Training a bird is exactly that -- training. In those initial months you want to do the same things always. You are teaching that bird that every time you give the call for game, it's there. Every time you give it the return call, you have food. When you put on your boots and change the bird to flying jesses, you're going hunting. Later on, when you two get used to each other, you can slack off a little, so the return call means you stand a good chance of having food. Sometimes the bird will be so excited to hunt that it will ignore the tidbit. Oftentimes you don't want to reward the bird for going up to a pole.

Another part of consistency involves observing your own behavior and the messages you send to your bird that you aren't consciously aware of sending. Here's a simple example: you are training your bird on a new game and she catches one. Excited by the potential realized, you want to try it again, so you give her a few bites and start hunting again. What you don't realize is you behaved exactly the same as you do when she catches a mouse, something you don't want her to do: you took it away from her. Always try to think outside your own point of view.