Did any one buy parrot training videos from like chet womach or other people?
I prefer Barbara Heidenreich's training videos. She uses positive reinforcement to teach wanted behaviors instead of forcing the birds, or flooding, which is not productive in the long run(and also cruel).
The Goodbird site has articles to read and videos for sale.
The Gabriel Foundation has some wonderful articles by Susan Friedman that are very helpful also.
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Reading you bird’s body language is one of the most important skills you can learn to help you build a relationship with your parrot based on trust. It is how your parrot communicates. In this DVD professional animal trainer Barbara Heidenreich guides you through the process of looking at a combination of body parts and what they are doing under different circumstances to give you an idea of just what might be going on in those very special bird brains. 46 Minutes. Filmed in High Definition. Click here to purchase your copy today.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I prefer Barbara Heidenreich's training videos. She uses positive reinforcement to teach wanted behaviors instead of forcing the birds, or flooding, which is not productive in the long run(and also cruel).
The Goodbird site has articles to read and videos for sale.
The Gabriel Foundation has some wonderful articles by Susan Friedman that are very helpful also.
References :
http://www.goodbirdinc.com/
http://www.thegabrielfoundation.org/html/friedman.htm
February 20th, 2008 at 6:11 am
In addition to Barbara Heindrich's videos, check out the ones from Steve Martin at Natural Encounters
http://naturalencounters.com/onlineStore.asp
Natural Encounters runs many of the bird shows at zoos and theme parks around the world, and they also use only positive reinforcement.
References :
February 20th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I'm Dave Womach, Chet Womach's brother and just wanted to write on this.
We did use flooding a lot on our previous course, as it works well with SOME birds, obviously not all.
Since then, we have developed a new techinque we like to call the "power pause" that works with 99.9% of all birds with long term results. We will be re-releasing our course using these new methods over the previous flooding methods which will be released within the next few months.
The power pause is actually how I formed my relationship with my military macaw. I can now do anything with this bird! When flight training, just flying to me is his reward, that is how much we have bonded using the power pause.
This is a video of Cash flying in my magic show and how he gets rewarded by merely playing with me!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pM-0t0FLbcY
Hope this helps and gives a little insight to our courses and how we too, learn over the years of taming and training.
References :
http://www.youtube.com/davewomach