Emergency U-Turn | Training Tutorials
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Sweeeeet! We will be doing this one for sure. Ares will love learning something new. We're running low on ideas. He's up to over 32 tricks/commands. Still though, the high five rebound we learned from you, was still about the trickiest trick to train so far. And still one of my favorites. But this one, I love the end effect. That quick turnaround cue idea is awesome! It'll be a fav as well.
I'm so glad you are posting on RUclips again! I've learned so much from you I cannot thank you enough. Do you have a Patreon?
we do it's www.patreon.com/FlockTalk or there's a click through link on the channel's front page right on the banner!
Her birds are well trained. I barely tought a somewhat recall on my bird the guy dose whatever he wants
that is the funniest shirt you could have possibly worn for this specific training
Is that adorable little blue bird a love bird? Oh my goodness how precious! They're both adorable, but I don't know the breed of the blue one!
She’s a pacific parrotlet!
super valuable tutorial! thanks for teaching! I will try to teach it to ma parrotlets, even though I need to build foundational recall training first.
Poopah and I are so happy your channel is back!
I absolutely love this tutorial! Super in-depth and beautifully explained. I am currently teaching my sun conure to recall and we're slowly making progress every session. I will definitely be teaching this trick once we have recalling well established. Thank you so much for the amazing video, and have a wonderful day!
Hi! @Flock-Talk, I do have a few questions for you (or a lengthy explanation, followed by a few questions, if your willing to read). 🙃
I am an 18 year old woman who lives in the northern United States, and I have two conures. When I was about 9 years old, my parents were able to find a bonded Sun conure and green cheek conure. (They are both males, and would get along "okay", as we would soon find out). The gcc, named Reef was a little over 1 year old, and the sun, named Zak, was a little over two at the time.
They came in one flight cage together, and a small flimsy travel cage was included as well (which they were absolutely terrified of, not sure why). In the cage were plastic food and water dishes, about two plastic toys, a shredded fabric toy, about 3 rope perches (pretty shredded, Zak likes to chew on fabric😬), and two happy huts. They were on an all seed diet, and the only treats they were given were those sugar coated dried fruits by Kaytee.
When I got the birds I had no idea what I was doing. I even got a little pamphlet from a pet store that told me my cage was more than large enough for the two birds, that an all-seed diet was perfectly fine, and that they should only get a few fruits here and there.
For about two years this poor quality diet and toys stayed about the same. And I (a little girl at the time) never showed much interest in the birds, so naturally, they became less tame.
Especially the gcc. After a few months of having him I noticed a change in his behavior (bird puberty, probably lol). It appeared to me that we were having fun while he would dance back and forth, and then he would "suddenly" bite me. Little did I know I was reinforcing his bad behavior for years, and pretty soon he just skipped all the warning signs and went straight to the bites.
Disappointing, right?😔
However that all changed 7 years ago when I found your channel. Your extremely informative and wonderfully explained training tutorials, behavioral analysis, tips, and just general joy when working with animals caught my attention. I was able to turn things around once I knew there was so much more potential for these wonderful little guys than just loud, biting decorations. 😅
Since I found your channel, I've separated the two birds into their own cages due to aggressive outbursts from the gcc. They still enjoy out of cage time together (supervised). I've also gotten a larger, safer travel cage that they were a little scared of at first, but through training they now are eager when I ask them to go in. (I wasn't sure if there were any bad experiences associated with the old travel cage, since they were so fearful of it, so I just wanted to start with a clean slate)
I've also replaces all their dishes with stainless steel ones, and given them many different perches (mostly natural wood), and exposed them to many, many new toys throughout the years. Planet pleasures are some of my favorites, and I also order a big shipment from MySafeBirdStore and create my own when I'm running low. I've found that Zak loves shreddable toys the most, and Reef loves foragers the most. We are always discovering fun and new toys to try.😁
After two years of coaxing I was finally able to get my birds to eat pellets. They are currently eating Lafebers pellets, although I would really like to get them eating BirdTricks pellets. Lafeber is currently the healthiest pellet that I can afford, so I'd say that's better than a seed mix. They absolutely LOVE fruits, as most parrots do, and I will use them as little treats and surprises here and there.
Vegetables on the other hand... that was quite the challenge. I found out about chop some years ago, and gave it a shot. After many failed attempts, I bought the seasonal feeding system books from BirdTricks in print and mafe the recipe with a friend, and they actually ate it. 😶
I was in absolute shock. So happy that I had actually found something that works!! So they've been eagerly eating chop (hooray!🥳) for just a few months now.
I also LOVE your training tutorials, and I've taught Zak to spin, targeting and step-up of course, and as I said earlier, he is currently learning recall as well as fetch. Reef has learned step-up, targeting, and wave, but it kind of stops there.
Because of bad behavior being reinforced in the past, he will often switch to aggression with little to no warning signs. When inside his cage he doesn't really have any issues, I am even able to move toys around, and touch his food and water bowls without him lashing out. But when he comes out of the cage, he seems to flip. When training him outside the cage, I often need to cut sessions short (sometimes it only lasts 1 minute), because he will begin to show me bad signs. He loves training, and is a very fast learner, but will easily become over-excited and bite ... very hard (he draws blood almost every time).
I am at a loss, and I am taking things slow with him, and watching his body language closely, but he flips so quickly. He is also fully flighted, and will occasionally display aggression towards me and family members. There are multiple incidents now where he has flown over to someone from his cage to bite them.
I don't know what to do.
I know you aren't an avian veterinarian, but you do seem to understand animal behavior pretty well, so I would appreciate any criticism or insights you might have for our situation. I want the best for both my birds, and I know Reef has so much more potential to unlock if we can just make it over this bump.
So my main questions are:
-Is there anything you recommend I do to improve my parrots living conditions?
-Do you have any ideas as to why Reef would be so aggressive when outside of his cage?
-Do you think I should I clip his wings? (This one I have thought about a lot, as he could hurt himself when flying toward surprised or scared people, and because others are being hurt)
-Would you recommend any good tricks to transition from training inside to training outside of the cage?
-Literally anything else you might have for me. I am open to critiques and any new ideas, and I would gladly hear anything you have to say.
If you've made it this far, then thank you for actually taking the time out of your life to read this, and I would love to hear from you. I know we're all busy, so really i appreciate it. Thank you again for giving me that first push in the right direction, you showed me that there was more to unlock and love about my feathered friends. ❤
I am currently volunteering at a parrot shelter in a towm near me, and learing about parrot breeds, diet, behavior, health, and basically everything else has been a passion of mine for many years now, and I am considering going to school to become an avian veterinarian. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your are so awesome!
You’ve made some spectacular changes that’s so inspiring to hear!
Honestly sounds like you’re doing everything right, their setup sounds great!
When it comes to behaviour with pushed boundaries it is a long slow road and again you’re doing everything right there. Newt actually had a similar problem, it takes a lot of time to teach them that their body language is going to work to communicate again. Super short sessions, observing body language and taking notes are going to be your biggest help. Write down the details of good sessions and moments when they bite and you may end up finding a pattern. I wouldn’t advise you to cut their wings as that may escalate the problem, instead of being able to leave a situation they’ll end up doing nothing but bite because that’s the only choice they have now.
When they fly across the room to attack I’d record the even in a book and compare, was someone making a certain sound, wearing a certain outfit/ colour/ baggy clothes, did the environment do something to trigger the bird. Write down every tiny detail and you’ll likely see a pattern occur and these random outbursts won’t be so random anymore. Once you have that you can easily form a training plan and work to resolve this problem!
In the meantime I’d make sure to reinforce anytime you see something you like, sitting calmly on the cage, playing independently, participating in training outside the cage, letting people walk by calmly, etc.
Well there's NO WAY mine are going to be doing that lol. My girl can't fly & my boy can, but generally refuses to. As always with your videos though, I think I've picked up some stuff that's going to be great to do with mine. I'm going to try the walking stuff & calling him & directing his movements & getting him onto my hand/arm & then seeing if I can then give the same cues, while holding my hand/arm in a position where he will have to fly to follow the cues & get the reward & see if I might be able to get him to fly.
Mine are rescues from an abusive home & very difficult to work with as a result. I did do flight control training with my boy, just short distances, mostly just beyond jumping distance, but teaching him to control his landings from flight, cause he came to me with the name of "Crash", cause former owners thought it was funny the way he would crash into things anytime he tried to fly, so I taught him landing & directional control, so he could safely fly around - then he took off/escaped into a high tree at his first chance, then sat there for 2 days, stuck, scared of heights it seemed, before eventually following a possum trail to get back down to ground level, where I could get him back & other than if startled, he's refused to fly since then. He's decided he's happy to be a pet bird now & life is good & he doesn't want to escape anymore & doesn't like flying. I want him to fly for exercise & cause it's what birds are supposed to do & I think he'd be happier if he could comfortably fly around, but he won't. I think it may be at least in part that his wing muscles get sore after flying, cause they're not used to the exercise. He'll flap lots in his bath though, so I'm trying to build wing strength & stamina with that & I'm curious if trying the floor thing from this video, then doing the same thing perch/cage to hand might be enough to get him to actually use his wings & if I've done enough work with them in the bath, hopefully to not be sore after & to be willing to keep doing it.
My girl's wings are fused from past injury or TINY cage & unable to ever stretch them for a decade, not clear which, so she just can't fly, even though she would love to. That means she can't be the lead bird & encourage boy to either, but I'd still love to get him flying - and maybe she might even be willing to learn to let her move her around to where boy is if he'll fly.
Anyway, thanks for another great video. I always get useful stuff from your videos, even if my birds aren't able to actually do the exercise shown. I love watching you & yours do the stuff I can't too & having such a positive relationship & learning so well. Very inspiring :)
I needed this to train Birds..Ur Awesome girl!
Literally Amazing!
I love to teach this like you said for "emergencies".....
BUT with 4 crazy quakers it's almost impossible to keep them all off me at any time.
So I often gently launch them to a perch to station.
So I worry if I teach U-turn, they will keep coming to me instead of station.
I guess I can use a specific queue phrase so they know what I want..... but it's still going to hard to keep them off when I need them OFF
Thank u for this. Its so so helpful.
This is like your Boomerang trick isn't it?
Your videos are always so informative , thank you for posting!
I wish I had known this technique at the end of August when a split second incident caused my beloved Budgie to escape. All it took was a split second and I lost my awesome Budgie. So heartbroken!! It happened so fast It was as if a rocket went off. I didn't even see it coming. It was very out of character for my Budgie to EVER go very far away from his cage area. It's better to always assume that it could happen to you. You can never be too careful!
I will definitely be starting this training, thank you!
I always love your tutorials and advice. Very professional, clearly stated and you acknowledge that things aren't always easy for you and your bird to learn together.
(Sidenote: I am also thankful that you don't do that thing that makes me cringe when watching RUclips videos. When I see a printed word on a hat or t-shirt reversed I get triggered, so thanks for not driving me crazy with that.)
So excited to see new videos from you!!! Please keep them coming!!
Really appreciate your advice, thank you
And I missed Mia's videos so much
I will practice this method. Thank you.👍🏼✋🏼😀
Plz make a video for step down.
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Yay. New Video! Thanks
i love this training video so much! Thank you!!
How many tricks that one bird can perform?
been a while
what do you feed them as a treat?
Like 5:15