Papaya The Unfriendly Green Cheek Conure
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- čas přidán 6. 03. 2022
- Attempting to work with this green cheek conure named Papaya whose owner couldn't be here so her husband stood in for her but has zero relationship with this bird. Also, all the foundations are off entirely as far as diet and sleep schedules so the food motivation is non-existent.
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I remember when I had a conure...when they start strutting your in trouble 😂
"Did she bite you?"
"Uh huh."
🤣 #dayinthelife
Papayas dad has such a good attitude, what a sweet guy 😊
Every time I see you guys handling a bird like this I wish you were around years ago when I inherited my grandmother's barely tame cockatiel. He was so angry with us. It took me three months to get him just sitting on my hand. I probably could have gotten him to do it in a day with target training. In the end he became a very sweet bird. He passed a few years ago at 29. We still miss him.
Thats a long lifespan for a cockatiel, great job!
I feel for you, my cockatiel Shelby live to be almost 30 years old.
I hope that my birds live to an old age like that as well. I hope my Senegal makes it to 45, my African Gray to 60, and my Catalina Macaw to 70.
@@MrJdubz100 I hope they do live a good long life, They say the environment in which they live makes a huge difference. Shelby was never caged unless I went somewhere or at night, His cage was clean and he ate a lot of fruits and veggies.
Thank you for your videos.
Holy smokes! Cockatiel has a lifespan of 20 years tops and you've had yours lived 29. Wow you were very lucky
Honestly this was very inspiring to see you guys can’t always fix a problem in one day! I’ve been working with my bird well over a year (he lived in a pet shop 16 years with a plethora of phobias and pretty much untame). I sometimes have trouble relating to your videos because you always progress so quick where I usually cannot. Can’t wait to eventually sign up for a masterclass when I feel ready
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I have the same thing with my 2 rescues that were kept in TINY cages alone for a decade, they're an emotional mess & progress is SO slow! Just at 1 year on now & I still can't get them to step up & allow me to move my hand while on it, slightest movement from me & we have a total refusal to step up with the second foot for weeks, often a total refusal to train at all if I move my hand, or even if my hand accidentally slips when I didn't mean to move it. I was watching the way Jamieleigh was able to get this bird onto her hand & thinking "wow, wish I could do that!" NO WAY will mine do that! 1 flies off, the other can't fly, so she gives me a tyrant of abuse if I dare try anything like that, along with gentle biting to reinforce her vocal message that it's not ok & she's going to sulk or bite for a week if I persist
I did chat with a local rescue group, they assured me that with birds like mine (and yours) slow is normal & good trainers will take it slowly, at the bird's pace & don't feel upset or bad watching others moving much faster, this is just how it is with birds like ours. I still find this channel useful, mine will very happily target train, so that makes a BIG difference in managing them, SO glad I learnt about that as a technique to manage birds & build a relationship with them, but I just can't move at the speed most of their birds do, they're just too emotionally damaged for that to be possible :( They just can't trust humans after what they've been through, but they certainly are far happier & more confident & adventurous & "bird like" now than a year ago, so I look at that & feel happy with what I've achieved & I'm sure yours is the same too :)
@@mehere8038 Thank you for sharing your story! I agree progress is slow with these guys, and I also have found lots of things useful on the Bird Tricks channel that help me! Just takes a lot longer to implement in my birds life than probably a younger bird.
My biggest obstacles with my bird is stepping up, trust and water. He will step up if he is in the mood, or if we are in a training session he will show interest in stepping up for a treat. As for trust, he does love me and we have a bond, he just does not trust hands at all. If I move my hand wrong or too fast or if I accidentally touch him while changing food/water/etc he is instantly very defensive and angry. Where he was kept in the pet shop was open area, so I am willing to bet he was poked and prodded and touched by people in his years there, so not sure I will ever work past this fear.
He also has an insane fear of water/new things, so getting him to bathe has not been easy and I still have not had success with it yet (one day!).
But he's a happy guy, I have an amazing huge elaborate set up filled with ladders/climbing (since he still hasn't grown in his flight feathers), he loves doing tricks for treats and being around but not on me and my boyfriend.
If you're afraid of the bird, they sense this, and some of them can be jerks and will use it to traumatize you further. Trick is to start with a point where both of you feel safe...
@@wheelburd6005 I just wrote too much to post :( So here it is in 2 parts (if you want to read so much, if not, I understand, I got carried away :))
yeh age is a factor too, local bird rescue here said they often have major issues with getting older birds to play with toys in particular. One of mine I think is older than the other, his preferred path in life is to be a couch potato, eating non-stop to total obesity & then just sitting & watching birds on tv & sleeping all day lol & if I try to get him to lose weight, he just sits there & cries non-stop & makes me think he's in pain. Challenging to deal with emotionally to say the least!
Mine have actually got over their "hand" issues, probably much easier in my setting than yours though, with the pet shop background. I switched from hands to face & my aggressive one had clearly never had faces near him before, cause no doubt people feared they'd be shredded lol no idea if that works for you or not? I actually tried to use my shoulder in the place of my hands, that failed, but former aggressive one will happily "give me a kiss" on cue (licking my nose) & he'll also reliably do "eyebrow" on command too, but he'd rather my nose to eyebrow. My other one likes preening my eyebrows, so that was why I tried that with this one, cause I want him to learn to accept & give touch to me or his cagemate, cause he just won't, so the "kissing" I figured was a good start. I got him to do that by putting yogurt onto my nose & eyebrow btw & then moved on to giving it after he licked my face without it.
I can kinda relate on the accidental touching, except my girl has taken care of that lol she deliberately "accidentally" knocks him all the time & has managed to get him used to it due to how constantly she does it. he still won't preen her or allow her to preen him, but he's pretty tollerant of knocks now, initially he absolutely threw a massive wobbly over the slightest contact.
Food & water knocks I don't have to worry about though lol I get bitten (hard) WAY before I get to that point! Food I attach to the large opening cage door, so only touch it while it's outside the cage, water, I have 2 little dishes & have had to work a LOT to be allowed to change them without mega bites! My boy's REALLY territorial over his water, water sets off his hormones & if I'm not really watching what I'm doing, I'm bleeding! I've largely sorted that one now too, again with his favourite treat, yoghurt, putting that onto my hands while doing his water, so he licks instead of biting & then later giving yoghurt if he didn't bite while I took a water out, then again when I put one in, then repeat with the other one, then it starts to become obvious how he's become so fat too doesn't it lol. I only do the yoghurt sporadically now, but enough to keep him not biting when I do the waters & lots of positive reinforcement/verbal rewards too. My girl now tends to be more cage territorial than my boy! & if she decides I'm not allowed to put my hand in & squawks at me over it, then my (or rather her) boy will come over & reinforce her authority with hard biting, but yeh, overall I think I have a different issue to you on this one, if I'm touching food or water in the cage, their eyes are fixed on me & the slightest false move & I know it! No danger of knocking them lol
New things fear I have the same issue, although my girls is starting to settle on that now. Having 2 really helps on this one, as they tend to take turns at being brave & if one does something, the other follows. I actually would recommend considering a second bird when dealing with abused ones, I really do think it makes a big difference & makes them easier to manage, they just get so much confidence from sharing the fear & feeling like they're not alone in protecting themselves & their cage/home etc from these horrible big giants (even when they have a trust with you, like I think both our birds do, I still think a second bird makes a big difference - one of mine flew off a while back & my other was beside herself & SO stressed when I tried to do her food or water & she didn't have her partner there to help defend the cage. I ended up putting her to bed really early & basically keeping her in the dark until I managed to get him back, cause she was just SO stressed over trying to defend her cage from me alone, even though she had a strong bond with me. Note though that my 2 came to me together & had gone through their traumatic life before me together, so that may be a contributing factor in my case & might not definitely work the same way for you.
I'm so glad you worked with a spicy green cheek conure. They really can be such little devils sometimes, especially when they're hormonal. They may be small, but they have SO MUCH attitude and sass. I have two girls, one is a rescue (she has issues and I'm working with her) and the other I got as a baby and she is very sweet and expressive. The rescue was introduced, as a baby, in a vet tech school. She spent 4 months being handled by students every day so they could learn how to work with birds. While I understand it's beneficial for the students, it is very detrimental for birds. She has many issues and I've had her for 3 years now. She learn that giving signs yields no results and that biting to her full force is the only answer. She started to give subtle warnings which I, to the best of my ability, reward by stopping/removing my hand. She's very quick to go from subtle warning to killer bite. My other GCC, who I had as a young bird, doesn't have any of those issues. She's so easy to read and gives super clear warnings. It's challenging to re-wire habits and behaviours.
Ha! 'Spicy' is a good way to describe it, green cheeks can definitely be lil devils and I often feel like most training videos are not aimed at their personality type. Even clicker training is a struggle because my older gcc is not very treat-motivated. I've learned to measure progress in months and years rather than days or weeks!
I'm in the exact same situation as you--my older boy is like that because of being handled by all the kids in his first home, to say he's a jerk would be an understatement. But I love him to pieces, and he's trained me not to incur his wrath. My younger is the sweetheart, but coming up on 1 year old, so we'll see if that lasts through adolescence. Unfortunately the eldest is pretty aggressive towards him so I still have to keep them separated (and yet he wants to always be in the same room so clearly considers him part of the flock.) I often think life would've been much easier with cockatiels or lovebirds but I love these little sass monsters...
Papaya: "I do what I want! I Get what I want."
This is really good to show people how important diet is. The diabetic analogy is a great way to explain and show the importance that the fat content and treat concept of meals is.
An example is my bird was 34 at the time and she had never laid an egg. My brother was watching my bird and because he changed her diet by giving her peanuts it made her system so hyped up her body was confused and it had so much excess fat that it promoted her eggs. Unfortunately, he didn’t notice her behavior shift and signs that something was different didn’t phase him. So this teaches us bird owners the importance of really learning how and what little differences mean and that paying attention closely is so important. Because they are dependent upon us to feed them to keep them safe and clean we should always try our best to pay as much attention to them as another human. It saddens me that people buy birds expecting them to behave like birds they see elsewhere. Its sad that when people get birds they often don’t realize how much it takes of us to help them make social with us first so they can be social with others.
It’s sad 😢so many birds are rehomed and neglected by their owners. Even a well trained socially integrated bird can revert backwards very very quickly. It’s not something you can just do on weekends. Its daily. Just like if we want to be healthy we have to shower daily and brush our teeth at least twice a day a pet bird needs to have human contact every day and more than one interaction. You wouldn’t only say good morning to your spouse or child its something that is on going.
I had no idea birds needed so much training and care. I was thinking of getting a bird for my classroom but no way! Wouldn't be a good idea. Thanks for the video.
Greencheeks can be amazing birds.
More green cheek content!!! Yes!
That guy is oblivious to details with the chop stick and all cues from the bird and statements from Dave. Dave says keep it out of site yet he waves it around like a conductor. A hard road ahead there because so much time needs to be spent training the owner.
This bird is totally taking charge!
I absolutely love these green cheek videos!!! I had a one named Rae. She was great with everyone 99% of the time, but once she aged to adulthood she decided to hold a grudge on one person in the house at a time. I would successfully train her out of it, and then she’d switch to someone else. It became a sort of game for my family of trying to figure out who would incur her wrath next. Thankfully, she responded really well to training, but we never did figure out how to get rid of the behavior completely, haha
That is literally my bird! Idk what to do anymore
@@fabiolamartinez6897 does your bird train out of it well? The more other people in the family interact with your bird, the better they will be about not being mean! But it was definitely hard
I'm not sure how to feel about this...
What a cute baby!
My green cheek Rio is pretty aggressive but also obedient. I can always divert his aggression by asking him to do a trick like step up. He's like "I'm mad I'm going to bite." to "Oh you're going to ask me to do stuff and I get treats? OK let's do that instead". It's been a real challenge and I really owe Bird Tricks for showing me the way. I would not have as well behaved green cheek without their videos.
Me looking at my Sun Conure who bites me for holding a spoon: hey look it’s you :)
I have never owned a bird before but we acquired a 6 week old green cheeked conure for our autisic son as a support companion... We've had it for 6 months now and I am absolutely blown away by how friendly and loving and completely without fear it is. It was hand raised from birth and is so loving and interested in everyone that comes into the room. It is definately so much more than just a bird it actually has an amasing personality and sense of humour...
I have to conures for my autistic son he is high functioning aspergers but it's like the birds sence something an stick to him like velcro but it has given him responsibility he feeds changes water there actually a true blessing
I am autistic too I love birds 😊 We get along very well for some reason
she conure took the coach hostage!!!!!
This was so interesting and inspiring. That is the feistiest little conure I've ever seen - I wouldn't go anywhere near that girl! The vibes she's giving!!
But I can see that her owners are so ready and willing to do what's right by her and I believe that they will have success if they make the suggested changes!! So - best of luck, Papaya and co!
Thank goodness for BirdTricks! Great class, and Thanks for the upload.
I know people aren’t for this but when my bird got aggressive my vet gave him a partial wing clip where he could flutter places, but not ascend, and immediately I could work with him without the aggression. He relied on me and we built a strong bond at that time, and I never clipped him again. I wonder if this is ok for those birds that have realllly bad habits formed over a long period…?? I see people who say they worked for years and this worked so fast given I put the time in post PARTIAL clip. Super curious about expert opinions on this!
Iv had green cheeks for many many years. I knew there was going to be an issue before the cage was even opened, the posture, the attitude, the staring 😅😂
I’ve been binge watching these videos for 2 days. I guess I should subscribe, eh?! 😅😊❤
So true about the diet, i follow your system, and we are all happy. One thing though, have patience, things will get better with change of diet and time, it is not a quick change. ❤
Conure Parrots 🦜 are one of my favourites 😍
It’s so nice to see people trying so hard
We had a very friendly conure "Micky" that realy love people.She sadly passed away four mounths ago,and we feldt sorry for her mate to be alone so we bought two rescue conures to give him company.The new conure "Maggie" only like my wife and she is biting me if I´m getting to close to her or the other birds.I just try to stay away from them so they can calm down.......I just speak a little to them,but I don´t go near them or theír cage....It´s not like when I had Kimmy.She was with me all the time......she never bite me,but she was chewing up all my t-shirts around my neck ,she go with me everywere sitting on my sholder🙂I was mad at her for doing that chewing,😭but I think she did it because she like me.Now she´s gone and I miss my little bird Kimmy every day!!!
You want to talk to her and she's not there. I'm 😞
I have a quaker parrot who is just as unfriendly as this guy. I rescued mine from the Humane Society, and the people who brought him in were feeding him Cheerios and black sunflower seeds. I got him on sfs right away along with pellets. It didn't help hardly at all. I lock him into my laundry room every night and he's usually in there for well over 12 hours for sleep. He will bite me any chance he gets. I've tried several times to try and work with him but he viciously attacks the stick and the clicker seems to scare him so I put that behind my back when I try to use it. He's an older guy- over 20 years old- who doesn't fly at all. The vet says he's in fine shape and thinks the reason he doesn't fly is because of the cataracts that he has. I would have liked to have a bird that I could interact with, but at this point I'm just trying to give him the best life he could have-
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Personally, I'd get him another bird friend. Some birds just can't trust humans again after what they've been through. My 2 rescues came to me together, from the same place, but in separate little cages. I put them in together, in a new, bigger neutral territory cage & they have issues together at times, but absolutely want to be together & work together to defend THEIR cage & they kinda take turns of being the courageous one & protecting the other when they're having a bad day. If your bird has vision issues in particular, I'm thinking they would probably love to have a bird friend in with them to be their eyes & make sure they were safe. Would have to be a bird they got along with of course, but if it was, that would probably make all the difference to yours & make it feel safe, having the other bird watching out for it.
Meanwhile, I guess you will have got some great tips from this video on how to manage the target training aggression, with just keeping the target stick largely out of reach, so your bird can't aggressively grab it :)
& yeh, clickers are scary. I needed to use one to be able to signal the exact moments I was looking for with mine, so I persevered, also keeping it distanced & covered to reduce the sound initially & the other thing I did was to only use it initially on already mastered skills they were really confident with & they got a really loud "GOOD GIRL" during teh click, to muffle the click sound & add the reinforcement & they got their super dooper treat of yogurt along with the clicker at first, to learn that clicker meant "really really really good". Took a while (months of the above), but when I use the clicker now, they know it means "good" not something to be scared of
I gave my cockatiel a few plain cherrios yesterday for the first time
I’m absolutely loving these!!!!! Thank you! ❤
such a cutie, I'm happy the owners are getting help and also helping the bird in that way
Papaya is so hyper and tense. I love this video. It is not so easy to train a birdie.
I love seeing these green cheek videos ❤️❤️
Hey this is Bob in Connecticut good morning well my green cheek conure is my best friend his name is Spidey and he sleeps on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet I do not cage any of my birds I don’t believe in that. He says hi baby because that’s what I call him he doesn’t say Spidey he does bite sometimes playfully. He is better than any animal I ever had. Definitely my best friend he is always with me at all times unless he is eating or sleeping in the medicine cabinet
Nice to see him play
My GCC is just as fiesty as this!!! She is a handful. Thank you for this
So much valuable information here! It would be great to have an update on various birds that have been featured. Maybe one video with multiple updates?
conures are my fav birds i love them so much ! i have a rainbow budgie and hes so messy but i love em
Thank you for sharing
She reminds me a lot of my green cheek. Hopefully the target takes them where they need to be
Awesome class
Typically a peaceful conure, my friends tiny green cheek would randomly make me bleed every time I visited. Tiny beaks of fury they can be.
I'm just sitting here reading the chick in the background's body language... she's totally crushing over you man lol Sorry, I watch people naturally and she was flipping her hair to the other side so her neck facing you was exposed... watching you when you were talking but tried hard not to smile. Its flattering. Its human nature. All good.
Anyway, this is one fired up conure. I hope birds like papaya are able to be trained to a tame level. Crazy how each bird has their own personality.
Thanks for all you guys do. Birds are a very niche hobby/topic but its clear the niche is growing. Keep it up!
Pa la Papaya!
Oh my gosh.. this is my Green Cheek to a to a tee!! once hand raised and friendly. Now wild and mad. :(
I've been working with a yellow-sided gcc that continually had her wings and nails clipped back too far, pin feathers hand plucked, allowed to free roam all day - but had minimal interactions with owners, no training, poor diet, small cage with only plastic toys and mirrors... It has taken almost a year for her to become more trusting of humans, but she is finally comfortable and balanced enough to start flying around on her own now, and I can see that it has substantially improved her mood -- which has made training/general interactions much smoother.
I once had a green cheek conure. The worst type of bird to have. It became meaner every year, hard biting. I eventually gave it to my ex monther-in-law after her husband passed away. I don't miss the bird at all. Never again!
😵💫 thats y ur having lots of Ex
Good video! 👍👍👍
Sent this to my husband. My GC is good with me and my daughter but he does not like my husband.
My green cheek is exactly the same as far as biting and flying on you . But he will attack if you don't watch and he will draw blood. We've been working on him using the same technique,thanks for sharing by the way. He's getting better. Sometimes he just likes to be a bully 😂
My Senegal is a bully. She bullies my macaw and my macaw is terrified of her.
I would love to see y'all work one on one with this birdie
I have a bird just like Papaya, it wants to interact but it bites very hard, draws blood. What can I do to break it from biting?
what the video showed lol. Do target training through the cage bars & make your bird touch it with it's tongue to break the aggression connection. Wasn't that the main point of the video? That's what I got from it anyway, but I guess everyone gets different things from the various videos :)
My hands used to be COVERED in bites, but I VERY rarely get bitten now, at least not hard, I do still get gentle warning bites that would become hard bites if I ignored. I did the stuff in this video to break it (from other videos, not the first time it's been talked about). I also regularly put treats like yogurt onto my hand if I'm going to put it into their cage & know they're being cage territorial & are in a biting mood & they just lick my fingers instead & I give them verbal rewards for it, so they've learnt not to bite, but the stick & stretching to touch it, as shown in this video, is the easiest way to break the cycle imo
OMG....ur video's are hilarious 😂...
I wish I could find a trainer where I live
My GCC is like Velcro to me but gets jealous of anyone else especially my grown kids! He is nippy but that is my fault as I had no idea what I was doing when he was a baby, he is 14 years ago now! He is hormonal at times, I don’t encourage that, it is better now he is older. He loves his night cage and bedtime. So clever and he will do mostly anything for a piece of walnut. He steps up most of the time unless something more interesting is happening.
So I need help then. We got our oldest daughter a GCC and we’re giving her your diet but we are a family of five in a small house and have a hard time getting the bird sleep in our chaotic home with no quiet place to be. Does that mean we should rehome her so she can have a better life? That would be the worst case scenario obviously because our daughter is already attached to her bird in every way. She’s our first bird so we still have a lot to learn.
The conure is cute.
Love your vids! My eclectus injured his foot recently and I think it started a picking phase. Is this common and what can I do to discourage picking? I did take him to the vet who thought his chop diet was good along with some occasional pellets. Behaviorally he has been great though, sweetheart as always!
my bird is named papaya to, she never bites me but she bites everyone else.
She acts just like my green cheek! Ill try to do the same thing you do and i hope shell be better with training thank you for the vidoe :)
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I'd love for you two to meet my GCC, Archie. He's lovely with me but HATES strangers! (probably because I got him just before the lockdown and he barely got to meet any people in the interrim) I've been watching for ages and wondered how to deal with it!
If you ever tour in the UK let us know!! :D
Many years ago my mother bought me a parakeet. We fed him bird food. When he was tired, he would say “Go to sleep, go to sleep”. If we didn’t immediately put a cover over his cage, he would shake his cage until the door opened and he would fly out. So whenever he wanted to go to sleep, we would run and cover him. He lived 11 years ( from first grade when I was seven until I graduated from high school) and I loved him so much. He was a gentle soul. He didn’t have any formal training but he knew what we wanted from him and he did it. He would kiss us goodnight and only bit one person my uncle who would tease and say he was going to make bird soup. He was joking and one night he tried to kiss him threw the cage and my bird bit him and wouldn’t let go. Needless to say, my uncle never said that again.
I am a new owner of a 4 month Green cheek Conure. He hasn't eaten much food and has a bad odor. He is very tame but hasn't stepped on my finger. I let him out and he cannot fly, the wings were clipped. I do have a bird bath with a mirror and hopefully the bath may remove the odor. I don't know where to start. Any comments would help and I got him a veterinarian today.I love the bird already but I just want the best for the bird and just trying to learn off other owners what to do.
My bird wont even takenthe treat from you
I have a biter too. Fortunately he understands English and daily routines. He is target trained. When he asks for a sink bath I get his bowl out, put a ladder from his T perch that goes to the bowl and he bathes. That little T perch is what I use instead of my finger. He is free flighted. Has tree perches and his favorite driftwood looking perch for the top of the budgie cages where he loves to sit to look outside. He comes to me when I call too and rides on my shoulder without biting. We interact like normal except I can’t touch him and only give him a treat when he’s on the perch and has to stretch out to take the treat. I have to do this or he’ll bite the blood out of me. He was a rehome. Lady sold him to the pet shop. Didn’t want him, said he was mean. I’ve now had him 6 years. Only thing stupid he does is dive bomb my Grey I acquired a year ago.
The two of you really make me want to have a bird in my life again. Only this time, I want to totally train my bird properly. Most important, I need to get make sure they receive the proper diet. I always did well with sleep part. That I would continue.
I think I just found a new series to binge especially if you guys cover Conure biting. 💥 I need to wear a cotton glove to handle my bird but not my brother who Sunny is positively infatuated with/possessive of. She’ll hang out with me durning the week fine (can’t be on my shoulder lest I have no ear lobes left) instead she rides around on my bucket hat (see thumbnail) that she can’t bite through for whatever arbitrary reason.
I am so glad that I had found your channel years ago and I have used your videos as a tool to help me be successful with my own green cheek conure. He is a great little family bird because of you guys!
I wish you came to Canada.
Good morning I love your videos, we just got a 2 month old Sun Conure, I was wondering what are achievable goals with her stage mentally? In addition on how to teach her head scratches are a positive thing, she was hand raised and steps up beautifully, we also have your pellets on order to fix her seed diet from the store we got her. Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🙏 😊
This type of video is one of my favorites. Love to see different birds, different owners, and different problems that can occur! So interesting! :) :) :) Keep training those humans!
Lot of work, but lots of paitience might be worth the final outcome lol
The bird is bound to reach for your hand with her beak so she can hold it to climb on. Take the bite & have done with it. Show the bird her bite isn't working if aggression is intended. At least the guy isn't afraid of the tiny bird.
She’s so cute. She can bite me
I had to train my green cheek to step up to a perch. He will step up for me on my hand but even i rarely have him step up from his cage or play stand that way. It’s his safety net and he will step up for anyone on a perch now. It stop about 60% of his bites.
Best take away.. Diet and sleep! 👍
and do stick training. Amazes me how many people don't get that bit & are asking questions in the comments on how to fix things that are so easily fixed by doing the stick training the video demonstrated
Yeah man. I haven't had success yet with target training my budgies, but I have two male budgies whose hormones got way out of control and they were fighting to the death. I started to put them to bed a lot earlier and wake them up a lot later in the day and it changed everything. No more fights, no more humping, no more aggressive behaviour. We are now working to get them on pellets and I would like to start them on the seasonal feeding system. It's amazing how one simple change of sleep times was able to alter their behaviour so dramatically, I am certain the rest of the steps will work too.
I'm birdsitting a green cheek and am actually pretty suprised at all the stories of agressive birds here. I had less then a week of him (?) biting down too hard and me telling him "Ow" up to three consecutive times (before throwing him away). and now he knows i'm a complete wimp and a single mild nibble is enough to communicate i'm doing something he doesn't like.
We're blind to many of the communication but try to make the most of what you can ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
its weird because ive worked with 100s of birds and ones that act like that get put on the back for 10 mins held gen down and then they are new animals i have yet to have it not work you might have to do it a few times but it works
That snake at the end is a beauty. What is it, a boa? python?
Baby ball python
What wold be the best diet for a green cheek?
He's so cute and fiesty
Is the treat a safflower seed for the conure?
My green cheek is just like papaya except that he's terrified of the target stick and when he bites he doesn't let go. 😣
Did you ever hear any updates on Papaya?
Question: what would be a good “beginner” bird?
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Whit what can I replace the clic whit my gcc he’s become extremely aggressive whenever he hear it he want to attack it so impossible to use it for teaching
I had one that had been housed with another male, and as they became sexually mature at the age of 2, started fighting with each other. I got him because she was terrified of him. I got him to stop biting me and was getting him to step up onto my arm, but an attack to my Amazon’s face took off his beak. Taking care of that beak and syringe feeding him and weighing him twice a day made him used to my hands. He steps up now and stays on the scale without a basket. I stopped bites by saying NO BITES, ONLY KISSES. after a bite, I would say this and then offer a finger, just close enough to lightly touch but not purchase, and when this happened, I would say GOOD KISS and reward. Eventually, the biting stopped and the scars stopped.
My Quaker still won’t step up but he doesn’t bite, or if he does, does not break skin. He used to bite to the bone.
What's a good treat
I have a 6 month old green cheek that I have only had about a week. He is a totally sweet baby and has been handled and is really friendly. He has a bad habit of nibbling on my ear and holding on to it which makes me nervous but he doesn’t do it in an aggressive way at all. What can I do about that? He also picks at my skin tags at times too.
How do you deal with a Mitred Conure who likes to bite when on you. He gets 12 hours sleep, and his diet consist of fresh vegetables, fruit, seeds and grains. He is 19 months old. He steps up and does have free time out of his cage 12 hours a day.
My sun conure has been attacking and biting my 5 year old grandson. How do I stop that? He will fly to him and bite. He repeatedly attacks and draws blood.
Please help!
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Kiko (my 1yr gcc) is usually aggressive towards strangers, to combat this whenever I have guests over I try to get Kiko to do trick on their arm or to fly from me to them. I'm hoping it makes him more friendly. Do you have any advice :>
My husband has a green cheek conure that only likes him when I’m not around how do we stop that
Is there a video out there that explains how to get a conure to stop being aggressive to my girlfriend? It will fly to her to bite her from across the room. Makes her bleed and everything. She does everything I do but my bird hates her and loves me. Idk what to do 😢
I'm a new bird owner. I've had a green cheek for 3 weeks now. The 1st 2 weeks have been fine & I thought we made progress because he's comfortable out-of the cage & even learned to "step up". But now on the 3rd week he has been chewing on his tail feather & been kind of aggressive towards me, and seems nervous when he's running up n down my leg while I'm sitting on the floor with him...any advice? Pls help I don't want him to hurt him self
U said u don't feel her on your back thats because you used to the huge birds 🤣🤣🤣
Please HELP! An orange fronted conure arrived on my terrace last year. She might be a female. She is doing very well and I bought a large cage for her, arranged it nicely with large branches and she flies free 2-3 hours daily inside my apartment and loves exploring. I don’t want her to feel lonely if she came from a group. I recently heard there is a flock of these birds in town. I heard them last week. Will she be accepted back in the group if I release her?
These birds belong in the jungle where clean water abounds. I have mixed feeling about releasing her as I don’t know if she will be accept new if she will survive, as she has gotten used to clean water and a combination of high quality dry and fresh food. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks 🙏🏻
What do I do when my bird will not take treats from me, and is afraid of the target? I feel like I don't know where to start.
You sound like me at the moment because I just got a 4 month GCC and have it 2 days. He does eat a little but there is an odor and he has a bath. He wouldn't sit on my finger either. But I am being very patient with him until he has trust in me.