How Can I Tame My Parakeets? (Please Help)?

Question

Well, I have had my parakeets for about a year now. But they won't allow them to be handled. They fly about and I can't ineteract with them or anything!

Answer 1

Find a food or treat that he/she LOVES and offer it to her by hand daily or several times per day (she might not accept it at first by hand, so place in her food bowl the first several times, then by hand as she gets used to receiving this treat). Try to avoid loud noises or other types of activity that she might not be used to in the room where she is located until he gets used to things more. Both of her wings must be clipped so that she will be at your mercy to get from one place to another. Once a day to start (you can increase daily frequency as she seems calmer), you should take your keet out of her cage by hand into another room to work with her. You need to take her to a neutral room because if she can see her cage, which is a safety zone for her, she will make every attempt to get to her cage. Since she isn't tame and you need to handle her by hand, you will most likely receive some bites. If you can take the bites without using gloves, this is the best way. However, frightened keets, especially females, can bite rather hard, so you might want to use gloves at first. Problem with this is that she will learn to hate gloves, but sometimes using gloves at first will make the bird easier to deal with using bare hands. Once you get her into the neutral room, with clipped wings, work with her to sit on her hand or finger. She will most likely try to get away from you many times, but she will tire quickly and "give in" to sitting on your hand/finger. You might have to hold her GENTLY with your hand around her body (which parrots hate)for a bit before she'll resort to sitting on your hand/finger. Be sure not to hold her too tightly or you could hamper her breathing (parrots don't have lungs and need to be able to expand their chest completely to breathe via their air sacs). Also, your body temperature combined with hers will cause her to become overheated if you hold her too long. Parrots cannot tolerate being overheated, so if she starts breathing heavily or with open mouth, stop until she cools down. Once she sits on your hand/finger, talk to her gently, calmly, reassuring her. When doing this, you must have her undivided attention/she must be focused. Once you lose her attention, stop the session and begin again later on. Sessions should only last a few minutes to start, then increase time as she becomes tamer. This neutral room should be hazard free, i.e., no open toilet seats, no sink full of water, stove on, open windows/doors, or anything that she could get injured on or by because she will try to get away from you at first. Once you get her to the point where she will sit on your finger/hand/arm without problem, you can start trying to touch her. Once you are able to touch her, petting can begin, etc. During this entire process, you should not do ANYTHING that might break any trust that is starting to develop. With clipped wings, every time she gets away from you, she will have to depend on you to pick her up from wherever she landed. At first, use your flat hand or arm to allow her to climb up on you, until she gets used to your fingers. This is where real trust starts to build. To help the process, whenever you are sitting around watching a movie or whatever, bring her out to sit with you, include her in as many activites inside your home that you can. Your keet might not be tame enough at first to stay right with you, but trust starts building when she learns that you mean her no harm. If you have other animals, like dog/cat, you might have to put them in another room for the time or keep the keet away from them because she will fear them. The taming process takes time and patience because you can usually only progress a little bit each day.

Answer 2

First if you are ok with it you should clip there wing. i had my birds for over 6 months untrained then I clipped her wing and trained her in a day. But I own birds for a while. For you I would say clipping the wings are good. If they bit you you can wear thick gloves to protect your fingers and also to discourage your birds from biting. Slowly approach your birds speaking to them to get them familiar with your voice. You can bring a twig and everyday at the same time try to get them used to stepping up on the branch or if you want you can use your fingers. I bypassed the twig and trained all 7 of my birds in one night, but other take time and patience. Good luck

Answer 3

Get and read a manual on Parakeets. I'm sure there are pointers on how to tame them. You can also go to a pet shop and ask for pointers. Good luck.

Answer 4

i have parakeets too! just take your hand, and keep going for them, they eventually just "step up" .. then slowly take your hand out, but then put them back in the cage.
Keep doing this for a week, and each time take them out a lil further then the last, and before u know it, you'll be able to walk around the house with them.

Answer 5

put on some gardening gloves and put your hand in the cage and tak to them alot they will come to you sooner or later