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my irn is not tame and i was wondering how i can get him tame, any tips would be good
I would recommend trying to get him to accept treats held by you through the cage bars. When I got my IRN, Skye, he wasn't tame. He was hand-fed though and was only a few months old when I got him. How old is your IRN and was he handfed? Skye also has clipped wings and did when I got him, too. Are your bird's wings clipped? Often times, clipping a bird's wings helps in the taming process. It's pretty traumatic on them, though, since they're obviously not used to such things.
Here's how I got Skye to tame down. I grabbed a book, a treat (spray millet works well) and put a chair right by his cage and sat there. I read my book quietly and propped my arm up so it was fairly comfortable and poked the treat through the bars. He seemed to know what it was and acted very interested in it, but it took another couple days like this sitting there for 20 min twice a day (that's all my arm could handle before it felt like it was gonna fall off) for him to get comfortable enough to nibble on it.
When he got completely comfortable with taking stuff from my fingers through the cage, I opened it up and held the treat right by his favorite perch (or at least the one I saw him on most) and again it took a while to get him to eat it, but less time than it did to get him to come over to the food poked through the cage bars.
Then he got to where he was comfortable enough to come out of his cage and explore. He played with toys, ate, drank, preened. He wouldn't let me near him outside. A bird actually feels very secure in his cage (that's what I have found anyways) and may act slightly differently (or sometimes very differently) outside of his cage (ie more fearful). It got to where he would play with the toys as I held them, then get brave enough to get on my fingers, but only for a second then he was right back off.
The break-through happened when I had him over at my in-laws (a then strange and unfamiliar place). I had finally gotten him to perch on my finger and stay put longer than a few seconds when something startled him and sent him fluttering to the floor. Then he decided 'Oh! That huge, scary creature's finger is a lot more secure than this place!' From that point on, he decided my finger was actually a very safe place to be. He's not flight-recall trained, but when he's sitting on a new person's finger and I'm close enough, he'll try to fly to me.
Some birds never tame down and if that happens, I'd suggest getting him a huge aviary and letting him fly and be a bird and possibly buy a buddy for him. He'll be very happy for sure.
It all begins with trust! Gain his trust and the Sky is the limit! Good luck!!
Here's how I got Skye to tame down. I grabbed a book, a treat (spray millet works well) and put a chair right by his cage and sat there. I read my book quietly and propped my arm up so it was fairly comfortable and poked the treat through the bars. He seemed to know what it was and acted very interested in it, but it took another couple days like this sitting there for 20 min twice a day (that's all my arm could handle before it felt like it was gonna fall off) for him to get comfortable enough to nibble on it.
When he got completely comfortable with taking stuff from my fingers through the cage, I opened it up and held the treat right by his favorite perch (or at least the one I saw him on most) and again it took a while to get him to eat it, but less time than it did to get him to come over to the food poked through the cage bars.
Then he got to where he was comfortable enough to come out of his cage and explore. He played with toys, ate, drank, preened. He wouldn't let me near him outside. A bird actually feels very secure in his cage (that's what I have found anyways) and may act slightly differently (or sometimes very differently) outside of his cage (ie more fearful). It got to where he would play with the toys as I held them, then get brave enough to get on my fingers, but only for a second then he was right back off.
The break-through happened when I had him over at my in-laws (a then strange and unfamiliar place). I had finally gotten him to perch on my finger and stay put longer than a few seconds when something startled him and sent him fluttering to the floor. Then he decided 'Oh! That huge, scary creature's finger is a lot more secure than this place!' From that point on, he decided my finger was actually a very safe place to be. He's not flight-recall trained, but when he's sitting on a new person's finger and I'm close enough, he'll try to fly to me.
Some birds never tame down and if that happens, I'd suggest getting him a huge aviary and letting him fly and be a bird and possibly buy a buddy for him. He'll be very happy for sure.
It all begins with trust! Gain his trust and the Sky is the limit! Good luck!!
