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Post by Ira on Dec 6, 2022 18:44:42 GMT
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Dec 8, 2022 21:04:08 GMT
ladybird, how is Buddy settling in? Hopefully he's gotten used to his new home and you are on your way to becoming best pals.
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Post by ladybird on Dec 9, 2022 9:04:32 GMT
I have only had Buddy five days and he is the absolute opposite to his brother. He is extremely nervous, not moving much round the cage and only has the odd outburst of noise. I have been trying hard to settle him in…sitting talking to him a lot and have offered him millet but he won’t come near my fingers yet. I really don’t know if he would come out and not sure even to let him until he is finger trained, and that seems some way off. I feel sorry for the little mite he seems so afraid……..What a total difference to his brother!! Anyone any ideas how to cheer him up? But it’s early days I know,. He is eating OK so that’s something positive.
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Post by Loz on Dec 9, 2022 9:59:51 GMT
I cannot imagine ladybird that you are not doing everything needed to settle and train the lad. As you say, still early days. Only two suggestions from me and it's likely you already doing them or something equivalent: 1. Is Buddy interested in millet? Does he know how good it is? Before attempting to bribe a bird for hand-taming, I always pin some millet inside the cage as an introduction. I feel like a drug-pusher doing that, as in "create your market" but it's tried and trusted even for nervous nellies. Once hooked, it's easier to tempt the new budgie onto your hand. 2. I always spend as much time as I can talking to the new bird and this is often in the form of reading a book to them. Apologies if this is no help!
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Post by Ira on Dec 9, 2022 10:27:07 GMT
It'll be slow going, but just existing in the same space as him to start with. Going about your thing. Chatting to him softly and spending time near him, perhaps. But letting him learn that it's safe for him to be, so he knows that his moving or singing doesn't immediately attract the attention of the big scary predator.
They really are so different when they arrive with us, aren't they? Aster was scared of hands and unsure about the quarantine room, so would come out and find somewhere to sit, and stay still there for ages with occasional chirps, then just put himself back into the cage when he was hungry.
Meanwhile I had Peri who was a bit more crazy, who was convinced that food was on the floor, and the floor was the bottom surface of wherever he was. So in the cage it was the cage floor, but if he was out he'd wander around the carpet...
Pippin mostly managed to come and go from the cage by himself, but would flee as far as possible as soon as we entered the room.
Indie sat quiet and unmoving until my housemate had a work phonecall and then would fly about screaming his lungs out.
Yuki would sit quietly but then bolt out of the cage at every opportunity.
Gwen just wanted to sit on my head constantly.
And Munchy would let me take him out, sit quietly on me because he didn't know what else to do, and then toddle as close to his cage as he could get on whatever surface he was on when he was hungry.
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Dec 9, 2022 10:44:12 GMT
Love how different Gwen was to everyone else Ira I can't really help with the issue here as I have always had groups of budgies and I don't tame mine. Patience is key I guess, Ira and loz have given some good advice. They are scared little things at first, but once they realise it's safe, you'll see the real Buddy.
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Post by ladybird on Dec 9, 2022 10:54:58 GMT
I should have said…..he will take millet from my fingers as long as I keep very still. I have to put it right up to him he won’t move forward for it……and if my finger twitches he is off to the other end of the cage. I know it’s all down to patience…I have plenty of that …….But it’s nice to be able to talk to my friends on here and seek any advice…..
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Post by Loz on Dec 9, 2022 11:00:13 GMT
Buddy sounds like my latest pair, Finarfin and Finrod. Neither of them would initially so much as lean forward to grab millet. I had to practically rub their beaks with it! Edit: A change of thread title? Just a suggestion
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Dec 9, 2022 11:20:12 GMT
It's a pretty good first step if he will take millet off of you at all ladybird
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Post by Ira on Dec 9, 2022 11:34:14 GMT
Love how different Gwen was to everyone else Ira I can't really help with the issue here as I have always had groups of budgies and I don't tame mine. Patience is key I guess, Ira and loz have given some good advice. They are scared little things at first, but once they realise it's safe, you'll see the real Buddy. She was clingy. I had to get a pair of glasses because she'd go from my hand to my head via my face.
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Post by ffiscool on Dec 9, 2022 11:52:18 GMT
I’m sure Buddy will be fine. Bailey, I had to hold spoons of water to him, and food. He wouldn’t move for a few weeks. He didn’t want to come out the cage for weeks.
But he did, then loved sitting on me, with me, on the remote etc. and talking
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Post by ladybird on Dec 9, 2022 12:42:09 GMT
I was making a bit of a noise wrapping presents and Buddy started chirping and flapping around the cage, rightly or wrongly I opened the cage door and he shot out like a bullet. He flew round and round squawking then landed in the window. I went over and offered my hand to him but he flew off again eventually landing on top of the TV….. so I slowly held my finger to him and he stepped on and I slowly walked him back to his cage……. don’t know who had the biggest shock, him or me!
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Dec 9, 2022 12:46:04 GMT
That is promising, you can't be too scary then if he saw you as the safe place in the room.
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Post by stevex on Dec 9, 2022 13:07:45 GMT
It's great that he took advantage of the taxi finger after only a few days. Now that he's been out and had a fly round, he can start to learn the room and hopefully fly back to the cage.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Dec 9, 2022 16:30:15 GMT
It sounds to me that he just needs time to adjust. I like to remind people that the budgies like the sunshine so placing the cage near a sunny window (I know, its winter) may help him.
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