budgie prefers anywhere but me.

[ashbenya]

hello, my budgie is tame and steps up my finger constntly, however if i want to take him to his t stnd, he flies over there while I'm midway walking. and literally each time i take him on my hand he will instantly fly within a few seconds to his cage, stand, or pretty much everywhere but me. he does not want to spend any time with me. i have even tried targwt training but again, it is impossible to get him to stay.

[Hezz]

Lots of missing information. How old is the budgie and how long have you had it?

Budgies don't just convert to human training overnight, but take their time to learn to trust. From the little you have provided, a lot more patience is needed, initially.

[Morgan]

I think there’s a stickied post in the taming forum about how to keep a budgie on your hand. Maybe I read it elsewhere though. Basically you can use reverse psychology - get the budgie on your hand with a treat or whatever, and then immediately (but still gently, patiently) set him back down on a perch saying off, or whatever his step down command is. He will be slightly confused and likely want to hop back on for his treat. Let him on again with the step up command, give him his treat, and then immediately set him down again. Use short training sessions as always with training, and after a while let him stay on for longer and longer periods of time. Eventually it will be his decision to want to stay on you. But as Hezz has said above, every bird is an individual and takes time and patience.

[Hezz]

This is very true - you need to get in the put down before he has the chance to do it for himself. It is not easy, but as you learn his attention span for nibbling on a piece of millet, you put him down before he reaches that time limit. Gradually you will be able to extend the time but firstly you need to be proactive rather than reactive. We still don't know how old the budgie is or how long it has been in with this person.