[mobileman]

Originally Posted by Bonesy

Push back into the bite and just grit your teeth & bear it, the mroe you pull away & make a fuss, the more damage she will do and the more she will want to do it again.

As soon as she begins to press into your skin, take the tip of her beak & pull it away, at the tip she cannot bite you. Firmly tell her NO! and look unimpressed. Then if she clasps your finger push the head towards her shoulders, this leaves her in a vulnerable position with her throat in the air & she will have little option but to let go.

It is important you keep this up as it can take a conditioned biter a long time to get out of it. Sit her on a cage top or table & use 2 finger-width sticks of dowel at about 10inches long, and as you stroke one side of her with one stick, she bites it, bring the other in & repeat until she learns she cannot harm the stick & it wont go away. This is why birds bite, they know you'll go away afterwards.

Stay put & slowly edge your fingers down the sticks week by week until you can stroke her without her biting the sticks. At this point you can touch her with the tips of your fingers and slowly remove the dowel sticks.

Hope this helps.

Bonesy,
good tution. well a humble request, that, could u pictureise these techniques?? or could u provide a video abt this??

be kind to respond

thanking you in advance