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BirdTricks Tuesday | Foundational Failures Series

🕑 Added 2020-04-28 23:00:00 +0000 UTC

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BirdTricks

I made sure to incorporate step up training into his normal training so that I could ask for it whenever without issue. I did continue training with him in that instance because I like to train when the bird wants to, I find a make much more headway that way.

Wendy LeBlanc

I’m curious what you did when you realized Tusa was not stepping up because he knew he was going to be put away and he wanted to continue training… Did you continue training… Or did you still put him away and how did you go about getting him to step up on you?

BirdTricks

I do feel like for harness training it should be demonstrated vs just spoken about - and with multiple birds so you can see different responses. Could probably make a whole rounded out course of that but I'm not sure if that's in our future or not!

Kathy Surber

I also started "hanging my bird up". LOL Since Fred seems to be a bit off balance a lot of the time, this technique keeps him stable and in control. No more wobbling to get his balance as I placed him on the perch. Luckily Fred loves his cage which has several foraging toys that he really gets in to. I love the "list" idea too. That would work well for a lot of different issues that may arise. Thank you for these videos. You are great instructors. Stay healthy, stay safe. 💖

Elaine Welbourn

Not sure if it really fits into this series but you mentioned harness training and this is something I would love to learn more about -- proper introduction to the harness, safely sizing and fitting it, ect. for those times you want to take your bird with you but it isn't appropriate to give them complete freedom (i.e. taking your bird into a store, or outside without flight training complete ect.)

Andrea

I used to have a major problem with getting my bird back into its cage... Some times I would end up chasing him flying around the house. Then I started noticing he really enjoys foraging and that all the foraging toys were actually outside his cage and around the house. I now have some both inside and outside the cage (in different formats). I also noticed that whenever I was putting him inside the cage I was singling me leaving the house... which became an issue. Now I do it randomly. Some times I'll leave the house, some times I won't and some times I'll spent 10 minutes around his cage just target training or simply having a cup of coffee while talking to him. This definitely helped lots!

Heather Wolf

This is something I struggled with until I saw a Q&A video Jaimie did a few years back where she discussed hanging up the bird. Worked like a charm! Then I started giving her a reward for going back in the cage. I now only give her a reward occasionally, with the exception of her sleep cage. She gets a whole pine nut at bedtime every night, and she gets so excited to go to bed. She knows the bedtime routine, and happily hops right into her sleep cage and onto her perch.