JHFcyclist
11-12-2009, 10:48 PM
This is a great option as it will allow us to look back and see how our little guys have been progressing.
Tweety is my little guy that I bought from a local pet store the first week of October, I believe. He had his baby bars down to his cere and super dark eyes. Now, his eyes are developing the white ring and a few of his bars seem to have faded.
When I got him, I made some major mistakes with training but for the first four weeks or so I was pressing into his belly to make him step up, was letting him have access to millet at all times and he wouldn't eat anything other than his seed.
About a week or so ago, he bit me and I searched out help immediatley and got terrifice feed back on some corrections I could make. The first thing I did was clean out his millet supply such that the only time he got it was from me and for doing something I wanted him to do.
The second thing I did was really focus on his body language... who new that him opening his beak was NOT a cute gesture and a sign of irritation? :o.
Lastly, I introduced him to Beak Appetite's Veggie Delight and put just a touch of millet on it to get him intereted in it.
As of today, Tweety eats his veggies now and has branched out to red leaf lettuce. He'll take a little chunk of it and jam across the counters... it's hillarious to watch him run with his lettuce.
He is also more willing to come to me since I've been millet training him and not pressing onto his belly. He allows me to pet his breast bone, his feet and sometimes allows me to lightly blow on his feathers. He perches on our shoulder and seems to enjoy us now that we know there are times to give him his space and let him be.
His biting has been extinguished because I've been responding to his body language. He's no longer lunging at me but we've gotten it down to a very slow beak opening... I want it to get to leaning and so on so he understands I'm trying to respect him and his space.
Will update on his success but I'm not sure I'll have fancy tricks, I'm wanting to bond with him first and get him to trust me despite the wreckless training I started on.... (Don't listen to pet shop clerks who say they are the bird handlers and they are feeding the fish) :rolleyes:
:budgie:
Tweety is my little guy that I bought from a local pet store the first week of October, I believe. He had his baby bars down to his cere and super dark eyes. Now, his eyes are developing the white ring and a few of his bars seem to have faded.
When I got him, I made some major mistakes with training but for the first four weeks or so I was pressing into his belly to make him step up, was letting him have access to millet at all times and he wouldn't eat anything other than his seed.
About a week or so ago, he bit me and I searched out help immediatley and got terrifice feed back on some corrections I could make. The first thing I did was clean out his millet supply such that the only time he got it was from me and for doing something I wanted him to do.
The second thing I did was really focus on his body language... who new that him opening his beak was NOT a cute gesture and a sign of irritation? :o.
Lastly, I introduced him to Beak Appetite's Veggie Delight and put just a touch of millet on it to get him intereted in it.
As of today, Tweety eats his veggies now and has branched out to red leaf lettuce. He'll take a little chunk of it and jam across the counters... it's hillarious to watch him run with his lettuce.
He is also more willing to come to me since I've been millet training him and not pressing onto his belly. He allows me to pet his breast bone, his feet and sometimes allows me to lightly blow on his feathers. He perches on our shoulder and seems to enjoy us now that we know there are times to give him his space and let him be.
His biting has been extinguished because I've been responding to his body language. He's no longer lunging at me but we've gotten it down to a very slow beak opening... I want it to get to leaning and so on so he understands I'm trying to respect him and his space.
Will update on his success but I'm not sure I'll have fancy tricks, I'm wanting to bond with him first and get him to trust me despite the wreckless training I started on.... (Don't listen to pet shop clerks who say they are the bird handlers and they are feeding the fish) :rolleyes:
:budgie: