Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 24, 2008
To learn what it means to target train your bird, go to my blog entitled Target Training and Clicker Conditioning. The training that happens from your bird already knowing targeting, can be flight training your bird using the target stick.
This training is very simple and happens pretty naturally for a flighted [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 21, 2008
Photo by Katherine B.
Location: Naples, Florida
Pictured: Two Female Blue Throated Macaws, 1.5 Months Old
I wanted to share the newest photo of the two blue throated macaw babies at a month and a half old of age. I think they look so beautiful and adorable! It’s really neat to see them grow up through images.
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 14, 2008
Photos by Katherine B.
Location: Naples, Florida
Twins: Female Blue Throat Macaws
My 5 week old blue throated macaw, Jinxi, is on the left in each of these photos. Both babies are female as they were just DNA tested. I should be picking her up at the end of this month! Oh the anticipation of getting a new [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 13, 2008
Above is a video of my rose breasted cockatoo (commonly known as a galah) named Bondi performing some tricks she knows. The only one I left out was the bat but you can find that trick on my other video blogs.
Here is a link to a complete parrot training guide.
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 6, 2008
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Orlando, Florida
Of: Rose Breasted Cockatoos/Galahs “Bandit” and “Ace”
This picture was taken on my phone (hence the quality) of our two newest baby cockatoos named Bandit (ours) and Ace (a friend’s). We picked up Ace and delivered him for our friends. Ace is in the forefront of his photo while Bandit is the [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 4, 2008
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Orlando, Florida
Bathers: Congo African Grey “Cressi” and Galah “Bondi”
Above is a polaroid photo I took of Cressi and Bondi. Cressi is now a 7 month old Congo African Grey and Bondi is a 3 year old Rose Breasted Cockatoo (galah). Bondi has been bathing for years now, but Cressi had her first [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 3, 2008
I used to think the proper diet for a parrot was mainly organic pellets such as Harrison’s or Feed Your Flock with supplements of fruits, vegetables and properly cooked meats (chicken, fish, beef).
Was I ever wrong! I started taking notice to birds healthier than mine and sought to find out what they were eating. My rose [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 2, 2008
After leaving the Happy Birdy forum (forums are not for me), I had a few people constantly keeping in touch with me to exchange information and experiences. Well, it was so asked upon that I decided to create my own video blogs on parrot training (or my own experiences with it, really). One girl in [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 1, 2008
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Key Largo, Florida
Friends: Umbrella Cockatoo and Moluccan Cockatoo
The main reasons most parents do not want their kids to get a pet parrot, is because they don’t want to have to be the ones to take care of it. Parrots can be high maintenance pets as they need plenty of space, fresh food [...]
