First time having Budgies

[mina]

Hello!

So a few weeks back (June 10) my mother brought 4 budgies as a gift for my little brother who is barely 10! It's not exactly our first-time with budgies, but the last time we got budgies it ended up really bad since me and my siblings were all pretty young and had no experience with birds. I don't want them to live the same thing the previous did, but I still don't have any knowledge about budgies... I'm trying to tame them and read/watched a lot of documents to help me, but when they start trusting my hand, they're suddenly scared of it the next day and now they all went back to the way they were the first time we got them....

Are there any tips I could apply for them to be properly happy? As a bird lover I don't want them to be distressed and, in the worst case, to be depressed and die, and I'm even thinking of giving them back

And I'm sorry for my poor English, I couldn't find any help in my native language and thought I would get some insights here since everyone seems to be nice!

[tweetiepiesmom]

Congratulations on your new budges. Your English is very good. When you move your hand around them, move slowly. When you put your finger next to them to step up, if they don't get on your finger, don't chase them around the cage trying to get them to stand on you. If you have a treat to give them, they will be more likely to stand on you. It takes patience and persistence. Give them taming sessions of about 5-10 minutes and several times each day.

[Hezz]

As the previous poster has said, move quietly and slowly around them until they learn to trust you. Having two is going to make this a little harder as they trust each other more than they trust you so if one startles the other will as well.

Training budgies is all about two steps forwards, one step back, but remember that if you were training a puppy, for example, you wouldn’t expect it to get absolutely perfect everything you taught it yesterday. The same applies to birds, only more so as they haven’t had a few thousand years of being domesticated like a dog.

My best advice, if you have no problem reading English, is to systematically read through the pinned threads at the beginning of all the relevant sections, and then make a list of any questions you may still have. A broad-ranging “any tips?” can leave you with too much to try to decipher, or possibly too little information with people not having the time to run through everything. Most of the useful info is already contained in these pinned threads. having said all that, don’t be afraid to come back on and ask for clarification on any points that may not seem clear.