Watch Me Survive My Crazy First Week with Clyde the Cockatiel!
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 9. 04. 2023
- Finally, a bit of a breakthrough with this 8-10 year old rescue cockatiel named Clyde!
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When Jamie talks about working with large birds, I want her next project bird to be a duck or a goose. đŠ
Won't that be something to see!! So great to have these postings now that l am older and more housebound ...senior homes are great but not always pet friendly and this opens a part of the world l have been so missing....đđđđâ€
I canât get over his tail, who would think that was a good idea?! đą Nice to see him receptive to the food and training! đ
People that shouldn't have birds lol
I think maybe the pet store or previous owner might have trimmed the tail because it was ratty looking and thought if they trimmed it he would be easier to sell.
@@nrgbunni. I've seen it a lot while working in bird rehabilitation center. people would trim their tails like that because they were filthy and damaged due to cage being too small or birds sitting with their tail feathers submerged in dirty water dishes. especially when said cage was too shallow for the bird to comfortably turn around (which was almost always the case). So yeah classic case of inattentive owner/seller.
Wow Iâve never heard of this before. Human beings never cease to amaze me. đą
Probably from keeping him in a smaller cage
Just a thought about Clydeâs food preferences. Iâm a cockatiel Mom to 8. They all have very different backgrounds; their ages vary greatly, as does their background. One thing they all have in common is that theyâll only eat budgie sized seeds. They have very strong beaks (trust me, I know how strong those beaks are) but yet they donât seem to like to use their strength when it comes to eating. I bet youâll notice that what heâs looking for in your mix is a certain small seed(s). Glad to see Clyde is doing well! Heâs very confident in himself. Cockatiels are so much different than other species. They arenât like âparrotsâ in a lot of ways. I just adore them. đ„°
Know you don't need it but l just want to let you know how much of a hero you are to me for caring for and about these precious creations of Our Lord!!!â€â€â€â€â€â€â€â€
I thought the pieces were too big, too, since cockatiels don't use their feet to hold food so they can bite pieces off. Maybe a pulse or two in a food chopper?
i REALLY HOPE youll bond with and love cockatiels as much as I do anf the rest of cockatiel owners.
They may not be majestiv looking macaws, but theses birds are
SO SPECIAL and sweet once you gain their trust. â€â€â€
Clyde is getting on really well. đ
Clyde looks up at Jamie Leigh, tilts his head and says, âDid you just call me Clod? đ
That was a great session! đđ»
I feel he looks a lot more relaxed now, his eyes are clearer.
His chirping is so cute. âș
I was watching this and my budgie Floki kept hearing the clicker and kept asking me for his treat my giving a kiss.đ
I have the biggest smile on my face! Good job Clyde!
Nice job Jamieleigh
No doubt â€â€â€â€â€
My older cockatiel wouldn't eat larger seed. I started giving the seed a little crush in a mortar and pestle - he could handle it a bit better,, turned out the bigger seed was just too tough for him.
Clyde, I knew you could do it! Good job!
Quite a lot of practical detail in this short video. Plus, cockatiels are so cute.
Clyde has beautiful coloring.
Good morning, Jamie and Clyde!
So glad he seems to be coming around. Yay for getting down on your seasonal feed. WTG CLYDE!!đ„đ and JAMIE!
Mine is named Charlie and he loves me when my hubby is gone
Lolâ€
Yay!!! He's eating so well now â€
You are doing really good JamieLeigh. Just try to relax because he will take a while to gain your trust. I can tell he was hurt by a human in his past. You are an awesome trainer. Don't give up and you only learn from mistakes. You are Dave and Capri are the best!!! đ€đ€đ€
Oh he's doing so good! Amazing progress in such a short time.
Clyde is doing so well! I canât believe itâs only been 1 week!
Food n patoence
I have two cockatiels one bites when he was a baby they already named him. Beeker. I he had a broken toe I had to put him in. Fish tank so he wouldn't try climbing so he's been that way since. Except he knows I love him n trusts me.but is always eating millet when I go out they have to have millet. It helps them from AnXIEtY
Clydes looking good!
You should try putting some millet in the palm of your hand so he can get more use to touching your hand and he might even step on it to eat
Yay Clyde! You are doing so good buddy! Keep up the good work! You are in the best hands possible to show you what love is and to live your best birdy life!
I want that playground stand
Adorable video!
I love his little tweets. So adorable.
The start of the video was so calming
Such a wonderful joy to see him responding so well and eating the mix you have provided for him now!! Your gentle voice and patient manner are so paying off!! I guess we can only wonder if he'd ever even heard a clicker before!! Please, please keep us updated so we can send both of you silent encouragement..you've both made such progress in just one weekđ
Heâs the cutest little grump đ
I have my cockatiels for 3 years now, and boy they bit me bloody two times. On both occasions I had to rescue them from their own stupidity. They managed to get entagled with toys and one time with the cage bars (I never had this happen in over 30 years as a bird owner). So I went in there without gloves because I had to entangle their nails (they weren't that long). But yeah, my hen managed to bite me right between my nail and skin 4 times and then it even got infected. Took ages to heal and was very painful. My male cockatiel always lunges I think the former owner played a game of hit and run with him. I trained him not to do that... but if he's woken up on the wrong side of the cage... oh boy!đ
Great vid, Jaimie. Clyde is doing so well with you †When you started uncovering your hand was right when I was hoping you would. Awesome to see success!
I have been considering a cockatiel and this series has been so helpful! I didn't know what to expect when people were saying they take a lot of time to work with and build trust with. this helps me manage my expectations a little better. Thank you!
Love to see the target training âclickâ
I have had my two cockatiels for almost a year now and they are still not hand tame. I thought they were handfed when I purchased them, but it turns out they were parent fed instead. I'm looking forward to watching your journey with Clyde and hoping I can get some tips/tricks on the way!
Keep it up. You will get there!
Parent fed is natural and good. Though I appreciate that youâd like your guys to be less wild.
@spiritmatter when you are told one thing and are lied to that's not cool. Especially with birds. Hand fed means more used to people and contact.
@@FukaiKokoro that's what I was trying to point out, it's not the fact that they were parent fed it was that I was lied to about it. I was led to believe that my birds were already hand tamed and they weren't. I had already been through taming process, had parent fed birds previously and didn't plan/want to go through that (again)-but I have no choice now.
Do you keep them together in the same cage, if so, you may want to separate them, otherwise it's going to be really hard to get them interested in being with you. It's natural for them to prefer being with each other, and I'm wondering if you are afraid to approach them because you have learned they can hiss like a cat (certainly put me off when I brought mine home)Lol. Is there anyway a friend or your parents could take one for a couple of weeks so you can focus on the one remaining? My beautiful and sweet pearl cockatiel Jamie was not hand tamed by any stretch of the imagination, but back in the day when I got her, their was no BirdTricks either. I got a book from this guy who trained parrots of all sizes and personalities who said if he could only have one bird it would be a cockatiel (which surprised me), he said they are the sweetest and easiest to care for. His suggestion was for me to take a washcloth and gently wrap her in it, with her head out and able to chew on part of the washcloth while I gently would pet her head, I noticed after a few minutes, she stopped struggling and frantically chewing, she began to move her head in the direction she wanted me to pet, after several minutes, I would take her to the couch and gently remove the cloth, we would have these sessions a few times a day. Within a week, when I placed my hand to her chest (she was on top of her cage), I would gently say step up as I gently but barely pushed my hand towards her chest, and she would step up, after a short time, I no longer had to say step up, I just put my hand up to her chest and she would hop aboard. Another thing you should know about them, they hate their feet being touched, I've had friends who have had them as pets and they all say the same thing about that, so don't take it personal. It's just head rubs, not body rubs, head rubs only. Highly recommend you continue watching Jamie work with Clyde, and make sure you're babies are on a proper diet. Wishing you the best relationship ever, they really are sweet birds.
Cute!
Yeah:) very nice!!
Yay I am The 1st!! †My bird hobi bites too but not so hardđ but I am happy he is taking the homemade seed mix!! I hope he is happy there!đđ
Cockatiels are bipolar, my birds are cuddly one minute and biting the next đ
I find my cockatielâs answer to almost any request is an automatic and fierce NO. I always ask twice because the second time she may actually pay attention to the question and say yes. But if I get two ânoâs in a row, the answer is definitely NO
Lol! Quite determined eh??
I thought if a bird was biting that meant the training and interacting was going too fast. My adult cockatiel took a long time to start to trust me and still doesnât trust me 100%. Heâs still pretty much hands off and wonât step up to my hand or finger only a hand held perch. I am just super patient with him and hope one day he will trust me enough and meanwhile I got a handfed baby that was fine being handled from the beginning. Sheâs now an adult too. That looks like the typical seed mix cockatiels eat at pet stores. Itâs also a process to get them on a healthier seed mix. We are still in a process of doing that but they love seeds so it shouldnât be too hard but I focused on getting them on veggies and pellets first since that was a lot harder.
My budgie died this morning and I miss him so much already.
Iâm so sorry for your loss. Losing a pet is like losing a family member. I know that pain all too well. My prayers are with you đ
Oh so much sadness and loving comfort coming to you from our community...
@@BhappyD they really are part of the family.
@@denasharpe2393 thanks, pets are such a big part of our lives it's hard to lose them
Judge Clyde's Courthouse
đ Sorry shouldn't laugh but the fact that you hate tiel bites is just hilarious!! Hurts yes but compared to green cheeked conure bites, cockatiels aren't that bad! Ozzy my cockatiel was hand reared and super sweet until he started puberty. He's almost 2 years old now and once his hormones settle down he should be much more chilled. I'd be much more scared of macaws beaks! Maybe it's because they know what damage they can do that they tend to be more gentle. Also they are huge birds! Tiels are smol prey animals so will bite more in defence
Lol my gcc was nothing like my mini-macaws! I find it funny, too, after seeing Jaimie with the bigger macaws!
@@michelehemlokhexwhite4310 my GCC was hand reared but hecka nippy! When he really bit he took plugs of flesh! Ozzy has only drawn blood twice and both were finger bites
Iâm so happy Clyde is having a a great time with you! I was wondering if you had any videos based around getting two birds to like/tolerate each other. I recently got a second bird thinking they would become fast friends but that is not the case. Theyâve gotten slightly better, but they still cannot be six inches from each other without wanting to lunge and attack.
i have two birds ever since they were 6 weeks old and they just hate on each other all the time even tho they are bonded so i feel like to a certan degree its normal
Some birds will never get along (like humans) and thatâs okay just donât force them to interact
Not the case will all birds that started hating each other BirdTricks have a video on it called âwhen macaws ATTACK, training them not to tusa vs jinx/Bubba
I think males have a harder time getting along with each other. I'm sure there are some who get along great, but it seems like a lot of the time it's male birds that have problems getting along. I have 2 female cockatiels and was so worried about my other bird adjusting to another bird, but luckily from day 1 it was like they knew each other their entire lives. It was amazing to see and I'm so glad it worked out so well.
My parakeets only eat your seed mix as part of their diet. Along with chop and sprouts Thank you
I have stupid question- I noticed Clyde does not like the oats- if they were in smaller pieces would he be more interested??? He is such a challenge, but he is in a great environment!
Hey Jamie Leigh, is your cockatiel mix recipe similar to the budgies? I have mixed up a batch for our little guys, and wanna get our tiel on the same.
tiels are beaky. my tiel totally uses his beak as a third "hand". flinching back or pulling away when he reaches with his beak may actually cause him to bite. and they are more hesitant to step up on surfaces they arent sure of/confident about.
they are stubborn. they will learn something, but still refuse. kind of like seeing what they can get away with. how long until you cave.
my tiel also doesnt like ladders. he prefers ropes.
Nice video India
Jamie do you ever ferment the seed mix?
Hi jani
Do you have any videos on training an IRN parrot ? I have a 6 month old, and he's the hardest bird I have dealt with. All my other birds were super easy when it came to gaining their trust. No such luck with my IRN
Where did you get that clicker?
Are you still making and selling the season mix online itâs always out of stock?
Hi I brought a caique three weeks ago and he is really nice but he got me a lot of allergies and shortage of breathe . I donât want rehome him so do you have any tips or advise. Btw, my house is fully carpeted and we put him in the living room because we donât have an extra room for him.â€
What is up with the birds tail? The tail feathers aren't usually that short an blunt, they should be almost twice as long, certainly much longer than to where the wing tips are, and come to more of a point when folded altogether. Where they damaged and had to be clipped?
could he have vision issues?
We had cocktiels growing up and their bites always hurt. Especially when they do war cries as they bite.
Wow!!!đź
Hello kat how are you doing today?
@David Greg I'm ok, waiting for sleep to arrive
can you target train without a clicker?
COULD YOU PLEASE GIVE ME THE RECIPE FOR THAT FEED? THANKS
So do you offer the seed mix in addition to your SFS and pellets?
Pretty sure Clyde is just on the seed mix currently.
Yes thatâs the ultimate goal at the moment he just likes eating the cockatiel seed mix (they have a vid on how to make it) but yes they are working on adding in pellets and SFS
Hi. My budgie is scared of me I go closser to it but he go in the pott. Please tell me the reason
Hi! There are many possible reasons, and we can't know which is the right one without visiting you and observing it. Some common reasons are, you might have been moving your hands to quickly, or stepped too quickly towards the bird, or simply that the bird needs a lot of time to get used to you. I suggest that you arm yourself with a lot of patience, move slowly and calmly, and don't go too near the bird, especially in the beginning. Hopefully after some weeks or months , it will have learnt to trust you. Then you might begin to train it to come near your hand and take a tidbit.
cheers! /CS
What do you do if your bird is afraid of objects to target train? Mine run even if I hold it with millet, they will only (reluctantly) target the spray millet itself.
You could get someone to stand as far away with the stick that your bird doesnât want to fly away then click and reward when he calm down more
It could also be the noise of the clicker and for that you can just put it in your pocket or use something else
(I use a solar mini torch thatâs run out of battery so the light dos t work) try different treats
@@joebean3615 sadly it's not the clicker. Mine are just starting out training, they don't mind the clicker, but they don't respond to training well at all. Can't get them to come out of the cage or step up, so all training has to be done in the cage for now. They're two budgies, a bit over a year old.
Have you given them the primary reward programing? (In other words: Have you paired the clicker with the millet?)
If your birds are brand new to training you have to give them the basis of your communication, which for training is usually "click equals treat" then you can work on pairing a separate action with the click, so they know to by proxy associate that action with a treat.
So start by offering millet, and when they start to feed from it, give a click and then take it away after they eat a little bit. (Don't take it away right after you click or they'll associate "click=food disappears" which is the opposite of what you want)
Once they get more comfortable with your relationship you can work on training them for tolerance. Get the target stick somewhere close to them (out of their reach) and click reward for tolerating that. Eventually you can move it within reach and do the same. A lot of birds will get curious and try to bite it once they become comfortable with it and you can then start rewarding for that, and they will learn to go after it.
Some birds won't but will tolerate it getting very close. So you might carefully, SLOWLY, and very gently, tap it on their beak and reward. Then you will have paired "stick touching beak" with "reward" and the bird will learn to actively touch the stick on its own when it wants to get a treat.
Ayyy it's the "Budgie extra hard". Or are Budgies just diet cockatiels?
Cockatiels in my (limited) experience seem a bit more bird-brained than budgies. Kinda like a human vs a human with down syndrome.
@@stalincat2457 lol, my three budgies haven't exactly set my expectations high as of yet but they're only a year old so I have hopefully a long time
Lol!
I'd say cockatiels are much bigger birds than budgies. Cockatiels will need both a bigger cage and more time outside the cage than one might expect. Also if you have made them tame, they will consider you part of their flock. To feel good they will need to feel that all the flock is together. One way of doing that is to feed them at the same time you are taking your meals. Put some food into the cage, wash your hands, and sit down nearby where they can see you, and calmly start eating. When they see that you are eating, they will know that there is no danger nearby, and they will know that the flock is together, and they will soon start eating, and after that they will likely sit preening for a while (make sure to take some time for your eating), and perhaps even sleeping a short while. Mind you, you don't have to go to them and pet them. If they can see that you are somewhere close, and that you are eating and relaxing, they will know that everything is well.
cheers! /CS
Can Clyde's tail grow back?
I have a cockatiel- his face is my partner. He likes all men. Suffers my daughter and me but willl attack / bite us if we try to give him something. He loves talking to cushions. Loves raw oats.
Each of them is such an in dividual and like us, the personality seems inborn!!â€đ
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Hi! I am fine!! How are you?đ
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I have bigger birds and a cockatiel and I would rather get bit by my big birds...cockie bites are horrible
How come I feel nothing when they bite me? Or they don't want to bite hard intentionally?
@@rosas4851 Maybe you have a high pain tolerance...lol...trust me it huuuurrrrts when they latch on good and there will be blood involved...lol
â@@rosas4851 maybe yours are just used to you and giving you a bit of sass vs the death stare đ
@Tammy 66 I think it depends on bird to bird too. I've had a few IRNs but this particular one has beaks like swords. He managed to bite me three times and each time it was horrible. I've raised my two cockatiels myself and they've had babies. They never feel threatened by me that's probably why they don't bite for their life
@Michele 'HemlokHex' White Maybe lol. I raised the parents myself and the babies are hatched here too so they don't know anything different from their life here and they trust me for the most part. Sometimes if I try to put them back they bite because I've disturbed their playtime
Can we please have the recipe for your cockatiel seed mix?
I think she sells the mix, so sharing the recipe would be counterproductive for her.
That "content little fluff" at 1:49 isn't really a content little fluff. Cockatiels do this thing where they seem to be fluffing, but at the same time they shake their tails really hard, like Clyde did here. It's a sign of agitation. If this were my cockatiel, I'd be somewhat cautious if I saw that. He's not quite content, like with a regular fluff.
good to know thanks for pointing that out
An my cockatiel wonât do a thing fur me
Have you tried following the training steps in these vids?
What are you looking for from them?? Amusement or companionship or gentle chirping?? Maybe it just takes time and letting them know what you'd like!!â€â€
birb gonna chew all the studio cables.
Pretty sure they will put cables away or use a cam to spy. My parrot ignores cables unless she sees me plug one in to something. Little parrots tend not to be as curious as the big guys.
@@michelehemlokhexwhite4310 You'd be surprised at how many cockatiels love to chew cables or basically anything they shouldn't :)
@@SpaceCaptainHellers lol no, I wouldn't be! Most parrots will! Pretty sure they will have it under control though, since parrots are kinda their whole life! I just got woken at 5am by 2 of mine having night terrors and setting each other off :/
My budgie bit the vet and drew blood. Just shows small birds can be nasty
Biting the vet isn't nasty. It's a fear response to a lack of comfort with the situation.
I was bitten today trimming toenails... my fault, as I haven't worked with that budgie much lately.
You're quarantining a cockatiel in a small bird carrier because a quarantine cage would be too big?
To be fair. I have a few points that I am seeing having 2 cockatiels for 2 years, male and female.
1. I have a feeling Clyde is a girl. The sounds, the movements. Nothing says boy to me. Lutino cockatiels are not sexable by looking at their marks/colouration. Maybe do a DNA test if he/she isn't tested.
2. Cockatiels aren't dumb. I tried target training both my male and female and both are just not into it. Not because they don't know that target means food, but because they don't care.
I'm kinda getting annoyed throughout the video. Thinking you (jaimy) thinks they are stupid. They are really curious and just really careful. They are really sensitive and are a flock bird. They are really scared when they are alone.
I don't think cockatiels are your bird to be honest. And yes I will get all the "OG" people over me. I do think you are really good with other birds. I have the feeding stuff and followed alot of videos.
But to me cockatiels are really smart birds and know what they can and can not do.
They are parrots in a small body. And act like small birds that are usually prey, because that is what they are.
An arm over their head and fast movements makes them flinch. Because they are sensitive..
They will starve themselves if need be.
The droppings are really watery and bright green. Which means he doesn't get enough food..
+ maybe look into the fact that cockatiels are seed eaters. Yes they will eat greens and different things. But in the wild they will go for whole grains, grass seeds and other seeds. It's even normal for them to forage on the floor and drink and bath.
They are not easy birds. And they are sensitive as f..
Stop making clyde look stupid and look at what he needs instead of what you want. That's all I want to say.
Our tiels get a normal seed mix and eat everything. I mixed my own, also your seed mix, to be honest, their feathers and behaviour unfortunatly changed for the worse. So we went back to a non sunflower seed bird mix.
They get pellets and greens too.
Yes I might just not have reacted. But I feel like there needs to be a better understanding of cockatiels instead of projecting bigger bird philosophy or parakeet philosophy onto a cockatiel.
They are more like gallahs and cockatoos then other birds. But in a small body.
I have raised my rescue cockatiel for 4 years and I agree a lot with Samantha.
Cockatiels are different birds than other bigger âparrotsâ. They ARE sensitive and skittish so you have to be very careful with them, even more so when you are training. Just a different angle of hand projection, a new object nearby, a new sound nearby can totally destroy the whole training session.
Therefore if the cockatiel seems to be not getting what you tell it to do, you have to first consider what DISTRACTIONS and MOOD SWINGS they might be experiencing.
Plus they are quite sensitive so they get easily overwhelmed when surrounded by stimulations. This condition LASTS quite long, even for days⊠so you have to check their condition and attitude to be sure. A house full of bird noises, of other species? the worst to be honest
This js why I think there are other problems associated with her taking this training hard. My bird, not hand-tamed, presumably spending at least more than 3 years in a highly abusive environment with no positive stimuli or interaction, and finally having been abandoned in the wild, took less than a week to get the motion of targeting.
I say, Clyde was just overwhelmed with everything going on and needed some nothing-to-do-just-watch time.
What you have is a dog that got put in a wrong body.
That wasn't a b it was a taste it was a bonding thing
I'd like to get ahold of the guy that mutilated him that is Extreme torture to a cockatiel not being able to flyđźđźđź you won't be able to get rid of him once he gets his flight feathers back everywhere you go he will go before loves I was mistreated cuz they usually craves your attention I can't go anywhere with out my two Batman and Robin they're here with me in my bed watching this video I would start playing in some CZcams videos that have cockatiels singing and talking it will give him the feel having a flock with him you have to gain their trust at their pace and aren't yours and you'll have a friend for life
What great information and such joy for you to have them always right there by youâ€â€