2 budgies...not good?!

[2budgies]

Okay, I'm a bit confused. (Sorry for the lack of introduction, I'll get to it soon)

I purchased a pair of budgies last Saturday afternoon. There were about a dozen to choose from in my locally owned (and very reputable) pet store. They are settling in nicely. I have heard and read that a pair is nearly impossible to tame. Oh no, what have I done?! I have always had single birds, but wanted to have a pair. Any people that have had success with taming a pair, I'd love some responses. Need encouragement :S

ps...I can already stick my hand in their cage and pet Yoshi, the female, on her back. Good start?

[Rob_B]

Ive heard that taming 2 budgies is a little more difficult. Thats why i bought chalky first and tamed her a little. Ive just bought another one on monday as a friend for chalky, and il tame that one on its own too. When you take them out of the cage, you can spend time with them induvidually and train them that way, otherwise it might be a difficult job! Millet was my only way of getting chalky on my hand, you might want to try that. Good luck and let us know how you get on :)

[Budgiekin]

:p You will want to make sure that you provide one-on-one training time with each of your sweeties separately (out of site and preferably out of sound range too). That will encourage them to bond with you without the distractions of their budgie friend being nearby. I know that with my budgies, I actually have to sometimes put the other two upstairs in a room with the door closed so that they don't keep chirping back in forth with the one I am working with.

You will need to be very patient with them as they learn to trust you. Having short but more frequent training sessions is probably better than doing fewer but longer ones. Use your budgie's body language and behaviour as a clue to let you know if and when they have had enough "bonding" time with you. Millet is a great treat to use as an incentive to get them to step up on your finger and to reward good behaviour.

Let us know how you are doing with your little budgiekins! We'd love to hear how things are working for you and your flock!

[Amy]

Great start! I have 2 budgies caged together as well, I have recently suceeded to tame the both. When I place my hand in their cage they hop onto it and preen me!

[Kelly27]

When two budgies are together, they bond with one another and don't care about anything else. Like Budgiekin says spend time with your budgies individually so you have their full attention.
Kelly
xXx :)

[2budgies]

Thanks for the replies. I will start tomorrow working with them individually. Perhaps in the bathroom (with the toilet seat down of course!) where they cannot see each other. I have found that Yoshi is already more calm and tame than Sky.

[BUUZBEE]

here is a link to a great site with training info
good luck

http://budgietalk.com/

[corona]

what i did to train my pair was take them individually in the bathroom and sprinkle water onto the glass and get it on my finger and let it see itself in the mirror, and so it sees a mirrir so its calmer and its its own reflection so it doesnt get ideas of flying away because the other is. but with this water sprikled on the mirror it sees its reflection and the water and bring it close to the mirror and itll start to drink the water it looks really cool. but thats how i trained them. 1 of them was really easy to train with that method. and the other 1 had its own story. i did the same thing except once when it was gettin used to me already i left the bathroom door open on accedent, and the other person in house didnt know i had 1 out so they had a ceiling fan on FAST in a room. parakeet flew in there got hit on the sholder part of the wing. was injured NO BLOOD just scared DEAD scared. and right there i took care of it for a week and during that time it just really bonded with me and trust me completely untill now. hes also the only parakeet i have that rather rest on my sholder than be on my finger or hand, its like im trying to hold it to look at it and next thing you know he flies to my sholder and sometimes on top of my head.

[cherokee]

I am having training problems with Casper and Jasper, I have had them both since about 2 weeks before this past Christmas, is it too late to train them? I need to clip their wings, but I am scared to do it, the lady I got them from showed me how to do it, but whenever I try to catch them from the cage the start flapping and breathing real fast and hard, and then I stop, scared I will give them a heart attack. I want to hand train them, so I can enjoy spending time with them and take fun pictures like I have seen on this site, but seperating them will be hard to do since I have only the one cage, I do have a large hamster/guinea pig cage that i no longer use that I could put one in while spending time with the other, but not sure how rusty it is since it has been a few years since I last used it. Any ideas on how I can seperate the 2 while spending individual time with each? I can't just let them out of the cage because we have 2 cats.