Beaker's First Training Session

After a month of getting her used to treats (!) Beaker finally did her first real clicker training session today. Here's the first results. Still a little tetchy about taking food from my hand, but she's getting better.

Visit www.clickertraining.com or Bird-Click on Yahoo! Groups to teach your bird!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• cockatiel
• clicker
• training
• parrot
• tricks
• stick

[bryanalbanez]

when there faces are all grey sometimes it means that there are babys because i had a bird that was all grey and when it got older it changed coler

[shirtybird]

Yep, they all start off with grey faces. When they get to around 6 months old, the boys get the yellow mask, while the girls stay grey. You can't tell what sex they are until then.

Beaker was confusing as she is split pied, that is, she has a few random yellow feathers on the back of her head, and she developed a few in her crest around 6 months old. So we initially thought she was going to be a boy. But her face stayed grey, so she is definitely a girl.

[halodoggy1]

how could you get a wild cockatiel friendly

[shirtybird]

By gradually working towards what I'm doing above. Clicker training has been successfully used to tame aviary birds, abused birds with trust issues, and aggressive birds with behaviour problems.

If you go to Yahoo Groups and sign up to Bird Click, they'll be able to help you get there.

[MrAprilsmay]

Man my bird loves me & will do anything just because he wants to make me happy Fk the clicker & treats! you need to love him!

[ingridnvanessa]

how do u make the clicker thingy nosie?

[Mojavethebird]

@shirtybird my bird has a white face. she (or it) has an enitrely grey body, with 2 long white tail feathers, a white stripe on its wings, and a white face. is it boy or a girl?

[slave4him]

I agree with Mudgrrrl79 your info is wrong. My teil was a full adult when I got him and he trained nicely...he actualy performed better than other teils I had as youngsters. They all have their own personality and I think thats a big factor in their trainability and in the time it will take for you to achieve results.

[Mudgrrrl79]

That is bogus info. My tiel was 6 months old and I was able to train her.

[lordn3m3sis]

when you bought her how old was she? I want to buy a cockatiel but they told me that if it's already 3-4 months old it's impossible to train them.

[mehh246]

G'day!

What exactly are those Treat's you are giving her. Thank's!

[ratsrule247]

this method sometimes doesnt work look under neth there wings and tail feathers after there first big molt. if theres bars (lines) accros the feathers she/he is a female

bars=female no bars=male

[millady]

Hi! I bought 2 gorgeous birds and they are not tame...can i get them tame together?

[CockatielFAN]

How do you hand tame a cockatiel that is cage bound Because my cockatiel is cage bound and doesn't want anybody near her.