Clicker Training Step 5 "Answer"

Go into a simple training as a trial.You need no special tool besides your clicker and rewards-box today.

When your bird calles you,give him a reward after a click.If you make so several times,he must understand causal relation between his call and reward.

Now,next step.When your bird tries to call you,call your bird's name before he calles you.If your bird answeres you after your call,give him a click and reward.Make it several times.

In 2. step of this training it's important that you give no reward for his call without your call.When your bird call you,though you don't call him,you should disregard it.If you react him in this case,you would be always annoyed by his calling.Your bird must understand when he may call you.It's important also out of the training that you keep the initiative in calling.

But your bird might call you for the emergency.You should be flexibｌe for your bird's call.

Clicker Training Step 4 "Teach the casual relation"

When your bird understand that the rewards-box gives him the favorite,then you should teach him the casual relation between click and reward.It's a basic clicker training for all tricks.Your cockatiel is begining now finally into clicker traning.

When your bird is hungry,give him a click with your clicker and then slide the cover of box to give him the feed.If your bird have a bite,close the cover.A click will meen "Good" in the training later.Train your bird in this way little by little until he understand the causal relation.

By the way,you can't teach your bird "bad" with clicker.You can take only positive method with clicker.If your bird make a mistake,you should simply ignore it.Your interest for him can be a reward for him.If you ignore a act of him,he must lose interest for the act.At least Disregard doesn't promote it.Your bird will try and error to get the reward.If your bird show desireble act,give him the reward to strengthen the desireble tendency.

Your bird might fears the clicker or it's sound.But he will become accustomed to it in the training.Your bird might be stressfull in the cause of those.As a temporaly method for such a case,you can make clicks behind you to reduce the sound and to conceal the clicker from his eyes.In this case you can make a click before him,after he becomes accustomed to sound of click enough.

In the training you shouldn't encourage your bird without his sucsess.It might confuse him.Your encorage can be a reward for him.If you encourage him,he might misunderstand a process as a sucsess.If he succeeded,you may praise him.

In the case that your bird doesn't understand click,you may go into a concrete Training for trick.He understand at least rewards-box.He might learn the causal relation in the training for trick.