Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 8, 2009
It took two days to train Bondi, my 4 year old galah, how to do the “ring on peg” trick. But it took some learning on MY end because I tried to teach Bondi this trick with this prop set. And she was getting SO insanely frustrated. It was super hard [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 7, 2009
Recently I thought that it would super cute if I could train my Camelot Macaw, Comet, to run to me on command. The command I wanted to be my finger like you would tell someone to come here.
Since Comet is already recall trained, it made it really easy to put the [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: September 2, 2009
Comet is just one of those birds that moves much slower than the rest of the flock… not sure why, but he just does. So when I started training him to roll over, it was slow going.
I called Dave in to see my progress and said, “It’s like he does it [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: August 30, 2009
Photo by David
Location: Orlando, FL
Upside down: Galah”Bondi”
The first bird I ever trained to go upside down and do the “bat” was my galah, Bondi, who is currently 4 years old. The second bird I trained to do the bat impression was my blue throated macaw, Jinx, and most recently I trained my 1.5 year old [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: August 25, 2009
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Orlando, FL
Shown: Macaw “Jinx”
One of the tricks that is a must for me to train, is getting the bird to lay on its back in my hands. That behavior or “trick” just means the world to me and I love achieving it with my birds.
I recently trained my blue throat macaw to [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: August 11, 2009
If you have a bird that REFUSES to get off your shoulder when you want it to, then this post applies to you!
When I first took on Hymie the Hyacinth Macaw, that was his MAIN problem area. And having a bird of that size on your shoulder telling you he isn’t [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: July 10, 2009
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Orlando, FL
Shown: Hyacinth Macaw “Hymie” & Nephew “Jimmy”
I’ve never trained a bird with a 15 month old around…
And while my nephew Jimmy was visiting, it was VERY hard to train Hymie, the hyacinth macaw I am working with for a client for 6 or so weeks. I had no idea how distracting [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: July 9, 2009
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Orlando, FL
Shown: Parrot Training Log
It’s so important to weigh your bird and chart its weight for at least a complete year so you know the ups and downs of the seasons, weather, age, and more of your bird. So you know what is normal, what isn’t and what is predictable. When your [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 30, 2009
Normally my female galah, Bondi, is the best at everything out of out entire flock. But man, this hula hoop flight training is not her favorite thing in the world…
She was doing really great for a while, as you can see in the video below:
But the further I got back from [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 29, 2009
I just think this video if the cutest thing ever. This is a client’s bird (John) it’s a mitred conure named Ditto playing “peek a boo” with his loving owner!
