I listened to your advice from a few weeks ago on just ignoring/dont react to the pain. My conure no longer attacks me with hard bites! She now lets me take her out her cage without attacking my hand. I'm not scared of having her out anymore because I can handle her confidently :') thank you
Thanks you for the kind comment! Glad it was helpful! There's one other, I touched on but didn't explore that may be useful which is redirection! If you can distract or redirect the birds attention when it's biting through targeting or a toy it can help too!
My female Conure is now a year old. She has always been a biter, but with patience on my part and a lot of work, she had gotten better and the bites were more like pinches or nibbles. In the past week she has gotten nasty. Biting hard the minute I get her out of the cage. I have her out at least two times daily for at least 30 minutes each time. I try keeping her engaged with toys or exploring different rooms in the house. She bites my hands, my neck and face. I have trained her that if she willingly goes back into her cage she gets her favorite treat. Now after this nasty biting I return her to the cage with no treat. Any suggestions on your part would be greatly appreciated! I love my little girl but she is testing my patience! Thanks!
Hey there I actually have an entire series on biting worth watching! Sadly putting her back in without a treat may be making things worse! I actually ran a course today on looking at behaviour, it may be worth considering the pre recorded version!
My budgies love to pin their eyes as they take a millet seed from my fingers. It is so trippy when my Lutio one does it, because he has red eyes (normal for an albino mutation). So hard to see eye pinning in a lot of species :( When I got Buddy he was severely hand aggressive. It took me months and months to slowly get him out of that. It is still easy to accidently trigger in him as well. Luckily he no longer does it very hard at all when it does happen. I think his previous owner just didn't take him out of the cage much. or this kids parents did some violent things to him to get him to be quiet during the day. I think a lot of it was his mothers doing. Buddy hates long hair. Lucky for me, so do I. A lot of it was me just going slow, using millet. Bring my hand closer, reward. Keep an eye for aggression. Keep doing the same range day after day, leave my hand resting near. Then just getting the millet closer to my hand. After enough days of doing that the millet goes into my palm. Not moving the hand. Just showing it is rewarding to just be near. He started stepping up all on his own after that point.
That's pretty interesting! I can imagine it would be with his type of eye colour lol! It sounds like you did all the right things and were patient/spent lots of time doing it. He couldn't ask for a better owner in that respect!
@@TheParrotTeacher Thanks, I know it can always feel so daunting when you first get a rescue pet of any type. Some people just don't have the patience for it, but it is the most rewarding thing you can do for that creature :) I cannot wait to see all the fun things your 2 new babies learn once they have settled in :D
@@angsfeatheredfriends It really can! With Olive especially we have moments where we wonder if we should have taken more time to think after we took on Scampi too. But we made the choice so we are going to do our best for her!
How long did u do this for? My cockatiel is a little nippy and only steps up for the treat and I've been doing trying to teach him to step up for 2 weeks now and I've had him for 3 weeks and when there's no treat involved he bites a little. He also eats off my hand with no problem
I have videos on step up training that may help! With stepping up the biggest factors are: Being consistent with hand, cue, bridge and reinforcer. Ensuring you’re using a high value treat your bird actually wants. Holding the treat above and behind to keep their attention on it
Hi! You videos are very helpful and I appreciate them very much. I have a question maybe you can help me with. We bought a Green Cheek Conure from a pet store and have had him for a week. We fell in love with how much he loved us and in turn love him too. They told us he is 7 months old. He has come right to us from the beginning. He steps up on his own and he almost always wants to be on me but will bite/nip often. He loves everyone. He isn’t picking on who he goes to and is super friendly, even to strangers, other than the nipping. His bites are not so hard that we bleed but they can hurt. We all are very patient and hold still when he nips. I’ve also started clicker training with a marking stick because I read this helps, but isn’t helping yet. He understands the marking stick and has almost learned to turn around already. What else can I do to stop him from nipping so much? He seems frustrated sometimes but we literally are just holding him when he gets upset. Is his just a “get through it” situation while he grows up? Is it normal that he comes right to us so easily and isn’t scared at all?
Hey Phil, Caught me at my computer! Firstly, thank you for the kind comment. It is partially an age related thing. Conures are quite nippy parrots and young male conures especially will nip lots for various reasons. It will likely reduce as he gets older. It could be perfectly normal for him to be happy with you, especially if he was hand reared. He would be very used to people. His background may also influence his biting nipping or how friendly he is. However, that's not to say there aren't things you can do now to reduce and moderate it. What you've started doing already is spot on. Trying not to react is tough, but also the best course of action. Target training is also a great thing to do. One thing to mention though, some conures can get reactive or over stimulated by the clicker sound as it's quite loud so if that happens with you it'd be worth using something quieter to bridge stimulus or just verbal cues. I would work on something called "soft targeting" which means training him to bite the target stick softly instead of hard. I have some examples in other videos but the basic premise is holding the stick so he really has to reach for it and only rewarding for soft bites and touches. You could also work on redirecting biting behaviour into something like the spin for example. Other factors that play into biting are diet (if it's mostly seed), over stimulations (toys, sound, reactions) and boredom (if there aren't enough opportunities to fly/play/chew) Sadly there's an awful lot to this topic that I can't include it all in the comment, but hopefully the videos and the above will help! If you notice no improvement you could book a consult with us to go into more depth!
@@TheParrotTeacher Thank you so much for your responds! Your answers help a lot. I especially like the idea of having him grab the targeting stick gently AND that the clicker may irritate him. I’ll be working on these things you suggested. Thanks again!!
My baby cockatiel is 3months old n it likes picking at my clothes n my skin, calmly trying to train it to not do this by calmly saying "no pick". Am I doing it correctly or is there something else I should be doing to prevent my baby from biting? Please help.
Hey there, Due to Paris's age they will likely nibble and explore more than they will when they get older. They are just learning what's fun to bite and not. Calmly saying something is fine, but it'd be best to redirect them to another activity where they can earn a reward, remove them and pop them somewhere neutral or not react then move them. It's about teaching them that doing that is boring and doesn't earn them anything, but doing other things is fun and gets treats!
If you look at the sun. We get 6 hours of dark and 18 hours of day (summer/fall) , winter/spring, we get 8 hours of night and 16 hours of day time. So typically, most birds get 6-8 hours of sleep per night. According to the sun.
Sadly that’s pretty flawed logic as that would depend on what part of the world you’re in and what conditions you have. Further to this the twilight hours and times where birds may sleep during semi dawn or dusk. Also the science behind parrot behaviour and what that entails towards their sleep patterns and behaviours
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I listened to your advice from a few weeks ago on just ignoring/dont react to the pain. My conure no longer attacks me with hard bites! She now lets me take her out her cage without attacking my hand. I'm not scared of having her out anymore because I can handle her confidently :') thank you
I’m really glad you and your conure are getting on better! :)
Thank you for your dedication to helping others. I’m very grateful.
You are so welcome! We both try our best!
Thank you, Parrot Teacher! Going to try the neutral place and sleeve instead of yelping when he bites me.
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3:02 when Maya is about to bite, she will do like a noise (idk how to explain it) so that's when I know she doesn't want to be on me
They do often give us warning signs! We mostly don't notice or ignore them! It's good you can see them!
Good tips thank you
Thanks you for the kind comment! Glad it was helpful!
There's one other, I touched on but didn't explore that may be useful which is redirection!
If you can distract or redirect the birds attention when it's biting through targeting or a toy it can help too!
My female Conure is now a year old. She has always been a biter, but with patience on my part and a lot of work, she had gotten better and the bites were more like pinches or nibbles. In the past week she has gotten nasty. Biting hard the minute I get her out of the cage. I have her out at least two times daily for at least 30 minutes each time. I try keeping her engaged with toys or exploring different rooms in the house. She bites my hands, my neck and face. I have trained her that if she willingly goes back into her cage she gets her favorite treat. Now after this nasty biting I return her to the cage with no treat.
Any suggestions on your part would be greatly appreciated! I love my little girl but she is testing my patience! Thanks!
Hey there
I actually have an entire series on biting worth watching!
Sadly putting her back in without a treat may be making things worse! I actually ran a course today on looking at behaviour, it may be worth considering the pre recorded version!
@@TheParrotTeacher Thanks. I’ll check out the behavior video and rewatch your biting series.
My budgies love to pin their eyes as they take a millet seed from my fingers. It is so trippy when my Lutio one does it, because he has red eyes (normal for an albino mutation).
So hard to see eye pinning in a lot of species :(
When I got Buddy he was severely hand aggressive. It took me months and months to slowly get him out of that. It is still easy to accidently trigger in him as well. Luckily he no longer does it very hard at all when it does happen.
I think his previous owner just didn't take him out of the cage much. or this kids parents did some violent things to him to get him to be quiet during the day. I think a lot of it was his mothers doing. Buddy hates long hair. Lucky for me, so do I.
A lot of it was me just going slow, using millet. Bring my hand closer, reward. Keep an eye for aggression. Keep doing the same range day after day, leave my hand resting near. Then just getting the millet closer to my hand. After enough days of doing that the millet goes into my palm. Not moving the hand. Just showing it is rewarding to just be near. He started stepping up all on his own after that point.
That's pretty interesting! I can imagine it would be with his type of eye colour lol!
It sounds like you did all the right things and were patient/spent lots of time doing it. He couldn't ask for a better owner in that respect!
@@TheParrotTeacher Thanks, I know it can always feel so daunting when you first get a rescue pet of any type. Some people just don't have the patience for it, but it is the most rewarding thing you can do for that creature :)
I cannot wait to see all the fun things your 2 new babies learn once they have settled in :D
@@angsfeatheredfriends
It really can! With Olive especially we have moments where we wonder if we should have taken more time to think after we took on Scampi too.
But we made the choice so we are going to do our best for her!
How long did u do this for? My cockatiel is a little nippy and only steps up for the treat and I've been doing trying to teach him to step up for 2 weeks now and I've had him for 3 weeks and when there's no treat involved he bites a little. He also eats off my hand with no problem
And loves being out of the cage and on my hand and sometimes he climbs up to my shoulder
Hi I can't get my Alexandrine to step up without him biting xxx
I have videos on step up training that may help!
With stepping up the biggest factors are:
Being consistent with hand, cue, bridge and reinforcer.
Ensuring you’re using a high value treat your bird actually wants.
Holding the treat above and behind to keep their attention on it
Hi! You videos are very helpful and I appreciate them very much. I have a question maybe you can help me with.
We bought a Green Cheek Conure from a pet store and have had him for a week. We fell in love with how much he loved us and in turn love him too. They told us he is 7 months old. He has come right to us from the beginning. He steps up on his own and he almost always wants to be on me but will bite/nip often. He loves everyone. He isn’t picking on who he goes to and is super friendly, even to strangers, other than the nipping. His bites are not so hard that we bleed but they can hurt. We all are very patient and hold still when he nips. I’ve also started clicker training with a marking stick because I read this helps, but isn’t helping yet. He understands the marking stick and has almost learned to turn around already. What else can I do to stop him from nipping so much? He seems frustrated sometimes but we literally are just holding him when he gets upset. Is his just a “get through it” situation while he grows up? Is it normal that he comes right to us so easily and isn’t scared at all?
Hey Phil,
Caught me at my computer!
Firstly, thank you for the kind comment. It is partially an age related thing. Conures are quite nippy parrots and young male conures especially will nip lots for various reasons. It will likely reduce as he gets older.
It could be perfectly normal for him to be happy with you, especially if he was hand reared. He would be very used to people. His background may also influence his biting nipping or how friendly he is.
However, that's not to say there aren't things you can do now to reduce and moderate it. What you've started doing already is spot on. Trying not to react is tough, but also the best course of action. Target training is also a great thing to do. One thing to mention though, some conures can get reactive or over stimulated by the clicker sound as it's quite loud so if that happens with you it'd be worth using something quieter to bridge stimulus or just verbal cues.
I would work on something called "soft targeting" which means training him to bite the target stick softly instead of hard. I have some examples in other videos but the basic premise is holding the stick so he really has to reach for it and only rewarding for soft bites and touches.
You could also work on redirecting biting behaviour into something like the spin for example.
Other factors that play into biting are diet (if it's mostly seed), over stimulations (toys, sound, reactions) and boredom (if there aren't enough opportunities to fly/play/chew)
Sadly there's an awful lot to this topic that I can't include it all in the comment, but hopefully the videos and the above will help!
If you notice no improvement you could book a consult with us to go into more depth!
@@TheParrotTeacher
Thank you so much for your responds! Your answers help a lot. I especially like the idea of having him grab the targeting stick gently AND that the clicker may irritate him. I’ll be working on these things you suggested.
Thanks again!!
My baby cockatiel is 3months old n it likes picking at my clothes n my skin, calmly trying to train it to not do this by calmly saying "no pick". Am I doing it correctly or is there something else I should be doing to prevent my baby from biting? Please help.
Hey there,
Due to Paris's age they will likely nibble and explore more than they will when they get older. They are just learning what's fun to bite and not. Calmly saying something is fine, but it'd be best to redirect them to another activity where they can earn a reward, remove them and pop them somewhere neutral or not react then move them.
It's about teaching them that doing that is boring and doesn't earn them anything, but doing other things is fun and gets treats!
Nice !
I heard olive is i bit bitty!
She really is!
Does this also apply to indian ringnecks?
Hey Yumna,
It does! Although sleeving your hand may not be useful against their bites.
The rest of the advice applies to them though.
If you look at the sun. We get 6 hours of dark and 18 hours of day (summer/fall) , winter/spring, we get 8 hours of night and 16 hours of day time.
So typically, most birds get 6-8 hours of sleep per night. According to the sun.
Sadly that’s pretty flawed logic as that would depend on what part of the world you’re in and what conditions you have. Further to this the twilight hours and times where birds may sleep during semi dawn or dusk.
Also the science behind parrot behaviour and what that entails towards their sleep patterns and behaviours