first day of clicker training :)

[Joshua]

hay guys tomorrow will be the first day of clicker training with sky could someone please tell me the steps necessary to do the clicker training I know kind of the basics but just to make sure could someone take me through it thanks

 

[tractorgirl30]

i tryed clicker training with my parrots and to be honest they looked at me like i was something from the bottom of their cage. My plan of action was to click and treat good choices/behaviour. All birds are different though and you may have to try different methods of using the clicker, depending on what you are trying to achieve.

 

[flash_oesc]

What I did was:
Day 1 – reinforce click = treat. Click, treat, click, treat…etc. That’s all I did.
Day 2 – Reinforce click/treat for looking at chopstick, moving towards and eventually touching.
Day 3 – Make him move to get chopstick, 2 feet left, 2 feet right etc…
Day 4 – I started working on Bam’s personal issues (IE Fear of everything) by getting him to touch a perch, then stand on it.
Day 5-8ish – reinforced all of these things
Day 9-ish – started getting him to spin around on his perch by following the chopstick.

 

[Joshua]

thanks for the reply guys, very useful and thanks for the step by step way you layer out your post flash makes it very easy to understand what you did

 

[wrvgirl]

Let me know how it goes. I've been using the clicker to reinforce "step up" and "gimme kiss" I just click when he does what I ask of him.

 

[flash_oesc]

Happy to help. Right now I'm getting him to touch different toys. He's pretty scared of them still, but he'll touch them for his click and treat...