Hi all!

 

well as you may know I am a new member here & just recently got my new little budgie Zeus ..On Sunday to be exact. Well for the first day I decided to just leave him/her be, so as not to scare him/her . Next day I stood near Zeus's Cage & just talked to him, made Kissing noises etc. I did that several times during the day. I then slowly started to introduce my hand & Zeus was not scared, infact the little baby was interested in Looking at my hand!!. I did this over a couple of days while quietly talking etc. All this time though he had been very interested in looking out the bars at the other birds. So today I covered all of the cage except the front with a sheet, so then he has to focus on me. This seemed to work!! I again put my hand in the cage & little Zeusy just sat there!! Then GUES WOT!!???? He let me scratch his head & cheeks with one finger & he went all soft a sweet...with this dazed look!! After that I again left straight away so as not tp push him & then go backwards with training rather than forwards!!... but yeah I was soo excited I HAD to share!!

:ygbudgie: Sounds like all is going well with Zeus, congratulations! Keep up the good work! :greenb:

How exciting for you! sounds like Zeus will be "eating out of your hand" in no time!!

Arent they lovely when they let you scratch their heads? My billy will only let me do it and not my husband. I have no idea why, because he actually flies across the room to get to my husband if he hears his voice. Well done for chosing a bird with lots of personality

ohh that is so great!!!

it sounds like you are both bonding to each other quite fine.

Hi All thanks :hap:

So far so good, though it is going a little slowly, he won't step up on to my finger yet, however he WILL let me scratch him all over the head. He sits there making these little chirping noises, moving his head up, side to side & down so i can get all the 'good' spots. He then grooms my finger. Also when he sees me he whistles out to me which is just too CUTE :hap: But yeah he doesn't quite trust me enough to 'step up' hopefully that will come in time!.

 

I am just loving having a budgie again! he's just delightful

It's good fun isnt it. I am trying to hand tame as many of my babies as I can so I can sell them to people as pets and they already have a head start on their training and theyre used to hands. It's almost as though I start again every day when I get home from work, but they very quickly settle One of my babies likes to sit on my hand and nibble my fingers and skin and my rings hehe. The others only really step up cause I dont stop until they do (Laughing out loud)