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hi thanks for the help so far things are going slowly but i had a question. out of the four there are 2 that are getting on the perch when i hold it for them but the problem is if one of the other birds that still won't come near me when i'm in the cage chiprs squacks, or whatever they seem to not want to listen so i was wonder if i bought a smaller cage and tried traing them one at a time if that would be easier then trying to do all four

It would be easier to have them separate, but you need to consider the birds. Are they bonded with each other? Separating bonding birds is not a good thing to do, and you need to make sure they aren't bonded. It is likely than they are bonded, but there are ways to tell.
Bonded birds will preen each other, feed each other, kiss each other. Bonded birds also sit together a lot and keep each other company, they will probably eat at the same time together and preen at the same time as well.

They probably all wouldn't want to be separated; they are flockmates, and separating them would be tramatic. It probably would be best not to separate them, bonded well or bonded little.
My advice to you is just continue what you're doing. Work with them all equally, but don't rush the two who aren't cooperating. Go at their pace. If they don't want the big scary hand and perch near them, then don't put it near them.

I have to agree with Justin about separating bonded birds. Altho maybe you could put the 2 that seem to be more cooperative together,separate from the other 2? Unless of course there are bonded mates?
IDK I'd be interested to hear what others with multiple birds think.

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Sometimes it helps to just take them one at a time into another room for training. If they still don't want to come out of the cage and you are talking in the cage training, then yeah, get a smaller cage to use just for training. Maybe put some millet in it and the first one who goes in, gets the first training. Just take the cage and the one bird into another room to train.

Then they can all be together for the rest of the day and night since that is what they are used to.

While I've never tried this method, this is how my mother used to train our birds when I was a child. She would seperate and put the trainee in a small travel cage and then do perch work from there.