Getting Started with Trick Training & Changing Your Bird’s Diet

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Hey there,

first of all, amazing video’s and talented parrots. I have recently got my new parrot from a owner that is getting too old to keep up with the bird. she is a yellow nape amazon 10 years old and pretty easy to handle.

I would like to train her to do tricks like bandit and bondi.

any tips on how to start? and also this family has been feeding the bird human food for 5 years . . so how would you recommend me convert to pellets?

- James Lui

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I’ll address the issue of your Amazon’s diet, first. Human food can be healthy for birds as long as it’s pretty much healthy for humans – such as fresh, organic veggies, fruits, cooked meats and cooked grains like pastas, rice and beans. Whole grains are best. So as long as your bird isn’t used to greasy pizza, salty chips and any other high in sugar or salt items, it will be ok to continue feeding some “human food” to the bird.

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If he’s only on the bad human food, I’d recommend cooking up some birdie bread and baking organic pellets into it so the bird starts developing a taste for organic pellets. You don’t want the bird strictly on pellets, though. Make sure it gets lots of healthy greens (peas, spinach, green beans) and the other foods I mentioned. Brown rice and cooked beans every day is great for your parrot.

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A great trick I use at home is to feed the healthiest foods first – when your bird is at his hungriest so he is more likely to eat them. An example of this would be to feed the pellets plus enriched greens in the morning as your bird’s “breakfast” and then check back in a couple hours and add onto that with other foods.

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Getting started with trick training is super easy! We always start with teaching touch training first. It’s the first thing we teach you in our trick training course. Our training course includes EVERYTHING you will need to get started in trick training and will keep you busy for a while with your bird! We explain every step by step and show you how it works LIVE, in real time, with our own birds who, in the video, are not yet trained to do the tricks we teach.