best cage/training method for adult parent rased?

[debbielabella]

I could really use some advice. Emily is a 6 yr old Illigers who had never been paired with a mate. She must have been offered nuts by hand probably by the breeders kids because she doesn't hesitate to accept nuts from the hand. She likes people sitting by her cage and will scream if someone was sitting by her leaves or in happiness when people come home so she is very people oriented. Her wings are clipped but she will not even step up off the floor. She is in an aviary style cage now as attached:
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But I have this cage coming in early this week:
http://www.kingscages.com/ProductDet...?ProductID=405

In the aviary cage I can walk in there with her and I do often to try to get her used to me but if I get too close she clings to the bars. I pick up toys off the floor for her but have to put them next to her on a perch as will only take nuts from my hands. In the new cage I can let her out onto the playtop and maybe she'll step up from the high perch eventually if I keep trying. My question is, is it easier to train in an enclosure or from outside of their cage? Is it better for her to have some out of cage time on playtop even if I can't get her to step up and bribe her back into her cage everyday with food? Not sure what will be more productive in the long run to train her. Maybe she's better off in the aviary style cage because it's less cage like and she's not tame? I tried a dowel and she was more scared of that than she was of my arm.

any and all advice/feedback is appreciated.

[Monica]

This post seems rather "old" now, but from my experience, if the birds can be out of a cage (where they have no way to escape should you envade their space) and with you without physically interacting with you, they can thus learn to accept you - in a hands off sort of way.

If they are outside of a cage, then at least they can avoid a person if they so choose, and so long as they don't panic, then you can mind your own business and ignore the bird. Once the bird calms down, offer a treat and interact in a hands off type of way.