Im getting really really frustrated.

[Beannifer]

Okay so I have had my birds for what, three weeks? Odie will step up on my finger from a perch and sometimes he moves away from me in the cage when I put my hand in it. Ozzy on the other hand runs away from me all of the time. I cannot even get close to him!

Is it okay to try and completely tame Odie first and then work on Ozzy. And what should I do about Ozzy running away from me! I talk to them both all of the time and spend a lot of time by the cage.

What is going wrong????:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

[Skye]

Aww.. Don't get frustrated! Skye bites other people whenthey try to get him out of his cage :eek: .. But in some ways that;s good.

Anyhow, Ozzie might still be nevous. Try to give them equal amounts of attention tohugh, I'm not too sure about this, but one might get jealous. Just take them out and work on them outside of their cage. Or go back to the first steps of taming. Put your hand really close to Ozzie and try and make sure he trusts you.. Or get him to. Be very gentle with them, try putting seeds or millet in your hands and reaching out to him. Leave your hand in for a while. So Odie doesn't feel excluded leave a few toys close to him or hang some millet (skye always gets distracted by millet) then work on Ozzy a bit!

Hope it helps,
good luck
-Malina

[redgirl]

You will Jennifer hun, it just takes time and then they are tempremental birds, my Skyla was biting me lastnight and she has not done it before and I have had her over 2 months and things where great till this happened. This morning though she seems fine she wasn't making that horrid noise and I recon she was maybe tired. Dont give up hun, just dont try to hard maybe that is whats making you have a problem, keep on everyday trying but dont do it for too long and too often. I would say 4 times a day.xx

[Beannifer]

yeah... I only did it once yesterday for about 10 or 15 minutes with Odie. I got him out of the cage and sat down in another room with him. he would sit on one of my thumbs and I would put my other hand over him so he couldnt fly away. Well last night I started to move my top hand away slowly and he just stayed and looked at me for a minute then flew off. I got him back and he seemed to be more calm after he had flown the coop (lol) becuase he just sat there.

I was a bit concerned becuase while flying he flew into some curtains and hit the window behind them and plopped onto the wndow sill. But he seemed fine other than more calm. We did the step up excersize with my fingers like a ladder and he was chirping to me and it sounded happy. so I dont know

[pretty_bird]

I have a similar problem with Nick, although he's coming around better now. What I did was use the other budgies (Daisy...and Sully when he was healthy, and before he passed away) to model (model my behavior, intentions, and what I would do to them). In that way I was hoping it would take the horror and surprise out of it all. I would hold one of the others, pet them, etc., but be very close, even a little bent down near Nick, look at him almost the entire time, and talk to him softly. Then I'd put the other budgie down near him gently...so he/she could step off. In that way, the other rejoined Nick, and he could see that the other was completely unharmed. Then I would try to get Nick to get on my hand. He's coming around. Each budgie has their own personality, and Nick is the more reserved and shy one out of all of my budgies. I always made sure I paid attention to him, even while holding the other...so definitely do not exclude the other, but use the tame one as a model instead.

[softie]

Gracey took about three weeks to finally trust me when Shiloh only took about a day. It all depends on whether they were hand tamed before or not. It's also a trust issue. Give your budgie more time and let him become familiarized with your hand and your voice by letting her watch you clean her food and water bowl

It may take a while, but its worth every minute

[Beannifer]

ok well i just had a training session with the boys. thats right I took both of them out of the cage!!! Of course i did it individually. Odie flew away from me and he just wanted to sit on the table and watch me so i got some good pictures and ozzy sat in my hand and ate some millet (of course i had my hand over his back so he couldnt flutter away) but Ozzy kept squirming around so i put him back in after he finished the little bit of millet.

[redgirl]

You are doing great already so dont worry before you know it you will have trained them xxx:)

[zarrion101]

Goodluck. :)

[AnnCP]

I tamed my first budgie by starting out with a short perch he could step up on. So I'd put the short perch in the cage and enourage him to step on it, then take him out that way. It helps to have two perches so you can do some step up exercises.

Hope this helps, not sure if that's how most people do it, but I found it easier for them to adjust to being near me on the perch than on my finger, then we slowly switched to stepping up on the finger instead of another perch.

[redgirl]

I tamed my first budgie by starting out with a short perch he could step up on. So I'd put the short perch in the cage and enourage him to step on it, then take him out that way. It helps to have two perches so you can do some step up exercises.

Hope this helps, not sure if that's how most people do it, but I found it easier for them to adjust to being near me on the perch than on my finger, then we slowly switched to stepping up on the finger instead of another perch.
That is great advice Ann, I used the same method with Joey. xx

[Susie T]

Don't feel bad about anything you're doing hun....you are making more progress than I am. I am going to take all the advice I can get from these fine budgie lovers, because..if anybody knows...they do:) Keep reading posts about people having the same problems (maybe a little different) and you'll learn a lot. Everyone that is on this site, obviously loves their birds and is there to help in any way they can. :) :budgie:

[Amy]

Only 2 of my 6 have ever been tame, and they were tame from when I got them. I have/did teach them more though.