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So as you may or may not know, I'm an utter greenhorn with all of this bird husbandry.
Obviously research is the key and I did a lot prior to purchasing my bird.
Part of that research led me to clicker training and the importance of target training.
I know she's pretty young at only about 13 weeks old but I have Hollis target trained like a champ and now she is learning to discern between "touch the stick" and "touch the ball".
The thing is, I'm not quite sure why such importance is placed on target training, she stepped up from day dot, has never been shy or flighty and is generally a pretty good bird, so where do I go from here?
I know this seems bad, but I'm loathe to pay for training information because I know it's out there somewhere and I also don't want to be spammed into oblivion from birdtricks.com.
So good people of parrot forums, what's my next step?
Edit: it's not so much that I want to teach her tricks, but I would really like to challenge her and make her life as full and exciting as possible.
Obviously research is the key and I did a lot prior to purchasing my bird.
Part of that research led me to clicker training and the importance of target training.
I know she's pretty young at only about 13 weeks old but I have Hollis target trained like a champ and now she is learning to discern between "touch the stick" and "touch the ball".
The thing is, I'm not quite sure why such importance is placed on target training, she stepped up from day dot, has never been shy or flighty and is generally a pretty good bird, so where do I go from here?
I know this seems bad, but I'm loathe to pay for training information because I know it's out there somewhere and I also don't want to be spammed into oblivion from birdtricks.com.
So good people of parrot forums, what's my next step?
Edit: it's not so much that I want to teach her tricks, but I would really like to challenge her and make her life as full and exciting as possible.