Any cool tricks ;I can teach my 10 week old cockatiel?

Answer 1

lots of things!!!
you should join this bird group, that would be my first advice...... they are very helpful.... i joined when i was adopted by my cockatoo...they are free and a great help....good luck!!
http://groups.msn.com/Cockatiel/tamingandtraining.msnw
try these web sites:
http://www.wikihow.com/Train-Your-Cockatiel
http://web.info-galaxy.com/Cockatiel/Training/training.html

Answer 2

Funny story:

I tried teacing my young cockateil tricks, by giving him treats as a reward. He kept opening his mouth and flapping his wings like a baby bird expecting his mom to feed him. And he would make the "feed me" noise for an hour after I gave him a treat. He just didnt understand that I gave him a treat because of a trick. I had to wait til over a year for him to understand that I wasnt feeding him like I was a momma bird.

So I guess the moral is, you may want to wait before teaching your bird a trick with a treat. You dont necessarily have to wait a year though, my bird is just immature. lol

A good first trick would be to learn how to step up onto your finger. It is probably the easiet and most useful trick you can teach him. And handle him a lot so that he lets you touch him on the back, chest, wings, and feet, so grooming him wont be a pain in the butt in the future.

A good second trick is spread eagle, where he spreads his wings out nice and big. Its good because its pretty, and because you can cut his wing feathers easier if you want to.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Heck yes, LOL! If a lovebird can be taught to do over 6 detailed tricks, a cockatiel should have no problems!

The easiest tricks to teach a tiel are those that are natural behaviors, such as stretching, scratching and flapping. Most folks train their birds to do these by waiting for the bird to do them on their own then offering a treat when they do it. Eventually the bird will do them on command. The lady in my local parrot club that has trained her lovebird several complex tricks uses unshelled sunflower seeds cut into 4 pieces.

The complex tricks her bird does includes running over and grabbing the objects she says. From there the bird will put them in a container. The bird is presently learning to put a ball in a basket ball hoop. She teaches her bird to do these by doing them in small steps then having the bird do it all together.

Another bird in our club will put shapes in a holes in a wall suitable to the object they're holding. Squares are put in the square hole, etc. Another bird, a green cheek conure, has learned how to catch a ball and drop it on command. This same bird will choose the right card out of several playing cards when the cards are offered to him :-) .

You can always research the subject on the net. Lots of rat friendly tricks can be used on birds, such as climbing ropes and pulling up baskets to reach the treat. It boils down to your own ideas and what you're willing to work on.

Good luck! I hope to teach my tiels how to pull up a basket!

Answer 4

you may coach it to play lifeless, and then once you have business enterprise that would quite freak em out. If he basically have been given stiff and fell off his perch and lay on the backside of his cage, which would be so humorous!! LMAO and then while all of them are gasping that the little feather duster went ft up, he could sit down up and say, "GOTCHA". GL with that. permit me understand the way it is going.