Budgerigars, as well as parrots of any other breeds, easily give in to training. However to avoid problems and to quickly achieve results, it is necessary to know some facts about character of parrots and about how they should be trained.
It is required to you
- - dictophone;
- - forage.
Instruction
1. It is necessary to begin work with your parrot not directly with training, and with adaptation of the bought bird to new conditions. She has to get used to the house and to you. The parrot should not be afraid to sit down to you on a hand and on a shoulder. He has to recognize you, communicate with you. The most important in this question – trust. Before starting training, you have to accustom a bird to yourself.
2. That parrotwas not afraidto take food from your hands, begin with small. At the beginning push food pieces through cage rods. Sooner or later the parrot will grow bolder and will take this piece. After that it is possible to begin to give it a hand. When the parrot gets used to hands, begin to let out him from a cage. Over time he has to begin to fly to you on your call and to sit down to you on a hand or a shoulder.
3. To respond, the parrot has to remember the name. Here many efforts are not required. Just repeat his name as often as possible. Best of all birds remember names with the hissing letters.
4. The parrot has to behave decently and not bite. To teach him to good behavior, it is necessary most to behave humanely. In this case it means not only careful attitude to a bird. You should not do at its presence of sharp movements at all, they very much are afraid of it. It is necessary to be especially careful in the first days after purchase of a parrot. If the parrot nevertheless pecked you, try not to draw aside a hand too sharply. Sometimes they just play. Disaccustoming a bird to an addiction, do not raise the voice at all. You speak accurately, expressively and quietly. They, of course, do not understand words, but catch intonation very accurately.
5. If you want to teach a parrot to speak, consider that males talk mostly. Begin training with the simplest: the name, name of a parrot, separate words. Write down something on a dictophone and play recording within 40 minutes if you have no time. Is later it will be possible to teach a bird to the whole expressions.