Hello, we have a flight avairy and our birds paired up and had four babies. We took two of the babies out and put them in a different cage when we thought they could come out and they didn't eat or drink anything so we put them back in to be cared for by their father.

 

I want to take one of the budgies and tame it and I am wondering if there is any signs that I can look out for to show that the budgie is ready to come out and be tamed to become my pet.

 

At the moment they are flying around freely in the avairy (even if they can only fly short distances) and they are still being fed by their dad, is that normal or should we take them off the parents like you do cows to stop them from feeding from the parent? :/

 

I am very confused and would love some help and advice please so I can tell my parents and to make sure that we do nothing that is going to potentially be harmful to the birds.

the dad will stop feeding them when hes ready the longer he feeds the better in my eyes i have a cock bird that in the flight after they were all put in their still feeds the chicks its not uncommon in my flight to see this as dad n chicks stay in a cage for two weeks after they (the chicks leave nest then i return them and dad to main flight no baby cage in my stud i have my reasons for this

and i found that my birds are better for it i tried the whole baby cage thing it for me did not work

and as i said all my cocks feed chicks for extra few weeks in flight so i feel this works better for me as chick still being extra feed for around 10 week sometimes 11 weeks old

 

oh and i handle my chicks in nest and in flight so they stay tame so you could try sitting quietly with the one you want in their on a chair for few hours then bring in when you see it eating and drinking yourself :}

Edited January 25, 201114 yr by GenericBlue

Thank you so much. We will handle them when we go in to the avairy and let dad continue doing what he's doing.

how old is the chick?

The chicks are five weeks old I believe.