pamela
Hatchling
Blue Quaker female Kui
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Post by pamela on Aug 24, 2019 16:11:45 GMT -5
My 1 year old Quaker has begun to fly. I got her as a baby and she was clipped. It has taken this long for her to grow out and now she gets startled and will fly off her cage, perch or me! How do you control this? Lol or do you? I don’t want her to fly into a window or get hurt. How can I teach her to fly to me or to a perch?  |
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Post by cnyguy on Aug 24, 2019 19:53:14 GMT -5
My QP Ralph only flies when something upsets him, and he always flies back to the top of his cage. He wasn't trained to do that but came up with the idea on his own. It is possible to teach a parrot to fly to a specific place, but I have no experience doing so. Maybe someone else on the Forum can offer some suggestions-- or an online search might turn up some useful information for you.
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Post by msdani1981 on Aug 27, 2019 2:22:54 GMT -5
I haven't watched this, but it may help.
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Post by siobhan on Aug 29, 2019 12:49:09 GMT -5
Make sure she knows the windows are windows and not openings. Take her to them and let her look at them. Put something on or over them (like stickers or blinds) or just close the curtains. My birds all know the windows are windows and never fly into them. If you have ceiling fans, turn them off when she's out. Always look at the top of a door before you close it; birds like to sit on top of doors. If you don't have double-entry (at least two doors between the bird and the outdoors), know where she is EVERY SECOND when she's out so nobody accidentally lets her outside. Never let her in the kitchen while cooking is going on. Never leave the toilet lid open or a bucket of water sitting around or water in the sink. If you have fish tanks, get lids for them (my overly-curious cockatiel took a swim once when I was cleaning a tank, but I was standing right there and fished him out and he's fine). It's like baby-proofing a house. Think of every possible hazard and circumvent it. Clyde sits on me every second unless he's eating, so I always know where he is, plus we have the double-entry and they have their own room, which has been bird-proofed within an inch of its life.
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Post by biteybird on Sept 11, 2019 5:57:26 GMT -5
Our Bonnie seems to know about windows, but we did have a couple of marks and stickers on the glass (prior to us getting her). I have learnt a few things from Siobhan - we've not done a lot of the things she has mentioned! We actually have the fans on all the time and Bonnie seems to know to stay away from them. Also the toilet seat is always up :0 and I let her in the kitchen while I'm cooking (she supervises). And Bonnie is not Velcro-Bird like Clyde... I have noticed the top of the door thing, as Bonnie has recently started landing on the top of the fridge door after I open it, so it's important to watch those little toes.  This is great advice given by Siobhan and Dani. |
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Post by siobhan on Sept 11, 2019 16:56:55 GMT -5
I still look at the top of my closet door before closing it, because Ringo was so fond of sitting on it, and she's been gone more than a month. The only bird who is ever in that room now is Rocky, and he doesn't fly (I think he can, he just doesn't). Years of habit are hard to break. We used to turn the ceiling fan on the lowest speed sometimes because my pigeon liked to sit on it and ride it around. LOL But that was only with supervision and we turned it off when she got bored and moved on to some other activity.
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Post by biteybird on Sept 26, 2019 6:43:47 GMT -5
Our fans are on 24/7 because we have a very hot climate all year round (Darwin, Australia).
Sometimes I worry that Bonnie will misjudge how close she is to the fans, but she never does.
If I think she is more anxious than usual when I let her out of the cage I turn the fans off, just to be on the safe side in case she panics and miscalculates distances.
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