think it's heat