Parakeet Help!PLEASE?

Question

i had one of my parakeets for about 5 years and he never came near me or got on my hands except one time and now i got a new parakeet and he doesnt go on me either. what is going on? and how can i train them do play with me and go on me?

they also never go near snacks except only one goes near it once in a while but never next to fruits

Answer 1

Neither of your birds are socialized with people. A well socialized bird will not fuss when handled. Since yours weren't handled, earning their trust and easing their fear of humans is going to take you the better part of a year or so. Form a routine each and every day that you can stick to. Feeding, watering, cleaning, talking, chirping etc are all part of earning their trust. If you rush it, you will be sorely dissappointed. A rule of thumb in my home with any bird is to open their cage door and "invite" them out. Place your open palm just outside the door and see if they come to investigate. Do this every day, several times a day for months. If you put your hand IN their cage, you've just taken away any success you've had so far. Their cages are their territory and your hand inside their cage is instilling fear in them.
Don't yell, shake the cage, or punish your budgies in any way. Go slowly, be patient and hopefully they will begin to see you as part of their flock.
Good Luck

Answer 2

If you cage the new bird with your older bird this is bad. The new bird will behave in the same manner that the older bird does, they mimic behaviors and if the older one is "wild" then so be it with the new one. And parakeets have to be handled by humans from very early on. These pet shops are very bad about putting like 20 together and they just go wild, so no chance on them being handled. I got one from Petsmart and that was a nightmare. He NEVER let us touch him, he never went near treats. he loved his mirror though. He died while my dad was babysitting him.
And now we adopted a Cockatiel and he is the total opposite. He eats with us, he ALWAYS wants to sit with us, be pet, eats our food, gets kind of annoying. Basically in a nut shell it is too late for your birds it sounds like. Try going with a cockatiel next time.

Answer 3

Find a breeder who hand feeds them to get a tamed bird otherwise you are out of luck. I personally hand feed my baby parakeets. I currently have 4 hatched out this week being fed by the parents until they are 14 days old, who will be hand fed and taken completely away from the parents. They will all be hand tamed once they are 8 weeks old.

Answer 4

handling must be done everyday and from the underside of your birds other wise they think your a predator that's going to eat them up . don't go chasing around in the cage this frightens them ...offer treats in your hand talk in a low quiet voice it may take a while but with patience it will work out Good Luck

Answer 5

hi
as u only had the 1 it was getting tamed but because u have 2 its lost its way of being tamed and joined in with your new parakeet.

you can tame it again but the best thing 2 do is separate them into different cages then tame them both at different times.
its better if u tame them separately and keep them out the same cage but let them see each other. by letting them both out the cage at the same time then when their both tamed let them be in a cage together but the hole point of letting them both out at the same time is that when they are both tamed and u put them in the same cage they wont fight.

Gd luck taming Ur new+old
parakeet
Sammy06

Answer 6

you have to socialize them when young preferably....start taking them out of the cage in a safe warm quiet environment and pet their heads a little....offer them treats like some freash orange or pineapple and do this a little everyday or a couple times a week....eventually they will bond to you....and it would be best if they are in different cages until they are bonded to you otherwise they will bond to eachother and you will be a common enemy.

i worked in a pet store for 10 years and i had several tropical birds of my own.

Answer 7

parakeets are not particularly a handled bird unless exposed to human contact from birth. if you wanted a more human social bird you should consider buying a love bird, a type of parrot or a cociteal

Answer 8

How Old is it? When did you get it?- If it has never been human handled and has been with other parakeets for too long it may be pretty hard to retrain it. Is it too late to take the bird back and get a hand tamed one?

OR maybe if its young enough and hasn t been too - long it still could be done. You say one - sometimes comes for seed. There may be a chance.

Although in the future get one that has been a handfed baby and it would be alot easier and keep it separate from any other one for at least a month so as not to pass on any possible sickness and to completely socialize it with you before you would join it with another.

Probably is best to separate them - it might be easier to train it quicker (since the other one has been with you for 5 years it might not change much - but the other one can be socialized more and the older one when they are rejoined might follow along with what the other one does- my older one did.

Have the younger one in a separate cage and area where you are most of the time. And talk to it softly while near the cage. When Watching TV or Reading I would put the cage near me just for it to get use to me that way. When I first got the second one I put him in a hamster cage since they are inexpensive and small enough and can be moved around more easily. Usually Parakeet cages - even of the same sz are more expensive - who knows why.

The first thing is to let it adjust to its new space while getting use to just your voice. And With the normal changing of the water and seed dish they get use to your hand in the cage and should start to show signs of less agaitation with that.

As long as it is eating normally for a period of time 0 I started to not leave food in all the time - only if you were going to be gone for a period of time. So that it will be a bit hungry and you can offer food in the palm of your hand inside the cage ( I would put the cage in a place where you can more comfortably do this {put a sock or something over the part that you rest your hand or arm on and level with the perch the bird is sitting on- and he should eventually check it out) If it gets too uncomfortable try again a bit later. They usually get use to your hand and check it out. They will get hungry- after too long of a period-do put the food back in a dish-don t want to starve them and try again later or the next day.

The next step is when they eat out of your hand in the cage- lure it out of it - When I would watch Tv - in a reclined positon (mine was in my bed) and I would set the cage on the bed. I would pour some seed in my hand (make sure they are watching) when my hand was right near the outside of the door (I turn on m side with my hand proped up on a pilow that is sitting right in front of the cage door) and he would come out (if he was hungry) If it was taking too long I would dump the seed in the middle of the pillow and wait. And just wait and watch

NExt step when they would accomplish the last step often I would go on to do the same set up but this time when I would pour some -seen in their view on my hand and when they would be on my hand I would slowly dump it on my shirt in the indentation between my breast bones and stomach and they would continue to eat from there. Each time after it would be eating for long enough I would start to talk to them some without touching and they would get use to that.

Then when they were comfortable in that stage after many times I would start to play with them a bit after they were done eating- with one finger -touch their beaks and see how they would react. Next step stroke their stomach a bit and so on.

I like to read so I would do these same things at other times while doing that - its easier to pass time to give them time to reach their comfort level and when they did they started seeking with things like jumping on the top of my book. After one point you don t even have to do the feeding thing - they will come out of the cage and seek you out. Slow process - but easy to do when your settling down.

With the baby hand fed ones they are a bit socialized already and you can visit them whenever you want in the store and they start getting use to you then and even though when you move them to your home - they can be set back just a little - they bounce back after giving them space for a few days and I do all the same things but it goes alot faster. With young hand fed birds-do not withhold food in the begining. You can have them on your fingers and hands by the end of the week and with a shirt that can be pulled up a bit put them by the neck area and put the shirt up just a bit if they try to escape and let them get use to snuggling and peaceful there and they will feel secure and you can cuddle with them from the begining without scareing them.

When they are comfortable with you that way for a few days to a week you can let them explore on you and feed them from your hand and you will be there first Love. If they do fly off (have their wings clipped to stay close-they will grow back) go to them and offer your hand and bring them back - you will be their security. After they get use to you doing this- as their wings grow back you will be able to let them go places but they will come back to you. Only then maybe you could introduce another. I ve only done this with one set and the baby hand fed one always comes to me and the other one who wasn t followed him in what ever he did. The one would chew on my book and continue even with scolding and the older one would start to but look at me with a "am I in trouble look" They both are social in their own way and very lovable and -just with different personalities. Parrakeets/Budgies are just as socialable as the rest of the bigger birds. If the other types weren t soicalized when they were young they would have the problems.

Good Luck to you!!

Answer 9

You smell bad to them.