SassiBird
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- May 10, 2016
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- Parrots
- Black Capped Conure - Sassafras - 2015; GCC Rosalita - 2018; GCC Apple Blossom - 2018
In my experience, you can tame a flight GCC.
You will need to work in the cage first. My preferred is target training and other methods already mentioned.
Once you progress to out of cage training you will need a fairly high confidence that you have a treat/lure that you think you can use to get them back to the cage, because you DO NOT want to have to catch them - BAD, bad, bad and trust destroying. I found it best to be in a small familiar room with no way perch/evade you. I did my training during quarantine in a spare bedroom with all wall hangings, curtains and furniture removed. Otherwise, they just perch up high and hide. This way, they can either perch on the cage, floor or interact with me.
Once out of the cage, we went back to Step one, "Sit and get to know each other", eventually they got curious, and interacted with me, and we could move on to target training what they already knew but outside the cage. Keep in mind. This is just how I approached training FLIGHTED birds that were not 100% tame.
You can roll the cage back to the main living space when you're not training.
You will need to work in the cage first. My preferred is target training and other methods already mentioned.
Once you progress to out of cage training you will need a fairly high confidence that you have a treat/lure that you think you can use to get them back to the cage, because you DO NOT want to have to catch them - BAD, bad, bad and trust destroying. I found it best to be in a small familiar room with no way perch/evade you. I did my training during quarantine in a spare bedroom with all wall hangings, curtains and furniture removed. Otherwise, they just perch up high and hide. This way, they can either perch on the cage, floor or interact with me.
Once out of the cage, we went back to Step one, "Sit and get to know each other", eventually they got curious, and interacted with me, and we could move on to target training what they already knew but outside the cage. Keep in mind. This is just how I approached training FLIGHTED birds that were not 100% tame.
You can roll the cage back to the main living space when you're not training.
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