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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 26, 2024 8:10:25 GMT
Wow Babybird, you are like a 5 year old child ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by Azalea on Jul 26, 2024 23:33:39 GMT
We've had Violet (female Budgie) for almost eight months now, and she still does not want to eat food from our hands, unless we hold a millet branch. She also flies away from us a lot.
However, when she is in the cage, sometime I can stand near it and tell her what a pretty girl she is, and she might cock her head to the side, gaze at me, and yawn.
I guess this is bound to happen when you own eleven birds, though - somebody is going to be the distant one. I still want to try getting her to eat from my hand. But, if nothing else, I know she is a peaceful flock mate to the other birds.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 8:08:27 GMT
I think my budgies are becoming less scared of me.. Last night when I put my hand in a cage to try and get some of them to come out. George biffed at me, then Daisy and Iris made biting gestures at me ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Ayla just jumped on my hand, because although she can be feisty to the other budgies, she is all cute and fluffy with me!
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Post by Loz on Jul 27, 2024 9:34:17 GMT
I think my budgies are becoming less scared of me.. Last night when I put my hand in a cage to try and get some of them to come out. George biffed at me, then Daisy and Iris made biting gestures at me ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Ayla just jumped on my hand, because although she can be feisty to the other budgies, she is all cute and fluffy with me! I loved reading this. It's the same as with food. If one brave budgie decides that the human - the hand, the shoulder, the top of the head or whatever - is safe, it can encourage the others. It happens all the time here (except for Prothall - he doesn't trust that human, no matter what the others say). Mhoram was very wary of me at first but now he's married to Smudge and Smudge likes sitting on me ... and so Mhoram likes sitting on me. In fact, he hopped onto my shoulder today and Smudge was nowhere to be seen! That's a first.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 9:47:50 GMT
I hope Prothall comes round and eventually lands on you too.
It must be amazing to have so many budgies land on you. It's been a while for me, more than 10 years ago I had about 3 of them on my arm.
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Post by Loz on Jul 27, 2024 10:35:58 GMT
Prothall probably remembers all the times I've chased him to go to bed in the evening and doesn't trust me. He's been so naughty.
He's been better recently and now often hops in the cage when I say "Go To Bed!". I'm ashamed to say it but the dreaded Squirter had a role in that process.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 11:27:55 GMT
![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) the dreaded squirter!! I have to usher my budgies to bed one by one. George Biffs Daisy as he knows that she will be the first budgie I'll try and get out of his cage. I keep telling him to leave it to me and that it's not his responsibility to make Daisy go to her cage.
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Post by Loz on Jul 27, 2024 11:58:38 GMT
I never fail to be amazed at the sense of right & wrong budgies seem to possess - from George urging Daisy to do the right thing, to Eeyore charging in an breaking up squabbles between other budgies.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 12:04:39 GMT
I don't see it as right and wrong. More that it's what they are used to. Also George doesn't like it when there are too many budgies in his cage causing mayhem. I think he's glad when Daisy leaves in the evening ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Loz on Jul 27, 2024 12:06:51 GMT
I don't see it as right and wrong. More that it's what they are used to. Also George doesn't like it when there are too many budgies in his cage causing mayhem. I think he's glad when Daisy leaves in the evening ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I agree. It isn't really "right & wrong", more a case of "what should or shouldn't be" ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 12:11:00 GMT
Yes definitely.
Daisy leaves at this time normally. "Daisy why are you still here?" biff biff squiggle squiggle.
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Post by Loz on Jul 27, 2024 12:17:06 GMT
Yes definitely. Daisy leaves at this time normally. "Daisy why are you still here?" biff biff squiggle squiggle. 🤣🤣🤣🥰
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 13:17:18 GMT
I just had a big shock.
I was walking past a cage where all the budgies have congregated and noticed a budgie at the bottom on his back flapping. I thought someone was dying. I flipped him back over the right way.
It was Peter, he just couldn't get back up the right way. He hopped on my hand and up to a perch and started preening.
I hope he's okay now. He can't fly and for some reason cannot right himself, it's not the first time this has happened.
All of the other budgies were quiet, I would have expected his friends George and Rocky to at least shout or something.
In the 11 years George has been with us he has seen a lot of his friends die, maybe there is an inevitability to it for him.
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Post by Loz on Jul 27, 2024 14:00:16 GMT
Poor Peter, it must be disorientating for him not to be able to right himself. And seeing a budgie on the floor in obvious distress makes my blood run cold. There's little comfort to be had other than Peter's years have been long and happy, thanks to you, Marianne. I hope he has plenty more good time ahead of him.
It's my experience that the Flock goes quite if one of their number passes away in their presence or gets themselves into real bother. Squeak's misadventures, for instance, have always only come to light when I've noticed, there's never any clue from the others that something is amiss.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 15:50:21 GMT
Well Peter seems fine now anyway. He's about 6 and a half and has been here for about 3 and a half years. But as he is an exhibition bird, they do not usually live as long ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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