How to tame a new bird who Is behaving almost crazily.

[munekunn]

I recently bought a new budgie, I have two others that are tame and the new bird Is In It's own cage a few feet away from the two tamed birds, The bird Is around 11 weeks old I believe and as soon as we put this new bird In his cage his behavior has been very odd as he will either non stop run back at forth at the bottom of the cage or he will climb and try his absolute hardest to escape the cage [Which he can't, but It doesn't stop him from trying] I'm having a very hard time attempting to tame him because all he seems to want to do Is get out of his cage. The cage Is plenty big for a single budgie so it's not a case of him feeling cramped or anything. I've also taken him out of the room with the others birds and I noticed he still behaves exactly the same so I'm lost as to how to proceed, Is this a phase that will stop?

[Hezz]

You have him only a very small distance away from other budgies. Of course he wants to be with them!!! Also if the reason you have him a few feet from the others is for quarantining, then it is useless. You might as well allow him to be with the others. Quarantine needs to be carried out in a separate room, preferably in another part of the house. In the same room is useless unless it is opposite sides of a very big room with neither birds having any outside cage time.

Now that he knows there are other budgies - he has seen them, not only heard them - you are going to be hard put to get his attention.