Will i ever be able to tame my budgies?

[tammy]

Hello guys. I am new here and wanted to ask if I will ever be able to tame my two budgies? Thank you all for your time when reading this

I got my first budgie about 3 months ago, Denny. he was around 6/7 months. I had him for about a month and a half and got him to be comfortable around my hand, eat from my hand and he let me pet him. He still wouldn't want to come to me but he didn't have a problem sitting on my hand when I had food. It was all going well but unfortunately I was very busy and couldn't give him all the attention he needed so I decided to get him a friend. This new budgie was much younger, around 3 months or so. They have been together for a month now and my first budgie, Denny started to get a bit more skittish here and there when I placed my hand in the cage but will still, without hesitation hop onto my hand to eat. The baby budgie on the other hand is still very scared, he will usually follow Denny around and when Denny sits on my hand to eat as well, so will he. He will also only accept food from my hand when Denny tried to eat it.

I don't regret getting Denny a friend but I am just wondering if I will ever be able to tame them. I've read many posts online where people say when you get two budgies its impossible to tame. All I want to achieve is for them to fly to me and comfortably let me hold them.

[tweetiepiesmom]

Yes, you will be able to get them to fly to your hand. It takes time and consistency. Make training them part of a routine. When you let them out to fly, hold a bit of millet in your hand and call Denny. Stand close to him but far enough away that he has to fly not hop to you. The other budgie (what's his name?) should follow Denny for millet. It may take a couple tries before Denny comes. Do this at about the same time every day. Once they've learned to fly to you, you can move away a bit and still call them with millet. Make sure they see the millet. Then add an additional time when you do this. Then start calling him sometimes with millet and sometimes without. Also start calling the second budgie. That is how I trained Buddy and Tweetie Pie. When he feels like it (lol), Buddy comes to my hand. He likes crawling up my arm and across my shoulder. When he's feeling frisky, he'll beak my thumbnail and kiss it. By the way, I call Buddy by saying "Buddy, come" and when I want to give him millet, I hold out my forefinger with millet pinched between my thumb and second finger. He flies onto my forefinger to eat the millet.

Tweetie Pie is very timid and skittish but he watches when Buddy comes to me. So far he's flown to my hand a few times and stayed only a couple seconds. In time I'm hoping he'll perch on me longer. He does come to me every time I'm holding millet.

All of this has taken months to accomplish. It may be faster with your two. Just keep at it. Good luck!

[Hezz]

First of all budgies don’t like to be held and petted. Neither of these will help your bonding progress, but will cause set-backs. Budgies, any bird really, prefer to be the ones who instigate a touch, whether that be with their feet or beak. If you are lucky they may allow you to ruffle their cheek feathers or scratch some pin feathers once they have begun to trust you.

You haven’t said how long you have had the second bird for, but it stands to reason that the two birds are going to be more interested in each other when they first get to meet - their own kind is of much more interest to them than a predator human - so it is up to you to make yourself one of heir flock. As mentioned above, call them for millet treats, interact with them as often as possible, several times a day if manageable, for short 10-15 minute stints at a time. Long periods are tiring and over-whelming and no one wins, so keep the training sessions short. For the time being, every time you go to join them, train them or any other interaction go bearing millet. A small bobble is enough to pique their interest without having them fill up entirely on one source of food.

“Will I ever be able to tame my budgies?” Yes, as long as you put the time into it and don’t lose patience.