Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL On couch: Hyacinth Macaw "Hymie"
My original goals with Hymie when I first brought him home were:
Get him eating some fresh foods.
Break the bad habit of immediately running to the shoulder.
Train him to let me hold his feet when he steps up on my hand.
I am pretty happy to report I accomplished ALL...
Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Shown: Hyacinth Macaw "Hymie" & Nephew "Jimmy"
I've never trained a bird with a 15 month old around...
And while my nephew Jimmy was visiting, it was VERY hard to train Hymie, the hyacinth macaw I am working with for a client for 6 or so weeks. I had no idea how distracting Jimmy would be for Hy...
Normally my female galah, Bondi, is the best at everything out of our entire flock. But man, this hula hoop flight training is not her favorite thing in the world...
She was doing really great for a while, as you can see in the video below:
But the further I got back from the hoop, the more likely she was to land on the actual hoop. So I w...
Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Eating pasta: Hyacinth "Hymie"
I had company for 10 days this month and it was sort of... crazy. Fitting in time for Hymie was harder in those ten days but I did have some great progress. I got him to eat three new foods! They are:
Plain penne pasta
Oatmeal
Creamed corn
I was eating oatmeal one mo...
Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Flying: Hyacinth "Hymie"
It has been getting easier and easier to ask Hymie to fly and here's why:
When he was younger, he used to fly around his owner's house with a green wing macaw in tow. So he has had experience flying before and enjoyed it enough to want to experience it again.
I've been spending ...
Recently Dave joined me this month in trick training and just overall training our parrots new things... and one of the ideas he had was training them all to fly through hoops! So we got home hula hoops from our local Walgreens and started the training immediately.
Dave had already trained Tiko, his brother's blue and gold macaw, how to do t...
