How to Raise a Baby Quaker Parrot
- 1). Provide a safe atmosphere where the bird can visit with family members and guests. An appropriate place would be the bird room, a living room or a dining area.
- 2). Socialize your bird every day for 15 to 20 minutes during which the Quaker should get your undivided attention. Focus on building conversation and teaching new tricks during this time. Teach new vocabulary by talking to the bird as if you were talking to a small child.
- 3). Maintain guidance and rules, and stay consistent with them. According to Sally Blanchard, a bird behaviorist and contributing author at NOVA online, an animal hospital website, birds are creatures of habit --- so it's important to set boundaries, allowing you to more easily create new behaviors to override negative ones.
- 4). Discipline your baby Quaker by ignoring negative behavior or by using positive reinforcement instead of physical punishment such as hitting, yelling or deprivation of food.
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