How can i train my budgies?

Question

I have just got a new budgie to be company for my other one who is 8 months old. How do i train them to come to me and start to speak? Thanks.

Answer 1

Get a small bell or something similar, quietly drop a tasty treat into the cage and ring the bell when you do so. Avoid staring at them and sit quietly.
Next step is to offer the treat from your hand while outside the cage.
Next step is to put your hand flat in the cage with the treat on it. By now they should associate the bell ringing with getting the treat from your hand, and hop on confidently to feed. At this point start talking to them.
Begin by deciding on a word that means 'come'. Ring the bell and straight after say 'come'. Don't leave a gap between the bell and the word.
Eventually you can leave the bell and just use the word. Talk to them more and associate words (which are just sounds to them) with actions (so the sounds come to have meaning).
So when you offer water, say 'water'. When you offer seed, say 'seed'.
If you want to call them one at a tme use their name instead of the word 'come', but only when that one comes to your hand.
The final stage is to let them have more freedom from the cage. If your hand is the main source of food they'll quickly tame. You can replace the food pot when you're not around. Put the dull stuff in there and offer the more interesting foods on your hand.

Answer 2

budgies or parakeets? Either way I know that budgies/parakeets will not tame up if there are other birds there to remain wild with. You need a hand tamed one before a parakeet warms up to you. Kept alone with you the only company is easier then trying to get him friends and expect them all to warm up to you. Sorry. Otherwise you have about 4 hours a day to have to spend with all of them.I never try and tame a wild bird and dont understand people who try who never accomplish it because hello? THEY ARE WILD!

Answer 3

Same way you would train any other type of bird....patience. Tell them what to do, repeat their names so they know their names and stand away from the cage and call either one of their names. It might work. I tried it on my budgie and it worked. Hope this information helps you. :-D

Answer 4

The fact that you have two is a problem. They may bond with each other so much that they won't bother paying attention to you. I had a quaker parakeet and I taught him things in a quiet, dim room. I spoke quietly and repeated words over dozens of times. Good luck...

Answer 5

i sadly have a pair of nasty budgies (the female is nastier then the male) but try this link I'm going too

PS: they mite bond to each other and ignore you like mine did

Answer 6

You have to be very patient with them. To teach my
parkeet to talk I would say words I wanted him to say
over and over each day. It took about 2 months to get him
to talking. I talked to him all through the day,every day.

Answer 7

Offer the sardines as a reward

Answer 8

I ve heard you are suppose to keep them separate at first. To make sure that the ones shows no health problems to spread to the other. And also if you want it to get use to you better keep it in a separate cage and room from the other one for awhile.

I started with a non hand fed budgie and added the baby hand feed one to the household about 3-4 wks later-but separately. Keep talking to it and getting it to go on your hand. I use to do more things in the room it was in and talked to it normally while I was doing whatever. It got very use to my voice. And I would feed it only by hand to get keep it use to me. And also when reading or watching T.V. or computer. I would put the cage right next to me and it would eventually come out and hop around nearby to find food. And I would play games with it with my fingers. I of course went back and forth doing the same thing separately with each. And since the first one wasn t originally hand fed it would take longer for it to trust us. Count your blessings -the baby started jabbering away and when they sit on your shoulder by your ear it can be ear piercing. And when I would read a book it would come and start chewing on my book or on my chest and look up at me and starts jabbering away and sometimes I had to put my book away and pay sole attention to it. And the older bird would fly to join him but just sit and watch what was happening.

I kept him away from the other one for about a month while doing this. And then slowly started to put them near each other still in their own cage for a bit each day. The older one looked annoyed. The baby was very interested. Then after a week of this I would put the Baby on the top of the other cage for a little bit each day-the older one looked Afraid. Then the following week I opened up the older ones cage and put the baby on top-which he made his way in very quickly. I had Two wooden bars on the same level 4 inches away. And each time the Baby would hop on to the older ones bar-the older one would hop to the other one. Then the Baby one would just pace back and forth on his own bar with his head bobbing up and down the whole time. (Probably in frustration) Also some times the older one would head out of the cage to get away and the baby of course would follow. I only left the baby there for as long as it looked like the older one was really not amused. It wouldn t ever peck at it though. The Baby would try to go after the others beak to do whatever they do but that s it.

Then after a couple times a day of this for a week it looked like the older ones was now somewhat interested for a friend and I put the baby into the bigger cage for good. But I still would take one of them out separately into another room to give each of them more individual attention. That I did for about a month. The older one trusts us - but now follows the younger one around more. If the younger one flies to me the older follows. I ve had then about a year.

They say the longer you get them use to you alone the more chances their are of them remaining somewhat loyal. My time table probably was a bit quick (I had too much fun watching the baby trying to get a reaction from the other one-other then disdain. But it did work somewhat with these to personalities. The older one wants some time away from the chatterbox and the baby one gets bored with the other one just sitting around too much and also later of it then switching to following him around all the time. So he looks for me.

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Answer 9

What is a budgie? I would love to see a pic....

Answer 10

Open the window.......................