Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 29, 2008
When it comes to your bird’s diet – do your research and thoroughly! For all of Fiji’s life (my Swainson Toucan) she has been on a Mazuri pellet diet (the rest of her diet is explained in detail here) but right now I want the focus of this post to be on her pellet diet [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 25, 2008
Photo by Dave
Location: Holland America Stateroom Shower
Wet head: Congo African Grey “Cressi”
Although your bird should be bathing 5-7 times a week, force bathing your bird to do so is not the equivalent to that. No bird should be forced to bathe – if he or she is running in fear from the water, do not [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 22, 2008
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Alaska, Holland America Cruise Line
On shower perch: Rare White Parakeets “Nikko” & “Visa”
While cruising Alaska and performing on Holland America with my birds, I met a man who had a cockatiel who plucks. One of the first things I asked him was, “Do you bathe your bird?” he was surprised by the [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 19, 2008
Photo by Dave
Location: Holland America Cruise Line Theater
Pictured: Galahs “Bandit” and “Bondi”
I touch trained my 4-5 month old rose breasted cockatoo, Bandit, in two days with three training sessions. It’s the very first thing I taught him (aside from flight training outdoors) and it was actually harder to touch train (or target train) him than [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 16, 2008
Photo from www.cagesbydesign.com
Many people ask how I like my CBD cages so I thought I’d write a little something about them (I have two of their indoor parrot cages which I chose to use photos of for this post.)
I’ve never drooled over a bird cage before or thought about putting one (aside from an outdoor aviary) [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 15, 2008
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Orlando, Florida
Bat Look-a-like: Galah “Bondi”
Some people are able to train the “bat” behavior using behavior shaping. I personally prefer using behavior shaping for everything if possible but it’s not always. Some birds love to flip upside down while others will bite you for merely looking at their backside. I have birds that [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 10, 2008
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Holland America Cruise Line
Waving: Rose Breasted Cockatoo “Bondi”
Training your bird to wave with his foot can be done by using your bird’s natural behavior or by using touch training (aka target training) along with various other methods. Some birds take on to certain methods more than others:
Behavior Shaping
With my rose breasted cockatoo [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 9, 2008
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Twins: Blue and Gold Macaws “Jersey” and “Chayko”
For two years I trained two blue and gold macaws (received at the age of 6 months old) named Jersey (female) and Chayko (male) who were brother and sister. When they were around two years old is when I had my first [...]
