Baby Budgie keeps biting me hard

[kiki05]

Hi everyone, I recently got a 3 month old hand reared female budgie. She’s fully tame, she jumps straight onto my hand when I open her cage, she climbs up to my shoulder and she’ll stay there for hours if I let her. She flies from to other people in the house and she’s not scared of people at all. At first I was able to touch her and hold her gently when I wanted to move her off someone and not fly but now she lunges and bites. She’s started doing it everytime my fingers are near her or when I try to get her off me and she doesn’t want to go. Also she won’t go back into her cage once she’s out, before I was able to guide her in with my hand or cover he wings gently but now she makes a noise and tries to bite me me and once she gets a hold of me she doesn’t let go. I don’t know what to do because I don’t want to leave her in the cage all the time but when I let her it’s difficult to get her off me she runs from one shoulder to the other and bites my neck and face when she gets annoyed. But then a lot of the time she’s the sweetest bird and she’ll sit on me and let me kiss her. This is my first budgie so I know I’m probably doing something wrong but I’m not sure what, thanks for any replies

[TheTenthDoctor]

My bird does this sometime. Just keep being gentle, offer her treats, and don't stress her out, or put her in a situation that could frighten her

[Hezz]

She is a hen and she is asserting her will! Hens are a feisty lot and hate to back down for anything. Have you tried rewarding her with treats when she moves off? Have you tried enticing her to come for treats? It also sounds as though she would benefit from target training. Use a pointer such as a chopstick, always have your treats already on hand for instant reward.

I don't have time now to go into a lot of detail on how to work with her right now, but one thing she needs to learn immediately is that sitting on the shoulder is a privilege, not a right. If she won't step onto your finger when you need her to step off, then shake her off. And practice this - when she is sitting on your shoulder being nice get her to step up, tell her how good she is, reward and pop her back on. Do this more often than you need to move her off and she will soon learn that playing nice brings more rewards than not.