The 7 main parts of training

[omnitaiwan]

The 7 main parts of training

A. Establish the breeder’s status
Parrots are in colony, in class, and they need a leader. And the leader is you.
You need to let them know you’re their leader. You need to indicate what is right and what is wrong.
For instance, biting is wrong, and standing on hand is right.
After you classify those basic behaviors, you say “NO!”directly when they’re doing something wrong.

B. Hands shaking
Every parrot has its own name. We can call its name first before we start.
Hold up and shake lightly its tarsus then put down. Feed it its favorite food immediately.
You would succeed after few times.

C. Bowing
Raise gently its right tarsus and say “BOW”. The position should be higher than shaking hands.
Give it its favorite food right away after you raise the specified height.
In the beginning, it may not let you touch its tarsus. Just try more and more.

D. Kissing
First of all, let them stand on your hand.
Then, raise your hand to let their beaks touch your cheek and say “KISS”.
Give them award instantly.
Attention: raising your hand and moving their beaks toward to your cheek are simultaneous.

E. Flying
You should train this part when they’re a little bit hungry.
Put your parrot on the ground and away from the feed.
Hold the feed and call its name to attract it to come. Feed it as soon as it comes for you.
You can extend the distance after it would come for you.
Finally, raise your hand to somewhere that your parrot needs to fly to get the food.

F. Shooting
Before this part, you should make a basket.
The basket size depends on your bird’s height. Prepare a similar weight ball to your parrot.
There must be somewhere on the ball which the parrot can hold.
First of all, you should let parrot to recognize the ball.
You can start with holding the ball, and then lead your parrot toward to the basket.
Award it as soon as it shoots the ball.

G. Lifting
Start with making something that can be lifted up and a stick.
For instance, you can use wheels on the toy. Use different color of tape to wind on the middle of the stick.
You don’t have to wind too wide.
The range depends on where can let parrot keep balance.
In the beginning, make the stick to touch their beaks.
You need to let them know they would get award while they touch the stick.
Putting your parrot on the table is better. When they can hold up for a little bit, you can help them to raise a bit height.
And award them right away. They would know that they can get award when they hold up high.
Attention: you need to be more and more patient on it.


From:http://petbird.tw/article3410.html

[Michael]

The 7 main parts of training

A. Establish the breeder’s status
Parrots are in colony, in class, and they need a leader. And the leader is you.
You need to let them know you’re their leader. You need to indicate what is right and what is wrong.
For instance, biting is wrong, and standing on hand is right.
After you classify those basic behaviors, you say “NO!”directly when they’re doing something wrong.

This is nonsense. Parrots don't have leaders and they sure as hell won't treat you as a leader. Saying "no" only encourages them to be bad even more. The only effective approach is training good behavior to replace bad behavior. You can't punish out biting. You can simply reward in all non-biting behavior to replace it.

[Cockatielsongs]

Personally I do not believe in the 'owner' being the boss or leader, I found that parrots co operated willingly if it is respected and has freedom to choose. Parrots do not see anyone as their leader or boss but as an equal. Negative reactions do nothing but encourage the parrot to do the wrong thing.

[marie83]

To repeat the others parrots dont have a heirachy in the way dogs do, therefore it is of no value to dominate and show it who is boss. In fact doing so is likely to create a more fearful bird who is prone to biting.
Whilst I have never dominated or punished a bird,I have learned that responding to negative behaviours may well do the opposite and encourage them.

[omnitaiwan]

The 7 main parts of training

A. Establish the breeder’s status
Parrots are in colony, in class, and they need a leader. And the leader is you.
You need to let them know you’re their leader. You need to indicate what is right and what is wrong.
For instance, biting is wrong, and standing on hand is right.
After you classify those basic behaviors, you say “NO!”directly when they’re doing something wrong.

This is nonsense. Parrots don't have leaders and they sure as hell won't treat you as a leader. Saying "no" only encourages them to be bad even more. The only effective approach is training good behavior to replace bad behavior. You can't punish out biting. You can simply reward in all non-biting behavior to replace it.

Personally I do not believe in the 'owner' being the boss or leader, I found that parrots co operated willingly if it is respected and has freedom to choose. Parrots do not see anyone as their leader or boss but as an equal. Negative reactions do nothing but encourage the parrot to do the wrong thing.

To repeat the others parrots dont have a heirachy in the way dogs do, therefore it is of no value to dominate and show it who is boss. In fact doing so is likely to create a more fearful bird who is prone to biting.
Whilst I have never dominated or punished a bird,I have learned that responding to negative behaviours may well do the opposite and encourage them.

Thank you to let me know this kind of things.
I'm new here and I'm not totally savvy with everything about parrot.
Just browsed through the Chinese website, and found this article may help.
You're really professitonal about this.
Again, thank you all~

[Eric&Rebecca]

However I say this I'm going to sound harsh but if you know you're not savvy in these things perhaps stay away from writing full blown articles that could mislead other owners. It's great your learning still but maybe stick to offering direct advice to questions or specific issues raised. Michael and other members of the forum are experienced enough to do this but if you're not then try and help people in others ways. Misleading advice can be bad for yours and other birds. Read up on Michael's articles first.