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Post by bullibirdshow on Apr 25, 2008 12:59:11 GMT
Hello Everyone, I am new to these boards. I am owned by an ecky (male), five  and two ringnecks. There is a lot of chopping of food here for everyone! Lots of collecting of foliage every day. I am almost my own production house now for making parrot toys. *giggles* I am interested in free flight training, (take your parrot for a flight at the park) clicker training and lots of environment enrichment for my flock. I don't know where to put this so I will put the below here and I hope that is okay. Cheers, Kate The Illawarra Avicultural Society presents its 59th Annual Bird Show When: This weekend, Saturday, 26th April 2008 12-3pm Where: Bulli Police Boys Club, 253 Princes Hwy, Bulli (Near Bulli Train Station) Contact: Kate 0415 130 912 Supported by Woonona Pets and Produce www.woononapetfoods.com.au/Home/home/HomeThe Bulli Pass was closed last I heard to you are best to come through Helensburgh if you are coming from Sydney. There will be many breeders that you can make contact with to buy birds if you would like to tomorrow. (Saturday) There will be many types of birds to look at as well.  We have our meetings at Corrimal Leagues Club, 7.30/8pm start every third Monday of the Month. Cheers, Kate |
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Post by Scully on Apr 26, 2008 8:41:03 GMT
Hi Bullibird
Welcome to Birdcrazy, im into foraging things for my birds too, anything to keep them happy and busy. Perhaps we can share some ideas
Free flight is wonderful, i admire anyone who can get that far with training thier birds, but ill stick to harness at the mo, id be so worried they would fly away.
enjoy the boards
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Post by bullibirdshow on Apr 27, 2008 4:56:09 GMT
Hello Scully,
Free flight is not nearly as hard and scary as many people image it is. You break down the steps in to manageable steps for your birds. It is important to teach them to "come" on signal and to "find" you on command. I recently wrote an article about training your bird to "find" you on command which is important when they can't see you outside.
You start with the "come" on command and then build up to having your T-stand around the corner and then calling your bird around the T-section of a corridor and then take them around more and more corridors as they get better at it.
Forage feeding in the home is a great way to keep your flock entertained and going foraging for the parrots is always exciting. They get excited when I arrive home, eager to see what I have brought home for them. lol I am always eager to share ideas. So I look forward to doing that with you Scully.
Cheers,
BBS
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Post by bullibirdshow on Apr 27, 2008 5:00:49 GMT
Of course you start with the basics like "step up" and so forth. You build on where you are with your bird/s.
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Post by bullibirdshow on Apr 27, 2008 5:02:26 GMT
For some people that means working on taming their bird first.
Cheers
Bulli Bird
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Post by bullibirdshow on Apr 27, 2008 5:11:09 GMT
Of course you wouldn't want to free fly your bird outside until you can count on them "coming" and "finding" you.
Cheers,
Bulli
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Post by Scully on Apr 27, 2008 7:26:24 GMT
Thats great!, ill meet you in the toy section ;D
my little conure wears a harness, but its still early days, as hes just beginning to understand he can fly with it on. The weather here has stopped me doing too much recently, but i will be getting him out soon. The time not wearing it, may have put us back a bit, but we'll see.
did you go to the show you put up here?
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Post by bullibirdshow on Apr 27, 2008 8:43:12 GMT
Hello Scully, Yes I went to the show I put up here. We had a lot of people come in with parrot behavioural problems so I spent a fair bit of time talking to people owned by their Birds.  The day went well. I am the only one who does free flight but I am encouraging people to at least think about it a bit differently. Of course, there are many different ways to be with your fids. I just come up with ideas and suggestions. lol What type of conure do you have? How old is your conure? The harness can be such a life enhancing experience for fids. It is great stuff! I think that everything we do from playing with them, to collecting foliage to training them to collecting chick weed all makes life just a bit more interesting for them. It is exciting stuff. Cheers, Bulli |
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Post by kiwi on Apr 27, 2008 12:44:40 GMT
Hey there and welcome to the forum  Can't wait to see some pictures ****HINT HINT****  |
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Post by Scully on Apr 27, 2008 16:01:48 GMT
i have a little green cheek, called Biggles, lots of pics of him in the conure section. Hes just over a year old, and i will say i do feel a bit silly with such a small bird on a lead. The aviator works a treat with landings. I like it as its hardly got any buckles, as hes so small. Ive ordered the next size up, as the head bit is a bit tight to get on and off, but his should fit my tiel. So hopefully they will both be out in the warmer weather.
they get on very well, so one should encourage the other
i would not be comming to your day anyway, im in the uk, just a tad too far for a day out, even if it is all about birds ;D
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Post by bullibirdshow on Apr 28, 2008 11:58:51 GMT
Hey there and welcome to the forum Can't wait to see some pictures ****HINT HINT**** LOL I am looking at getting a new dig camera atm. So it might be a little while. *waves* |
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Post by bullibirdshow on Apr 28, 2008 12:12:17 GMT
i have a little green cheek, called Biggles, lots of pics of him in the conure section. Hes just over a year old, and i will say i do feel a bit silly with such a small bird on a lead. The aviator works a treat with landings. I like it as its hardly got any buckles, as hes so small. Ive ordered the next size up, as the head bit is a bit tight to get on and off, but his should fit my tiel. So hopefully they will both be out in the warmer weather. they get on very well, so one should encourage the other i would not be comming to your day anyway, im in the uk, just a tad too far for a day out, even if it is all about birds ;D Oh the lack of committment! I think with the smaller parrots and the problems with raptors (and in Australia Kookaburras) that the harness is a good idea. It is what you feel comfortable and confident with as well. We all have our own ways. Each set of ideas adds to everyone's pool of knowledge to draw upon. We do free fly rainbow lorikeets but a fair bit of training is involved. Where we do the free flight training is far out of town on a farm so if a bird is a bit cheeky and flies off for a bit it doesn't matter during the training process. Biggles sounds great. I can't wait to the the piccys of him. Cheers, Bulli. |
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Post by Berserka on May 1, 2008 10:53:36 GMT
G'day Kate and Welcome to Bird Crazy  |
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Post by bullibirdshow on May 10, 2008 15:35:57 GMT
Hey there and welcome to the forum Can't wait to see some pictures ****HINT HINT**** Hello Kiwi! I am getting a new digital camera soon! Soon I say! Ty for the welcome. Cheers, Bulli |
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Post by Liz on May 11, 2008 2:39:30 GMT
Hey there Kate, welcome! Seems I've missed quite a bit of a thread all ready...  I'm very impressed with people that are able to train their birds for free flight, but I don't think I'd ever be able to relax. We've got hawks all over the place here... they dive bomb the aviary all too frequently.  |
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