Question about my Cockatiel Personality

[chikha]

I will be getting a hand fed and tamed cockatiel he is turning 2 months this november. I asked my breeder what is his personality he said that he is loud when someone is coming to the cage, that he wants to be out of the cage all the time, he begs for food a lot and likes shiny objects. I want to teach him to do basic training and they said that it is based on the willingness of the parrot and his personality. Will I be getting a good personality cockatiel? What do you think?

[Cage Cleaner]

From what I've seen, the most important thing is to have a food-oriented parrot. You could also have a parrot who loves attention, petting or loves -something- that you can offer in a short moment and that also has a continuous supply. Essentially you need a parrot that is "bribable" into doing the trick that is queued. It seems that your cockatiel is food-oriented enough.

Ideally the parrot would also have a good work ethic, knowing to focus on the trainer and ignore distractions. This is something you could work on, though.

It also needs a good attention span and be able to work through how to figure things out. It ideally should be patient and not easily frustrated. Food-orientation comes in here again, because the parrot needs to want the treat enough to not give up. In something as simple as a targeting to another perch, the parrot needs to be able to put together that the queue requires him to hop/fly from one perch to the other in order to target. It also needs to be willing to try, and brave enough to do so. However, if he becomes much too tunnel visioned on the concept of -walking- to the stick, your trick train progress would either come to a halt, or at the least, be slowed.

[chikha]

Ok thanks I have experienced training a cockatiel before he knows how to target training, turn around, showing wings, nodding and taught him also how to whistle kill bill but he is semi tamed and he flew away. I hope I can teach my soon to have cockatiel now to do the same Is mirror also not a good idea to put inside the cage will this affect my bond with my cockatiel

[laducockatiel]

Is mirror also not a good idea to put inside the cage will this affect my bond with my cockatiel

Mirrors are definitely not a good idea for a cockatiel. The cockatiel will most probably bond with the mirror and it will then not want to bond with you. I always avoid getting toys with mirrors for my cockatiel for this reason.