kazzamac

Wow thanks for all that, there is some good stuff there! I will get around to posting a picture of my lovelies over the weekend.

Hi everyone, This is my first post, I'm new here and new to owning budgies. My partner and I bought 2 male budgies (I'm guessing 6months-1 year of age) a week and a half ago and I thought I might write a little blog on here about them if anyone is interested to read. I scored a really nice big cage second hand so have a nice home for them. I picked the two boys out of separate cages at the pet shop, so they didn't know each other, but they seem to have bonded well in the past few weeks. Their names are Ivan and Gusta. Gusta has lots of new feathers coming through on his head, so Ivan has been super helpful preening his head for them. Anyway, back on track. I guess I'm interested in writing a blog as a bit of a record and also because I am going to attempt to hand tame these two lovely boys, and not clip their wings. I work with animals so have an interest in animal behaviour and I want to have the happiest, most well looked after budgies out there. On the weekend, after one week with us, I opened the cage for the first time (so I could clean the cage while they were vacated and not stress them out). When I wasn't in sight, they both flew madly around the lounge room, chirping away. It was funny to watch them flying, they were quite clumsy and were quite sloppy at landing, I'm guessing because they had never flown in more then a cage before. They spent a lot of time just sitting on top of their cage, having short flights then eventually returned to the cage. We have both been very careful to do nothing 'scary' with our hands, so we won't handle them at all, or move to quickly when changing food etc. They had a fly around on both Saturday and sunday (during the day). I have opened the cage for a bit when I have gotten home from work during this week but they haven't come out. I'm guessing maybe because its not daylight? I have started putting my hand in the cage once a day with some millet spray on the end of my fingers. On day one of this (3 days ago) I got my hand close to them but neither went for it. Both yesterday and today Gusta has nibbled the millet. Ivan is a bit more wary and won't let me get to close, while I can have my hand right next to Gusta and he doesn't move away. So I will keep on with this - early days but I am excited by the progress. If anyone has any tips I would be happy to hear them - and I will try to update. Hope that maybe someone (?) finds this interesting I've tried to attach a picture, hopefully it works. Ivan is blue, Gusta is green