Hey all, I have a new female (or thats what I think) baby budgie, that is hand tamed, and about a couple months old. I also have another female budgie that is not tamed, and is about 3 and a half years old. I was wondering if after the quarentine and a few weeks of them sitting next to eachother in seperate cages, could they go into the same cage? Would the younger budgie become untame? Will the older budgie bully her around? Would anything happen that I should be aware of?

I think it's good that the new budgie is younger. The older one should take her as a baby and maybe feed her. I think budgies get used to each other quite easily.

 

I'm not sure about the taming think. But someone else will help

Edited July 15, 200618 yr by Zebra

okay that is good to hear

With any luck, your tame budgie will have an influence on your older bird and perhaps she will become a little more tame. I have had a few "semi" tame birds that will step up, sit on my finger for millett. They share a cage with some untame birds. When the more tame ones sit on my finger for millet, the others will come over to and tentatively perch on me. They follow the behaviour of the flock.

 

Keep handling your tame bird lots and it should be fine.

on the other hand so you know the tamed one may become more untamed because he will follow the other one too just as the untamed one will learn from the tamed one. If you do it right your untamed one can become semi-tamed and your tamed one can say tamed but remember you will no longer be 1 in its life.

That is true. I am not really sure what to do. Because I feel that budgies shoule also be with their own kind, but I also still want to be able to handle her like I do now. I am not sure what to do. Of course my suggestion is get another budgie and tame that one too :ausb:, but I am not sure what the "right" thing to do is.

That is true. I am not really sure what to do. Because I feel that budgies shoule also be with their own kind, but I also still want to be able to handle her like I do now. I am not sure what to do. Of course my suggestion is get another budgie and tame that one too :ausb:, but I am not sure what the "right" thing to do is.

 

Maybe you can try to tame the untamed one, while the other one is in quarentine cage. So she is more tamed when you introduce them

I agree my Pretty does so much better with Merlin but he was semi-tamed and finger tamed, in fact he was really taming good then I intro Merlin and he got a bit stinky. But with them together, I use Merlin as a training aide with Pretty. So he readly hops on my finger when Merlin is already on :ausb:

Just out of curiousity, would having two tame budgie have more of a "influence" on an untamed budgie? Rather than just one tamed budgie?

No I think you are better working with one tame and one untamed because in the end one will be the leader and who they will follow the most.

okay, but since the untamed one is a lot older wouldnt she be the leader?

In the beginning probably so but things change as they grow older.

 

Example...since I have been through this.

 

Pretty is my semi-tamed one, I got him at 3 months he is a bird bird to the end. I had him finger tamed, talking a couple words and finally he was running up to the side of the cage to greet me after 9 months of having him (Laughing out loud). Then I got Merlin who was handled alot and already pretty much tamed, I kept them apart for the 30 days. I worked with Merlin alot and continued to work with Pretty but he started to get stinky with me.

 

Pretty started to untame, he wouldn't sit on my finger, go in his cage etc..because he heard the other bird but couldn't see him. So in my attempt to calm him down when they were introduced I did several things.

 

1. I didn't let them be housed together just play for the first week

2. I only housed them together during the day when I was home

3. I then housed them together during the day all day

4. I then housed them at night after Pretty figured it out that Merlin was not a girl, he kept jumping on him and there were squabbles.

 

All the above too about 2 weeks.

 

BUT when I let them out the only way Pretty could interact with Merlin outside of the cage is after he first jumped on my finger and only then could we play. I used Merlin as a training tool, it worked wonders. Now I give credit to eterri because she gave me that advice. I was at wits end and wanted to clip Pretty but she said no try this first and it worked.

 

Now when they come out, I still make Pretty sit on my finger first before they play out of the cage and if doesn't which it happens I bring out the millet and treat Merlin for staying with me. Pretty then finally stops being all flightly and comes to share the treat.

 

I hope this wasn't too long but gives you some ideas to work with.

Oh that is great advice, not too long at all. Wow those are some really good ideas, thank you for sharing with me :ausb:

Hey all, I have a new female (or thats what I think) baby budgie, that is hand tamed, and about a couple months old. I also have another female budgie that is not tamed, and is about 3 and a half years old. I was wondering if after the quarentine and a few weeks of them sitting next to eachother in seperate cages, could they go into the same cage? Would the younger budgie become untame? Will the older budgie bully her around? Would anything happen that I should be aware of?

We made the mistake of putting a young budgie (who was not too timid with us) into the same cage of an older bird who was semi-tamed. The result was that the young budgie became quite scared of us and is still untamed (we did seperate them, and the older budgie disappeared from his cage about 8 months ago (presumed taken by a cat)). I am still relatively inexperienced with budgies, but from my own experience, I would be hesitant to place your new bird in with the untamed bird.

I have recently posted asking how best to tame our bird (now 12 months old). Any advice is welcome.

Budgie Oners Mum.