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Post by barrieshutt on Oct 7, 2011 7:46:55 GMT
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Post by budgiekeeper2011 on Oct 7, 2011 21:23:37 GMT
nice website barry just noticed that some piccys arnt working tho
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Jul 21, 2012 17:20:14 GMT
sweetie
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My Sweetie
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Post by sweetie on Jul 26, 2012 20:53:05 GMT
hi barrie, your site is very helpful thank you, just wondered though, you seem to impress the importance of getting a very young chick, my girl is somewhere between 3 and four months and i have had her nearly a couple of weeks, do you think it will be very difficult to tame her as she was an avairy chick also. i have already managed to get her on my hand good number of times, albeit not for long.
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Post by Hezz on Jul 27, 2012 0:32:16 GMT
Sweetie, work with what you have got. She is doing wonderfully, and in the short time I don't think anyone could do better. We all generalise, have to at times to make a point, but you are the only one who is with your bird, we aren't. We can go by what you tell us, and from that I say don't look for problems that you don't have.
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Jul 3, 2013 12:06:10 GMT
mrme3257
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Post by mrme3257 on Jul 4, 2013 10:42:28 GMT
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May 26, 2013 9:03:52 GMT
sidneyworm
Brand New Budgie
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Post by sidneyworm on Aug 24, 2013 15:38:07 GMT
Just looking for some guidance please. I have 2 male budgies, they were 10 weeks old when I got them last November. They are very happy together and very noisy! however, when we first got them one of them would let you stroke his chest but the other one would not. 10 months down the line neither of them will let you come anywhere near them. They go mad when I change their millet, clean their cage even though its a regularly occurrence. They fly around the cage but when we open their door we can leave it open for 8 hours a day they stop making a noise, retreat to a back perch and never come out. How can we get them to be more tame and let us stroke them or even come on our fingers and more importantly how can we get them to come out as I'm sure they would love the exercise! All suggestions greatly received ....
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Apr 11, 2014 20:06:16 GMT
jayjaymozza
Brand New Budgie
In progress of taming Persie!
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Post by jayjaymozza on Apr 13, 2014 19:42:21 GMT
Very very nice and helpful website Bary, Ive just sat for roughly a hour reading through some of the useful pages on youe site.
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Mar 28, 2024 17:25:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2015 15:59:07 GMT
Very very nice and helpful website Bary, Ive just sat for roughly a hour reading through some of the useful pages on youe site. sidneyworm sorry to hear your training efforts are going backwards rather than advancing. Usually 2 males are very happy together and make the perfect pets. A few things you state make me think that something in the house, outside the window etc is upsetting the birds (one bird skits out, it causes the other to follow suit) Strange your birds do not want to leave the cage they obviously dont feel safe outside it, screeching is a budgies normal way of letting the rest of the flock know of danger, so there is something inside the room, or a tree outside the window etc that the birds do not like. Try placing one of the birds the in another room and start their training process all over again, (train them separately) there is a lot of training advice in the forums. If the birds act the same way after separating and retraining then you must be doing something wrong and this has to be addressed. The bird will not come to you, land on you or let him touch you until he trusts you, bonding comes natural after this, don't go too fast with training every bird is different and will learn at their own pace, so please be patient and take things quietly and slowly. I hope this helps Shewy
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Dec 6, 2015 16:09:03 GMT
@shewbert sidneyworms post is over 2 years old. But thank you for your advice and welcome to the forum.
Marianne
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Post by jujubiiird on Jun 1, 2016 3:27:35 GMT
Unfortunately the site is no longer available..
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Post by Hezz on Jun 1, 2016 8:26:22 GMT
No it is not ................
Is there something in particular you were looking for?
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Post by jujubiiird on Jun 1, 2016 12:55:32 GMT
Well recently Juju has been coming out before I invite him. He truly is an impacient little fellow. He doesnt always do it, but I wanted to nip the habit in the bud, so to speak.
Another example of his impatience is that; he leaps before he looks! Sometimes missing my hand as I am still reaching in, or trying to jump to my arm when I am not offering and he misses. Other times I will try to reward him but he jumps towards the reward as I am reaching for it...
He has made many a lap around the room because of this. I want to teach him a bit more patience if I can.
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Post by Hezz on Jun 2, 2016 1:35:56 GMT
My birds have to wait their turn before coming out of the cage for the first time each morning. They have to wait while the first hops onto my finger, gets kisses and nose-snuggles from .... aherm .... me then they get put onto my shoulder and then they are free to go as they please. I think I might be a bit of a dictator, but I really do think that this has saved them on occasions ... there have been a couple of times in the past when someone has not latched a door properly. Said door has never been wide open, but a determined bird could jump onto it and it would have swung open. So .... what I do is put my body, head, hands in front of the door when I open it, use the ah, ah sound if they seem like they might be about to jump off the perch, offer a finger to be stepped on, while holding the other hand palm up in the doorway, and don't be afraid to move your hand into his way if he tries to duck past; you won't hurt him, mostly he will hover and then turn back to land, or sometimes he might fly into your hand slightly but if he does get past what I would do (and still do on the odd occasion when it happens) is follow the escapee around and make them go through the ritual anyway. I want my smooch and I am going to get it! They do learn. Sparky basically hops from foot to foot waiting if he feels I am taking too long, and as the oldest he gets priority to come out of the cage, as concession. I should add that as JuJu ages, he will settle down some, but this is the time when you probably need him to learn the rules and obey them.
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Post by jujubiiird on Jun 2, 2016 1:45:27 GMT
Thank you so much, I will start practicing that with him !
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Post by danituveyrobson on Jul 23, 2020 22:27:36 GMT
So my budgies sit on my finger when I have a treat they don't when I haven't , one escaped and went mad bumping into walls etc he isn't hurt ..I don't know what to do next I didn't think he would go that mad out of the cage and I don't know how to further get them to trust me 😔
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