Help making decision for a small parrot

[TropicSea]

long story short. I got a female parakeet around late 2004 and her age is around 9 months to 1 years old at the time. she was indoor caged. tried to tame her but not success. later decided to get a buddy for her.. a light bright faded yellow male parakeet. tamed him but the female still not tamed. Put strings and stuff in the house for them to come out and stand on and have freedom. The cage left open. They go in/go out on their own. They social with each other well.

note the female parakeet is the smartest, when the cage was closed, she can open up the cage door her self with her beak and fly out while the tamed male never did that. The female parakeet did this many time.

Later decided to have a small aviary outdoor. Moved both of them to the aviary along with 2 new parakeets. total of 4 parakeets. after 10 months or a year.... 3 of the parakeet disapeared from the aviary in mystery but assume it was bad aviatry structure.... it has small square hole and they probly got off on that but still not sure. The only one left behind is the female parakeet... the smartest parakeet did not escape with them.

Now shes the only one left.... took her to live indoor once again. Now shes all alone and still is. from around 2004 to right now 2011. I usually get her to get fresh air outdoor while shes in cage every hour a day now after I moved house....Her life changed... shes inside the house 24/7 since theres many wild yard cats around here. She dont seems hyper and fun as before but she does squeek with wild birds outside when she hears them but still most of her time she just sits there. When go off the cage she stay in one place and bite the the outside cage bar or bite something else.

I dont want to get more parakeets. I dont know what to do. I was thinking to free her but she dont know how to fly fully... she only glade and small flight I afraid yard cats. Plus if I free her, where she gonna find food? so I decided to kept her till... but she seems not having fun not having many buddies. she also wont stand on my finger. she is not clipped but she just dont know how to fly fully.

Should I give her away to people? but the I dont trust people.. especially 4-5 years old might touch her hard and she is not tamed.

My new idea I just thought of is to give her away to an amateur aviary keeper that sells parakeets. If she joins the aviary she can have many buddies and have fun but then what if the keeper sells her to people? thats ok right?

what you think? should I give her away to amateur aviary keeper? or keep her? but I feel bad I kept her long time all alone with no other parakeet buddies. So what you think should I do?

I feel very very bad keeping her like this since 2004-2005 to right now. thats like 7 years of loneliness.


I hope it's understandable cause english is not my first haha.

[Kathleen]

Do not just let the bird go free. It would not survive without a flock to belong to. If I were you, I'd keep it and tame it. But if you don't, I would suggest giving it to someone such as the person with the aviary.

[zazanomore]

Do not just let the bird go free. It would not survive without a flock to belong to. If I were you, I'd keep it and tame it. But if you don't, I would suggest giving it to someone such as the person with the aviary.

This. She would not survive outside. She is domesticated.

I think you should probably give her to the person with the aviary. I think budgies do better with buddies.

Sorry about the loss of your other 3 budgies.

[TropicSea]

Well the amateur aviary seems like a breeder to sell. It is their own home in their backyard that they breed to sell but they seems professional enough since they breed birds for a living.

So if I give it to the aviary, what if she gets sold? should I not feel bad? since it is out of my hand? should I only be proud that I take her to a good hand with lots of other budgies buddies? the road ahead is not my concern? the people that buys it surely wont hurt her? I think i think too much of bad bird owner. I am bad owner myself putting them in a home-made aviary that has a hole.

Ok so give it to the breeder aviary? but im not very sure since I've come this far having her for 7 years then sudden just send her away.

I cant tame her. she cannot be tamed, its already too late for taming. female is very hard to tame I heard and shes now adult which makes very hard to tame. I tried to tame her ever since I had her but its just imposible compare to young male budgies... and I used to say parakeet lol. anything can be parakeet if small/med parrot with long tail huh. Whenever I put my finger trying to make her step on my finger she always bite me. I gave up trying to tame her.

also did i mention most of time she just sits still and pren herself more than bitting stuff? this is mean shes stress right? shes bore? i think shes really lonely. i tried to breed her when she was in the small aviary but those 2 males, 1 female buddies disapeared from aviary first.


Is there anymore opinion?


and its been a long time im ok about the 3 budgies. thanks.



Also can an untamed budgie live alone in human home? can they live like that without interesting with her fellow same creature? can she live without mating? talking generally. can this cause stress to her? human tried to interest but she just not interest. she bites lightly when human finger in cage even when she live with human for 7 years.

[GlassOnion]

Don't let her free please!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're killing her if you do!

I would find someone who has an aviary.

[Kathleen]

Well the amateur aviary seems like a breeder to sell. It is their own home in their backyard that they breed to sell but they seems professional enough since they breed birds for a living.

So if I give it to the aviary, what if she gets sold? should I not feel bad? since it is out of my hand? should I only be proud that I take her to a good hand with lots of other budgies buddies? the road ahead is not my concern? the people that buys it surely wont hurt her? I think i think too much of bad bird owner. I am bad owner myself putting them in a home-made aviary that has a hole.

If you sell the bird and give it away, there really is nothing you can do and you would give up control completely to someone else. If you give it away, hopefully you will be able to give it to someone that will care for it properly. If the bird is in an aviary with lots of others of its kind then it will most likely have a good life there.

Sounds like your aviary was not constructed properly if some of the birds were able to get out. There is nothing you can do about that now except not put any more birds in there so that they don't also go free, and fix the aviary so that it is better or get rid of the aviary or replace it with one that is safe.

Ok so give it to the breeder aviary? but im not very sure since I've come this far having her for 7 years then sudden just send her away.

If you want to keep the bird, keep it. If you don't, then the breeder aviary might be a reasonable place for it to go.

I cant tame her. she cannot be tamed, its already too late for taming. female is very hard to tame I heard and shes now adult which makes very hard to tame. I tried to tame her ever since I had her but its just imposible compare to young male budgies... and I used to say parakeet lol. anything can be parakeet if small/med parrot with long tail huh. Whenever I put my finger trying to make her step on my finger she always bite me. I gave up trying to tame her.

You are making her step up when she doesn't want to.

also did i mention most of time she just sits still and pren herself more than bitting stuff? this is mean shes stress right? shes bore? i think shes really lonely. i tried to breed her when she was in the small aviary but those 2 males, 1 female buddies disapeared from aviary first.

Preening is okay. The bird is probably lonely because it doesn't have a relationship with you.

Is there anymore opinion?
and its been a long time im ok about the 3 budgies. thanks.

Also can an untamed budgie live alone in human home? can they live like that without interesting with her fellow same creature? can she live without mating? talking generally. can this cause stress to her? human tried to interest but she just not interest. she bites lightly when human finger in cage even when she live with human for 7 years.

From everything you have said it sounds like you truly care about this bird and you would miss it very much if you gave it away and would be worried that someone was hurting it. It seems like you want it to be tame but I don't think you are using the correct taming methods. I would recommend that you visit this site: http://TrainedParrot.com/Taming
If it is difficult for you to understand the content on the site, you can use Google Translate to translate the words. I could try to help you translate it with Google Translate if you don't know how to do it.

[liz]

Rather than "set her free" or give her to someone you don't trust, if you can't deal with it find a rescue group. Don't give her to someone who advertises that they will give a home to any unwanted bird.

There are rescues every where. Where are you?