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[@SoaringSunshine]

Thank you so much for helping me! Now I can weigh my bird without fighting! Thank you!❤️❤️

[@smolbean5845]

Woah you trained your bird within 2 hours??! Good for u

[@soap9781]

@@smolbean5845its been 4 months and i still cant get get them out of the room without trouble

[@SoaringSunshine]

@@smolbean5845 No I didn't, but usually all of her tricks and tips work, so I am sure that it will work this time.

[@smolbean5845]

@@SoaringSunshine lol ok haha 😆

[@smolbean5845]

@@soap9781 lol I have a canary and we’ve been trying to tame him, and he flies out and a few days ago he decided to land on my brother so yay pRoGrEsS

[@enolaalone9623]

Hi! thank you so much for making this video I have a parrotlet and in april she was diagnosed with avian gastric yeast although she has made an almost full recovery she is still being weighed on a daily bases and it is quite a stressfull experience for her so thank you for making this video! I am sure it will help people with the same issues as me.

[@derind9191]

Here are some tips on getting a bird onto a healthy diet: Sprout seeds, it is super easy and flock talks has a video on it. Once they prove to you they can eat sprouts or that they can eat something that isn't seeds stop giving them unsprouted seeds. Then give them only sprouts for a couple of days, and after that, start putting a little bit of sprouts on top of chop. Then they probably wont eat it all at once they will only eat the sprouts. So put the bowl in their cage and leave them in their for a while, like while you are at school or work. Slowly add less sprouts. This will only work if they have not had unsprouted seeds for a while. For getting them onto pellets, use an unhealthy pellet. Like Zupreem fruit blend. It is not healthy that is why they love it. My cockatiel likes the bigger zupreem fruit pellets. Since cockatiels are natural ground foragers I put her on a water proof mat used for changing babies diapers, (clean of course) and but zupreem fruit blend pellets and her healthy pellets on the mat and she eats mostly the zupreem pellets, but also the healthy pellets. What I am going to do next is slowly ween her on to healthy pellets. She is almost converted. This is what worked for my cockatiel, it will not work for every bird, but i have found when I give her unsprouted seeds after not having them for a few days, she wont eat anything but seeds. She hasn't seen unsprouted seeds in her bowl in weeks and she is starting to really eat healthier. She ate mostly sprouts for a while though.

[@cazb9981]

I don't weigh my Quaker regularly, but whenever I've done it, I just sprinkle some of his favourite treats on the digital scale, reset the display to zero and he just hops on and starts eating. He's a really wary bird as well, so I was surprised how easy this process was for the both of us! My way is a lot quicker than Courtneys way, but maybe I'm just lucky with my boy

[@viktor67990]

I just put his perch with stand on top of the scale and press tare. Then just lure him onto the perch with seeds. Took me about 2 minutes. No chances to make him sit on the strange surface of modern digital scales. I just know that :D My backup plan was to use weights and his favourite ring he loves to sit on.

[@mollymcbride1942]

Hun you need to write a book PLEASE! you'd be a brilliant new Karen Pryor

[@dorkusamericanus]

I want Animal Planet to give her her own show. Like The Bird Whisperer

[@faithshirley1548]

I have a young kakariki that is just such a hyperactive spaz she won't sit still on a scale XD as opposed to my cockatiel who just politely sits there all nice and pretty looking at me adoringly.

[@87.l9]

Will u ever post on ur community page?

[@justjello7599]

At the vet they put my boy mango in a pen box then weighed him! So undignifiying

[@dinesh9047]

Are jute rope and coconut coir rope safe for birds?

[@skyhawk119]

good! Thank you!

[@soap9781]

my female budgie, Congo is really stubborn. i noticed that she's a little larger and more aggressive. she also always trying to rip something or gather material. she tries getting pieces of my clothes and when she cant, she attacks me with bites. whenever clover tries to mate her, she runs. i feel that somethings off, is she sick? have u had something similar?

[@soap9781]

also, shes been like this for some time so idk..

[@senoos4670]

@@soap9781 is there a mirror in her cage?

[@soap9781]

@@senoos4670 no there used to be but clover got too used to it so we removed it

[@esoteric9333]

Sounds like it could be nesting/hormonal behavior, especially if she has a mate.

[@soap9781]

@@esoteric9333 so do i need to get a nest box? i dont even know whos the father because two of my birds are male and are always fighting for her

[@ris8065]

More evidence of just how *extremely helpful* target training is😂

[@ShortestUser]

I have a clipped bird and his flight feathers grow back how do I get them to fly

[@enolaalone9623]

you could try doing variouse different exercises to help imrove there flight i belive that she has a video on it go check it out.

[@mehere8038]

This worked for one of mine, but my other one wouldn't have any part of it :( I ended up finding an alternative solution though, she loves baths, so I put a bowl of water on the scales & she happily jumped in :) Surprised how heavy she is actually, she's a plucker, so I guess that's why she looks so much skinnier than my other one, but there's only 10 grams difference between them

[@hemalathaj.6759]

Question: Is jasmine wood safe for budgies?

[@dorkusamericanus]

Is there any issue with the bird gaining weight from all of the treats during training to get them to stand on the scale? 😃

[@nazadi853]

Problem with my little conure is that he flies around/run around with his beak full... I watched your "mooch video" and tried to "value load" the area but he still flies around with his beak full. Any tips? This was very helpful. I'll try to apply the "release" or "hop off" cue.

[@kiwismomma1365]

Mine needs to lose 10 grams. But won't eat pellets only seeds n won't eat greens or carrots, any suggestions.... scared to leave cage also for flight time

[@Maha-fn6pd]

How are your birds so quiet? My parrot is very noisy.

[@m3lsavage]

am I the only one who just puts their bird on the scale casually? mine doesn't fly away or anything. never thought (tame) birds would hate to be on that

[@dream5956]

I love bird 🌹🥰💞💎

[@celadon497]

Do you have any app recommendations for tracking your bird's weight so you can see the changes over time? I am not a fan of the BirdTricks app - the weight tracking bit feels poorly developed, and the app itself is kind of clunky and bloated.

[@Deluge4000]

How do I make my budgie lose weight? He has been 70g! Chonky boi Speckles weighs as much as a cocatiel

[@Hello-xm6wi]

Something that might help you is recall training where they fly to you or different places, leaving them out their cage for a longer time, and measuring how much food they get in a day. Hope this helped 💕

[@Deluge4000]

@@Hello-xm6wi I'll call him over and over "Speckles, come here" and he'll only come if he feels like it, but the clever little bugger flies as fast as he can to me the moment I say the magic words "Budgie want some.. FOOD?". He spends most of the day flying to and from the perches set up in the different rooms, chewing through grasses I bring in and natural tree branches, or just hanging out with his best friend Freckles. I measure and limit his seeds, and he's always cooperative on the scales when I weigh him every 2-3 days.

[@Hello-xm6wi]

@@Deluge4000 I saw that you said that you measure they’re seeds but I think the seeds might be the problem. Try chopped up veggies with seeds mixed in. After that you can try some pellets. You could also use target training to tell them to move all over the place.

[@vinskiae]

i have 18 parrots and they are screaming the whole time, any way to make them more silent

[@ShortestUser]

When I tern off the lights with my birds they stop chirping

[@vinskiae]

@@ShortestUser K will try

[@ris8065]

Don’t just turn off the lights on them when they’re screaming. There are some ways to make them scream less but birds are *going* to scream and you decided you wanted to invite that into your home. You have to be very careful when training them not to scream and you almost never want to use plus punishment (adding something like a spray bottle, yelling, turning off the lights, etc) minus punishment is much more effective with parrots (where you take something away. *Do not just take things like toys and water and perches. Or food for more than a like 8 hour period. Those are required for their basic happiness* but if your birds likes you, you could leave when they start screaming and come back when they’re quiet. Or if they don’t like you as much you could leave when they’re calm and quiet or take a few steps back like “you did good, see how I’m giving you space?” This can take a long time and isn’t foolproof but it’s one of the healthiest methods of training parrots to be quieter.

[@tzxazrael]

imagine you have 18 PEOPLE who are over visiting and having conversations. this is what your birds are doing. it's possible to train them to be quietER, but asking them to just be silent isn't realistic, or good for them. how did you get 18 of them without realizing they're going to be noisy?

[@ris8065]

@@tzxazrael exactly!

[@87.l9]

One of my budgies is 40g 😥

[@Deluge4000]

I wish my budgies were as low as 40g.

[@87.l9]

@@Deluge4000 low?! That's fat for a budgie.

[@kelpie7287]

I think 40g is fine for a budgie... But of course, I don't know how big it is... Did you feed the budgie before you weighed it?

[@kelpie7287]

@@Deluge4000 Is your budgie an English budgie? They're pretty big compared to Australian budgies

[@87.l9]

@@kelpie7287 her name is sunny, 40g is quite fat. She LOVES wheat seeds. I have pellets for all my birds and they are slowly starting to eat them. My other birds are around 30-37g. Which is fine. But the last time I weighed her was a couple of months ago.😅 should I weigh her now?

[@mohammedyusuf9631]

parrotlet!!!!!!!

[@limpishappyanimals1910]

First

[@itsgabbie1510]

Idk but I'm also early

[@soap9781]

secod when i came there were 2 veiws and 1 comment hehehe

[@itsgabbie1510]

@@kelpie7287 yeah sometimes youtube gets all messed up

[@itsgabbie1510]

@@soap9781 yes I saw that too