Falcon 0 Posted March 23, 2011 Member ID: 6,593 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 15 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 19/02/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Hi, everybody. I'm a new comer. I has recently bought a new female budgie. It's now around 6 months old. She isn't afraid of my fingers now. She can stand on my fingers. But she doesn't want me to touch her. Unless she is satisfied after eating, she bites me when I try to touch her. What does she behave like this? P.S. Just a piece of extra information... I originally has a male budgie. He is now around 4 years old. Link to comment
stace 0 Posted March 24, 2011 Member ID: 6,349 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 222 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1,340 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 27/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 12, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Alot of budgies, including mine, don't like to be touched or stroked on their head or body. Mine is really super tame, and he just doesn't like it either. I can give him a nuzzle with my nose on his head or belly, but he hates fingers for anything other than perching or playing with. I think I could probably train him up by feeding him millet and simultaneously stroking his back to get him used to it. But I just figure, why bother. Some people have budgies that are okay with getting a little scratch around the head. I don't believe most are like that naturally though, without training. Why this is, I'm not sure. Probably a natural self defence. Maybe a nose is like a beak, so it's kinda familiar to them. But fingers are probably just scary alien appendages, apart from their similarity to a perch. Who knows. Birds can be kinda weird little creatures. Link to comment
Hezz 0 Posted March 25, 2011 Member ID: 6,577 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 133 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 750 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/02/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 21, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2011 I agree with Stace. Usually its only a scared budgie that will put up with being stroked - it's too terrified to do anything except sit still. And I think a lot of people mistake this for compliance. Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted March 25, 2011 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted March 25, 2011 If you have any mirrors in the cage remove them. They do their head in and give them something to protect and be possessive over. Link to comment
GenericBlue 0 Posted March 25, 2011 Member ID: 4,737 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 106 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 5,156 Content Per Day: 0.92 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 28,240 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 08/09/1973 Share Posted March 25, 2011 If you have any mirrors in the cage remove them. They do their head in and give them something to protect and be possessive over. yep i agree my mirror even does my own head in lol Link to comment
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