Yoshi's progress....

[monet]

Hey yall. I have decided to keep track of my budgie yoshi's progress in taming and such. So Here I go!!

Day 1: two days ago Jan 5 2011.
I have decided to start taming yooshi to day because He has already had a day and a half to get settled. So I am gonna get him used to my hand. I open the cage and he flys every were. But that is all good. He is sposed to be scared. I have had my in his cage for all together about an hour today. I broke it onto sessions of 10 mins though.


Day two: jan 6 2011
I kave started a routine with yoshi. He seems so far to go to sleep either when I do ( 9:30) or 8:oo to 9:30. any where around there. I got home and finished my homework. Started day 2 training. Had my hand in his cage for 3 hours today. Also broken up into 20 mins today though. Read a forum saying that was ok. He didn't fly away when I opend the cage today. he just flinched a little. He is now preening himself tooday. I paniced cause I thought he hadn't ait yet. Till I got help and blew off his empty shells things. At the end of training he volunterely juped on my hand 3 times. making great progress.


Day three: jan 7 2011
We are making GREAT progress. To day yoshi played with his mirrors and mirror toy, and swing infront of me today!!! He also wait for it................................................ .................................................. ..................... chirped infront of me!!! YES! he is comfortable enough to vioce his oppinion to his music and without the music. I am so happpy. So far he chirped and danced to country, teena marie, bob marley, 80's music and micheal jackson. I know he's mine.. we like the same music. He has great taste in music:p He also ran onto my hand today while taming session was going on. he is now preening himself infront of me also. When we got hime he stayed in the corner of the cage. NOw he glady flys around, OMG!!! HE ATE MILLET FOR THE FIRST TIME JUST NOW!!!!!!!!!! I can now bribe him!!! YES. And he is eating infront of me too. I am pleased with how quickly he is progressing.... Next He still has to get used to my hand. He will move away when I move it slowly twards him. That's ok though he'll learn i wont hurt him.
he is very quite calm..... around me that is. he is more lively around me too. My dad makes him chirp and dance sometimes that is funny. but with me, i get to see the affects of taming and a new smolderingfrendship starting between us. I am soo excited. He needs a bath though. He has been pooping reguarly and all, but some got stuck on his bottom. and he can't get ot off. instead his perch did. So i had to wash that. but I have to go. Tamimg session is about to start Toodles!

[monet]

It is so intertainging to watch him. he was trying to figure out were the other birds went behind the yellow wall. too cute. I like that if my dad scares him on accedent he runs to me for comfort too cute. reminds me of mama and baby. aaaaaaaawwwwwwww!

[SpickyDavies]

don't forget to spend some time bonding

[monet]

O do.... at least 1 to 3 hours a day. I forgot to post that part:D we are bonding beautifly. That is why he runs twords me when he is starteld or scared. :)

[malkore]

bond as much as you can over the weekends. If you can, sit with him all day today and tomorrow. eat your food with him. read. sing. etc. He'll get to understand your routine and the normal things you do, which just puts him more at ease.

for example i keep Zaff's food in the closet in the office he lives in. when I slide open the door in the morning to get food, he starts hopping around the cage in excitement! And I've only had him 15 days counting today.

Already he's learning about his new 'jungle' :)

[monet]

awsome. How do i bond. So far I sit by the cage. sing to him, read to him, tell him about my day. talk to him. what else can i do

[~Chelsey~]

To bond you could get him out of his cage and have him sit in your hand to eat seed/millet. And having him out on your hand and talking to him in a soft, slightly higher pitched voice. When you get him out of his cage on your hand be sure to make slow movements as not to scare him. Dont give him a reason to be scared when bonding (or ever haha) I would go in your room by yourself and have him out with you for maybe 5-10 minutes like you said.

And its good to be calm when with him, budgies can sense when youre tense/nervous and it will make them more skiddish and uneasy with you :)

And I think its so cute you tell him about your day :D

[monet]

To bond you could get him out of his cage and have him sit in your hand to eat seed/millet. And having him out on your hand and talking to him in a soft, slightly higher pitched voice. When you get him out of his cage on your hand be sure to make slow movements as not to scare him. Dont give him a reason to be scared when bonding (or ever haha) I would go in your room by yourself and have him out with you for maybe 5-10 minutes like you said.

And its good to be calm when with him, budgies can sense when youre tense/nervous and it will make them more skiddish and uneasy with you

And I think its so cute you tell him about your day:D

ok. That's a great start. I think he is not used to my hands yet. Because every time I let him out of his cage. HE flyies away from me. And when he has been out for an hour or so i go to retrieve him and he flys all over the place but to me..... How can I get him to stand in my hand if all he does is whenever out the cage flys from them!? I tryed getting his fav. perch out and getting him on that but when he relizes it's giong bak tro the cage he flys off again. I am soo confused on what to do right now...... Because I tryed to keep him in my hands for 5 seconds and by the 2 he was gone.... Can someone give me tips on how to progress please!???

[~Chelsey~]

When he flies away, youre letting him stay at the spot he landed at for a while? Or you are going and getting him right away? I wouldnt advise letting him stay where he flew to, that will probably make him get the idea that its ok for him to fly off from you. If he is really that afraid of you to the point of not even letting you near him without having spazz attack, I would just let him stay in his cage a while longer himself to get more used to seeing you around from afar.

I would, if you dont already, have his cage rigth next to somewhere you are a lot (Like a desk you spend a lot of your time at, your bed if you spend a lot of time and do a lot of studying there, or wherever in your room youre at most). Have his cage in a spot you always are at so he can see that you arent something for him to be as afraid of as he is now. And talk to him/ sing to him ( very softly).

Always, always (important) move slow and dont make any sudden movements when he is near you in and out of the cage. If he is somewhat calm and then you make a fast movement he didnt see coming and it scares him, it will set him back further from trusting you enough to consider being out with you.
:)
Or if he flew away and he is in panic mode, dont move fast to go grab him up because he is already freaking out and doesnt know that all you are wanting to do is pick him up, and thus he will freak out more :rolleyes: Move slow and calmly scoop him up in your hands (calmly) :)

If he is scared when youre near the cage I would do that for a while. After he gets more used to you being around, you could open the door to the cage and leave it open, and sit some millet or a treat he already likes outside for him to come out to get. If he comes out a few times doing this than (if he is not too scared) you can sit him on top of the cage with his favorite treat fot him to eat.

And how big is the door to your cage? is it just a little bigger than him, or is it pretty big? If its really small he might just be skiddish and when it come time to go back into the cage freak out a little because the door is small and he might feel like he doesnt have much room and panic (thats what it seemed like with some of mine) Can you post a pic of your cage possibly?

He might just need time is all. You have had him for a week or a little over, right? He needs to watch you for a while and get good and used to you before he can start to form a bond with you :) Just like people hehe.

Do you know how old he is? does he have iris rings and the stripes on his forehead? If he has iris rings and no head stripes he might not be a baby anymore. And thus he would be more set in his ways and even more unsure of humans, since he had no interaction with them his whole life.

Something else you can do after he is a little more used to you being outsuide his cage is, when he is in his cage, open the door to his cage and (ever so slowly) hold his favorite treat near him (not smack next to him, buf start from the door of the cage and so, so slowly move your hand closer and closer until its close enough for him to reach out for it) in the tips of your fingers. He migth not want it at first, but after he sees you arent going to move (and dont move for a while lol) he might work up the nerve to go grab it haha :D

Thats a few tips for you... But yeah when he flies away I for sure would not let him stay out of the cage far away from you, like on the floor or a chair or something :) If he wont stay on your hand for 3 seconds he isnt ready to be out yet.

Do you have any pets or anything in your room that would scare him? (like, is there a something that moves right by his cage or something heh heh)

[monet]

Well. For 1. His cage door is bigger then my head. I could fit my head and shoulders in his cage door. so it's big. 2. He does not have his baby bars anymore. and his eyes are gre. the pupil black and yes you can see his iris. so i think he is older then 4-6 months i am not sure of the age.... 3. I have him in my room in a corner near a window so he can view everything I do. The only Time i cover 3 parts of the cage is when I think he is getting cold, or it's bedtime. so he can always watch me do my daily tasks in his cage and out ouf his cage. I am not taking him out until I am sure he isn't scared of me. Right now if my hand goes in his cage, he will look at it like either what's that or look at by tilting his head so one eye is looking at it any look at it up and down. but if I move it twords him he flinchs and moves away from it. He i think, is getting better. He eats milllet mut not too often around me but i think he likes it.... so I can use that. Also when he was out.......

I would let him flutter away but quickly move him to another spot. If he fluttered or flew to a corner and sat there. It would be 1 min before i moved him again.
No pets. but him


Also, I sing to him every day along with other vioce activities I do with him.

He isn't scared of me bieng out his cage. I could be at the door of it and he'll be ok but as soon as I enter he flinches and moves or shifts uneasily. and moves the oppsite derection of me..

It seems that he enjoys my singing cause he'll try to jion in and sing with or louder then me ususally. or if I get tired of singing he runs twords me and starts skwaking at me to sing again but then I just turn the music up more and he'll accept and either sing to it every now and then or not at all.

[malkore]

Just be patient :)
it could be 6 months (or never, possibly) before he becomes hand tamed and 'trained' to not fly off when you help him out of the cage.

it might only be weeks. You never really know since its the bird's decision to obey. And you might make progress one week, then slide backwards a bit (like I did yesterday, spooking the budgie while cleaning the cage too loudly).

[monet]

It is now jan 17 amd I have more to past eon his progress! So far he's doing GREAT!! For the first time ever he hoped right on my hand without beiong scared of it. All jjust for some millet. Gosh I am so happy he is hooked on that or my taming woulsnt go so good. Today be fore we left I was diong some taming session. And I let him get really into the millet and then took it away when he hoped on my hand to get to it. Then out him down and gave it to him when he hopped on it and stayed on my finger for more then 3 seconds. He's diong really good now. I have also been trying to get some outcage bonding. But when he's out he wants to explore not bond so that''s not giong to good. but in cage is.. By this rate I am hoping he'll be tame by the end of this month:D

[Cheeno]

Glad you're enjoying your time with Yoshi, Monet. Just be careful not to force him. ;)

[monet]

got it! ;)