Hi Michael, great lessons on training your Sun Conure. Thank you! I just adopted a 6 year old female Sun Conure named Nugget. She's a sweet bird, but she's afraid of hands and fingers. She loves to sit on my shoulder and fly from the cage to me. I'm trying to keep her from nibbling on my skin and crawling up on the top of my head. Your lessons will be very helpful. I'll be practicing! I'm hoping I can teach an older bird some new manners. Glad to find you here, I subscribed!
I've also just started seriously training my 3 year old amazon parrot who loves to bite me. For the last 3 days I've been clicker training him twice a day. I can get him to step up on the perch for now but he likes to walk across and nip my hands but even after a couple of days I can see some improvement. I'm gonna slowly move my hand closer and closer to where he steps up like how you instruct in your book. It will be a dream to be able to get him to step up on my hand and keep him there without biting. I'm really gonna try hard to make this happen and hopefully I'll see some good results in the next few weeks.
You’re doing great. Just be patient. Stop setting goals int terms of time but instead in terms of progress. Take small steps and evaluate those improvements rather than the end goal. In football terms, keep getting first downs rather than attempting to score and you’ll reach the end zone eventually. What you will notice is that I am retrospectively reporting what we accomplished in training during a certain time, not what I planned or expected to accomplish. When you focus on the purpose rather than the time, you end up pleasantly surprised when looking back how far you’ve come. Good luck.
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Hi Michael, great lessons on training your Sun Conure. Thank you! I just adopted a 6 year old female Sun Conure named Nugget. She's a sweet bird, but she's afraid of hands and fingers. She loves to sit on my shoulder and fly from the cage to me. I'm trying to keep her from nibbling on my skin and crawling up on the top of my head. Your lessons will be very helpful. I'll be practicing! I'm hoping I can teach an older bird some new manners. Glad to find you here, I subscribed!
Awesome. Good luck with Nugget
I've also just started seriously training my 3 year old amazon parrot who loves to bite me. For the last 3 days I've been clicker training him twice a day. I can get him to step up on the perch for now but he likes to walk across and nip my hands but even after a couple of days I can see some improvement. I'm gonna slowly move my hand closer and closer to where he steps up like how you instruct in your book. It will be a dream to be able to get him to step up on my hand and keep him there without biting. I'm really gonna try hard to make this happen and hopefully I'll see some good results in the next few weeks.
You’re doing great. Just be patient. Stop setting goals int terms of time but instead in terms of progress. Take small steps and evaluate those improvements rather than the end goal. In football terms, keep getting first downs rather than attempting to score and you’ll reach the end zone eventually.
What you will notice is that I am retrospectively reporting what we accomplished in training during a certain time, not what I planned or expected to accomplish. When you focus on the purpose rather than the time, you end up pleasantly surprised when looking back how far you’ve come. Good luck.
@@All-Parrots Thanks for that. Yes just going to try and make small improvements every time I train him.
What is that thing you eat?
What is the treat your are giving?
Walnuts
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Mine will Target but won’t step up because too hard to hold everything but thanks anyway