How To Train A Parakeet
Parakeets are one of the most commonly owned little birds around the world and here at Birdtricks they hold a special place in our hearts. If you ever get around to seeing on of Dave’s magic shows you will be amazed at the parakeet training he’s accomplished thus far. Check out the video at the bottom of the page to see what I mean!
It’s a common mis-conception that Parakeets are nice little birds to have as pets but aren’t capable of learning anything fun or out of the ordinary. Today we’ll show you that’s just simply not true! We’ll show you how training your parakeet can be done by following some simple easy to follow methods! There are several free parakeet training tips below!
What you see here was taught using the exact same methods that you will find on our Parakeet Taming Training Tricks Course. If you want a better relationship with your parakeet don’t hesitate to get your copy today!
Parakeet training tips can be found all over the but check out our free parakeet training tips below before you go!
Training Your Parakeet
The first step in training your parakeet is to target train him. To do this use a small wooden dowel, chopstick, skewer, or whatever you have laying around. Put it in his cage and move it towards him slowly. His natural tendency is going to be reach out and touch it with his beak. When he does this use your clicker found in our parrot training package and click and reward him with his favorite treat.
Do this repeatedly until you feel he understands that by touching the object with his beak he gets rewarded. How to tell if he is figuring it out is by putting the stick in different parts of the cage. If your parakeet training is working then he will go to the stick to touch it to receive his reward instead of you having to put the stick in front of him.
The next step in training parakeet is to use the target training method I talked about just now to get him to step over your finger. Hold the stick so that if he wants to get to your finger he has to walk over or at least touch your finger with his beak. It will probably take a minute before he’s ready to do this but he eventually will. Once you have accomplished this the rest of the parakeet training should be pretty easy. just continue to use the target training methods talked about here.
