Bird Training
Bathing Pet Birds – What You’re Getting Wrong
Bathing is more than just a splashy pastime for pet birds – it’s an essential part of their health and wellbeing. Whether you care for a tiny budgie or a chunky macaw (no body shaming here!) it’s important you cater for their basic hygiene needs. Bathing can improve feather condition, respiratory health and even mood.…
Read MoreAI & The Future of Animal Training
AI is everywhere at the moment. It’s no longer a subtle presence starting to show up in the background of our everyday lives. It’s in your face whenever you glance at social media and it’s becoming more significant in our workplaces. It’s now even rudely accusing us of stealing chocolate bars at a supermarket checkout.…
Read MoreWhat Is Feather Destructive Behaviour?
Feather Plucking | Feather Destructive Behaviour | FDB Feather Destructive Behaviour occurs when a bird is intentionally damaging or removing feathers (usually but not always their own). There are multiple different types of feather destructive behaviours and it helps to identify exactly what type of destructive behaviour your bird is actually doing. Feather Destructive Behaviour…
Read MoreWhy Birds Bite
Birds bite. Understanding why birds bite, is the first step to stop biting. A close encounter with a bird’s beak at some point, is the one thing I can usually guarantee a bird’s owner. That and a close encounter with bird poop. They are the two things a bird owner should expect. That’s the bad…
Read MoreHow to Control Bird Hormones
Bird Hormones get blamed for a lot of undesirable behaviours in our pet birds. From biting, to regurgitating – it’s easy to shrug off unwanted aggression as simply being due to the time of the year. The reality though? Hormones are a complex behavioural topic and there’s a lot of misinformation about them out there.…
Read MoreBird Hormonal Triggers – Misinformation that Gets Spread.
“If you touch a bird anywhere other than its head, you can trigger hormones.” We’ve all been told that at some point. Vets say it. Behaviourists say it. Everyone in bird forums say it. There’s even a kind of joking meme that gets shared about which body parts you’re allowed to touch. You’re allowed to…
Read MoreTraining Lorikeets
Can You Train Lorikeets? Training lorikeets is often considered to be harder than other parrots. The main reason for this is the difficulty in finding the right training treat for them. The average pet parrot will happily take a seed or a nut as a reward for an offered behaviour, but seeds and nuts are…
Read MoreHarness Training Birds
Teaching Your Bird to Wear a Harness The number one golden rule for harness training is: DO NOT JUST SHOVE YOUR BIRD IN A HARNESS WITHOUT TRAINING IT FIRST. This may work in the short term, but it very rarely leads to a bird who will accept happily wearing a bird harness in the future.…
Read MoreHow to Fix Birds Not Getting Along
So your birds fight? Or you want to combine birds into one cage? There is one main reason that birds will fight or not get along: resources. They defend them, they fight to get them and they’re always looking for them. The hardest part of this, is recognising what those resources are. The obvious ones…
Read MoreChicken Training – Chickens as pets!?!?
Chickens are highly trainable and make wonderful pets. Their quirky personalities can liven up any household. You can even teach them to dance! That’s right – chickens in tutus.
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