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Hey, We tried once today (I didn't have the nerve to get bitten again). She was ok, this all happened before I read your post, earlier today (she just didn't want to step up or play in the afternoon), she had my dad about 2 feet away from me. She bit my forearm and then ran up my arm and sat on my s...

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Sounds like really good advice thanks, She seem ok with bare arms, she used to climb up them when she would fly over to the couch, she wouldn't bite or anything but she would go directly to my shoulder. I will make sure to direct her to my arms with a nice treat, so she remains comfortable there, I ...

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Hey Guys, Mia has been really good lately, she has been stepping up onto my arm, when a treat is resting on it. She has been exploring myself and the computer area (next to her cage). She has been very good and is seeming to be quite comfortable when she is on me and around me, away from her cage. S...

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Hey Guys, The order arrived in the mail today, I have set up her foraging toys (which she seems to be enjoying) and watched the Barbara Heinrich DVD on Parrot Training. The DVD was great, had excellent examples and was very detailed, I picked up a lot from it which was very good. Mia is very well ta...

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Hey,

Thanks for the reply, I thought it was biting/playing.

Does anyone still know why she crouches down and looks at me upside-down? She also looks at me when she is squaking really loudly (she sometimes crouches down for this too). Does anyone know why this is?

Cheers,
Jack

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Ok, got some really good and a tad bad news, I let Mia out of her cage whilst I was sitting on the computer and she came right up to me as if she was reaching out to me, so I put my arm out and she stepped up (not on command). She sat soundly on my arm/shoulder/head. I though this was really good, h...

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Thats really cool, a pool-playing bird, haha. Mia is coming along well, she seems to be really aggressive with everyone in the mornings though, maybe it has something to do with breeding season but she screeches much more in morning and will launch to bite you when she is far away (she is usually a ...

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Hey,

The posting of photo's seems a of an effort, I probably won't bother with it. Thats really cool, how is he teaching him to play pool? Really awesome things you can train birds to do with a lot of creativity.

Cheers,
Jack

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Haha, thanks, I've given it a good search and found this site: http://trainedparrot.com/fetch/ Thanks, it seems like a good way to teach her a trick with minimal contact, building a better bond with her so she can be more comfortable around me. Thanks for the suggestion, she is coming along quite we...

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Hey Claire, Sorry about the delay, I went out to bunnings (warehouse) and pet barn in search for items for a play gym for Mia (and got her a toy). I was just thinking of constructing a play area for her to spend outside of her cage (as IRN's are supposedly to have 3-4 hours of of their cage a day). ...

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Some birds just never talk, my 18 month old has never said anything. The only thing I have heard from her is a whistle. I'm trying for her to be avble to mimic my whistles, its a bit of a process, she can whistle she just hasnt whistled to me. Start out with her mimicing your whistles, then she will...

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Sorry for not metioning that her wings are clipped! Anything else essential before I start taming and training her, possible to get her used to me and my hands?

Sorry,
Jack

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Hey guys, My 19 month old Lutino IRN, Mia has made a lot of progress lately. We have had her for about a month now and in that time she can now comfortably, inside and outside of the cage, take treats from my hand. She is also clicker trained and has taken quite a liking to me. I am the one working ...

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Hey guys, Mia has come a long way since last post, she is clicker trained, will take food from my hand in and outside of the cage (she's a little more scared outside) and she looks like she is a lot more relaxed with her new home than she previously was. Unfortunately she picked up a new bad habit o...

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Hey, I googled target training as a suggestion from someone on the forums and it came up with the most helpful website: http://trainedparrot.com/taming/ A really good source for teaching your parrot stuff, I am trying to clicker train my bird from the guide at the moment but she doesn't seem to be g...

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Hey,

I saw them at the pet store we bought the cage, I thought it would be useful but didn't give it much though, I'll take a look at them.

Thanks,
- Jack

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Thanks guys, I've been looking at target training and I will start when I can feed Mia through her cage, my grandfather is coming down in a couple of days so I will persist on building a training perch with a quick trip to bunnings. Looking forward to target training, feels very sucessful! Hopefully...

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Ben,

I'm from Sydney, but the holidays have just started and we have gotten her gum tree leaves, she loves them, likes sitting im them trying to hide or biting the leaves off the branches, she loves them and its very cute.

- Jack

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Hey, Im set up in Sydney, Australia. I was thinking of making a playstand while my grandfather was down, he used to be a carpender and I though a stand would be good for teaching it tricks, I don't think she is ready for the stand though, she tries to bite and I can't really touch her. I will still ...

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Thanks Guys, An excellent suggestion Miss K, I will start talking to her and making sure she is comfortable with me when I feed her through the cage, I won't use the glove unless changing the food, I think I should end putting her on our shoulders and instead let her out ontop of the cage a bit (she...

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Thanks Ben,

I understand it requires patience and a lot of persistence, thats why these birds are so misunderstood to be "bad pets" they just need some work. I will work with my bird, so do I just command it to step up and when it does step do I reward her with treats?

Thanks,

- Jack

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Thanks for the suggestion, She is still very nippy with my hands even when it has a treat on it she will go for the bite, how can I work my way up to confident hand feeding and stop my bird from biting (I may be asking the samE questions but I still don't get it). She is very scared of my hands near...

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Thanks guys, I know why she is afraid of hands, the breeder used to grab her in her cage to put her on his shoulder, the handling was quite rough and when he did it in the avairy she was quite scared and squaked. He thought it was ok but it didn't look right from the start. I can kind of take it slo...

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Can someone please help?

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Hey Guys, The school holidays just broke up and we have a lot of time to spend with our lovely yellow female ringneck (5 days living with us), called Mia. My brother and I want to build trust with it and make it a very family bird, so she doesn't just bond with one person. We have a lot of spare tim...

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Yay!

We sold Dusy to a very good home, she has a sister who owns a ringneck and we set her up with the birdy! Sunny (now called Mia) is acting ok with the occasional squaks, she is still doing the territorial call a bit and biting but I think thats ok.

Thanks to everyone!

- Jack

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Hey there Lewis, I just got an an 18 month latin female. She is quite tame, she has only been in the house for about 4 days. On the 1st day we got her out and she would sit on our shoulder. The only problem I have with my bird is the defensive biting, when they are on our shoulders they bite our ear...

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Thats good, I was always thinking of putting my bord on the piano and playing her some tunes while i practise or something.

Do you think my bird can whistle though?

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Hey all, I was on the computer and started whistling, now my birds are only around 3 days new to my house. They are 18 months old, female and yellow. They are usually quite timid (because their new) and they can be quite scared. But when I was sitting next to them whistling they seemed much more rel...

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Hey, We have made the decision to sell one and keep the other. We are currently caging them separately and taking them out to play every afternoon (all we do is have them on our shoulders with a beanie so they can't bite our ears, in this we tell them to step onto our arms, with gloves and a thick s...

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He knew they would be in the same cage, in fact he tried to sell us a cage with them. Here's the funny thing, the cage had a divider so you could separate the birds.

- Jack

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Thanks, I think we might just stick with the one female at the moment after we sell the territorial one, it seems to be a large effort just to keep them from not breeding or killing each other.

- Jack

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Yeah thanks, I was searching for a cock on the internet, someone ws offereing to swap the hen for a lovely tame green cock. I will do some reading up on introducing birds and a lot more. The problem is another hen, a male and female should do fine together in a cage.

Cheers,
Jack

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Hey, Thanks, I don't really think it is a bad bird, I was more so saying that so it would be easier to write, otherwise some people may get confused. We were looking on gumtree (Australian pet equivalent of Ebay) and saw a nice green male that, their owner was also looking for a younger female (Dust...

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We have a smaller cage which we have been segregating them in, when the bad one bites the other. We just put them back and the bad one just did the territorial call again, their not biting so thats ok. Sorry, I don't think we can get another cage, very expensive. Its bedtime for them now so we may l...

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Hey,

Thanks for the reply, we only have a large cage and then a much smaller one, not very appropriate for a permanent cage. I think we may have to sell them or something.

Thanks very much for the response and we will try to deal with it.

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Hey Guys, Myself and my brother bought two 18 month old female yellow IRN's. They were bought from a breeder yesterday who had them in an aviary environment with other birds, including the parent (I think). The are sisters born by 2 green parents (a special gene) if that makes a difference. They wer...

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Hey, Today we bought two 18 month old female yellow ringnecks from a breeder. He has some experience breeding ringnecks and had the 2 birds in an avairy envirment with several other ringnecks and other parrokeets in other cages. The birds were ok in their avairy, they were the only ones with clipped...

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Hey I'm Jack, My brother and I just got 2 tame 18 month old female ringnecks today and are looking forward to them talking and being able to do tricks as well as sit on our shoulders and chill. We are very excited with our new feathery friends and are looking forward to a nice companionship as well ...

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