Erfan771 wrote:Firstly thank you very much for taking your time to write this to help me and your text made me really think about the purpose of getting my bird and what kind of rrelationship I want to have whit him and maybe for other birds I may get in future, I don't want a show bird or a special trained one but what I'm trying to achieve the whit these guides I found recently in the net is to get a closer to my parrot and be able to handle him and exact like you tell about your parrots make them to like me a d like to be around me as much as possible since I had him for a while and ccouldn't manage to handle him so I searched for any way that teaches me how to do this properly and the best I found was Micheal guide but now your words convincing me that there may be better ways to get to the same goal, you know referring to your questions I don't have a good feeling when I grab for the bird and he get in panic and tries to flee from my hand, and I don't feel that that's the best way to teach them but it's just that I don't know any better technique, so if there would be a way to make my bird coming to me or on my hand to take him to where I want that's of course more impressing to me than stressing him every time and trying to make it good again whit treats and training and even there is some success I often got to repeat the same training because my bird won't do it straight away after being grabbed, like one day he step up very well on command then the next day when I grab him he gets stressed and I need to start again to target him to my hand slowly till he agrees to step up again, iit's going like this for a couple days so I really would like to hear what kind of help you can offer me now to get on whit my
Michaels training techiniques are not just for a show parrots and Michael has a close relationship with his parrots. Michaels techiniques will work fine for you, your IRN is hand tamed and you have had some success with it. So dont use other people methods if you are having sucesss with what you are doing. Some of the people in this forum have 20 to 30 parrots and dont have a close relationship with that many of them and most of them are much older when they rescued them. You picked Michaels training becase of the kind of realtionship you want to have. You are dong well to work with the patience i have seen in your posts. But you will need to keep having patience. Training your hand fed parrot is like taking two steps forward and then one step back, especially if your parrot is not a baby at the time.
I use grabbing with my young Meyers, he was still young when 'i got him but he had two owners before me, and had bonded with parrots and was not tame to people anymore, and he was a scared parrot...ripped away from his second home and the parrots he had bonded to there. I always use towels in my training, because i try to make vet visits as comfortable as i can, and in an emergency i can towel one of my parrots, because they are not afraid of the towel and even find it comforting. I can tuck my Meyers in my jacket now to take over to my daughter for a visit, and that is mostly because I can grab my Meyers without him being afraid. He loves to be where there are different parots to flock with. He is very tame with me now, and will preen me, playfight with me, follow me around the house. Thats the kind of relationship i wanted. I like to take my parrots on outings or even trips, so I want them to be tamed to that level. They are like my companions or kids. i want them to be able to come to me when i call, for their safety. i dont get mine to do a lot of tricks, I just do enough training to get a close relationship and i give them lots of attention.
If you want to try others methods go ahead, but go back to yours if theirs are not working for you.