baby blue quaker advice needed

[midlandhippy]

Hi all

I have a 12 week old quaker that I have hand reared. He is not afraid of hands humans etc but I have a few issues i need help with.

1. He will be quiet for most of the day but sometimes he will scream the place down. How can I stop this behavior or at least how can i not reinforce it?

2. When he is out of his cage he will always fly to people but then he is chewing on everything (clothes, hair, necklaces) is there a way to stop this or again not reinforce it?

Are these things just due to his age? Will he grow out of them?

Regards

[GlassOnion]

1. He's a bird, he will always have screaming fits. It's normal and he won't stop. When he hits puberty, he will get much worse. That, you'll have to stick through until he calms down.

2. Redirect his chewing with a chew toy or something, gently push his beak away from what is unacceptable.

[coolhady13]

first thing to do is to start with clicker conditioning your bird then target train him

http://trainedparrot.com/taming/

this way he knows that when he hears a click he is going to get a treat .

now you start working on screaming , first of all a parrot screams to get your attention so in order not to reinforce it is to not to give him your attention as if he screamed and you gave him your attention he will learn that every time he screams you will go to him , so when he screams you should ignore him and w8 until he stop , right at the moment that he stop screaming click and give him a big treat (you may also take him out of his cage) that way you reinforce not to scream and he will learn that screaming wont do anything but not to scream will get him a treat and get him of his cage , time by time the screaming behavior will keep decreasing i belive , im not sure if this method will work (as my 2 budgies dont need me and my cockatiel doesnt scream or he dont know how to scream i guess ) but give it a try