Deciding Which Trick To Train First!

Deciding Which Trick To Train First!

You may not realize this, but the first behavior you train your bird to perform can have a

lasting impact on your training success.

This is not said to discourage you if you’Ve already trained your parrot a trick, but to let

you know that the first trick you train your parrot, will be the trick that he always falls

back on when he gets confused, and it will be the most practiced and polished behavior

in his whole repertoire.

With this being the case, I always recommend that people first train their parrot to

retrieve something, because the ‘retrieve’ behavior is a core fundamental behavior that

is used in countless numbers of advanced trick routines.

Another behavior I recommend training first is ‘target training’. Target training is

where you train your parrot to touch things that you point or signal to. This trick is

often taught as a default trick when parrot owners first hear of my training products,

because I highly recommend ‘target training’ as a way to communicate and train a

parrot that has aggressive biting issues.

Either of these tricks work well as basic first tricks, and H1 cover how to perform each

ofthese in the remaining sections ofthis course.

Even if your parrot already knows how to perform one or both of these behaviors, you

should still quickly review this section as it is the foundation of behavior training for

nearly all parrot trick trained behavior.