I have a young Fischer Lovebird, approximately 8 weeks out of the nest. His name is Skittles, I bought him home 2 weeks ago. I target trained him inside the cage as he was not tame. He took to it really well and I can target him anywhere around the cage.
Now he is stepping up onto a handheld perch or my hand and we are using a training perch. My problem is that he refuses to target outside of the cage. I have held the target stick for a while and also held it quite close to him but he isn't interested. I've tried target training 4 days in a row but he's not showing any interest. It's strange because he will still target inside the cage.
I'm a first time parrot owner, I'm not sure what to do to progress with training. Any advice?
Thank you in advance!