Scheduling individual care!?

[Electic]

Hey I had 2 questions for you today, Parrot Forum!

1st question, I've just recently added a male eclectus to my flock, he's going through his cage/playstand phase which Shyla, my female eclectus went through as well. My wondering is when is it a suitable time to start formal training, He's been with me roughly 5 days now and is eating, playing with toys and all the rest, I do mini training unformal sessions such as stepping out of the cage and treating say good boy and such, but when will it be time to do formal training? I assume when he can eat very well, he's still very slow eater and takes him quite a while to fill his crop.

2nd question, I'm trying to work out a schedule for both of them that caters to my needs AND their needs, Shyla has morning training sessions that consists of desensitizing her to the outside world, but I'll cut to the chase and lay out the schedule here and tell me what you think.

12:00 - 1:30 - Breakfast for Shyla/Oliver
1:30 - 2:00 - Self time
2:00 - 3:00 - One of them gets outside of cage
3:00 - 4:00 Self time
4:00 - 5:00 - Out of cage and lunch for the baby boy
5:00 - 6:00 - self time
6:00 - 7:00 - Out of cage for one of them
7:00 - 8:00 - Out of cage for the other
8:00 - 8:30 - Shyla's training sessions that consists of all her tricks she knows and new ones that we're working on
8:30 - 9:30 - Dinner for both
9:30 - 10:00 - self time
10:00 - Bed time

Let me know what you think!!

Regards,

Mohamad Berjaoui

[pionus]

i do't really have an useful advice, i just wanted to comment on you schedule and say it is a very good one! clever indeed.

[terri]

LOVE YOUR PICTURE The only thing I want to point out is .You have a great schedule but it might be to much time.You have to be able to keep this up the rest of their lives.If this isnt realistic change it now while their young.Because if you dont keep up with this birds can get mad and then theirs behavioral issues.Eclectuses are known to pluck .Do everything you can to keep ahead of that.GOOD LUCK

[Electic]

I spoke with a trainer named chris harris, and he basically told me to never stick to a schedule because then we create rescue birds, Shyla, my older female eclectus, she's very much used to constant change, so it wouldn't effect her, I'm just trying to see how much time is realistic for me and trying to stick with it.