Hello everybody. I`m new here. I have a pair of budgies. The male is 1 year old and the female is 10 months old. I bought the male first and i tamed him. Hi came to my finger by his own will. After 2 months i bought a female budgie but i made the mistake that i let her out in the room with the male. Now they both are acting wild, they are afraid of me and they go in the cage only to eat and drink water. They have a little tree where they are playing and sleeping but they are afraid of me. If i lock them in the cage they are acting crazy and they are stressed. How could i bond with them?

Edited June 24, 201212 yr by **KAZ**

Well, it is a lot harder to tame two budgies who have bonded to each other, than it is to tame an individual one. Harder, but not impossible. BUT, since they have the freedom of the whole room, I don't see that they really have any motivation to want to play with you.

 

If it's important to you, you may need to curb their freedom for a while in order to do it. That would mean making them get used to living inside the cage until they were tame, and also clipping their wings, at least one time. After they molt in new flight feathers, if they were tame enough for your liking, you could then let them remain fully flighted.

 

It's normal for a bird who is used to an aviary or large cage, or in your case, a whole room, to freak out a bit when they are re-homed into a smaller cage. They will go through all sorts of twisting contortions as they try to find a way to squeeze out of the cage. But after a day of two of that, they normally settle down.

 

If your male was tame as a youngster, there is a possiblity that if you work with him again, he will remember, and make better progress. And they are great copiers, so if the female sees that the male learns to like you, and gets rewarded with millet treats, she might just get interested enough to learn to take millet from your hand as well. But at the ages they are, and the amount of time that they have enjoyed being free and "wild", getting them to take millet from your hand may be the best you can hope for. I don't think they will ever really "bond" with you, just learn to tolerate you.

Sounds to me like you could use some one on one sessions... This basically means out one of the birds in a room with you and slowly train each one to accept you as part of their flock and slowly reintroduce them to each other until they have no problems with sleeping and living in the cage...

It might actually be solved by making their cage more inviting, as I have no in depth information about the situation, I'll just say to make sure that firstly its a decent sized cage, an has plenty of toys from foraging to foot toys, and weave some nntoxic plant tigs and leaves between the bars, your fids will love the cage and will love it note than the tree

Since I just learned from your other thread that you have their genders backwards, it is the female that you would have to work on re-taming, and then maybe the male will copy her. That could work to your advantage.

i dont know if they gender is backwars... because the blue one wants to mate... and tries to get on the back of the white one and bends its tail tovards the white`s vent so i`m confused if its some fungus on its cere .now 3 moths it was blue or something like that ( i canot tell the diference between pink blue and other similar colours).i will make clearel photos tomorrow.

The blue has the reflex of clinmbing on my finger. When i put me finger near him/hear he moves his leg towards my finger and i can get my hand 10-20cm of them and i almost can touch them with my head. I canot take picture from close distance so i had to zoom and cut them out from a bigger picture. They are afraid of the camera.

 

Bigger image here: http://s13.postimage.org/ky6mnmipz/image.png

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Edited June 21, 201212 yr by atti_dsr

Finnie, there's a possible problem with getting the female trained to get the male to follow her... She might become undertrained and start biting, which would lead to the male biting and very sore hands... You've got to take every possible situation that might occurr

Finnie, there's a possible problem with getting the female trained to get the male to follow her... She might become undertrained and start biting, which would lead to the male biting and very sore hands... You've got to take every possible situation that might occurr

The female(blue) was tamed one time but she got wild when i bught for her a mate. She is not biting, the male is biting but the blue is kind, i traped them in the cage and i put my hand to the entrance of cage and the female moves her left leg tovards my finger like she wants to stand on it but, she freaks out if i get close to her. They know that i feed them they learned that when they are hungry and i forget to put food in their bowl they pull up the little dor in the cage and make noice with it:D untill i feed them. The male who is totaly wild is kinda funny because when i wake up he is standing over my head on a furniture and ciriping at me to wake me up. he dont likes when i`m sleeping and they are not. So maybe a little bond is between them and me and if i keep them in cage next to my working space and i will try to gain their trust so i can tame them. If i will not sucseed i`m happy with that that i have them and i let them fly around in the room

The blue budgie is a female and the other one is male.

Hello Click on the post bellow you might find the answer to some of your

problems. Yours B.J.

 

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=31805

thanks everybody for the answers frrom today i`m starting to tame them. Where i live millet dont grow and i can only buy seeds so i will need to give them the treat seed by seed or with a mustar spoon. they are looking at the seeds but they are afraid of it. they eated only at morning so they will eat from the spoon in 1-2h from now on .

Hello again.

I dont want to open another topic so fast so i will ask here. What type of budgies are mine? I dont espect much because they were bought from a low profile romanian pet store. I would like to breed them in the upcoming future.

 

 

The white ones back under his wings its violet or dark blue.

Edited June 23, 201212 yr by atti_dsr

thanks everybody for the answers frrom today i`m starting to tame them. Where i live millet dont grow and i can only buy seeds so i will need to give them the treat seed by seed or with a mustar spoon. they are looking at the seeds but they are afraid of it. they eated only at morning so they will eat from the spoon in 1-2h from now on .

 

Hello Just like to point out that you don't have to use seed as a treat, you can use any fruit/veg or anything

the birds like. even cake or cookies in moderation. Millet Spray, millet still on the stalk can be had from your

seed supplier. You can grow your own if you want to, just plant the seeds. Yours B.J

I canot make eat them from spoon or from my hand any treats. Even theri favorite one. I dont want to starw them so i keep them close to my working space and they eat from their dish 10cm from my hand. I will wait few days and try again.

Hello If your following my bonding post. I would advise you to re-read the, "Fear of hands" section again.

If you don't understand any of it. I will be happy to help you.Yours B.J.

Hello again.

I dont want to open another topic so fast so i will ask here. What type of budgies are mine? I dont espect much because they were bought from a low profile romanian pet store. I would like to breed them in the upcoming future.

 

 

The white ones back under his wings its violet or dark blue.

 

I would say they are both cobalt greywings, and the white one (the male) is a dominant pied. How confident are you that they are not brother and sister?

I bought them from the store female first male 2 months later. The store brings budgies from 2 separate budgie breeders, so i waited untill the store gets budgies from the other breeder, not from where they got the female. The blue is from a hungarian breeder and the white from a romanian breeder. I bought them because all the other budgies were almost the same green or other colour , they standed out from the crowd both times:D. They were the only white and blue.

Edited July 10, 201212 yr by atti_dsr