Maqpie
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- Zoe V.
Hello =) I hope you're all having a good day so far.
Tomorrow I'm picking up the baby cockatiel we reserved at a local breeder's shop. He's presumably male (breeder is almost certain, but not positive) and he's hand-fed-- approx 3 or 4 months old now.
We visited him a few times, typically once or twice a week to check on him. He seems very curious when visitors arrive, he'll tilt his head and observe, and occasionally even let out a little chirp. Most times however if you're too close to the cage or attempt to put your hand near him, he grabs onto the bars and scuttles to the opposite end. He's sweet though, played with a strange ball toy while we were there once and even took it from my hand a few times (very cautiously however.) the breeder even got him to sit on my shoulder for a minute.
Overall he seems like a great bird and I look forward to spending my days with him. I've done plenty of research and preparing, but I gotta say I'm quite nervous about taming and training the little fella.
I've seen many tutorials on taming new birds but never young hand-feds. And I was put under the impression that training a hand-fed would be somewhat different than one that was not.
So I came here today in search for advice on how I should approach this situation and go about training and taming him. I wish to grow a strong bond with him and I want him to bond with my family members as well.
All help and suggestions are greatly appreciated, thank you.
God bless.
Tomorrow I'm picking up the baby cockatiel we reserved at a local breeder's shop. He's presumably male (breeder is almost certain, but not positive) and he's hand-fed-- approx 3 or 4 months old now.
We visited him a few times, typically once or twice a week to check on him. He seems very curious when visitors arrive, he'll tilt his head and observe, and occasionally even let out a little chirp. Most times however if you're too close to the cage or attempt to put your hand near him, he grabs onto the bars and scuttles to the opposite end. He's sweet though, played with a strange ball toy while we were there once and even took it from my hand a few times (very cautiously however.) the breeder even got him to sit on my shoulder for a minute.
Overall he seems like a great bird and I look forward to spending my days with him. I've done plenty of research and preparing, but I gotta say I'm quite nervous about taming and training the little fella.
I've seen many tutorials on taming new birds but never young hand-feds. And I was put under the impression that training a hand-fed would be somewhat different than one that was not.
So I came here today in search for advice on how I should approach this situation and go about training and taming him. I wish to grow a strong bond with him and I want him to bond with my family members as well.
All help and suggestions are greatly appreciated, thank you.
God bless.
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