Aggresive or scaried lovebird

[jancijen]

i am using little wooden stick as target stick and spray of millet as treat. omg i am so conused now on other forum they are saying to me that i should give finger on other perch and wait what he ll do This is so hard, i am stressed of it and no realaxed (

[Eric&Rebecca]

How do think your bird feels?- he's stressed out because there's a giant hand going in house! Owning a bird can be great but to get to that stage is like a job- you get stressed, but you just need to have more patience and be calm and learn to cope.

Stick with Michael's stuff because its the best basis for other types of training like flight recall (where to tell the bird to fly to you). What you learn now will be the basics for everything you teach your bird; you can teach fetch, flight recall, step up, coming out of the cage, prevent excessive biting..... Sticking the finger in and waiting to see is silly because then the bird will become scared of hands and even if it did work it would create problems for anything else you want to teach. Using the method from this other forum you've got bitten so what more evidence do you need this is the wrong thing to do?!

This isn't the hardest thing that's going to happen with your bird, the method and step by step manual is right there in front of you. Michael's methods are widely used by the hundreds of people on this forum and I've never known them to completely fail. Read some of the other stories.

It's not confusing or hard if you just choose this method because you've got the person who made the method to talk to right here. It doesn't seem that well researched to just 'put the hand in and see what happens'. This is the basis for every single training for a bird.

You've still got diet change, carrier training, flight training... I don't mean to scare you but this really isn't all that bad, all you need to do is be patient and don't give up. Yes you are going to run into problems.

No method is going to work straight away- I am sorry if I am being harsh or sounding evil or nasty to you but you kind of need to be more strong about this. Stick with this forum and Michael's methods for a few months. If they don't work then try something else but as that other person's advice made your bird bite you... who would you rather listen too?

There is another method I use but first try Michael's methods and ask us questions or corrections for what you're doing. If it really really doesn't work, which I believe it WILL if you're patient and persist everyday, I will teach you my methods but not till you've tried the expert Michaels first.

Just look at the videos on YouTube of Michael's birds... clearly his methods work.

[Cockatielsongs]

i am using little wooden stick as target stick and spray of millet as treat. omg i am so conused now on other forum they are saying to me that i should give finger on other perch and wait what he ll do This is so hard, i am stressed of it and no realaxed (

Okay I understand that this is hard but you need to be patient and go SLOWLY. Do not put your hand or finger to the bird. Do not try touch the bird. Try buy a clicker online. If your bird is biting the stick, right before it bites take the stick away and give treat. So the bird has no time to bite the stick and soon it will learn to not bite the tip. But you HAVE to be patient or you will get nowhere.

[Eric&Rebecca]

CockatielSongs is right. Either use her method of removing the stick before you get the biting or distract from the biting with a treat. Either way you need to start again, use a longer stick link a chopstick... the stick should be able to go all the way in the cage without your hand being in there.

Just take the time to read through the method and guides a posts we've given you.

[jancijen]

Ok thanks guys I am much happier now i really really wanna learn him some tricks we have one this parrot ---> dont know how to say in english and he is awesome but now he doesnt wanna go out of cage but he know talk some words like: Hello, (goodbye), name of sister and mother, his name - Riki, Rikinko .... If it ll be okay i ll find u Eric&Rebecca and i ll kiss u thx for ur patience and i hope u ll be there to help me with my issues cause i think that there ll be

[Eric&Rebecca]

Ah an Indian Ringneck. Maybe you could teach them both using Michael's methods! That would be great experience for you

Michael's methods work to retame and retrain too

Of course you ask for with anything that's what this forum is for.

[jancijen]

it ll be maybe nice he is hand-fed so he has no problems with hands but he is not scared to bit soo hard. My mom got hurted really hard a lot of times now :/ i ll try it maybe but he is bitting sometime so hard but ony when we wanna him step up :/ i dont know what happen to him.

[Eric&Rebecca]

With your Indian ring neck it could be a hormonal stage. If you don't keep up training your bird will become untame and stop stepping up. You need to play and train with them everyday and allow them out the cage at the very least 2-3 hours per day but preferably more. You can buy play gyms or out of cage perches for this. It's an ongoing process taming. You can train less frequently but hormonal periods and stages need extra training.

[jancijen]

Ok i have a little break and maybe tommorow i ll start training with my lovebird

[Eric&Rebecca]

You need to have all the materials like the clicker and a better target stick first. Don't start till you have all of those. There's no sense rushing things.