Help with budgie taming

[mabell]

hi i have kept budgies for longer than i can care to remember but have just acquired an absolutely terrified little soul. he has obviously never been handled correctly or possibly even out of the cage. he is about 1 year old and i want him to have the freedom my other 4 birds have. he runs up and down the perch, runs away from anyone near and cannot tolerate a hand in the cage. we have had him 14 days and any help would be welcome m

[BudgiesBuddy]

Hi and welcome

I have moved your question to a new thread so you can get answers here.

[stace]

Hi there. This is probably going to take time, but the tame birds can help. Try removing a few perches from the cage, then feed the tame ones by hand inside the cage so the scared bird can learn the idea of trust from your other tame birds. Move really slowly and keep talking gently while doing it. Do this for a while before you start trying to hand feed the scared one.

[Bird Junky]

Jul 29, 2012 15:57:57 GMT mabell said:

hi i have kept budgies for longer than i can care to remember but have just acquired an absolutely terrified little soul. he has obviously never been handled correctly or possibly even out of the cage. he is about 1 year old and i want him to have the freedom my other 4 birds have. he runs up and down the perch, runs away from anyone near and cannot tolerate a hand in the cage. we have had him 14 days and any help would be welcome m

Hello Click on the post below. I'm sure you'll find
an answer to your little problem.....B.J.

budgerigarsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=budgietaming&thread=2867&page=1

[Hezz]

Mabell, I feel anyone here trying to help you would be a bit like teaching our grandmothers to suck eggs! But .................... If your other four are tame, this will definitely help once he has finished his quarantine time. Hopefully he will quickly make friends with one or other of your birds and this will surely help the taming process.

15 months ago I got a 5-6 month old aviary born and raised cock who had not had a lot of human association. He wasn't a scaredy-cat though, in fact pretty easy going. During quarantine he came along pretty well with stepping up and generally being around us (me) and once he was in the big cage with the other two, he and my other cock quickly became firm friends. This definitely made the rest of his training a lot easier as the other cock was really quiet and loved human contact. Anywhere Bluey went Sparky followed, and so he had to get close to us at times or be parted from Bluey. He must have decided we weren't that scary.

So if you have a lovely tame, and friendly bird that you could put with him, this may be the extra help you need to work on him getting used to you.

You would know that all these little critters are different and take different lengths of time to reach the same page, but I certainly don't see this as being short term - I think you are in for a long haul, but I wish you all the best of luck working with this little guy.

I will be very interested to know how you get on and what works and what doesn't.

[Nani]

Jul 30, 2012 0:41:01 GMT Hezz said:

Mabell, I feel anyone here trying to help you would be a bit like teaching our grandmothers to suck eggs!

Aussie slang for? Do you mean literally suck eggs? Or does that have a completely different meaning in Australia?

From: Curious Nani

[Hezz]

Sorry, Nani. It's an old English saying (I am pretty sure) about presuming to give unnecessary help or offer advice to someone who is an expert or knows more the the first person.

[Nani]

Aug 1, 2012 0:44:46 GMT Hezz said:

Sorry, Nani. It's an old English saying (I am pretty sure) about presuming to give unnecessary help or offer advice to someone who is an expert or knows more the the first person.

Oh I see. Thanks Hezz! No need to be sorry, it's interesting finding out the different sayings everyone has. ;D

[samwiseg]

Think you are right Hezz, I use that saying too! Just googled it and found:

Meaning: Don't offer advice to someone who has more experience than oneself.

Origin: These days this proverbial saying has little impact as few people have any direct experience of sucking eggs - grandmothers included. It is quite an old phrase and is included in John Stevens' translation of Quevedo's Comical Works, 1707:

"You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs."

The notion of advising the young not to offer advice to those who are older and more experienced wasn't new even then. Nicholas Udall, the author of 'Ralph Roister Doister' the first regular English comedy, and the headmaster of Eton, translated The Apophthegmata in 1542 from the works of Erasmus.

Am I a spiv or wot?! ;D

[Hezz]

Ohhhhh, Madam Spiv! ;D

[samwiseg]

Hezz - ;D ;D ;D

Apologies Mabell, feel we have hijacked your thread a bit! Please resume topic of budgie training