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  1. Training Journals
    Hi there! So I have a new baby budgie named Bob who was very scared when we first got him, but now he's started becoming a lot more tame and friendly, and every day I let him fly out of his cage for a bit of excercise, which he enjoys. :) he is a very playful and lively bird, but there's one...
  2. Taming and Bonding
    I'm having a bit of a scuffle with my new budgie, I'm trying to train him in things like target training, stepping up, flying to me, etc. I'm using millet to do it and although he is able to do the trick he doesn't do it on command and keeps trying to go to the millet. For example when target...
  3. Taming and Bonding
    I got my new budgie recently, he seems to be comfortable around everyone and has no issue hopping on me given I have a treat however whenever I approach him with my hand he gets scared. Around a week after I got him he seemed to be fine with my hands and even let me pet him sometimes but has...
  4. Diet and Nutrition
    I just got a budgie about 10 days ago, and I've been able to get him to eat his regular seed mix from my hand, but he never eats any millet, and I'm unsure if I can train him using only the seed mix, since he has it in his cage most of the time. Additionally, I tried giving him cucumbers, but he...
  5. Taming and Bonding
    I've had my budgie, Haven, (female) for almost a year now. She used to be very social and let people hold her all the time. After about a month, she started pecking my finger when I held her. I looked it up and trained her out of it. Now she hates being held, and has for months. I have been...
  6. Budgie Behavior
    Mainly posting here because I've sifted through piles of links about budgies and bird behavior over the course of weeks now and nothing I've found has really helped with what's been going on. All right, so my first budgie is named Sprout, who turned out to be a male. He was rather young when I...
  7. Taming and Bonding
    Hey again :001_smile: I'm doing an assignment for school where it requires me to attempt to teach my pet a certain trick. Now I know parrots do well completing a task if they see a demonstration, and I know that they like mimicking. So I'm wondering if I show my baby videos of a budgie doing a...
  8. Budgie Behavior
    I got my first bird a couple of days ago and have been trying to train it to step up. Currently he won't run from my hand or nip at it when it's near him. He will allow me to pet any part of his body except his head and and closes his eyes if I stroke his belly repeatedly. I can get him to step...
  9. Taming and Bonding
    So 2 days ago I purchased a new budgie, Lime, because I wanted my other budgie to have a friend for when I start work. Lime is currently in quarantine and during that time I was planning on training him. However, Lime lost one of his large tail feathers today so when I looked at him more...
  10. Training Journals
    2/14/2017 5 months old My little baby bird is five months old and while he trusts me and my co-owner/ boyfriend reasonably well we both would like him to be more friendly. He will sit on your shoulder for hours and hours or sit on the back of your computer while you work but he doesn't like...
  11. Taming and Bonding
    Help! We got our first budgie (together, I had one that spent its entire life biting me when I was a teenager) on October 20th. She was a pet store bird but for a pet store bird she was very docile. We let her settle in before beginning to try to interact with her and did everything by the book...
  12. Training Journals
    Ahh! Hand scary. So big. Very scary. Ooh! Hand give me food. Food is yummy. Hand not so scary after all. Here comes the start of Neo and Skye's training journal! :)
  13. Training Journals
    Barbarossa, better known as Bar-Bar was added to our family on February 9th. He was fully mature. Gypsy joined us last month on April 1st. Going by suggestions from others he was about a month old when we got him. (Also: until this morning we thought "he" was a "she.") Bar-Bar was very...
  14. Taming and Bonding
    Hi, I've had my budgies for almost 4 months now. I originally got them from a family who didn't have time for them, so they were without intimate human contact since they were chicks. I've sat by them for hours at a time, just singing softly or reading to them. The male (Hades) has finally...
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