How to tamme an African love bird?My love bird is 4 months old?

Answer 1

Young birds have an amazing ability to learn tricks and be affectionate, whereas adults are very difficult to tame and generally won't learn a lot of tricks or imitate behaviors. Taming involves acceptance and trust between you and your bird. It means spending a lot of time with your bird daily. Start with talking softly and making slow movements. Once your bird is comfortable with you, then you can begin hand-taming. Use a dowel and push it gently against the birds chest while offering a treat to coax it up onto the dowel. This may take many tries. Once it is comfortable with stepping up onto a dowel, substitute your finger for the dowel. Lovebirds are not considered one of the best talkers, and only some may learn a few words.

Answer 2

Week 1: Put you hand in the cage but don't try to touch the bird. Leave your hand in for 10 minutes are so a couple of times a day, until the bird calms down and starts to ignore you. (Maybe while you are watching TV or talking on the phone?)
Week 2: Your bird is no longer terrified of your hand so you can start moving closer.
Week 3: Spend the whole week trying to get him on your finger. He will. He isn't terrified anymore.

Answer 3

My mom had a love bird years ago and the only way she could tame it was to get a mate for it. They seem to calm down once they have another love bird to befriend.

Answer 4

Check the following links for useful information on positive reinforcement training:

http://www.naturalencounters.com/parrot.html

http://exoticpets.about.com/od/behavior/a/birdtraining.htm

http://www.google.com/search?q=positive+reinforcement+training+parrots&hl=en&lr=&start=30&sa=N

http://exoticpets.about.com/od/behavior/f/birdstepdown.htm

http://www.parrotchronicles.com/novdec2004/clickertraining.htm


There are lots more training websites available as well. Keep doing your research.