Need help with budgie bonding

[zcrabz]

Hi, Everyone

This is my first post, I've got two budgies. They're 6 months old and been with me for last 2 weeks. Daily I spend 5- 7 hours with them. I talk to them, hand feed them. When I put my finger near them in the cage they get scared, they jump, fly, all the hell break loose. They come out of the cage on their own, but they don't enter in the cage. And every time they are out, they fly and sit the entire time on a ceiling fan (which is off). I'm trying to hand tame them. Another thing concerns me, I tried every possible option but they don't eat anything other than foxtail millet and coriander. I tried apple, banana, spinach, etc. They just get scared and don't want to eat.

I need to your help, 
Should I first train them to step up in the cage before letting them out?

Or If anyone can suggest me way to hand tame multiple budgies, I would really appreciate.

Thnx everyone,

[Hezz]

Getting them stepping up before they have free flight is handy but not imperative, as long as you are prepared to take the time getting them back into the cage once you have let them out. If they won't consider your finger as a perch, try using a small perch. Let them out in a small room firstly makes getting them back home easier as well. Keep food inside the cage to entice them back in if you have no luck getting them to go back into the cage. That way they will usually go back on their own when they get hungry.

You are being a bit impatient with these two, I feel. They are past being babies, and have just been uprooted into a new home, and surroundings; everything is new to them. Don't stop working with them, but do make allowances for the fact that they are still unsettled. As for getting them eating different foods, you have found two things they like, so mix another herb (basil, dill, thyme etc) or seeding grass to the coriander and they will eventually eat some of the other as well. Limit the millet for bribing them into coming to you.

Having two making training a bit harder, and their firm bond will be with each other. Work with them both together and with each one separately, preferably somewhere where they cannot hear each other - a bit hard with the noise a budgie can make, but the more you can shut out the other's noise, the more respondent the one you have will be.

Budgie taming is a slow and on-going affair. They are a prey animal and their natural instinct is to not trust you, a predator. Don't stare at them, talk quietly, move calmly; eventually they will come to accept you in their territory at least, but your relationship with them will be ever-changing, not static.