Potty Training Parrots

Sunkiss' good potty training example,

Ask if you have any specific questions :)

Few Training Tips

1. Start in the morning, before your parrot has done its 'big' potty

2. Take your parrot to the desired location you want in to go potty

3. Tell your parrot to 'go potty' or 'tinkle' or whatever command you want your bird to go potty to, I use the made up word 'brons'

4. It shouldn't take your bird very long to go potty so keep your bird there until it goes

5. Praise your bird tons, make it feel like he/she has done the best thing in the world!

6. Repeat this every morning, and when you have it out of the cage try to take it to the potty location every 15 minutes or so... or just watch for it to do its potty dance and take it to the desired location. If you pay close attention you will soon be able to recognize when your parrot is ready to go, and if you notice fast enough you can hold your birds tail down and take it to the potty location before it goes and repeat steps 2-5

have fun, your bird should get some grasp on this within 72 hours or less, and become a pro in a couple weeks.

My girl flies to her potty location when she has to go potty, so now I don't have to even take her there.

Turn Around and The Wave

How to teach your parrot some easy tricks with positive reinforcement. My girl learned the 'Wave' in about 2 minutes, though it took her a couple weeks to become confident in doing the trick every time. About the same for the 'Turn Around'. Its important to have a vocal cue and a physical cue when teaching your bird tricks.

* Make sure you have plenty of treats and praise with you to give to your parrot

1. 'The Wave' - Bring your hand up to your bird like you are going to have her step up on your finger(Use the Vocal Command- WAVE, and With your other hand wave your index finger), but be quick and don't allow your bird to step onto your finger- just lift up its foot. When it lifts its foot to step up, give her a treat and praise her 'Good Girl'.

2. 'Turn Around' - Have your bird follow a treat in your hand around its body a little above its head. Your parrot should follow your hand in a circle, use the 'verbal command TURN AROUND. The physical command is your hand going around the birds body with the treat. After a few tries you can take out the physical command and just ask your bird to turn around like in the video. Don't forget to give a treat each time your bird turns around when asked or waves on command, this will really enhance your birds willingness to learn.

Training time should be something your parrot looks forward to, time to play with its human mom or dad. Birds do have short attention spans so short lessons 2-10 minutes a couple times a day should work better than several hours in a row.

Next lessons to come:

-Potty training your parrot

-Bobbing on command

-Coming when called

Red factor Sun Conures

Red Factor Sun Conures

Red Sun conures, Pyro and Sunkiss, in the car... (above)
Red Sun INFO:
Red Factor Sun Conures, also known as 'Single Factor Sun Conures', originated in Hawaii (though sun conures are native to South America).
Sun Conures get 12-15 inches in length and weigh 100-120 grams.
They eat insects, fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts, etc.
It is usually good to feed a pellet based diet. A diet of only seeds can easily make a sun conure over weight and malnutritioned -this can make them more susceptible to disease, sickness, shortened life-span, and poor feather development.


Flighted Parrots

Video #1 without a harness

Video #2 with a harness

(*Note: you could fly your parrots inside a gym area if outside seems too risky)

It is much healthier for a bird/parrot to have their flight feathers. Clipping their wings is like handicapping your beloved pet because of fears and ignorance. "Flighted parrots get more exercise in 5 minutes than parrots with clipped wings get all day"- Dr. Hartman.
Parrots like sun conures, are very intelligent birds, so if you do have parrot that is flighted educate them.
-Take them to all windows and let them see that they cannot go through them
-Where ever you might have a fear of your parrot getting hurt take them there
A plus to having flighted parrots is that they can fly to their cage or perch to go potty and fly back to you. (I'll post an informative video how to potty train)

Babies, like the ones below, are mostly red-orange and green in color. The yellow color usually appears on their bodies as they grow older and after their first molt. A true 'Red Factor' sun conure should have reddish coloring on the top of its head.

Normal Sun Conure and Normal sun conure Chicks below, see the difference?

My Red factor sun conures

Single Factor suns

Babies available hopefully soon :) no prices yet