My conure is bowing

[Pajarita]

I think her last sentence was meant to ask what would I do if I got a parent-raised bird that was biting me. If that was your question, I can answer from personal experience. First of all, I try my very best not to get bit so I don't ask the bird to step up or anything and, when you do that, you don't really get bit - not ever. Your hand or arm needs to be close to the bird for it to bite you so I don't put them close to them and, consequently, don't get bit. Now, there are birds that are aggressive (a bird biting a hand because it doesn't want to do what you are asking it to do is not been aggressive) which would fly out to you just to bite you. With those, I watch them like a hawk and try my very best to avoid them by ducking or wearing something on my person that would discourage their attack but, if they happen to 'get' me (and this has happened many times because I take in large aggressive birds), I scream in pain and scare them by cawing loudly and making a motion as if to peck them with my hand folded into a 'beak' three or four times in a row. I don't ever touch them and I hardly ever make them go into a cage. Mind you, I do teach them to go into one (the command is "Go home!") because my husband would not walk into the birdroom to repair walls, etc if the 'mean' ones are loose but I don't do it when they bite me.

Now, as to what I do to make the hand-fed ones stop biting... in truth, nothing. I just allow them their freedom and give them my company, praise, treats, keep them to a strict solar schedule and give them a good diet and let them get to the realization that I am no threat to them. That, quite the contrary, I am the bringer of good things and, when they want to have a closer relationship with me and take the first step toward it, I give them the benefit of the doubt and allow them to get on me. If they bite me, I react in pain, tell them they are bad birds a couple of times in a loud and firm tone of voice and simply make them step up to a stick and put them on a perch. And I repeat this as necessary but, in reality, it doesn't take long at all for them to stop on their own.

Please do not believe everything you see in Youtube. You have no way of knowing whether what they are showing you is true or not or whether (and this is the most important point!) this will work for the duration. Many flooding techniques work in the short term but that doesn't mean that they will work for the rest of the bird's life. Just think about it... you are dealing with a highly intelligent animal, an animal that understand the concept of time, that can count and that makes its own conclusions and learn from its own experiences so what, exactly, do you think you are you teaching it when he is trying to tell you he doesn't want whatever it is that has caused him to bite you at the time, bites you to let you know and all you do is just stay there getting bit and not reacting to it?