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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Mar 11, 2020 0:45:49 GMT
When I got Buddy the woman who raised him said she let him out a lot to fly around. Once he got over his respiratory infection, I started taking his cage into the guest room to let him out to play. I open up his cage door and place a perch on the outside so he can sit there and check things out and use it as a launching point. I have a couple of play gyms for him to play on. He'll look out from his cage, eat, preen a little and then go to sleep! He never sleeps in the afternoon when I have him in the living room. I've played music, budgie sounds, he'll still nap. I'm sitting in there with him working on my computer. How will I get him and Tweetie Pie together if he won't come out?
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Post by criswell on Mar 11, 2020 23:18:42 GMT
When the time comes they will be very excited to meet so one or other will come out to investigate.
Randolph Carter barely moved the whole time he was in quarantine. He wouldn't come out of the cage. He only moved from one perch to the food and water pots and back again. But the minute he came downstairs to see Dexter he was jumping about all over the cage. Later that day he was happy to be moved from his quarantine cage to a bigger cage next door to Dexter's cage. He probably would have come out to see Dexter but we didn't let him out for a few days but Dexter was allowed out and he spent much of his time talking to RC from the outside of RC's cage, and then in RCs cage with him, and then Dexter actually encouraged RC to come out to join him in the big cage. Once RC had moved in to the big cage he definitely wasn't leaving. He still prefers to stay in the cage even though the doors are open all day long.
Maybe Buddy feels unsure about coming out of the cage for some reason. Or maybe he's just happy in the cage. Who knows what he's thinking! I'm sure he will come out eventually. And when there are two of them together they will be much braver. I don't think it will be a problem getting them to meet.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Mar 11, 2020 23:32:53 GMT
Thanks criswell. I'll start introducing them at the end of the month initially by putting their cages next to each other. For now, they call back and forth across the length of my house. |
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Post by criswell on Mar 13, 2020 15:05:54 GMT
It will be lovely when they meet up and finally see who they've been calling to.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Mar 13, 2020 16:03:36 GMT
I'm getting excited. In the meantime Hezz suggested that I entice Buddy out with a little millet while he's on my finger so I'm going to try that. I so much want him to come out and play! |
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Post by criswell on Mar 13, 2020 23:28:30 GMT
Budgies do become braver when millet is involved! And he will have fun when he does come out to play.
It reminds me of when our dog had puppies. We kept one of the pups and when we first took him out for a walk he just stood their and shock even though his mum was with him. We had to carry him to the park but after half an hour running around chasing toys with his mum he trotted back home totally full of himself. He just needed to find out how much fun the outside world was.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Mar 18, 2020 21:54:05 GMT
Well, I did not have much luck today. I took his cage to the guest room. I got Buddy on my hand with some millet and slowly brought him out of the cage. As soon as he saw he was out, he jumped to the side of the cage and climbed back in. I think if I had a perch attached to the front of the cage, he might have stood on that for a bit. I tried again but he wouldn't stay on my finger long enough. I left him alone for awhile and then tried again holding some millet up to him. When he started biting me I knew he'd had enough for the day. I left my finger there long enough so he didn't get the idea that if he bit I'd move away. I ave him some millet and ten brought his cage back out to the den. He's sitting there chirping happily away.
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Post by criswell on Mar 18, 2020 22:58:20 GMT
Aww, he's so sweet. And very happy too. I wouldn't worry too much about him not coming out and jus spending time with him and making friends. There's plenty of time for him to start coming out. Before too long you'll have 2 happy budgies flying about.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Mar 18, 2020 23:32:06 GMT
When I put the two cages side by side criswell, will he be brave enough to come out and investigate Tweetie Pie's cage? Tweetie Pie's cage is really big and where I want them both to live. I would really like them to get to the point where they are out of the cage whenever I'm home. |
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Post by criswell on Mar 19, 2020 8:59:16 GMT
I don't have the most experience of this but I think they will be very excited to see each other and want to meet up. That's been the case with the 3 introductions I've done. And each time the new budgie has very much wanted to move to the bigger cage with more stuff! Once Randolph Carter found his way into the big cage he didn't leave it for a week! Dexter was the same. I think the prize of a big cage was as attractive as the new budgie friend.
I know it's been easier in my case because each time I've had a budgie that was happy to come out of the cage and they went straight over to the new birds cage. Let them take as much time as they need to get to know each other in side by side cages and see how it goes. You might be surprised how quickly some one wants to come out or it might take a little longer. I'm sure they will want to interact through their cage bars very quickly though. I think the most important thing is to let them take it at their own pace. We've waited at least a week before they were actually able to meet face to face but during that time one or other budgie was allowed out to sit on the outside of the other budgie's cage if they wanted too. We had to be quite careful with Criswell and Dexter because Criswell was very very excited and a bit too boisterous with Dexter who was very much smaller than him.
It might take weeks or months before they permanently move in with each other. It was about 3 months before we felt it was safe for them to be together full time. But Randolph Carter moved in and stayed with Dexter on the day they first met for real. Dean Stockwell spent the days in the big cage and was sent home to bed in his own cage because he was such a nuisance and wouldn't settle down to sleep with them. It was a couple of months before he moved in full time.
I know I've said this before but it really was incredible the instant change in Randolph Carter when he saw Dexter for the first time. All his cautiousness disappeared in an instant. He got more exercise in the first 10 minutes with Dexter next door than he had in a whole month of quarantine.
When do you plan to move the cages?
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Post by blue48 on Mar 19, 2020 10:13:35 GMT
How exciting. I would love to see how BertieB would react to another budgie but his cage is not big enough for two, and I think he is used to being an only bird now.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Mar 19, 2020 15:26:59 GMT
The big introduction date criswell will be March 29 when the quarantine will be over. Maybe I have such high expectations on how this will happen that I'm setting myself up for disappointment so I'll take it as it happens. |
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Post by criswell on Mar 19, 2020 19:10:13 GMT
I've been both nervous and excited with the 3 introductions I've done. I knew it was going to be tricky with Criswell because he was so strongly bonded with us, and he was ridiculously excited to have a new friend. And with Dean Stockwell we were introducing 1 bird to 2 which is a bit more complicated.
All budgies are different and Buddy and Tweetie Pie might get on perfectly straight away. Introducing them is much more like when Randolph Carter and Dexter met and they were living in the same cage within 2 weeks. You can never be sure as all budgies are different but fingers crossed that they will be best pals before you know it.
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Post by Hezz on Mar 20, 2020 0:45:37 GMT
I'm sure it will all go swimmingly. The boys are calling back and forth to each other. Most budgies are social creatures and love nothing more than to have a mate to chat to and sit beside. The best thing you can do is not interfere, unless of course things turn nasty and that doesn't usually happen first off anyway.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Mar 20, 2020 2:46:09 GMT
I was holding a piece of millet and getting Buddy on my finger today while slowly moving him to the cage door. He started biting my finger while eating the millet and then jumped off. I decided this was not good. He definitely does not want to come out and I was afraid that I'm just teaching him to bite. I'll still take his cage in the guest room and open the door. If he comes out, great. Otherwise maybe he'll get used to seeing the door open and brave it one day.
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