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taming budgie help!!

Postby shadowbird15 » Mon May 12, 2014 7:05 am

Hello everybody how to tame eris my :budgie: because when i approach her she just panic in her cage... can you give me an instruction on how to tame and fly into my finger.... plss help
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Re: taming budgie help!!

Postby Wolf » Mon May 12, 2014 8:26 am

Hi;
You will need to start by paying attention to the distance from the cage you are when Eris shifts position and starts to move away from you. As soon as that happens stop!! Do not move any closer to the cage. At this point start talking to Eris in a calm, soothing tone of voice. It doesn't matter at this point what you say, just that you don't move any closer and that you talk to Eris. I usually talk to mine about how much I care about them and what my hopes and dreams with them are, a lot of times I just talk about my day and generally what went on. The purpose of this is to calm her down, get her accustomed to your presence and to start to gain her trust. At each session, do exactly the same things starting with stopping your approach when she starts to get nervous. Make your sessions last for ten to fifteen minutes only. Several short sessions per day will do more than one or two longer sessions.
Now, it would be helpful for you to tell us all about Eris. Her age, how long have you had her, size of her cage, what do you give her to eat, of what you give her to eat what does she presently eat, are there other people interacting with her, are there other animals in the house, where in the house is her cage located, what types of light does she get, what time does she get up and go to bed, does she get any time out of the cage at present, are her wings clipped or not, has she been to the vet since you got her for a check up? I almost forgot what about bathing for the bird?
I realize that this is quite an extensive list of things and that you probably don't see the need or logic for this. It would appear to me that you are pretty new to living with a bird, and if that is true then you will need answers to many questions that we will need this information to answer you. Everything on this list affects your bird directly and you indirectly. These thing affect your relationship with you bird and very often hold the key to why your bird does one thing or another, and some of them help us to advise you of hazards in your home for your bird.
Pet shops and breeders seldom tell you anything in regards to these things and you are just left to figure it out for yourself and that could lead to your bird being harmed or even killed through something that could easily been prevented and I do not want that to occur.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Re: taming budgie help!!

Postby shadowbird15 » Mon May 12, 2014 7:50 pm

Thanks for the comment, now she is 5 months old, her cage was double cage, she eat bird seeds and we have dogs and my brothers is trying to interact with her too, her cage located in the garden and she is to scared too go out in her cage and some wild birds is interacting her too...
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Re: taming budgie help!!

Postby Wolf » Mon May 12, 2014 9:48 pm

I actually love the fact that she is in the garden, but I don't think that it is a good place for a budgie especially just one. It is no wonder that she is terrified. Although you mean well and want the best for her, she is much too nervous and timid of a bird for this. A single or even a pair of budgies will do fine as a house bird but not for outside, you will literally scare her to death, Please move her to an inside location right away.
We have received many requests for harness training budgies so that the owners can take them outside without a cage, but are unable to help them with this due to the birds nature. We can help with taming and even flight training but only for indoor flight. It has been tried on many occasions but the end results are not good.
This species of parrot is very intelligent and once you succeed in winning their trust, they are fast learners and are capable of learning many tricks, some of them learn to talk and in fact, the record holder for number of words spoken by a bird is currently held by a budgie.
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