A Hands Off Approach to Taming a Parrot (Levels of Target Training)

One day I will rescue a bird and I’m going to give that bird the best life all because I’m being trained by the very best. I watch all of your videos. I feel like a bird expert but without a bird. Ha ha! I’m obsessed

Thanks a lot because I was going to buy a cockatiel bird, and they are extremely hard to work I have never trained a cockatiel before but they are always scared!!!😨, This really really helps out a lot thank you for this!!!

I am forever going to subscribe to you! A wild lovebird caught me at work and was trying to come inside for the ac and the custodians let her get a little bit of relief from the AZ heat and then put her back outside. She did not leave the crack in the door all day to feel the nice cold air coming out. Finally my coworker and I approached her and she hopped right onto our hands and chirped with excitement. My heart melted and I ran to the closest pet store to get a cage and to look for her owner. A couple of nice aviary people in my area took a look at her pics and determined she is most likely wild, and now I have a lovebird. (The post is still up just in case we do find the owner) I've named her Leko, like the lighting fixtures we use in the theater that I work at. I have binged your training videos and have started implementing some of your techniques. It's only been 3 days of training and she already knows how to step up and I have taught her to step back from fingers that enter the spaces between the bars. I felt pretty hopeless in training an animal who is most likely smarter than me, but you've given me the tools and the confidence to give her a stimulating and caring home. also, she now has unlimited access to the ac. Thank you and keep up your amazing work!

Awww, how sweet of Olivia to say good-bye!!

Nice mini class for newbies. Thanks Jamie

This is so helpful!!

Yaaaasssssss! I NEEDED this! Thank you!!! 🎉❤

You both are teaching me so much!

Target training in its most basic presentation. Thank you ❤

I started working on this from your tips when I got Tiki at 8 weeks old, he is now 4 months old and is doing awesome with target training!!! Great info Jamie for people wondering !!

I so enjoy your videos. 😊 Great job.

❤it's so cool! No more wiping the my blue lovebird off my shirt into the cage. He's not even 1 & has learned to go back inside.! Thanks for helping us have a relationship. A real one.

Thank you for the cool video Jamie!! BirdTricks is!! Hope everyone is doing well!! Sorry to hear about Bluee!! Have a nice evening!!

Nice job Jamieleigh

Thank you so much for making this video! My conures do the target training great, inside their cage. However, when i let them out of the cage they run away from the target stick instead of touching it! Now, they'll come up and take treats out of my hand but, run from the target stick when i try to get them to touch it. Also, if i get to close, without a treat in my hand, they'll start flying frantically around the room. So much so, that the male started throwing up from all the flying around! Iv'e commented before what my situation is with them! Iv'e changed them from an all millet seed diet to fresh chop, pellets, sprouts, and healthier seeds such as oats, wheat, oat groats, etc... It took some time to get them use to eating it but, now they love it! Plus, i grow some of their veggies myself, in my garden, so they always have the freshest of veggies. I bought them a lot bigger cage, then what i got them in, after i got them. So, they have plenty of room now, and lot's of chew toys. But, the male still loves trying to bite me when i'm trying to train them to step up on my finger! I get one foot and that's it, no matter how far i keep pulling the treat back, they still WILL NOT fully step up with the other foot! Not sure what i'm doing wrong, or if they just don't completely trust me enough yet to do it. I would love any videos, you can make, on how to get them to trust my hand enough to step up with both feet. It would be wonderful, and greatly appreciated! I'm sure i'm making every mistake possible here! TIA, from what i can tell, y'all are awesome trainers! ❤🦜🦜

Thank you!

I've had my BFA for 13 years and we have a pretty good form of communication, I tap where I want him and put my hand down and he steps up.

Thanks Jamie

I’m currently bird sitting a Goffin who has a lot of bad habits and is an unpredictable hormone-a-saurus. 😬 I offered the target stick on the 1st day, and have continued playing Target several times a day. It certainly made letting her out of the cage a lot less stressful since I knew she enjoyed the game. (She does get 12 - 14 hrs of dark quiet sleep while at my house and I am doing my best to get her eating chop, the organic pellets and keeping anything that might stimulate hormones to a minimum.)

Спасибо за видео!💖