Hello – this is my first post so I hope I don't type/do anything too daft. I recently brought home my new budgie Trilby. I did try to find breeders but after not getting anywhere I admit I went to a pet shop. Not the nicest pet shop in the world either, if I had more will power I would have waited but I couldn't bear to leave this little budgie behind . I picked Trilby as she seemed active & happy chirping away etc also I may be biased but I think she is the prettiest budgie I've ever seen! I assumed she was a girl (cere looks kind of brown-y to me) and a young one because she has no iris's. But I am learning there is much more to it than that – I.e. - I hear hen's cere's don't change colour till they are older? She doesn't have any stripes down to her cere (which I am told is an indication of budgie youth) but then she only has a few very light grey ones on the back of her head anyway and during my endless budgie obsessed internet research I discovered that some lighter coloured budgies never have these stripes? I was hoping someone would be able to shed light on all of this for me as you can probably tell I am quite confused! If anyone could help me out with type that would be great too.

 

Aside from all my confusion over budgie gender, age, type etc. Trilby seems to be settling in well. She is a little skittish as I expected but has chirped back and forth to me on occasion and although ignoring her seed pot etc has vigorously attacked her millet spray and eaten a few seeds on the floor – strangely she seems happiest to eat when I am burbling away at her. I am taking this as a good sign. Although coming from a rather suspect pet shop I am expecting taming to be a gradual process.

 

Anyway thanks for any response on age/gender – I have stuck with she for ease of post – and I think Trilby is a unisex name should I have to revise this! Also in case anyone worries about her cage being a little sparse I will definitely be looking for some new exciting toys for her too.

 

Apologies for the rambling!

 

Jaffy X

 

 

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Edited March 18, 200817 yr by birdluv
l fixed the links but l noticed that the links are gone now. sorry, but could you try to repost your pics

Hi, welcome to our forums.

your budgie sounds lovely, l like her name.

 

Sorry again about your pics, l think it is strange how the links disappeared?

Welcome

Edited March 18, 200817 yr by Elly
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Hello and welcome.

Trilby sounds lovely :budgiedance:

I hope you can get your pictures up okay

I think the links going was down to me being a bit dim as I posted the same post somewhere else. I feel like at the age of 24 I really should be better with computers & technology than I am!

 

Second try for photos...fingers, toes, beaks etc crossed

 

 

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii260/J...8/Trilby030.jpg

 

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii260/J...8/Trilby022.jpg

 

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii260/J...8/Trilby024.jpg

 

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii260/J...8/Trilby021.jpg

 

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii260/J...8/Trilby010.jpg

 

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii260/J...8/Trilby008.jpg

 

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They WORKED

 

She is a lovely Hen... I am unsure of the name of her type - she looks a bit like an Opaline dilute but I'm not really sure.

Your right, she is very pretty :budgiedance:

Edited March 18, 200817 yr by **Liv**

The pics are working :budgiedance:

 

your budgie is a she from what l can see and she is a beauty.

You have a cute little girl the cage you have her in really isn't the best if you can afford to upgrade I would suggest doing so so she has more room to fly around and exercise. Click Here for Example of Cage Set-Ups, I know you will find some good ideas and affordable cages too. :budgiedance:

Trillby is gorgeous. Doesnt look to old to me...maybe around 6-7 months. She looks healthy and bright and alert. All good. :budgiedance:

Looks like a greywing opaline.. But i can't tell if green series or Yf blue... I have a Yf hen that looks similar to that colour, and although looking green/ yellow is infact a blue series just remember the greywing opaline bit :budgiedance: easiest thing

very cute budgie... the only thing 'daft' about your post was the word 'daft' :(Laughing out loud): haven't heard that in years. Thanks for the flashback.

 

And Welcome to the posts congratulations on posting your first post... Look forward to hearing more from you.

Hi and welcome to you and Trilby .

She is a very pretty little girl.

Welcome Jaffy. You have a lovely little hen. I like her name too. She didn't look too freaked out about the camera. I think her millet is bigger then she is ! She must be in millet heaven.

 

If you hope to train her. You have a good advantage at this age with her. I would take the millet away & give it to her in small clumps as a treat between your fingers to get her to come to your hand. There is lots of millet in most budgie seed anyway. So don't think she will starve ! She's old enough to eat regular budgie seeds. She is just getting use to things.

 

Good luck ... keep us posted. You will learn so many great things from this forum & its many members.

Welcome. SHE is a very pretty bird. Your first post was fine . I hope you enjoy it here.

Hello - thanks for all your kind replies - and I will look into the cage situation, I did measure it and it was bigger than several budgie books recommended, although I suppose bigger is always better for cages. Unfortunately I have bigger problems than cages at the minute, i was taking Trilby's millet out of the cage in order to use it as a training tool and Trilby took the oppotunity to escape. At the moment she is isolated in the living room (all windows doors etc closed) It was stupid of me really - i'd got used to her sitting so still every time I put my hand in the cage that i wasn't expecting the speed she made a beeline for the door. I have tried chasing her with a tea towel but she is much too fast for me and I think it was just stressing her out. She looks quite happy sat on top of the curtain rail at the moment even playing with the brass rings. I was thinking of leaving her to see if she will fly back of her own accord, and if that doesn't work waiting till it goes dark and catching her with a tea towel then. I remember doing this with our last budgie on his first couple of excursions out of his cage before he learnt to let himself in and out or be taken back on a finger. Agh this is really frustrating, I'm worried all this stress etc. will undo all the taming i've tried so far. Poor little Trilby. If anyone has any tips on the least stressful way to get Trilby back in her cage i'd be really grateful.

 

Jaffy x

Awwww! Such a BEAUTIFUL budgie! I can totally understand why you couldn´t stand to leave her in the pet shop! *Looks at pictures again* So cute!

(Laughing out loud), this is exactly what Bing did when i got him/her, he flew out as i was putting in a calcium bell, lucky my dog was outside but he was at the glass door chasing it around and scaring the **** out of it! luckily my dad grabbed a tea towel, got him/her and put him/her back in the cage. however i am sad to say he didnt trust my fingers or hand for a while, but i gained his/her trust back and we are slowly forming a bond

 

congrats on your new bud!

The best way to have less stress on your budgie is to teach it the step-up command, I have a training article in the FAQ that explains how do to it. You may want to consider a 1 x wing clip to for her saftey until she is completely tamed and learns this command. It is 100x easier to teach a budgie that is not flighted then is flighted, I know from experience. Pretty and Merlin were both clipped when I got them and then I let their flights grow out and that worked perfect. After Pretty died, I did get Merlin clipped again for his saftey and the advantage point that I could work with him again on my level. When they are on the curtain and you are chasing them you are a predator and trust me you don't get anywhere.

 

So food for thought, not an advocate on wing clipping many don't personally like it but I look at it this way. 1. It doesn't hurt. 2. It doesn't mentally harm them it helps them gain trust with you 3. It grows back and in about a month or 2 even with all the feathers not grown back they already get lift and start flying.

Yay - my budgie is finally back in her cage - we tempted her back in with millet, all in all she doesn't look the worse for her adventure, I think she quite enjoyed exploring the room. Doing some particular low-flying when anyone in the room was eating - definitely a greedy birdy. I can see how clipping the wings would have made life easier but my parents never did it with any of the budgies we had during my childhood and we always tamed them - albeit eventually, so I think I will follow their lead. Having said that i may change my mind if she continues to be such an escape artisit! Ideally she will be finger tame before she is out of her cage again. No offense to anyone who does clip though - each to their own.

 

Ps should I be posting this in the picture section - I'm sorry i'm not quite 100% on the rules.

 

Since it continues with this post it is okay, if you are starting a different topic about her yes you can find the correct forum.

 

I tamed a cockatiel with unclipped wings so I remember what it was like, I didn't chose to have the boys clipped they were already clipped in the beginning so I saw the difference in training by this experience. The best thing is it grows back so quickly like it never happened and it doesn't hurt but like you said everyone choses a different route .

that is great that you got him back into his cage

good luck with the taming. l'm also trying to tame my budgies at the moment too.

Good that she went back to the cage ... millet is a great treat & most budgies will bend over backwards for it.

 

You'll prolly be able to tame her quite well with it if she enjoys it that much !