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Cathy
Kamikaze pilot
Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 6672
Location: Omaha, NE USA |
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Something interesting I just read. I get free tips & tricks e-mails from birdtricks.com (I think that's the name of it).
Chet Womach says that most companion parrots are 10% overweight & he recommends a certain training diet:
Start out by weighing how many grams of food you feed your bird in a 24 hour period, for a few days. Then cut that daily amt by 2 grams for a 24 hour period. The next eve make up the two grams by feeding treats of some sort from your hand.
If the bird doesn't eat the treats out of your hand, it's either becuz he's scared of your hand, in which case you need to keeping trying, OR he's still eating more than he needs, in which case you should then decrease his amt of daily diet by another 1 gram.
He's saying that once you get it established, this is a great way of training your parrots by using treats. |
Saturday February 11, 2006 3:23 pm |
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Yupra
Flying tumbler
Joined: 05 Feb 2006
Posts: 2206
Location: CA |
Thats an interesting idea. Not sure if I'll start weighing Speckles 2's food though, when I took him to the vet last month he had a good weight  Plus I'm a little lazy  |
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Monday February 13, 2006 9:37 pm |
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Cathy
Kamikaze pilot
Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 6672
Location: Omaha, NE USA |
 Yeah, it does seem like a lot of work to go thru! I don't even own a scale, tho I should go get one, I'm sure it would come in handy. And I might just do the diet if I ever decide to try clicker training, but am still thinking about it. |
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Monday February 13, 2006 11:12 pm |
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