How can anyone not love stubborn but cute and funny little cockatiels. I've been working with mine for a couple of years now. When I got him his wings were clipped so he couldn't really fly and had been purchased to be a breeder and was probably never handled. He was terrified of hands and probably had never been out of his cage. Not a great diet although he did eat some pellets but i'm guessing no fresh food. Now he has such a rich life. Flies around when we are home, holds "meetings" with his stuffed animal friends, lands on our heads, plays with his millions of toys (which include his people), talks and loves to try new foods. He still has a way to go but he's come so far.

I would be shocked to see any different behaviors' from this cockatiel. They are a stubborn species of bird. They love sleeping in, they love their seed diet, and they love to feel like they are the boss, therefore appear to be nippy (which rarely hurts). These are the behavior's I love about cockatiels. If I had to place bets on whether you can change this bird or whether this bird stays true to his little nature, I'd place my bet on the bird LOL. Looking forward to see how you progress with him.

“Clyde’s not a morning bird.” I felt that so deeply.

You should try offering plain lettuce hung up somewhere since he loves toys and it will help him try his first veggie before whole chop

I've been following you guys since forever... and watching Dave work with a cockatiel just made my day! 😂 On another note, thank you for taking the time to make this series. This has got to be my favorite one yet because it's so relatable to my own cockatiel struggles. Watching how you navigate those with Clyde and work at both his and your own pace, is serving as such a good and invaluable learning experience ❤

I'm really loving this series, having a cockatiel myself, I was curious if others experienced similar things, and yup, this is how well I would expect things to go with my cockatiel as well. I've noticed they are extremely stubborn about food, they would rather shout and scream for hours to get the food they actually want, instead of eating the food they have available. Lucky for me, my cockatiel has one convenient oddity, she'll try anything pretty easily, as long as I'm eating it as well. Doesn't mean she'll like everything, not at all, but getting her to try new things has been very easy because of it, and we found plenty of fresh things she likes.

Love the added text commentary and the fall into the food bowl 😂😂 so cute

Awwww ❤ thats awesome Dave helped you out even though Clyde isnt his fav species 😊 love!

I'm loving this series for the second time! I had forgotten that Dave worked with him. 😂

Well ALL IN ALL, I THINK CLYDE IS COMING ALONG, WE ALL KNOW EACH BIRD HAS THEIR OWN AND SIGNIFICANT PERSONALITY!!! YOU DID GOOD CLYDE, YOU WILL GET THERE!!!❤❤❤😂

Loving this series with the smaller more common birds❤

Try letting Clyde watch the other bird's eating fresh food, this has helped my cockatiel alot. Also grazing on the ground as they do in the wild. Good luck

Have you tried feeding him from your hand? That's honestly the only way I can get my cockatiel to eat vegetables :, ) I know it's a bad habit starter, but I'd rather have a bad habit than no fresh food! And hand-feeding is how we bond, so it works! Granted, my baby bird is a velcro bird and very cuddly. It even looked like Clyde was tilting his head for scritches on one of those spins. As an avid cockatiel lover, I'd love to see a video of you guys just bonding with Clyde. Give him some scritches and kisses from me!

This makes me feel so much better about my stuborn cockatiel. I feel like this species may be more teenager than others, refusing to do anything they do not want to do. I swear I throw way more fresh veggies than he has interest in trying. Best way I've gotten them to try is letting him have some of my salads (I eat salad every day). Although, it only seems to work when I eat beside him. No interst if the same veggies are in his bowl.

He’s like “gross that new food is contaminating my millet! Now it’s ruined!” like a little kid that can’t eat something they like after it touched a food they don’t like on their plate lol

I have 11 cockatiels and the best way to change the diet is to see the other birds eat it otherwise it would take a long time, even then it took over a month to change their diet.

My little guys definitely get into my 💜

Mybe it's the bowl 🥣

First! Your videos are amazing! I’m going to get a green cheek conure soon and you’ve been very helpful. ❤❤

I'm so happy that Patty, the owner of Morgan, is still around you guys! and that she occasionally help you guys babysit your birds. How are Morgan and she doing? would be cool to see a follow up video about them. Best wishes for them both! :) PS: oops after correcting couple grammar mistakes, the like went off. he he sorry :)

Amazing video

Love you guys! You are so good and patient with birdies.

Clyde is very similar to my cockatiel in terms of food conversion. One way I found that helped with eating more fresh food was they seemed to like leafy greens so just hanging some kale or lettuce or broccoli got him nibbling a bit but if I put anything in the bowl in small bits he was not having any of it. They seem to not like watery textures together with dry and just shake their head. You struggling with this has made me feel better because I always worried I wasn't doing enough but cockatiels are very picky food wise I have found.

My cockatiel isn’t a morning bird either 😂

“Kind of ridiculous he’s refusing to try this” honey you are whipping that bowl around every 5 seconds. Give the guy a minute to mull it over, at least. I mean this in kindness: cockatiels are not other species. They are timid and resistant to change. You can’t just jostle them around and take their food away and change it up entirely and not give them time to take stock of the situation and make a decision about it. Go easy on him.

You're so beautiful and you know so much about the birds you're a very knowledgeable trainer

Hi JamieLeigh and Dave. I know that my cockatiels took a long time to get use to anything new (months but I can't remember everything in detail like how long - they needed more patience. I remember that - more patience. I think it's because cockatiels are so high strong. I don't know if all cockatiels are this high strong as Clyde, but mine where like Clyde lol lol. Clyde can tell you are frustrated with him, JamieLeigh, and it makes him nervous I think he is frustrated too because of the pieces of new food touching the food he loves LOL. 🥰🥰🥰 The way he was handled in his past might have made him this nervous and high strong. But you are doing very well Jamie Leigh and Dave. Clyde is still new to you and your home. I bet he might have been passed around a lot to different homes in his past. That is hard on any delicately emotional creature and human children with problems. When you get use to cockatiels they are so loving they are very very sensitive emotionally. I think they are hyped up more than the bigger parrots. You are both doing very wonderful with Clyde! Thank you so much for doing this training with Clyde the cockatiel! Love, big hugs, birdie spirit kisses. :))) 🤗🤗💖💖💖💖

It's a so similar story with my budgie, Floki. I've had him for 7 months from 10 weeks old and have only managed to get him onto pellets after using birdy bread with the organic seed mix added in decreasing amounts. He has just started to take a little, and I mean a gram or two of chop. He refuses all fruit and sprouted seeds. My advice don't take it personally. Your bird loves that you make the effort. England

cockatiels move at their own pace. with tobi, i eat what i want him to try, or leave him with it for a while until his curiosity gets the better of him. yes, ive eaten pellets

I understand your frustrated But you shouldn’t expect him to try it the first day especially that it’s his first time trying any sort of vegetables And it’s wet so he is Definitely not used to that I suggest going more gradually or just leave it there he has got the whole day to decide to try it

Where was the "shocking" part? I watched anyway. Love you and your vids.

I know this was probably months ago and you've converted him by now, but for Tucker it is a texture/moisture thing and I think that might be true for a lot of birds who have only been on a seed diet. What worked for us was birdie bread - specifically Ashlynn's recipe for birdie bread which incorporates the old diet and slowly weans that out as you add more vegetables into the bread. Now Tucker eats the SFS with no problem and will even eat pieces of vegetables, but at first he wanted nothing to do with any of it and didn't believe it was food.

My budgie is the same with the fresh food. I've tried so many different things, took the course, got your cookbooks. NO DICE. It's been so incredibly frustrating!!

I am currently converting my two parakeets to pellets as well and I figured out a way they would eat it. Basically (my parakeets only eat 2 tbls of food a day) I take 4tsps of their old food (seeds) and 2tsp of pellets and I mash them to a dust and then I put it in with the seeds with a little bit of water and mix it up until it is clumpy, I am on my 2nd week doing their and I am slowly doing less and less mashed up pellets. Hope this helps! Also side note so you don’t have to look on google 3tsp= 1 tbls.

My cockatiel is the exact same way!

3:19 I have 2 cockatiels and have tried for a year to get them to eat fresh food. No success. I was able to convert them to pellets and a homemade grain mix, but nothing fresh. I started giving your freeze dried sprinkled over the grains and they will eat your freeze dried mix not hydrated. I know it’s not supposed to be given that way, but it is leaps and bounds better than the diet they came to me on.

I have to have new veggies heading to my mouth sometimes on the fork near my lips for my cockatiel to try it.

i really only know about dog training, (but the more i watch, the principles are the same, i love your channel!) but is it possible he doesn't like the actual bowl also,.so that's making it even more of a struggle? like, would he maybe attempt a taste in his little bowl he was eating from originally? or is that just not a thing that could cause an issue? edit: nvm i just saw the end of the clip!

Switching to pellets, I ground them quite finely and mixed with their seed. Lots of fresh veg too. I find if I show my 'tiels that I enjoy the veg, they are more likely to give it a go. So....mmmmm, yum.whilst eating a piece of whatever ❤

This is like when I made a whole new GIANT batch of chop with prime ingredients that I can’t usually get a hand on aaaaand my bird decides he doesn’t like it. Come on, man!

My tiel, Jolly. loves fresh greens in the mornings. He loves eating it from my hand, but he'll also eat it broken up into bits from his dish. By the by, will his tail grow back? Such a poor thing to happen to a bird!

I just adopted a baby cockatiel (just over 3 months old now) and things have been going AMAZINGLY except for one thing… food. So far my little one is no fan of veggies/fruits even in chop. Any tips on positive introductions and encouragement to get my baby eating healthier? ❤ Thanks family! Edit: I’ve had him for over a month and he’s super comfortable and happy!

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I wish I was able to bring my 6 year old grey for training..

my Caique is mad for this outro music, she rarely dances and is bopping away to it. What is it please?

When do you call it quits for diet conversion?

Did you even answer the question?

Can't the sex of a Lutino be defined by yellow spots for females under the wings, and yellow and whitish bars on tail feathers for females? If neither are there it's a male. I was kind of wondering because males are usually pretty chatty, females not so much. Great job Jamie, I know Clyde is a challenge which is so surprising for a cockatiel. Hang in there.

Yes I am still trying, possibly not very hard, converting my cockatiel to your pellets. 😕

Can your cockatiel fly?

Shew sometimes you get an animal that...like is outside the box... one of the first dogs I trained was like that...and if I took things to heart...I would have given up dog training there and then... forward 10ys and I now know... MOST of the unresponsive behaviour... wasn't my fault..so to speak.. granny owned by a cattle dog..

He’s a cute bird but he sure is stubborn

Do you ever ferment seed mix. I wonder if it would help with the change over?

it's a 10 year old bird! let him have his seed! Slow it down on the fresh stuff

I find that Clyde isn't very vocal? He might be a 'she'? I have a female tiel that makes the same sounds.

Every video you post confirms to me more and more that Clyde is a girl. The repetitive squooing, the overall mood, the looks of her face, it's like watching you work with my girl. XD Don't take it personally when Clyde gives the warning beak and hiss. That's just the way a tiel say's "no." They have no manners, or empathy lol.

Have you did just bonding with him with no training GIF interacting with him giving him cuddles and scratches just letting him spend time with you

My two cockatiels would not eat chopped up vegetables either I would buy baby spinach they would murder a whole leaf they just loved to tear into a fresh basil plant that he would buy to put into a bigger pot about I would buy Bunches of Swiss chard leaves