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New Parrot Tricks To Keep Him Happy

Copyright (c) 2010 Kaye Dennan

One of the sheer delights of owning a parrot is seeing results for all the parrot training that you do with your friend. Parrots love to be trained and they are very interactive when you give them your time. Parrot tricks are many and varied, but one of the first tricks most owners teach is to get the parrot to ’step up’ onto their hand.

Parrot tricks are great for your pet parrot because if the owner is not around they can become quite lonely and bored which is not good for their health. They are flock birds and if they do not have a companion in the cage with them then they need to be taught tricks so that they do not become upset and unwell. A happy parrot is an amazingly good companion.

Here is something that can be taught to a pet parrot.

Because owners like to carry their parrot around, ’stepping up’ is one of the first tricks often taught. This is simply getting the parrot to step onto your finger (or arm if it is a larger bird). Extend your finger in front of the parrot’s feet and ask it to “step up”. Repeat this command several times in a calm, soothing voice so as not to frighten the bird. If necessary, hold some food in front of the bird, out of reach so that it will move forward. When the bird does what it is supposed to do give it a small treat.

“Turning around” is another trick that birds will learn quite quickly. The idea is to get the parrot to do a full turn on the perch. To start this trick, hold a piece of food to the side of the parrot so that it has to turn its head. Ask it to “turn around” and as it reaches for the food move it behind the bird so that it turns completely around on the perch. Once it has turned around, give it a treat.

Over time your parrot will gain more confidence and he will do all sorts of tricks of his own. The tricks that they get up to will depend on the type of toys that you give them. They have really inquisitive minds and like small children, they will find things to do with new toys.

Teaching a parrot to talk.

One of the very important steps when teaching a parrot to talk is to talk loudly clearly. Each syllable needs clear pronunciation so that the parrot can hear and be able to mimic the sounds.

It is best to teach the parrot only a few words at a time otherwise they will get confused, and also it is best if there is only one teacher. This way the parrot gets used to the vocal sounds and is not confused by the different accents and voice tone.

Regardless whether you are teaching your parrot tricks or to talk, the parrot will absolutely love the interaction and all the attention. You can bet that all the praise you heap on him will not be lost and that his ego will get a huge boost.

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Question by lyricalismine: What and How to teach a parrot tricks?
what kinda of trick is a good one to start with for the first time with a parrot and how would i teach it to him

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Answer by laurence h
it is tricky trust me i know

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Parrot Training

Parrot Training is the first thing you need to do if you have a bird who seems out of control.Everybody loves a pretty parrot but if you’re bird is not properly trained it can easily become a nightmare for you and the whole family.

That’s why you must train your parrot. Let’s talk about your bird and why he’s crazy, or why you think he may be. Lets also examine what birds think about and what to do if you have a fearful bird.

My Parrot and me

Parrot training is simply the process of getting to know your bird and developing a relationship whereby your bird knows who’s the boss. Maintaining dominance over your bird is very important if you want to gain the trust and love you want from him.

All animals will take the dominant position if you let them so you can’t yield to your bird. You are the “head” flock member so you have to act like it. If you back down to a bird that lunges at you then you are yielding ground.

And, your training him TO lunge at you. Youre backing off and hes getting the response from you that he wants. All this does is re-enforce a negative behavior. Don’t do it pal.

When to Parrot Train

If at all possible, train your bird when he is a baby, don’t wait. This will make it easy to have a well rounded pet who doesn’t scream, bite and isn’t afraid of you or other people. Everybody loves a well behaved bird and by training him you will be able to enjoy him more and he will love you for it. Young birds are easier to train but you really can train a bird of any age as long as you have the fortitude.

Although young birds are easier to train you have to watch out and not allow them to develop a biting mentality. As young birds are weaned and discover the power of their beaks they will start nipping and biting down. Don’t allow it to become habit forming and don’t encourage this type of biting.

Parrot Psychology

Understanding how your bird thinks will help you in understanding why they do what they do. For instance, the reason parrots tend to get very loud at times is because it’s simply their method of talking to us.

Birds will also make a lot of noise if there basic needs are not met, this means water, food and of course a nice big cage. To help the process of training you need to make sure these essentials are in place, and that your bird is happy. Your bird will scream, shout and act up if he’s hungry, thirsty or afraid.

Parrot Training Procedure

All training is done through some form of repetition. This is the best way to get started. Before you get into advanced training you must have a bird that is not afraid of you. So spend time with him, sit by his cage and talk to him. You want a relaxed bird who’s not afraid or easily spooked.

If your bird is afraid of you then you have some work to do. First, approach him slowly and calmly. If he starts to show he’s afraid you need to stop. Simply stand still and don’t move, then back off. It’s important to let animals know their not going to be hurt. Believe it or not, this is training and it’s the first step. Repeat this first step over and over again and you will make progress.

In time you will get closer and eventually open up the cage. After that you will be ready for the next steip; the up and down command. Later you will move into more advanced training. Just take things slow. You have to start somewhere so the sooner you start the sooner your bird will take to you.

Train Your Bird Now

It’s not the end of the world if you think you have a bird that’s crazy. You can train any parrot or any bird, you just have to have a little patience. Just remember that birds are naturally loud because thats how they relate to each other.

But any bird who is scared will attempt to lunge and bite. Remembers why we parrot train, we do it to take control and stay dominant. It’s the only way to control bad bird behavior.

Training your bird allows you to acheive.

• Trust
• Dominance
• Obedience
• Affection

Parrots think like birds, that’s because they are birds, so it’s important that you realize this and work to gain the dominant position in the relationship. You have to gain your parrots trust first before you get his affection.

Learn how to train parrots by playing training games, and rewarding them with a treat and learn more parrot training tips in this free pet care video. Expert: Elizabeth Cantu Bio: Elizabeth Cantu has owned and been working with parrots since 1994. She has been active in captive parrot rescue and rehabilitation. Filmmaker: julio costilla

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Question by Ice Sk8ter: What are the best Parrot Training Videos?
We are willing to pay. We have a 6 year old African Grey Parrot we adopted from and abusive family, and it has MAJOR biting problems. It’s just down right obnoxious. We already looked at Nathalie Roberts training videos so please don’t say those. We want her to stop biting, learn new words, and maybe even learn a few tricks. If you could tell me the best videos that would be great!

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Answer by Emma

You tube, has SO MANY!!! Good luck!

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Train your Parrot

No environmental examination when you train your parrot, can be complete without an evaluation of accessories-chewing, ringing, holding, climbing, swinging, preening, and “bopping” toys. The easiest, least expensive, and most accessible of these are tree branches with bark. Branches with bark help keep beak and toenails appropriately worn and help prevent foot problems and numerous behavioral problems. I like ailanthus or sumac branches. Loro Parque in the Canary Islands provides fresh pine branches weekly. I think most taller trees are probably safe. I consider all shrubs, fruit trees, and trees that might have been sprayed with chemicals to be potentially toxic. Clean and examine branches for bugs.

Every bird should have several choices of commonly favored bird activities when you train your parrot, such as ringing a bell, preening a fuzzy pseudo-friend, climbing both fixed and swinging objects, and “bopping” a fleeting, shiny reflection. Sometimes a particular toy will hang in the cage for quite some time before the bird learns how to play with it. Sometimes a toy will be ignored for long periods only to be discovered as a favorite buddy. A well rounded hookbill should probably have at least a half dozen toys, some of which are routinely withheld and returned to reinforce good behavior or distract from anticipated bad behavior.

Many active, well-behaved, kind-to-humans parrots have daily play rituals that involve “beating up” or otherwise physically dominating a toy. Just because a bird abuses a toy doesn’t mean that it will abuse humans. In fact, like frequent drenching showers, abuse of toys releases energy that might otherwise emerge as aggression against humans.

Train Your Parrot: Access to Appropriate Choices

A happy hookbill needs many opportunities for good behavior and few opportunities for bad behavior. For example, a bird sitting on the shoulder has several choices of things to do-chew on buttons, moles, jewelry, eyeglasses, or ear-lobes; make holes in fabric or preen hair. For various reasons, none of these choices is perceived by humans as appropriate behavior.

For better or worse, human responses usually-often unintentionally-reinforce a bird’s behavior. If the bird has little or no opportunity for inappropriate behavior, the human interaction will usually be reinforcing acceptable behavior. In a poorly planned environment a bird owner can wind up yelling “No” all the time. This can be quite amusing to a bird who loves any attention or damaging to a bird with low self-confidence.

A bird with several exciting things to do will not need to chew on treasured furniture. In a well-planned environment, the bird has no unsupervised access to inappropriate choices. Ideally, access to that tasty-looking basket collection is restricted with physical barriers, psychological barriers, and/or wing feather trims.

People are, undoubtedly, the most influential part of the companion parrot’s environment as they stimulate, provoke, and reinforce the bird’s behavior, as well as provide for the physical elements of the environment. The ability to modify a companion bird’s behavior is largely dependent upon the willingness of humans to modify their own behavior or to accommodate environmental changes required to stimulate better behavior in the bird.

Humans often constitute the only “flock” after which the bird can pattern its behavior. Under the modeling of an angry-or even a passively angry-owner, a bird can easily learn violent behavior. If humans in the environment taunt or ignore the bird, if they taunt or ignore each other, a companion parrot can easily develop undesirable or antisocial behaviors. It is not unusual for owners of a good talking type of bird that is not talking to admit that humans do not talk to each other in their home.

Training A Parrot: Long-term Adjustment

We don’t always get along with every life companion all the time; and there will be times when “parrot stew” sounds very tempting. New behaviors will develop from time to time, and no bird is going to behave perfectly all the time. I believe, however, that ongoing evaluation and manipulation of the environment is just as important as training for an easy-to-live-with, longtime companion parrot.

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Question by Seth Nunyabiz: why is my parrot cichlid hanging out by the heater all the time.?
I have two parrot cihchlids. one hangs out by the heater all the time. the other seems fine, he just chills out in the cave.the temp is about 74 F. but the one just like stares at the heater and it looks like it is kissing it.what is it doing?
these fish do not fight and are showing signs of spawning.

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Answer by Noggles
you probably got a pair of males and the one that hangs at the top is the one that lost the turf war at night.. take it back to fish store and get another.. the one in the cave will slowly beat the other one till its dead.

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Top 10 Parrot Training Rules

Parrot training is also owner training in a way, as training your parrot teaches YOU quite a few things at the same time! For one thing, training a parrot means you’ll have to improve your teaching skills (my day job is teaching children part-time and that takes quite a bit of practice too!), and work on your patience. It is normal for a bird not to understand what we want to teach him instantly, but training parrots should first and foremost remain a game.

1. Find the right reward.
2. Respect the moments when your bird is not interested by a training session.
3. Choose a place where the bird feels at ease and secure, a place he knows and likes.
4. Always reward every action when you want to teach him a new behavior in order to encourage him.
5. Observe the motivation of your parrot and end the training session before the bird gets restless or bored.
6. Training should be a game for your pet, therefore there shouldn’t be any sort of punishment when he gets things wrong.
7. Keeping your patience can be tough, but it is necessary to adapt to the learning rhythm of your bird and not to go too quickly, otherwise he may become confused.
8. Always make sure that the behavior or trick you teach him has been 100% learned (i.e. he gets it right 100% of the time) before moving on to something new.
9. Be in a good mood throughout the session, because your bird can feel your emotions. He will learn better if this is an agreeable experience for you!
10. End all training sessions on a very positive note. This way your parrot will be left with a good memory and he’ll be willing to practice again for the next session.

As a last recommendation, a sound human relationship is based on trust and mutual respect. When it comes to creating a relationship with your pet, these principles hold true.
Parrots need to feel safe in your company, and it is your job to win your bird’s trust, and do everything in your power not to lose it.

Animals do not behave as humans do, and we must not interpret their behavior using our human frame of reference, but rather keep in mind their specificity. This will help us not to mistake what is normal behavior for parrots from bad or problematic behavior.

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Question by Arnold R: parrot training?
how can I get my parrot to stop yelling?

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Answer by Marilyn B
you probably can’t. Maybe you can give him more attention if he is alone a lot. Cover him up if he is yelling at night. Try teaching him or her something new. It also depends on the type of bird, some birds are very vocal.

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Training Parrots Not To Bite – Pro Techniques!

Lorikeet Bite

Parrot’s are some of the most beautiful birds in the world and they can be tons of fun, but there’s one huge reason that so few people have them! They’re ridiculously hard to train! You ever been around an untrained parrot? Well it sucks! Untrained parrots are loud, obnoxious, and if you get too close to them, they bite!

Train Your Parrot Not To Bite Now!

How To Train a Parrot Not To Bite

The first thing you want to do is skip everything you already know or think you know about training parrots, because nine times out of ten, what you think you know is completely wrong! You don’t want to practice poking at your parrot with a twig or hit your parrot everytime is bites your finger, these are only going to damage your parrot and ruin your relationship with it!

You Want To Do It Right

When training a parrot not to bite, you want to focus on doing things like not letting your parrots perch be near a window. When your parrot is near a window in it’s early stages with you, you’re going to neglect you due to the fact that it sees you as the one thing keeping it from going outside, so of course it’s going to try and bite you, because it’s trying to escape!

Conclusion

Nothing about Parrot training is easy, and if you want to train your parrot not to bite, you’re going to need a professional parrot training guide. You won’t have to spend a bunch of money on hiring a professional parrot trainer or anything like that but you will probably need to spend a few dollars on getting a professional parrot training guide. Good luck!

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Question by AMZPARROT5: how do you texture pvc pipe to be used for a parrot perch?
I have 1″ white pvc pipe that needs to be textured (rough texture so it is not slippery). This is to be used for a parrot perch

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you can score into it with a suitable implement or asking a pvc manufactor to make you some special, but in all honesty your better off giving the bird natural wood, just find some trees that the council have cut down and ask for branch or two, make sure they are thick enough to hold the birds weight though…

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