Pajarita wrote:I have a feeling your bird is clipped and that's a shame because, if she wasn't, it would be easier for her to trust you in many ways. For example, they love flying around and then end it up by perching on your head. It's high up for them to feel safe, far enough from your hands to feel that you won't be trying to grab it but still near enough another living being to make her feel good.
Do the sessions after her breakfast (wait until she finishes eating and preening and do it then), early in the afternoon after she gets up from her noon rest (don't do it during her noon nap time, you would be disrupting her natural biorhythms), then again before her dinner. These are the times that birds in the wild interact with each other and are the best ones for our own interaction with them.
It's always easy when you keep them to a strict solar schedule and don't feed them high protein all day long because then you can use the times birds normally interact with other birds in the wild to tame/train, etc. and tempt them with a high value item reward. People think that the husbandry (diet, schedule, etc) we recommend is not really necessary and that's it's too hard but, in reality, it's not only that it's so much healthier for them but also that it helps the human immensely when it comes to taming and training!
When your friends tell you that they could tame a bird better or sooner than you, tell them that this shows they don't know anything about parrots!
Nope, her wings/flight feathers are not clipped - she is fully flighted. Otherwise I wouldn't have put "Yes" for "flight" in my forum info. She hardly seems to want to come out of the cage, I keep the cage door open all day when I am home and she never really comes out to explore. Though today I could see she was chirping to my music so I got some millet and held it out and she jumped on my finger then i brought her to the computer for a bit and she ate millet and hung out with me for a bit, then she flew back to her cage.
Lotta people are jerks but I do have some friends that are extremely knowledgeable. One of them explained it to me like this: until they trust you as a flock member you gotta take things really slow. Even if it's been 3+ months and you feel she should be playing with you, you gotta take it as slow as the day you first got her - lot of people say budgies are too small and scared to be cuddly, but that's because they only gave it a few months then gave up - but if you keep at it daily and treat them good and never try to force them to do anything they don't want to do, they will open up to you sooner or later and it will be extremely rewarding and worth the wait because you will see their true personality and it will be amazing to look back at before when they were scared in comparison.
