End of my rope-ish.

[the1hobbit]

Hello, long time no talk! Life has been fun and interesting. My birds are all doing fine. Jackjack my Amazon is stellar. Sadie, my Blue and Gold, after her regular vet visit needs to trim a few grams. Shes still in the 'healthy' weight range, but she likes her nutri berries too much. :p Tiels are forever happy and content. :3

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[greenanimal]

Will she take food from your hand? Even if it's only when she's in her cage and undisturbed

[the1hobbit]

That's allright. And I use clicker training on all of my animals, to an extent and depending on what behaviour I want to enforce. That's just whats frustrating for her, we have 'sessions' daily. Depending on her. Some will be working for hours some just minutes. but then the next day, back to square one. I've never seen this in any bird I've worked with. And it's only step up. I also worked with her to show her pretty wings. Clciker trained that and moved on to not having to click at all and she takes her hand commmands. But with step up, to be honest, it's like a game to her. I swear I know she knows the process, considering she even says 'step up' cause I say it so often to my other birds

[zandperl]

Since you have other birds, has Rosie gotten the chance to interact with them at all? (Presumably post-quarantine and vet check, of course.) She may do well with the other parrots and be able to socialize with them if she can't socialize with you - I don't necessarily feel that every bird has to be a people bird if she has lots of mental stimulation and social interaction in other forms

[the1hobbit]

thanks. I actually hadn't even thought of that method. I've been using mainly the practises of Karen Pryor. After quarantine, she was introduced to the flock, and well, it's fifty fifty.
They don't like each other, rivalry for attention is the predominate behavior. Her and Sadie have to kept on perches on opposite sides of the porch because they lunge at each other, more so than just the common testing. JackJack is comepletly indifferent to them. But tthat is the way of an Amazon I suppose.

But I'm thinking with the model/rival idea might be the ticket. considering they do get jealous of when I'm giving the opther attention I think I can use that for my benefit. hmmm

Thanks for the idea! I appreciate it!

[zandperl]

If you do give it a shot, let us know how it goes! It sounds to me like it builds upon positive reinforcement training ideas, just with the addition of the third individual who serves as a model/rival, so I'm curious how it compares in effectiveness to other types of positive reinforcement like clicker training. I wonder if anyone in the clicker training LJ community has deliberately used the model/rival method.