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Post by scatternobrains on Apr 16, 2013 10:55:50 GMT
Hi,
We are looking to get a budgie as a family pet. I have always had parrots growing up but feel my children are too young at the moment 7 & 10 for a larger bird. We always had hand reared parrots and there were silly tame. I have just gone to look at a budgie, she is the colour we want and is about 11 weeks old. The man caught her and she squeaked like crazy (to be fair so would I) she did calm down but couldn't get away quick enough.
My question is will it be fairly easy to get her tame to the point she will eventually jump on hands and climb over us all, or should I wait and pay the extra for a hand reared one who already is comfortable with people?
Any advice would be great.
Thanks Kerry
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Post by Moogie on Apr 16, 2013 11:49:16 GMT
Im no expert but i get the feeling with hand reared they wont be getting the goodness from their parents which i think they need so they are nice and healthy when older....
I have a petshop budgie who took a while to gain trust but with alot of time and patience we got there in the end so it would depend on how much you wanted or could put into your new pet...I also have just got a baby budgie -Meeko who was fed by his mum and dad but was also handled as soon as his eyes opened so had no worrys jumping on my hand...
Maybe you could look for a good breeder and ask if they do or would handle the baby budgie so he was used to human contact from the start...you would then have the best of both worlds,a friendly little budgie but with the best start in life from his mum and dad feeding and brining him up...
Hope ive made abit of sense and i know other members with a WHOLE lot more experience will be able to give you more feedback...
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Post by stace on Apr 16, 2013 12:24:57 GMT
Im no expert but i get the feeling with hand reared they wont be getting the goodness from their parents which i think they need so they are nice and healthy when older.... I have a petshop budgie who took a while to gain trust but with alot of time and patience we got there in the end so it would depend on how much you wanted or could put into your new pet...I also have just got a baby budgie -Meeko who was fed by his mum and dad but was also handled as soon as his eyes opened so had no worrys jumping on my hand... Maybe you could look for a good breeder and ask if they do or would handle the baby budgie so he was used to human contact from the start...you would then have the best of both worlds,a friendly little budgie but with the best start in life from his mum and dad feeding and brining him up... Hope ive made abit of sense and i know other members with a WHOLE lot more experience will be able to give you more feedback... Good answer, Moogie. Scatternobrains. Do you mean hand reared where the chicks are taken from their parents are raised with hand-fed formula or hand tamed where the chicks are handled at a very young age? |
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Apr 17, 2013 10:11:58 GMT
One can get budgies which are fed by parents but are tame still.
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Post by sarah*glittergirl2212 on Apr 17, 2013 15:35:35 GMT
One can get budgies which are fed by parents but are tame still. This is the perfect combination... no one can feed a baby bird as well as his mum, if they HAVE to be hand reared for survival that is different. Tameness is never as important as good health in my opinion. |
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Post by nat on Apr 18, 2013 14:25:14 GMT
I would certainly go with parent reared birds of around 8 weeks old who have been well handled by the breeder. Some breeders sell their chicks at 6 weeks old, but I've always felt thats a bit young so used to keep my chicks until 8-10 weeks but hand train them in that time while they are getting good at feeding themselves :-)
It does need a bit more time spent from the new owner to get them to the cuddly tame stage, but the owners that kept the training up ended up with really tame birds, one of which learned to talk really well :-)
I would guess that parent reared budgies might build a stronger immune system earlier on from being in less clinical surroundings and picking up small amounts of bad bacteria as well as good, but it seems to work for the hand reared parrots so I really don't know for sure :-)
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