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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2015 22:37:34 GMT
As some of you may recall, for right or wrong, promptly after getting my 3 young budgies, I clipped their flight wings a little. This means when I wheel their cage to my room for "flying sessions", they can't get enough lift to fly up to their cage from the floor. I've been trying to teach them to step up onto my finger from the floor and then not fly off it until I get my hand to their open cage door. But I've also been trying to teach them to step onto a long wooden dowel rod I have and not fly off it until I have taxied them via rod to their cage door. I've found the rod is really handy when they are perched up high on my dresser or when they have flown clumsily towards the wall and then followed it down to the ground behind the bed or a box or something.
Well today it seems the lesson has clicked, and all 3 of them allowed me to retrieve them from wherever they were by hopping onto the dowel rod. Even Kady, my recessive pied who trusts me the least, hopped onto the stick and walked up it towards my hand and then paused, seemingly waiting for her ride to the cage door. Of course she had flown down into a sack and couldn't find her way out, and the stick was her only option, but hey, I consider it a victory!
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Post by OP on Jan 29, 2015 7:36:23 GMT
Sounds like you are all learning well. The dowelling is a very handy tool as you say for getting the buds from places you cannot reach. I have transported both my budgies to their cage on a dowel perch. Joey the younger of the two will step on my finger but tends to fly off these days and Whiskers the more tame of the two refuses to step on my finger, but both of them will use the dowel perch. Good on you for persitence.
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Post by Shirls on Jan 29, 2015 12:07:51 GMT
Well done grannygood and budgies. Patience and perseverance paid off. I have done the same with my four, I have a nice piece of willow which they will all step up on for transportation out of a mess and back to the cage.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2015 17:15:54 GMT
The perch is a great idea. Sadly I can't use one as my budgie associates that with only placing one foot up for a hand shake! Maybe if I had a different looking perch... It would make the 'go home' command much easier as it would mean I don't have to rely on him walking into the cage by himself.
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