More Daylight Equals More Parrot Behavior Problems

More Daylight Equals More Parrot Behavior Problems Are you starting to notice your cute little baby parrot isn't being quite as cute over the last few weeks? If you live in an area of the world, that starting to get some sunshine, and longer daylight hours, then your parrot might be showing some aggression towards you. This behavior change in your parrot is a natural response. Parrots go into breeding mode, when the days start to get longer. It's actually the longer daylight hours that trigger birds into breeding in many instances. A bird that is still of breeding age, will tend to get VERY temperamental during these spring and summer days. So if your bird's starting to get extra pissy... Here's some things you can do. Shorten Your Parrot's Exposure To Daylight You can do this by getting a cage cover for your parrot, to put over his cage while he sleeps, thus reducing the amount of exposure to daylight, and suppressing the breeding instincts. This isn't a blanket solution, but it WILL help! You can get cage covers for your bird at BirdCages4Less.com or by doing a search on google for "cage covers" Don't let your parrot get his way! You'll often find that birds reaching this breeding segment of their life will want to start testing their relationship with you, in ways you aren't used to. They'll start attacking, and defending territories, when usually they'd kindly step up onto your finger. The best thing to do in situations like this is, to make sure that you don't let your parrot, run the show. You need to make sure that if your bird bites at you when you go to pick him up, you don't start ignoring him/her, or withdraw your hand. Instead, kindly force the parrot, to behave and perform the behavior you want him to do on your terms not his. He needs to know he doesn't run the show. Trick Train Your Parrot! I hear some people say to me... "I don't want to trick train my parrot, he's a bird, and it's unnatural!" Well fine! But it's also natural for a bird to defend it's territory and bite intruders, are you OK with that? You see, trick training is a way to teach your bird a new way to interact with you, that can be non threatening, simulative, and a trust building situation. And it's all built around your bird learning to follow your directions, and commands. Which can only be a good thing this time of year when the daylight gets long!

Training Parrots By Teaching Them A New Language

Welcome to my very first blog post on training parrots! I've decided to start this blog, because of the seemingly epidemic crisis, of new parrot owners having no understanding how to go about training their parrots. In all the consulting, coaching and training that I have done with parrot's and their owners over the last handful of years, it's extremely evident that people like myself, and other parrot training behavior specialists, need to work VERY hard at teaching people about ALL the aspects of training parrots. I think the reason the public has such a problem with training parrots, is because parrots can't be treated with the same old school techniques promoted by other animal trainers that involve punishment. For parrot training to be effective, it MUST be 99.9% positive reinforcement. Negative reinforcement, just doesn't seem to work well with parrot training. When training a parrot a person needs to realize that they are interacting with an animal that has not been domesticated... like a dog would be. Your parrot doesn't understand how to interact with you, and yelling, hitting, screaming and other forms of negative parrot training, are not going to effectively communicate to your parrot what he should be doing. To better understand how your parrot understands his training, I think it helps to think of Helen Keller... here was a woman born blind, deaf, and mute, and had no idea how to communicate with people that surrounded her, until someone taught her a language (sign language) that she could use to communicate with her family and friends. ...but if you remember the story, how did Helen react towards her family, before she learned this language? Probably about like an untrained parrot acts. Completely out of control, and constantly throwing fits of rage to get her point across. So when training parrots, let's always try to keep Helen Keller in mind, and train our parrots, with that same perspective. Have a goal in mind, of training your parrot to use a new language. A language that trains him to step up, instead of bite you. A language that tells him, to call you by name, instead of screaming for you at the top of his lungs. And training parrots to do this, isn't hard at all. In fact here's" a great resource I've developed for training parrots this type of language I spent countless hours videotaping completely untrained parrots how to learn this language, and it's a great way to learn this language for yourself, and teach it to your parrot! I've even created a series of parrot training videos for you to have 100% free! So go check 'em out, and I'll be back posting shortly, with TONS of new tips, tricks and ideas to help you with training your parrots!

Welcome to my new blog! This is going to be a place where you can visit frequently, to get caught up all all the latest and greatest parrot training information.

We'll constantly be posting up new articles, resources, and even sneak peak videos for you to see what parrots are truly capable of. And as always, feel free to comment on how this blogs tips, and tricks are helping you with your bird.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you! I'll be back soon to post the first article,

Best Wishes,
Chet Womach