In today’s video I am sharing a single bath training session I had with a little pineapple green cheek conure named Olivia and giving you tips throughout to be successful in training your bird to take a bath!

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    19 replies to "Bath Training Tips with a Green Cheek Conure"

    • Catherine Fraser

      You make shaping the behaviour so sensible. Olivia is gorgeous.

    • Deal Man

      Can anyone please tell me how to get a lovebird to stop regurgitate feeding various objects in his cage???

    • Laurie L Karaska

      What kinda treats can I use for my cockatiels to train with? They don’t like anything

    • Me Here

      This reinforces that there's lots of things I'm doing right with my bath training with my birds 🙂 The freedom to move away & return is also good to hear/be reminded of, cause it does kinda annoy me the way my birds cage gets SO drenched every bathtime!
      My bath procedure is to move their cage into the bathroom, open the big door on the cage & put their plastic, outdoor garden birdbath right next to it & then fill with water to the "correct" temperature (around 21c) & my boy then comes out of the cage, onto the edge of the birdbath, with the large door forming a cage extention, so he still feels like he's within the safety of his cage & he tests the water temperature & condition with his beak, then as long as he's satisfied & it's been at least 4-5 days since his last bath, he jumps in, has a splash, then jumps back out & back onto the perch inside his cage, shakes the water off, then jumps back down onto the bird bath & back in for another splash, then back onto the perch in the cage for another shake, then back onto the bird bath & repeats. If it's been 4 days since the last bath, he'll repeat about 5 times, then chew on his mahogany pod to say he's finished. If it's been 5 or more days since his last bath, as long as the temperature's right & as long as I stay by the bath & repeatedly tell him "good girl" each time he jumps in, then he'll keep going for about half an hour & get a really good exercise in the process (which is great, cause he refuses to fly, so it's the only way to get him to actually use his wings in particular). If it's been 3 or less days since the last bath, he will just sit in the cage & look at the bath & at me, no matter how long I leave the set up in place.

      Once my boy's finished, it's my girl's turn, so I put her tin into the birdbath & fill with bathwater & she comes out, onto the perch on the large door & then lowers herself onto the tin & then dunks her head & in a subdued way has a nice, relaxing bath, splashing around inside the tin & splashing around on the outside of the tin while holding the edges of it. She does sometimes come out earlier, while the boy's still in there, if she's really keen for a bath, but as soon as he splashes she runs back into her cage & sits there waiting for him to finish, so she doesn't get splashed lol. She'll sometimes have a little bit of a go without the tin in there if she's really in a bath mood, but in general, she finds it too big & scary & would rather have her little tin for security, but it's great the way she bathes on the outside of it, holding onto it & hopefully over time I'll be able to get her to use the whole bath without the tin, so she can REALLY get wet & have fun 🙂

      Anyway, lots of the stuff mentioned in this video I'm doing in my routine, especially with my boy 🙂 My 2 still won't tollerate a spray bottle, freaks them out, but they do enjoy their bath now, as long as it's not too frequent. They used to be really scared by the idea of that too & I had to start them off with tiny bowls inside their cage & gradually move to outside the cage & they still need that escape option, which kinda makes sense now watching this 🙂

    • GlamMa 68'

      I have this for my IRN ! He did bathe in it a few times but then I bought an a play sink for kids & he lovvvves that to bathe in and only drinks from the fountain now 🤣

    • Mansi Shah

      Mili knows how to bath. She is not scared of the bath tub. The other birds in her flock take baths at least once a week (we offer every day). But Mili doesn’t like to take a bath. She only bathes once every few months… dirty bird.

    • Zanzibar McGillicuddy

      I have two questions. I have a male parrotlet who will nip at any of us first thing in the morning or when he hears crinkling like from a chip bag and he plucks his crop, left wing and back. Any ideas as to why? For the plucking, we’ve tried everything Vets have recommended and no change.

    • Gustav E

      Could it have made it easier initially if the bath was raised to be higher than the perch? allowing her to step up rather than step down? Anyways – great job with her, you guys do such a great job reading the birds and choosing when to push for a bit more and when to reward and back away!:)

    • Grace T.

      All of the green cheeks I’ve hand raised, loved water. They would bathe in their water bowls every day. 😅

    • Joy Rice

      Hi Jamie, I would love to see if you could make a video on a healthy homemade diet to feed lorikeets? They are such difficult birds to research since few people own them. My current lorikeet is on a nectar based diet and gets puréed apple, mango, broccoli, spinach, and carrot. He also gets sweet corn and applesauce as a treat. This is what I have heard was a good diet but the sources are so few and far between than I’m not sure how actually good it is:

    • Zunair Birds

      Interesting

    • Candycloud

      AHHHHHH THATS A PINEAPPLE

    • Christopher Palacios

      Is there any point that I can confidently take my green cheek conure outside without a harness and not fear him flying off?

    • Adrienne Hunt

      My blue boy budgie, Willy Wonka Budgie Hunt, enjoys bathing in a few fresh Italian parsley sprigs thrown into the shallow bath. I get drenched when he splashes water ALL over me☔😁🐨🦘

    • Yamuna devi

      You can make the flower higher by putting a band nearer to the bottom of the flower pipe, then it becomes even better for both budgies and conures. At least that’s my experience 😊

    • wtff

      I love green cheeks so much. 💚

    • SP

      Does she have to bathe in running water?

    • Marie McGrath

      Great little bird.

    • Helen Semrau

      Why is it so important to get birds to bathe? My dogs would stink without a bath, do birds?

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