First Flight...Sliding Glass Door!

[goalerjones]

Hi Goalerjones:

How did you do that? My sun conure is not clipped, so she/he flys whenever she wants to. And she is stubborn as a mule. (loves the macaw formula though)

I assume u mean the fearing the heat sources. I took him to each area, held him tightly so there wouldn't be any mishaps then let him actually feel the oven at full heat, and see the burners and feel thier heat too. I did this whenever the opportunity presented itself and let him learn to fear the whole area. Then his own desire to be as far away from it as possible took over. Now, as I stated in another post I constantly talk to my birds/animals so the whole process was taught along with verbal cues as well like "Burn", "Bad" and "Fire" very loudly.

Now my hahn's macaw on the other hand, he doesn't fear a thing so he isn't allowed to fly.

 

[Turningpoint]

He got down to about 1100 grams and is holding now between 1100 and 1120. He flew into the door a couple of days ago and cracked the end of his beak! One drop of blood. Now every time he barely touches anything with it...you can tell it hurts like hell! Now that seems to be doing ok...but he's fearless with the flying and I'm having trouble getting him to stop trying to land on my head! He is really stubborn. He just turned 14 weeks old.!

 

[lene1949]

I think Max found it easier to calculate the landing on my head than my shoulder... but he would make his way to my shoulder from the top of my head... The more he practices his landings, the less likely he is to fly into something... I just put my hand up to Max, asked him to step up, and placed him either on my shoulder or on his playstand.

 

[Alisana]

Hi Goalerjones:

How did you do that? My sun conure is not clipped, so she/he flys whenever she wants to. And she is stubborn as a mule. (loves the macaw formula though)

I assume u mean the fearing the heat sources. I took him to each area, held him tightly so there wouldn't be any mishaps then let him actually feel the oven at full heat, and see the burners and feel thier heat too. I did this whenever the opportunity presented itself and let him learn to fear the whole area. Then his own desire to be as far away from it as possible took over. Now, as I stated in another post I constantly talk to my birds/animals so the whole process was taught along with verbal cues as well like "Burn", "Bad" and "Fire" very loudly.

Now my hahn's macaw on the other hand, he doesn't fear a thing so he isn't allowed to fly.

I've heard that making loud banging noises is effective as well. I'll have to do this myself when it comes to letting my macaw freefly around the house.

... Not sure how you'd restrain a B&G or GW though :\