Hi Guys,
My name is Paul we had a pet budgie for a number of years (Marty) who passed away 6 months ago. In any case it didn't take us long to get another budgie (leeloo) who is such a sweetie! Just over 2 weeks ago we got a Young Cockatiel (Jazz).
On his first day he managed to draw blood . . my blood!! and it hurt big time Came across this site and read the post on taming and its done wonders. Couldn't get near him to even clean the cage! In just over two weeks of training he is extremely tame. You can get him out of the cage without a problem. He eats from our hand and loves interacting with my son and his Legos.
He has his first trick down . . . Turn. I can't believe he can turn on command. Birds are amazing!! My wife thinks of gone clucky over a bird. I want to buy him a new cage now.
Here is a video of him, nothing special, just playing around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arxb8pP5JGA
I will post a video with tricks once I teach him a few more. Great site with first rate info guys!!!
Cheers
Paul