This week Dave and I go over the very basics and beginnings of some indoor flight training basics and how to get started. Please remember we are trying to condense the information down for you, so this is not done in “real time” – in real time you would take much longer on each phase of improvement. Since our flock is already flight trained, we are able to show you in fast moving steps.
We took your guys’ advice and used a mic for this video – and because we were docking in Bermuda at the ...
This week we are answering your questions you leave us here on our blog. Questions like:
1. Do you always use the same tricks or do you use random tricks. If your bird knows 20 tricks would you use the newer tricks?
2. My Greenwing seems to know when she is going to get her reward. One thing I have noticed is that I first taught her to hand shake I just started giving her treats when she would raise her foot. She has that down really good now. I just started clicker training her with a ...
This week Dave and I are talking about how we use Random Rewarding which is a term we’ve come to use to explain using the terms FR 1-5 and VRRV very basically.
We show how to use it, what it is and why to use it. We’ve found, especially when it comes to flight training (namely for outdoors) that Random Rewarding is essential to our success.
We hope it helps you and your training in some way! Please leave us feedback on what you think or any questions you may have regarding it so we can answer ...
This week’s BTT video is the shortest one yet – aside from our BTT announcement video – so for those of you asking for shorter videos, this one is for you!
We aren’t going to lie – we were out having fun this week, celebrating our 11 year wedding anniversary! Yes, we both married young. I was 17 and Dave was 21. Thus, we missed our day to film with our birds this week but promise to make it up to you guys next week with our topic of Random Rewarding. So please ...
Dave Womach here from BirdTricks.com. You’ve all been requesting to see more live training sessions – and although we have a hard time giving you just that due to living on a freakin’ cruise ship and having a 2 year old, we’ve managed to bring you an updated sample of what we’re currently working on.
We hit a lot of roadblocks in our recent training sessions that we hear about from you all the time, and had a lot of break through moments because of that. For example – Training multiple birds at once, transforming fear into a positive, what ...
This week we were asked two really important questions:
1. Why shouldn’t you leave food in your bird’s cage all day long and if you don’t, what SHOULD you do?
2. How do you put a trick on cue? (Get your bird to do something when YOU ask rather than when the birds feels like it)
Since I am actually in the training process with our blue throated macaw Jinx of putting his talking on cue (when he says the word Bubba which is his first word he has been willing to say in front of people) this was the perfect opportunity for ...
