Training Parrots- 10 Golden Rules To Remember When You Begin Training Parrots
Training parrots believe it or not is not a hard task, so long as you follow a few simple rules. Although it is not mandatory, your results will be a lot better if you clip the birds wings. Listed below are golden rules to follow to ensure you get the best results.
Rules to remember when training parrots:
1/ Make sure the door of the cage is large enough so you have an easy access to remove, or put him back. Training should be done in not only quite times, but where there is sufficient light
2/ Always remove him from his cage very carefully and speak slow in a soft tone, just remember his probably afraid so be patient with him.
3/ Do not have anyone else in the room just yourself as this will distract him. Parrots are all very different, some may take a little longer than others but that is perfectly normal.
4/ Training parrots requires a lot of patience and try to be considerate other wise the lessons will not go the way it is suppose to.
5/ Training parrots takes a lot of work most parrot can relate to actions rather then words so give him a lot of affection by patting or kissing him, that is if he allows you to do so.
6/ Your parrot will eventually sit on your hand when he starts to trust you a lot more,when he does introduce him to your shoulder or lap and play with him from there. By doing this you will create a bond of trust with him. Initially get him use to being patted on the head and work you way down his back from there gradually. This may take some time though.
“Bonding” definitely is the key to training parrot.
7/Parrots, especially young ones have the ability to imitate voices and certain sounds it enhances their talking and singing a lot faster because of that.
8/ Make a strong point whilst his feeding to repeat his/her name, do this clearly or he will not pick it up. Because parrots have a short level of concentration each lessons only a 15 minutes. Only use names that are easy to say or you be beating a dead horse.
9/ If you adopt the same rule to training parrots as you do to your children little things such as, making sure their looking at you when you speak “as crazy as this sounds they do read faces”, this method will go a long way.
10/ When your bird hops out of his cage and onto your finger with out any hesitation the trust has began and you are on your way to successful result,” CONGRATULATION”
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In this video you can see Duke my budgie and Kili my Senegal Parrot getting weighed. “Bird scales” are really over priced so I made my own. I simply bought a digital kitchen scale that can measure weights up to 11lbs in oz or grams. I configured it to grams and I built my own perch to put on it. I tare the scale to 0 with the perch already on it and then there is a good place for the birds to stand while getting weighed. Weighing your bird is important to track health and training progress. A sudden drop in weight is often a sign of illness or other health problems. Also keeping track of my bird’s weight helps me gauge the motivation I can expect during training. One more use I have for this scale is weighing out food. I’ve gotten better at eyeballing how much food to give my birds but initially I used the scale to weigh out food for the birds and track their intake.
