Parrot Training, an adult flock

Just a wee update: 

We are training twice a day with each bird.  In the morning, it's a shorter session because they've just gotten their fruit and vegetables and sometimes, a little scrambled egg.  Treats are interesting, but not very interesting.    Even if I don't have energy... or time... we train every evening until I feel the birds have filled themselves up and have started to lose interest in the training/treating.  There's always a mess with cages, water bowls, and food bowls anyway, so might as well have seed husks all over the floor and clean it all up at one time.

Coco is doing better.  Bobby is still phobic, but we're hanging in there.  Gracie is doing great and the turn-around is pretty much automatic by now.  Lucy hasn't lost her temper in 3 days!!!

Introduced new activity called "mama touch."  Lucy is uncomfortable being touched and Gracie only allows touch when she feels like it.  "Mama touch" is a carefully placed index finger on Lucy or Gracie's shoulder with a click and treat directly afterwards.  I have to use super-treats to get Lucy comfortable enough to allow this activity and then I can only "mama touch" 3 or 4 times before she "would rather not."  We've been practicing "mama touch" for 3 days and both girls have marked improvement in allowing me to touch them "on demand."  (Coco LOVES touch, so I'm not training this with him.  Bobby is a basket case, so we'll wait for later with this one.)

There's the update.  There's nothing fancy, just follow through and keep doing the routines over and over and over again.  I LOVE seeing the birds run to greet me and do their stuff!!!