Rose Breasted Cockatoo

Rose Breasted Cockatoo Training

Cockatoos are supposed to be cuddly, friendly little birds, right?  Not the Rose Breasted Cockatoo.  Don’t get me wrong, they’re great birds, excellent pets, and really smart however they are also known to be nippy, fiercely independent, and not as cuddly as your typical cockatoo. 

Below are a few guidelines when working with your Rose Breasted Cockatoo.  We also have more training guidelines available on our Rose Breasted Cockatoo training package. Train away the nipping.  Your Galah Cockatoo is going to go through a nippy phase.  This generally happens when they become adolescent birds, between the ages of 2 and 5.

Rose Breasted Cockatoo Training will eliminate the nipping and the first step in that is by passively ignoring it.  If your Rose Breasted Cockatoo has already reached this phase, and likes to nip, you can eliminate it by remaining calm and virtually emotionless when he bites. 

Rose Breasted Cockatoo Biting

This means that you don’t jerk your hand away when he bites.  You don’t yell or scream, you don’t punish, and you don’t put him back in his cage.  All of these reactions, natural reactions to be sure, are reinforcing you Galah Cockatoo Behavior. 

If you want to eliminate the behavior, ignore it.  When he doesn’t get the desired reaction he will generally cease the behavior. You can also train your Rosie to be more accommodating.

For example, the simple tricks to step up and step down when you take him from his cage or put him back into it are excellent Positive Training to stop him from biting you when you reach inside his cage.  Rose Breasted Cockatoos are very smart birds and they generally respond quite quickly to training. Stimulate your Galahs intelligence.  Rose breasted cockatoos are independent and they generally enjoy being in their cage – if it is accommodating to him. If he is unhappy in his cage, he’ll let you know it by screaming and biting.

To make your Rosie's cage more pleasant for him make sure that it is large enough for him to explore and that it is kept clean.  You’ll also want to include a number of toys to keep your Rosie active and engaged in his environment. 

To eliminate or reduce screaming make sure your Rose Breasted Cockatoos cage is constantly stocked with several new toys.  Always try to have at least one puzzle type toy in his cage.  The more he is entertained with new toys and activities the happier and less stressed out your Rose Breasted Cockatoo will be. 

Understand your Rose Breasted Cockatoo’s fear Rose Breasted Cockatoo’s are afraid of change.  Whether you have a new addition to the family or construction going on in your home or nearby change is absolutely terrifying for your bird.  Fear often breeds bad behavior in humans as well as birds.  It’s an attempt to control their environment.  If you want to teach your bird to adapt to change and cope with it, you can isolate them and protect them from change, not an entirely feasible solution, or you can train them to think through change.

Positive Training teaches your bird to use its problem solving skills.  When your bird is able to use these skills, he can assess whether a situation more accurately.  Now this doesn’t mean that he isn’t going to have a reaction to change, we all react to change in one way or another, but what Rose Breasted Cockatoo Training will do is give him better coping skills.  The reaction with your Galah Cockatoo won’t be as strong or as destructive.

To learn more about Positive Training to improve the life of  your Rose Breasted Cockatoo, and to eliminate unwanted behaviors, visit the bird training experts at Birdtricks.com  They offer tons of resources to help you support, love and train your beloved Rosie!