John Vanek Webboard User Reg: 03-26-2008
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I'm surprised no one mentioned this, but USE A CLICKER! Budgies are small, but they nearly as, if not as, smart as the larger parrots. They respond REALLY well to a clicker.
Cathy Goessman Webboard User Reg: 12-03-2007
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You can't use a clicker effectively if the critter is too leery of you to reward it. I've been rewarding her relaxing by walking away.
I'm going to start with target training but I can't even do that if I can't reward it. At the moment it's too scared to eat around me. I'm going to try removing her food overnight and clicking when I put the food in.
Her big cage comes in on Monday. I'm hoping I can zip tie the small cage to the large cage with the doors together and let her come out on her own. Otherwise I'm going to have to towel her.
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Quote: Cathy Goessman
I'm going to try removing her food overnight and clicking when I put the food in.
The above statement makes me a little bit nervous -- I'm sure you've done all your homework on aviculture, so my remarks are "just for the general audience" as I'll assume you already know how HIGH small bird metabolism is, compared to that of mammals such as dogs ... I would not be comfortable depriving a budgie/parakeet of its open-access food source at any time, since whenever they Want to eat, it's because they NEED to eat.
I'm far from being a professional bird tamer/trainer, but I would strongly suggest saving your clicker-marking for High Value Treats, and NOT witholding the Available Food Supply even during hours of darkness, Cathy.
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Your post made me reconsider. It's okay to leave adults without food overnight but I don't want to possibly harm a developing youngster.
Progress! It was suggested to me that I mix honey with the pellets to make her try them. She wouldn't touch honey alone but was clearly wanting seed so I put some honey on the end of a plastic knife with seed pressed into it. She actually took it with me still holding on to the knife!
I got her a mirror today and it appears that the "other bird" might be giving her some confidence.
Your post made me reconsider. It's okay to leave adults without food overnight but I don't want to possibly harm a developing youngster.
Progress! It was suggested to me that I mix honey with the pellets to make her try them. She wouldn't touch honey alone but was clearly wanting seed so I put some honey on the end of a plastic knife with seed pressed into it. She actually took it with me still holding on to the knife!
I got her a mirror today and it appears that the "other bird" might be giving her some confidence.
Careful with the mirror. It could easily replace you as far as companionship goes. One of my keets actually belched up seeds w/
pigeon milk" for want of another word and she "fed" her reflection.
I'm hoping that since I wanted to go at their own pace and use clicker training anyway that having two won't change things much. If not they're still entertaining to watch.
we bred birds parakeets and cockaties, finches and canaries. If you get the birds out while they are young and handle them alot ( we had fed ours when they had all their feathers) they bond strongly with you. We could put all the babies together, but they were very bonded to us. But we did take them out and play with them without their nest mates. I loved budgies best, they can learn to talk great, are very active and funny, and can learn to do tricks. my favorite finch type bird was canaries, I love their songs.
sharon and her pups bindi cody and terra
Bird breeds are different from each other. My husbands quaker was aggressive toward those he was unfamiliar with. They live in large communities,unusual for a parrot like bird(some say quakers belong in the budgie family.) He liked the company of other birds and had a budgie in a room with him. But the budgie died(egg bound) and he started to pick his feathers.
I have a parrolet that is friendly with every one he meets,easy going type. He prefers human companionship and may not react the same as the quaker with the loss of another bird.
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