hello all ..

 

im new to this forum and i got a couple very cute budgies from a friend which i named lemonz and limez. i had them for about a month now. they are about 5 months old and both seem to be turning out as males. i dont know much about birds or budgies and i want to tame them cause they are scared little birdies. i have read many post here and many articles on the net about taming your bird and it wants me to talk to the bird in a soft voice and then after a short while to put my hand in the cage with a treat and leave it there and keep talking to the birds. i have tried this for 2 weeks now and i got to say, no change in the birds behavior. it seems like every time i get near the cage to talk to them, they go to the corner and start chirping with each other.. dont even look at me or pay attention to me. haha so i was wondering if i should seperate them during their taming period cause i heard that helps. their wings are trimed but it seems like my friend didnt do a good job cuz one wing is noticably longer than the other. should i trim it again or just leave it?

 

thanks in advance :ausb:

Edited December 13, 200519 yr by Bea

Hi! Welcome to the forums. I don't think i would separate them as they would get lonely but i would do individual taming sessions. Can you get them out of the cage at all? At worst you would have to towel one and take it into a small room (bathroom, toilet) and remove any dangers (cover mirrors, close toilet). The room should have preferably very few places for the budgie to land on but you. Wait for it to settle somewhere and then approach it with your eyes down (so your not stalking it) and talking in a soothing voice. If you can get nice and close to it just sit beside it and talk to it until it's completely relaxed. Eventually as they become more comfy around you you can start offering your finger for them to sit on and once they go on your finger reward them with millet. Keep training sessions to no more than 10 - 15 mins and if the bird just doesn't settle down put it back in the cage and try a different method. By training the birds separately they can't turn to each other for security and as they are in a strange room you're the most familiar thing. :ausb:

hello and thanks for the advice.

 

i have another question regardign your advice. what is this toweling method to get them out of the cage ?

 

also, once they are out of the cage (they sometimes just fly out cause one of them scares the other) they

 

hurry back to the cage and i have closed the door to the cage a couple times so i can sit with him and chat

 

before he hurries back in, but its impossible to get close to them.

 

thanks

 

 

 

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Edited December 13, 200519 yr by Bea

hello and thanks for the advice.

 

i have another question regardign your advice. what is this toweling method to get them out of the cage ?

 

also, once they are out of the cage (they sometimes just fly out cuz one of them scares the other) they

 

hurry back to the cage and i have closed the door to the cage a couple times so i can sit with him and chat

 

b4 he hurries back in, but its impossible to get close to them.

 

thanks

Hi lemonz n lime, Welcome to the forum......the toweling method is simple...you get a towel and use it to hold the bird, I only use a towel for wild birds that stress out...... and so I don't get bitten!! I'm with Bea on not separating them completely....they would get very stressed out and a stressed bird is not good especially if your trying to train/tame them....Good luck

Here's what I'd do, but the advice you take is up to you. I've never tamed 2 birds that shared a cage at the same time, but I've never bought 2 birds at the same time either. Your birds are still young and can probably become pretty tame. If you have the time to spend with them individually, I would separate them for about a month into different rooms. Then, I would follow the method you mentioned in your original post talking softly to them and training them to step onto your hand in the cage and once they appeared to trust you take them out of the cage.

 

Also do you mean that they each have only one wing clipped.. or that they are both clipped but longer on one side than the other. It would be a good idea for both wings to be clipped properly so that they won't be out of balance if they try to fly.

But if you have never cliped wings and don't know how then don't try it, this is where ingures happen. That can cripple a bird's flight for life. If it is only one wing done then the other need doing as well, The one wing clips is old and it unbalances the bird. If you can't clip them either take back to your friend to be done or your avian vet.

yeah.. both birds had wings clipped equally when i got them. but now, one wing has long feathers and the other wing doesn't and that's the same for both birds. i have also noticed once in a while that the birds start flapping their wings and it seems like they are going crazy and loosing their balance and often the next bird get so scared, it falls from the perch and jumps out the cage.

 

also, thanks for the tips on training my birds.. will have to seperate them since i have few weeks for christmas break and i can spend lots of time with each one. i would have tried the towel method, but the poor birds get very scared when i get a hold of them.. so i dont wanna be doing that everyday.

 

thanks again. :feedbirds:

im training a baby with an an already tame bird wich helps but your problem is hard and will take time and alot of patience...i would train in the night when the quit and sleepysit talking next to them for about ten minutes when they dont mind this put your hand on and of the cage also bringing them down when you watch a film/tv and eat meals dinner/lunchthen when they are happy with this hold your hand in the cage and when they calm down remove it.when they let you keep your hand in there and areent to scare it towards the most confedent and press lightly agenst his belly he will naturely step up remem ber it will tak hard work