[Sooki_cockatiel]

So I have a one year old female cockatiel called sooki (hand raised.) She has always being tame and stuff but never tame enough to let me touch her on her back feet, tail feathers, or hang from my fingers. When I first started training her, I was very foolish and didn’t do it properly. I inconsistent with training or training times, so Sooki got frustrated and I think was trying to express her frustration by pretending she forgot what I was teaching her. I was also being boring and repeating everything excessively, so when she lost interest and would ’forget’ what I was training her, I would blame it on her ‘bad memory’ and ‘short attention span’. I also made the mistake of attempting to teach her wave before doing the step up on command. Now that I’m trying to teach her step up she will do it most of the time when she’s not on the T stand, but as soon as she gets on the T stand she will try to nibble me or do a ’part wave’ (put one foot on my finger). I have no idea what to do because I really want to do positive reinforcement so if anyone knows what to do pleeeeeaseee tell me.
This is a photo of sooki

 

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Tame your cockatiel with patience.Don’t spend too much time on training her,just 15 minutes should be enough.Always give treats and praise her when she does good.Stepping up is very important, you should have started training her when she was 4 months old, now it will be little harder to tame her but with patience you could tame her.Most cockatiels hate being touched on tail feathers and back feet so don’t worry about that

 

[Sooki_cockatiel]

Tame your cockatiel with patience.Don’t spend too much time on training her,just 15 minutes should be enough.Always give treats and praise her when she does good.Stepping up is very important, you should have started training her when she was 4 months old, now it will be little harder to tame her but with patience you could tame her.Most cockatiels hate being touched on tail feathers and back feet so don’t worry about that

She’s always been tame (like she’ll fly to my head sometimes) she just won’t let me touch her on her where I said so if most cockatiels don’t like being touched there that makes more sense. Also when I train her at the moment she doesn’t want millet or seeds. I’m gonna try not putting millet into her foraging toys and instead something else so the millet can be a treat but for now I’ll use green grass seedheads because she loves them. Thanks so much for the advice though.

 

[Kazzi4]

She’s always been tame (like she’ll fly to my head sometimes) she just won’t let me touch her on her where I said so if most cockatiels don’t like being touched there that makes more sense. Also when I train her at the moment she doesn’t want millet or seeds. I’m gonna try not putting millet into her foraging toys and instead something else so the millet can be a treat but for now I’ll use green grass seedheads because she loves them. Thanks so much for the advice though.

You shouldn’t stroke a female on their back, as that will bring them into breeding condition and you’ll end up with her laying unwanted infertile eggs.
As for training make it consistent, short and repetitive, if you make the sessions too long she will get bored.