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Moxy is making great progress! She has almost mastered target training! (target training is where your bird will go to a location that you point to using your target item (usually a stick to point with). I am using a white stick about a foot long that a few weeks ago would make her run away...

So it's looking like Moxy is easier to train than my cockatiel, Biscuit. I've had at least twice as many sessions with Biscuit as I have with Moxy and all he hasn't shown much signs of progress (slightly more tame, but little signs of associating the clicker with treats). Moxy on the other...

Day 6 update: I spent the first 5 minutes reinforcing the association between the clicker and treats. This time I only used the clicker after Moxy returned to a spot near my right hand (I'm trying to get her to learn than she should wait at that spot whenever we are training). I worked on the...

Day 5 update: Moxy was very confused when I tried using the clicker in my left hand. She waited by my right hand still but knew the peas were coming out of that hand. So i'm going to just stick to clicking with my right hand. Moxy is definitely showing more anticipation of the peas after...

Day 4 update: I focused on associating the clicker with treats again today and noticed that Moxy taught herself a "trick"! I had the clicker in my right hand and the peas in my left hand. I held my hands about 3 feet apart.d Moxy would stand waiting in front of my right hand begging for me to...

Day 3 update: Moxy regressed a bit and wasn't showing any signs of associating the clicker with treats. So today all I did was work on associating the clicker with treats: 1. Use the clicker then give some peas. 2. Move my hand as if I was using the clicker and open hand with no treats...

Quote: Absolutely! Two of our ducks (Vinny and Ollie) we get when they were a few months old. Nettie and I spent alone-time with both of them every night for a few weeks and they quickly learned to trust us. Ollie still isn't as friendly as the other ducks but it has a lot to do with being...

Quote: That's my goal! Right now I'm just getting her used to the colored circles so she'll expect to get the peas on the paper and stop charging at me and standing on the paper. I have a mixed drake that waits on command and I got a tell ya it wasnt to bad once he understood the whole...

I recently decided to try to train one of our ducks, Moxy, a blue runner. I'm documenting my processs and results in hopes that we can all learn from this experiment. Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated! My goal is to teach Moxy: 1. Peck a specific color on command 2. Not...