Gimli's first training session

EdwardH

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Gimli is my hand raised scarlet chested parakeet. He was hatched on the 18th Nov, is 41 days young and is a whopping 40g in weight. Today was his first day in training. So using a colourful chop stick and millet spray as the reward, we started target training. His first session lasted about 4 minutes. It took him/her a few minutes to get the idea but we got there in the end.:) I would have gone a few minutes longer however he decided that flying across the room and landing in his favourite place in the house was more fun. His favourite place, on top of a picture of Marilyn Monroe. He then spent some time shoulder sitting before going back into his cage.
 

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RavensGryf

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Great! It will be interesting to see how tame you can get a Scarlet Chested by working with him and handling him from this young of an age! Good luck :) He's sure cute.
 
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Thanks for the encouragement. Well he has now had his second session and to my surprise he remembered to touch the stick (on the second attempt). Pretty good for a lil' kid:) The session lasted about 4 minutes, like the first then he decided that being a shoulder ornament was more exciting. :cool:
 
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Training session #3 went well this morning. Gimli remembered to touch the chopstick to receive his reward from the get go:) he then proceeded to take a couple of steps to the left or right to reach the chop stick. Maybe I should have called him Sheldon as he is obviously a genious:D
 

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