UndeadMisfit

Agreed, would love to see some pics of this. It's brilliant!

So I bought a cage early march from Cages by design for my TAG...Got the cage itself and what not about 3 weeks later the rest of the parts (screws, playtop, food bowls etc) in early May..around the 5th. I put it up and everything and everythings all well. But now I'm finding rust on the joints....it hasn't even been 2 weeks since it's been fully put together and there's rust on it! What should I do about it? It's only the joints but still I wouldn't like her to be around it even if it's a little bit. Is there something I can do to get rid of the rust? Or is buying a new one the only option? Because it's the joints I don't know if re-powder coating it would help since it'd be hard to get in there, not to mention I'm not even sure if power coating can be down in the little Island I'm from. Any advice would be grateful...

well....I'm really new to this, so I can't say for sure if she enjoys it, but I do know she gets enthusiastic when she sees the clicker and the treats bag, so I guess she's all hyped up about it. She's not on any training diet really, she always have some sort of edible stuff in her cage and playtop so it's not that she's hungry...so I'd say it's definitely enthusiasm...

Well I think I got the exciting/fun part down! And I tried it this morning, and I do believe it started to work...she's gone from an endless loop to about 2 turns on her own....so hopefully she'd have that mastered in the next couple of days! Another question....flying... How do I go about training her to fly to me on command...My folks want to have her wings clipped, but I'm trying to postpone it as much as possible...I really don't want her to be clipped. She already walks to me when I call her, I do have to call her a few times though...I'd assume that's a start? I haven't actually made that a training session yet as she's still working on the above 'trick' but I do give her treats/praise when she does do it.

I don't want to sound like a noob...lol but I am How do I keep it fun? The treats I got covered...I give her a variety of nuts that she licks down really quickly...but other than that the food she eats doesn't contain any pellets, it's basically veggies/fruits and any safe food I cook....

Because we're both new at training and she is young...I didn't want to start her up with something too hard and make her hate training....If I ever decide to get another bird that trick would definitely be out of the question since I'll have a bit more experience! Also....if I don't have pellets, what would a training diet consist of?

Howdy guys, I've got a new TAG, still a baby not even a year yet..and I've started training her...she's clicker/touch trained... The thing is, when she's a bit distracted she totally ignores the stick, and that lasts a while...is that normal? I've also started teaching her to turn around and she does it pretty well, on cue...but once she does it once, she keeps doing it whether I give her the cue or not... I've heard that she's trying to 'train' me or something so I don't treat her for it, and only treat her when I give the cue. But how do I know that she's turning because of the cue or because she well she keeps turning? There's odd times when she does stop and I give her the cue and the treat for doing it correctly but after that the process starts again...do I wait until she totally stops to start back the training?

I bought one recently (still waiting for some of the parts) but thus far it's great...my TAG sort of loves it...she's more of an outside bird, but when she's in it, she sounds like she's happy. I bought the powder coated ones, like you guys said the acrylic cages are more for trophy birds and is used more for keeping the house clean..there's no chance for seeds to drop out of the cage with those.

Lol feed them green grapes and you won't have that problem

Where I live doesn't sell pellets, and bringing them down costs a lot of money, so it's good to know what other foods parrots can eat...Thanks for the info! Also anyone know if there's a pellet substitute? I've heard people say they give their birds dog chow..but I'm not even going to consider it!