New Cape

[Salvation]

I am new to this forum and have several questions....

First to Michael, what do you give you cape for treats during training? and how old should the cape before training them. I have a newly weaned cape Zoey hatched April 5, 2010. He is adorable and I want to make sure I start training at the right time.
and anyone else with capes,,, if you are training them what type treat do you use for training.

Flights suits?? are they difficult to put on? will it be a fight and are they reliable??

thanks!

[entrancedbymyGCC]

We've only had Scotty a week, so I can't really give you much information! It is clear, however, that his favorite food is nuts, so I think if we get into serious training, that would be the obvious choice. Right now we're just trying to get him to settle in and eat well.

[Michael]

Truman's favorite treat is almonds. He absolutely loves them and can break an almond open in no time. He also likes walnuts and sunflower seeds. I began informal training from the day I got him buy waited about a month before starting stricter training.

I've taken Truman outside wearing a flight harness lots of times:

http://trainedparrot.com/index.php?bid= ... k+Together
http://trainedparrot.com/index.php?bid= ... vs+at+Home

Here's the process for training harness:

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1329

[Salvation]

I checked out both videos you marked. Very cool. I ordered Zoey a harness today. Zoey and Bella (african grey) had their first intro last night close up. Both curious at first then Bella not so much..I thought she was going to attack bella.
I started today with Zoey target training... He wanted to bite the straw and play with it but he touched it so it counted. Gave him crushed nut to reward and he took it but then lost quick interest and dropped it. He loves to open peanuts but then doesn't eat the peanuts, I suppose its the baby in him.
Bella's is my husbands bird so he decided to start training her as well and I figure I might as well start with Blue my blue quaker which is very scared around new objects.
Thanks for the insights and I will be checking out the rest of the forum as well and other videos.