Here's a video of albie spinning!

https://imgur.com/a/zkm9Kvf

Please ignore my atire, I'm having a slobfest day and being lazy 🥴 but I really wanted to share his first trick!

Stitchthestitch said:

https://imgur.com/a/zkm9Kvf

Please ignore my atire, I'm having a slobfest day and being lazy [emoji3061] but I really wanted to share his first trick!

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Awwww cute Albie!


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lollipoppy said:

Stitchthestitch said:

https://imgur.com/a/zkm9Kvf

Please ignore my atire, I'm having a slobfest day and being lazy [emoji3061] but I really wanted to share his first trick!

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Awwww cute Albie!

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Thank you! He's amazing. He picked it up really quickly and we mastered shake a paw/foot /claw this evening too!

Quick learner. Thats great, your going to find that the more you teach your parrot, the more they want to learn, ie learning for learnings sake. Try graduating from a single spin to a multiple spin, and moving your hand further and further away from him. There are myriad things you can teach Albie. I joined IAATE, a training organization, mostly for raptors and birds shows for them, but the techniques are the same, and they are pretty helpful. Salty has dozens of videos on Youtube of our training sessions.

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wrench13 said:

Quick learner. Thats great, your going to find that the more you teach your parrot, the more they want to learn, ie learning for learnings sake. Try graduating from a single spin to a multiple spin, and moving your hand further and further away from him. There are myriad things you can teach Albie. I joined IAATE, a training organization, mostly for raptors and birds shows for them, but the techniques are the same, and they are pretty helpful. Salty has dozens of videos on Youtube of our training sessions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUAsXLQFCo&t=674s

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I'm really excited to teach him new tricks and so proud that he picks it up quickly too. I will be doing more spins and moving my hand further away to get him to do it. There are just so many tricks out there I feel a little overwhelmed as to where to begin if that makes sense? We will do some more tomorrow and work on multiple spins.

By the way, I love your videos of you and salty.

Aw, what a cute little smarty!

You want to build on what he has learned and fully understands what you are asking for.
One key thing is to be consistent in how you ask for a given trick, especially in starting new ones. and reward immediately when its done right. Some people like to use a clicker as a kind of connect to tell the bird he has done it correctly, I dont , but its common.

What are you using for his reward? Keep that special and only for training.
Keep your sessions short, 10-15 min at most, so he doesn't loose interest. Albie seems like a pretty smart guy, I think you'll both enjoy this. A great source of props is the baby toy section of stores and online.

Thats amazing Stitch,hes only a baby too! Well done,

wrench13 said:

You want to build on what he has learned and fully understands what you are asking for.
One key thing is to be consistent in how you ask for a given trick, especially in starting new ones. and reward immediately when its done right. Some people like to use a clicker as a kind of connect to tell the bird he has done it correctly, I dont , but its common.

What are you using for his reward? Keep that special and only for training.
Keep your sessions short, 10-15 min at most, so he doesn't loose interest. Albie seems like a pretty smart guy, I think you'll both enjoy this. A great source of props is the baby toy section of stores and online.

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I am keeping the session s short like 10 minutes at a time and always ending when he does a successful trick even if it's touching his target stick.

I use sun flower seed at the moment as he loves them, but im open to suggestions. He doesn't like pine nuts, I've tried him a few time and he just shakes his head and spits them out. Ive even ate a few with him but its a nope.

He isn't keen on the clicker, it seems to spook him so I just say good boy and treat immediately, like I did with my dog.

He enjoyed doing his spin so much he even did it for my hubby unprompted!

I will have a look in the baby toy section when I next go shopping to see what there is.

Cagzo said:

Thats amazing Stitch,hes only a baby too! Well done,

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Thank you, he's a really quick learner. And if it keeps his little brain busy, it keeps him out of trouble!