target training

Hey guys :) Papaya, my cinnamon green cheek conure doesn't like going back into her cage after she is let out. I have tried so many different methods such as coaxing her onto a stick, turning off the light and shining a torch inside the cage, and putting her favourite treats inside but she just...

Foot targeting is a great technique for trick training. You can use your creativity to produce uncommon tricks with this approach. This is quite easy to train if your bird likes to use their feet regularly. I use thick highlighter pens as the target and use a different colour to teach the same...

I have an overweight (~565g, should be ~525g) and bored ~30 year old female YNA. I have read through the stickied Amazon posts, and I can't figure out how to fix boredom without weight gain. The vet says I can no longer cut food and need to get my bird to be active. The active behaviors I want...

So, I have a buttercup kakariki called Cheese. Right now I'm doing target training. He does it pretty good, however he doesn't bother to move. He will rotate his head, even stretch his head a bit but he will not move at all! Not even one step, he's just that lazy. I even change treats from...

Hello, I have started target training my baby Coco (unsure of sex), a parent raised Alex and I have a few questions regarding it. She is doing great at it, she follows the target around the cage as well as around the outside of the cage (not flying towards it yet). So for the last few weeks I...

As promised, I’ve started the training! I’ll be updating this thread with the new videos. This first video is the very start of clicker training, called “charging the clicker”, teaching the bird that *click* means good stuff. But we don’t like clickers so we use WORDS in lieu of a clicker...

I would liike to solicit the advice of the experienced target trainers on this forum regarding a potentially challenging bird. I am in the process of finding a bird to adopt from a local rescue. One particular bird that I am interested in is a 10 year old Sun Conure named Jack. He is a very...

So I recently started target training my bird in its cage since it's still not really tamed but he doesn't move much. He likes millet so I give him that after he touches the tip of the stick. He only touches the stick when it's right in front of him, below, or a little bit over. I did it many...