 hey guys so i slept in the room with the birds i don't know i don't want to wake up and feel alone or like in a dark place so i'm gonna wake them up now see what happens you guys got loud voices anybody want to step up it's okay do you want to step up no so if they're not just jumping out on me right now i'm just gonna let them relax and leave the door open when you can't get a bird out of the cage and it's the first days you just leave the door open let them come out themselves they're gonna be less territorial when they're out of the cage and they're gonna step up to me much easier if they're here or there it still could be hard for you to get them off if they're anywhere near their cage and in that case you would have to take them away from their cage first and then start working with them but we know that these guys are pretty good what's happening now is they're just being territorial so sometimes i offer them a second time just to see if they feel like they missed their chance at getting out you want to step up no okay all right let them be they're eating that's good okay guys so they've just been sitting in here with the door open for hours nally came out and chilled on top just to give you guys a little reference i just made my coffee on instagram if you're not following me on instagram you're missing out on all the in between in my life and what the birds are doing so i'm gonna try to approach them again so that they know that they've had a little time where it's been safe but also maybe they've been bored so oh he doesn't bite at all step up no okay let's try nally nally's a harder self so they're probably missing their mommy step up baby he doesn't bite hard at all okay you'll notice there's no toys in the cage the cage toys were getting cleaned i just took them out of the dishwasher but here's the thing when you bring a new bird into your house aside from the fact that i washed all the toys if you get a baby bird they may be terrified of toys or not used to them so that would be one thing but in this case for them to get used to me you kind of want to take out the toys or only have one toy just so that they have focus on you this isn't something you deprive them of this is just something for in the first 48 hours you want to make sure that you are their entertainment so that they trust in you so that there's not something in the cage that they can lean and depend on because ultimately if birds get stuck on their toys or stuck being in their cage it's going to be okay for you to feel like they're fine in there they're happy they have their toys when that is not okay it's not okay for these caged birds to not have a life outside their cages so it may seem weird right now taking the toys away or not giving it to them right away they'll get all their toys it's just that right now i want to make sure that they know that i will be fun for them and then i'll play with them and that they need not be depressed and then i'll bring their toys and they'll be excited now look look at nally she sees she sees you talking she sees that i have monti morty monti she sees that i have monti and uh she's a little more trusting now they're good birds i mean obviously not a whole lot of taming has had to go on but he does feel a little more comfortable going back to his cage so i'm gonna let him do that and i'm gonna sit here with them and i'm gonna edit this for you so this is gonna be a little high end what you've just seen but yeah you're talking huh but i'm just gonna be with them all day now where are my birds my birds had their breakfast had their lunch we did the dancing we did the tent thing with kody we got leo real fat on food and jersey too rocky he's still chilling on his stands but basically all the birds are now having a good time outside getting some sunlight vitamin d in their avery so that i can spend time with these guys and not worry about cross contamination at all which we are going to talk about so today monti has been chilling with me this is the tool that she uses to get him to step up he actually steps up on my hands but sometimes he's a little unpredictable sometimes like he won't bite at all but i've been editing today and he just literally has sat on my computer all day i'm just trying to get acquainted with him and let him know that you know he's fine and fun he lets me pet his head but if i like make too many forward moves then he gets weary but look step up yeah he just steps up he's so cute that's you that's your cute face so i just want to show you guys what you do with a new bird you include them in every single thing that you do these birds have had their cages open all day long essential essential essential a lot of people think they need to come home and like let the bird adjust adjust to what like often the bird's been in the cage for a very long time now last night since we brought the birds home a little bit later and needed to get them set up sure we only played with them for about an hour or so and then put them to rest because it was a very big day but today is a new day so you always want to open the next day with them being free as much as possible now netli has actually stayed in the cage most of the day the cage has been open but she stayed here so she's a little more cautious let's just see if she'll step up step up netli no so i don't know if you saw that she kind of went for me do you want a head scratch okay so almost that just means that with netli it's very important to get her out of the cage more so than with morty now if you have two birds which is an unusual situation i don't advise any of you to go out and get two birds but these guys are bonded you can use something like this to get netli out and then just make sure that you include netli all day that's important because the bird needs to know that this situation is going to be different but in this case it's okay she's scared at the computer so let's just put her right here netli wants to go back so this is a bird that either we're going to have to isolate her from training with morty now if she wasn't tame and wouldn't step up then i would be like you have to separate the birds you have to for training but in her situation she might actually not feel comfortable okay it's okay she might not feel comfortable if morty isn't around monty i can never get that right so she might only want to be with monty and since they're both tame that's okay we can actually hang out with both of them together so let me just go over that real quick if for some reason you end up wow he came over to me that's pretty good she doesn't understand as much as he does he's the one trying to make the leeway here so i want you guys to understand i don't ever advise going out and getting two birds but a lot of you have made this mistake keep in mind these birds are already friends it's kind of like a Picasso and jersey or how Picasso and george were you don't want to separate them but they're not exactly bonded in a way that they're laying eggs and not tame she actually did a really good job with these birds this is a very unusual situation a lot of you want to go out and get your bird a friend but what ends up happening is if you're unskilled with birds or a beginner with birds not a good idea to come home with two birds you really have to work with one get to know how to work with one and then afterwards when you come to the conclusion that your bird needs a friend you will still most likely be wrong because your birds will not end up being friends and what will most likely happen is that you'll have two birds to bond with and bird number one will have less time most of the cases this is true in this case these guys are both listening like in this case both of these birds are pretty tame and they're chill with each other but we do have to keep an eye on them and she said that sometimes they have to be separated for that exact reason so in this case we can actually get both of these birds adjusted together what's best is if george was here to play with one while i'm playing with the other then they both know that the same thing is going on at the same time this guy is a little more interested hi hard and he's not as scared of the phone and she's coming closer now that she knows i want you guys to remember something very important when you're rehoming a bird or bringing a new bird home even for the first time they are heartbroken like everything is new and it's not just new and scary you might not understand yet how much emotion a bird has and what an attachment they had to their owner so on one hand they want to be loyal because that's how birds are so they might not be showing you the affection you think you deserve right away because they're loyal to their previous owner they might be scared and they might be depressed so you have to consider that here see when i talk like a little bit lower and like chill she wants to come see what's going on yeah yeah they're both like making way over to me which is really great and their team but that doesn't mean they're not going to have their moments where they don't want me to hold them they don't want attention and maybe they're upset they need a lot of love birds need a lot of love this guy likes listening to my voice so i don't know if you guys know but monti is the one with a toenail missing in the front and nelly is the one with a toenail missing in the back i've been keeping them company all day letting them know that they're not going to be locked up this is really important especially if you come home with a bird that is not tame at all or a new baby you have to let them know that your intentions is not to cage them one so that they begin to trust you and two so that they realize this is a different situation and three so that they don't just stay in their cage and feel like this is how it's going to be this is your chance it's your chance when you first bring them home to make your moves because they're hyper sensitive kind of like when you go through a breakup and everything is sad and new and you're very aware that's what happens with them that's like this is the time to make changes for the birds okay another subject i think we should talk about clipping wings these birds are clipped as you can see they're very calm tame they're not flapping around if you are a newbie okay like never had a bird in your life i get so many questions about this and i hear so many horror stories and that's why i'm saying what i'm saying now for those of you new to the channel or new to me i have flighted parrots i support birds being flighted i think it's healthier i think it's beautiful and i think the birds are happier that does mean you're putting yourself at risk to lose birds and also it's important to note that most of the injuries in a bird's home are because they were flighted however birds can also be safer because they're flighted if you know something is a threat to them in the home if you are a new parrot owner or bird owner a lot of you write to me and you're like i took my bird out of the cage but he's flying all over and he hit the wall and i don't know what to do and i can't tame him clip the birds wings i gotta tell you guys when i got my first bird as a kid and most of us all of us we got clipped birds because that's what people did back then there wasn't as much information on the benefits of birds flying but if my bird wasn't clipped and i had this wild bird flying around that's seven years old it might not have ended well it might have been like a nuisance to my parents a danger to the bird and very tough for me to tame and train this bird so what i like to advocate is if you're new to bird ownership and bird companionship is to start with the birds clipped with the intent to have a flighted bird and if you have two birds and you're bringing them home there's no way like there's just no way i'm not saying this applies to everybody there are amazing people out there that had done their research and studied really well and we're ready to take this kind of thing on i'm not talking about you guys but honestly if you knew how many sad messages i got people i got the bird out of the cage like you said the door has been open but how do i get it back in it's flying all around the house when i hear that i know this is someone inexperienced and this is dangerous for the bird so i'm happy that this is happening so that we could go over all of this and really just cover bringing a bird home from the beginning to the end and most likely we're gonna be rehoming these guys so we'll cover that too and we'll show you how to properly rehome a bird and you'll get to see a bird rehoming story it's all right it's all right they just like want to be next to me it's cute don't let me sniff them though you're not accustomed to sniffing quite frankly i don't even like how does your Senegal smell i really want to know