by Pajarita » Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:56 am
My dear, it hasn't been 'so many weeks', it's only been three and that's nothing when it comes to taming a bird. NOTHING! It takes months and months and months. But I will share a trick with you that might speed up the process. For this to work, you need to convert the bird to gloop and produce for breakfast and identify the seed he likes best (but you can start with a small piece of a millet spray). You give the bird his breakfast and, around 4 or 5 pm, when is anxiously waiting for his seed dinner (when you feed gloop and produce for breakfast, you also feed a seed mix for dinner and they learn real fast that they are going to get their favorite thing in the world when the sun starts to go down), you open the door to the cage and simply rest your hand, palm up on the door or next to it, with a piece of a millet spray on it. Don't move your hand, don't put it in the cage and do nothing but talk very softly to it saying something: Come on, - his name here -, step up. Just stay it over and over and wait for him to climb on your hand to get to the seed. He is not going to do it the first or the second day but, if you are very patient and you have already showed him you can be trusted not to grab him, he will step on your hand on the third or fourth day. But, when he does, do not move your hand at all, just praise him A LOT (Good bird! What a pretty bird you are! etc) in a cooing voice.
But, mind you, you NEED to convert him to gloop first and he needs to trust you won't grab him, don't try it tomorrow because it's not going to work.