itsjoyceduh
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Hii everyone ! I would like to ask your advice how to bite pressure train an Amazon ? What is your method ? Please share your knowledge with me cas little missy is biting quite hard hahaha 
How to bite pressure train an Amazon?
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henpecked
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You just have to let her know when it's too hard. They'll pick up on it very quickly. BTW i use the word "easy" when playing.( watch out if you get her too excited, tone it down a bit if she bites too hard) Sometimes i use "NO"if it's serious. trust me they learn what NO means. You'll be surprised how smart they are.
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Presently have six Greenwing Macaw (17 yo), Red Fronted Macaw (12 yo), Red Lored Amazon (17 y.o.), Lilac Crowned Amazon (about 43 y.o.) and a Congo African Grey (11 y.o.)
Panama Amazon (1 Y.O.)
With a zon, if you get them into amazon overload mode, or if they're really mad about something, i.e. territorial intrusion especially, they will still occasionally use too much bite pressure and may draw blood or make those wonderful triangle shaped bruises.
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itsjoyceduh
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I have been using my finger and placing on her break when she bites me and I would say no. When she tries to continue to bite the finger that I placed on her beak I put her down and let her calm down and then I pick her up again. She stopped biting. Is this a good method ? Btw I learned this from reading birdman666 post hehe
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Presently have six Greenwing Macaw (17 yo), Red Fronted Macaw (12 yo), Red Lored Amazon (17 y.o.), Lilac Crowned Amazon (about 43 y.o.) and a Congo African Grey (11 y.o.)
Panama Amazon (1 Y.O.)
That guy's a blow hard! Doesn't know what he's talking about... Take it with a grain of sand.
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That guy's a blow hard! Doesn't know what he's talking about... Take it with a grain of sand.
Hahah i dont agree with you! this birdman666 knows quite a lot!. I learned a lot from him :54:
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That guy's a blow hard! Doesn't know what he's talking about... Take it with a grain of sand.
You're a riot, Mark! In a very good way!!!
Joyce, IME my zons REALLY react to my facial expressions. Fortunately I've never had any issues with my now 16 year old hen YN. Now my 3 year old male DYH is an entirely different story. :54: Oh, he can go into overload in the blink of an eye, and I sometimes honestly don't even know WHAT set him off. (I betcha he doesn't know either... :32
Anyway, when my young Sam is in 'that' mode, I know what's coming before I even tell him to step up. My problem is I don't back down. And Sam knows that. All it takes is for me to give him the massive 'stink eye', and he puts his feathers right back where they belong. And I also tell him to put his eyes back in his sockets while giving him the stern look. So far it's worked.
There HAVE been times he took me by surprise. Let's talk about my good ole' Mr. Kirby, my vacuum cleaner. For whatever reason, unbeknownst to me, Sam one day decided he was NOT going to let me go by the Java trees with Mr. Kirby, even though I had done it a thousand times before - never with any incidents (while the zons were on said Java trees).
Mind you, I wasn't paying any attention to the zons, I was 'merely' vacuuming. Next thing I had a very angry Sam in my face. :11: No, he didn't bite, he didn't latch on...but he sure as heck threw me for a loop when he decided to attack. I didn't even bother shutting Mr. Kirby off, I found Sam, who had flown into the living room and was angrily pacing on the back of the couch, feathers sticking up like he had just been electrocuted and all, eyes doing the crazy spiral thing (pinning). I was talking to myself (and him) and told him he'd just better step up nicely and to knock it off, and he did. That was Sam's very first time out. :21: He's had a few more after that, but I promise, they were very much deserved.
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itsjoyceduh
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That guy's a blow hard! Doesn't know what he's talking about... Take it with a grain of sand.
You're a riot, Mark! In a very good way!!!
Joyce, IME my zons REALLY react to my facial expressions. Fortunately I've never had any issues with my now 16 year old hen YN. Now my 3 year old male DYH is an entirely different story. :54: Oh, he can go into overload in the blink of an eye, and I sometimes honestly don't even know WHAT set him off. (I betcha he doesn't know either... :32
Anyway, when my young Sam is in 'that' mode, I know what's coming before I even tell him to step up. My problem is I don't back down. And Sam knows that. All it takes is for me to give him the massive 'stink eye', and he puts his feathers right back where they belong. And I also tell him to put his eyes back in his sockets while giving him the stern look. So far it's worked.
There HAVE been times he took me by surprise. Let's talk about my good ole' Mr. Kirby, my vacuum cleaner. For whatever reason, unbeknownst to me, Sam one day decided he was NOT going to let me go by the Java trees with Mr. Kirby, even though I had done it a thousand times before - never with any incidents (while the zons were on said Java trees).
Mind you, I wasn't paying any attention to the zons, I was 'merely' vacuuming. Next thing I had a very angry Sam in my face. :11: No, he didn't bite, he didn't latch on...but he sure as heck threw me for a loop when he decided to attack. I didn't even bother shutting Mr. Kirby off, I found Sam, who had flown into the living room and was angrily pacing on the back of the couch, feathers sticking up like he had just been electrocuted and all, eyes doing the crazy spiral thing (pinning). I was talking to myself (and him) and told him he'd just better step up nicely and to knock it off, and he did. That was Sam's very first time out. :21: He's had a few more after that, but I promise, they were very much deserved.
Oh! so they are very unpredictable at times haha. Are all your zons males?
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Presently have six Greenwing Macaw (17 yo), Red Fronted Macaw (12 yo), Red Lored Amazon (17 y.o.), Lilac Crowned Amazon (about 43 y.o.) and a Congo African Grey (11 y.o.)
Panama Amazon (1 Y.O.)
When the young one gets a little older, the older one will change from a bird into a Cougar...
Yeah, I said it. You were thinkin' it. Somebody had to post the joke...
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