hand training

I need help hand taming a peach-faced lovebird I have had for years. first some background. i was in 5th grade when i got her(she was a few months old at the time. it was kind of impulsive and that was wrong. but i have kind of fallen in love ya know she is pretty cool. sometimes she will crawl...

So I have my new Kakariki and my new Turquoisine. They are both wild. The Turq is a year old but no matter their age they are pretty much gonna be a bit skittish. He runs away in the cage, I grab him (with soft gloves) and then put him on my uncovered hands and he will stay and then fly away and...

A couple weeks ago i bought a 3 yr old quaker parrot with his cage and all off of craigslist. Every time you put your hands near him, even just on the bars of his cage he freaks out, lunges at my hand and it sounds almost like he hisses? Is he doing this because he just needs more time to get...

Hey everyone! I am hoping someone here has some advice for me. I have a beautiful green cheek conure, I have had her for a few weeks now. Her name is Yoshi and she is a little over four months old. She is a very sweet bird, and she was already hand trained when we got her... but lately she she...

Alright so hopefully this is the right area for this, but I'd like to get some advice on taming my newest IRN. I only brought it a day ago at around 6 months, so I haven't a sex for it yet. I'm hoping to tame it over time, I've already had time handling birds, and have hand raised a couple of...