You should even keep 4 budgies,bc. they are swarm animals! Very pity that you only talk about this taming-matter ---> in relation with the DIFFICULTY y having more than 1! Please rather stress that 1 budgie is animal plight! So there is no "more difficult with 2", bc. 1 budgie alone is morally FORBIDDDEN!

Paula Pianda Nonsense, 1 budgie is not "animal plight". You post a lot of pretty ignorant and ill-informed comments all over KZfaq. And the expression is "flock" not "swarm" - they are not bees!

I had 2 birds and tamed them both at the same time. Ofc its harder and takes more time especially if they've bonded with each other. In my opinion if one of them starts trusting you the other one will follow suite

John Swanson If one of them is semi tamed it's so much easier! I got mine on my hand the second day I had her

It's harder to do when you have 3 birds in one cage.

+Monk ey This is a good video. Very good job!

okay, I've had my parakeet for 2-3 years. He still hates me. IF I can get him out of his cage, he flies around and hides. What should I do?

+Jonathan Taylor don't get bird out of cage until it gets to know you better I tried that and my parakeet almost got heart

what is that food monk ey that you give it to the budgie

+Reem Mohammed it's millet

How about now

My budgies only liked me when I had food. If I didn’t have food they got away from me and didn’t budge

@@belle369 teach them something like this: Open the cage door, keep your hand outside the cage while holding treags and let the bird go out to your hand. If he trust you enough he will go out of the cage and jump on your hand but remember after he get used to doing this, you shouldn't always have food in your hand so that he will understand what you want

Dad I have tried this method before and still no hope

We got budgies and one of them is running away from my hand but the other one lets me touch her so thats pretty nice I guess

LOL XD 😂😂😂

For real?

TehSohail316 for real lol

TehSohail316 I Usually use a saw but you could use a knife or fork table saw lots of things

It is not recommended to detach your hand. It might hurt

how can you speak of "your bird" Didn't you realize that you may never ever only keep one budgie? They must live in a flock, even 2 is too little! See: "majestic parrots".....how birds live in nature. That is their paradigm and heritage. They suffer so much having no partners. If you do not see how sad - and really brought about everything - the expresson of Bibi is, but only talk of taming, I doubt that you ever see the signs of creatures, at least not of "your" bird. DON'T ever hold single budgie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He will NEVER feel comfortable! BTW: no plastic, no mirror, no bought bars! I think, one has to tell every American singularly

Is this in response to my comment? I don't understand... I only stated that birds take time to get comfortable with their humans and that we should never do anything to force ourselves upon them, but rather take baby steps and always keep the bird's comfort our #1 priority. I certain don't agree, however, that a holding one bird is bad, if that's your point... They can and will feel comfortable if the training is adequate. In fact, I personally feel that having more than one of any kind of bird may distract them and hinder their own progress. If one spends ample time with their bird such that they are always engaged and content with their lives, they would never feel the need for a companion.

Again, I notice yet another misguided comment... To start off, my assertion that birds should be held (and loved) doesn't equate to meanness of any kind. Likewise, I never once stated that I'm "perfect" in any way or that I "know everything." In fact, I'm a firm believer that we should aspire to keep an open mind and learn new things from others everyday. If you have any specific concerns, though, please do let me know and I'll gladly offer a rebuttal.

John Parks can you help me with my bird please

John Parks i think the moral of the story is that you can tame a parrot with this technique

Yeah..true.

incorrect. dont assume our ages

Glen Therrien fine then are you old and impatient?

this is ridiculously late but tbh if a kid or an owner in general cannot develop that patience and adjust their life to be able to give the love a budgie or any bird in general needs, then they probably shouldn't get one

@@galazy9396 *most likely young and impatient*.. *MOST LIKELY* 😂😂

MR. BLueITAChi right

Same

Same

It’s probably used to your voice but not your hand

+GalaxyDreaming THIS VIDEO TARGETS OLDER BUDGIES SO YOUR BUDGIES WILL BE EASY TO TAME

hi, did u get ur budgie tamed? :)

Same it's motivating me to continue trying to tame my female cockatiel!

I swear man the females are impossible lol. Mine shows me so much love but refuses to let me pick her up. Sometimes it feels more like she's taming me.

Waleed Khan Mine shows me some love, she loves it when I read to her and talk to her like shes a human. She lets me set my hand next to her and rest it there but won't let me touch her, hand feed her, or pick her up. She just likes me talking to her. That's all

Team Weird and this is not enough

she had probably passed away by then sadly :( thinking into consideration how budgies like around 4 to 6 years

me too

what happened now are they tamed

I will try this Mastermind trick Edit: i forgot that i actually tried it and haf of my budgies came (2)

Me too

Me tooooo

Deb Pfleiger Same! My first bird was very easy to tame, within two weeks and was not familiar with humans. Unfortunately she passed away. Now I’ve got another budgie but he’s taking. Awhile it’s been like 8 months

Lucky...still trying to get them to eat fruits and veggies...

How are they?

I think shes younger, considering the head markings

anton axelsson No. The head markings mean that if the forehead is completely white, the parakeet has to be atleast 1 or 2 years old. Considering I have 2 parakeets. Rio is much older than Pixie because Pixie has black lines on her forehead. Rio doesn't.

Apple it is. I have over eleven budgies so I know. Do your research

Apple read the reply throughly next time. I clearly said I have over eleven budgies. Not specifically eleven budgies. And budgies can differ depending on each bird individually. It seems weird that you write a flabby comeback when you can’t even read a reply properly.

Apple honey, I CLEARLY SAID THAT I HAVE OVER ELEVEN BUDGIES! N O T SPECIFICALLY ELEVEN BUDGIES! So, before you ago ahead and attack with your STUPID reply’s, LEARN PROPER SPELLING AND READ THINGS THROUGHLY!

Rest In Peace 🕊

Read that, if you take this vid as a standard, you are TOTALLY wrong! ---> never ever keep a single budgie! This is ABSOLUTE animal cruelty! In this vid there are NO: - partners. But budgies are swarm-animals and urgently need same-breed-partners, 4 is better than 2 budgies! - no branches ...BUDGIES NEED branches as natural stuff to pick at, fly and land on, branches are also physiologically important - the bought bars hurt and damage the feet of this poor budgie - he gets PLASTIC! Which bird likes plastic? NO SINGLE ONE - perhaps no flight. Budgies need free flight all day! --------------------> so, this vid is a typical American vid! It's made from people that have lost any relation gto nature and the creature! This bird urgently wants to: - kiss and tell - quarrel - clean - fly ......with partners! In a surrounding with lots of fresh branches, herbs, leaves -------> Instead he is isolated like a slave and sits alone in a cage with bought perches and plastic! This bird has NOTHING in her life of what she wants and needs! So, please, google about the swarm-property of budgies, see vids of kissing and telling budgies ----------> and get clear: if you want a slave and a cheap pet that you will only force to focus on YOU, Yourself.than you are letting your animal SUFFER and you are an ANIMAL ABUSER! Angela, please, inform ----> change the conditons TOTALLY and then write a text on your vid, how SORRY you are: - for having let this budgie suffer for a long time - so intensely - and have created sort of FALSE STANDARD for others! Such sources make me very sad....bc. of this enormous plight ppl are willing to load upon their "pets" YOU MUST REALIZE THAT YOU ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THIS BUDGIE IS KEPT TOTALLYWRONG! AND that she cannot be a budgie...she can only with partners! And YOU DO this to her, every second...and then you pretend to LOVE your bird....but the opposite is true, if you let all her needs unfulfilled!

Paula Pianda Dude..chill out. LOL Having one budgie is perfectly safe and fine. Quit making shit up. xD I've read numerous things about budgies and yes they swarm in the wild, but I've had single budgies before and they are very happy. Think before you talk.

Paula Pianda stop hurting her feelings cause it hurts my feelings too. I have 4 budgies by the way

@@Pianda ok but buddgies dont have to have a partner if it stays with a closely bonded human most of the time so if shes spending enough time with her budgie then it doesnt need a flock/partner but I agree with the perches and the cage size and stuff.

Yes and perhaps large supply of millet :)

Kitty Vo it is okay all birds are different and hey my bird was tamed the first 30 minutes he got home so

Yeah I know quite a few people who have had their birds tamed the first few days or even in a couple hours. This video targets birds that are older, not hand fed, lives with another, and a lot of the skittish pet shop birds

Maybe she was making up the days?

+Monk ey thank you for tailoring the video to older birds. I am adopting a budgie who is older and has no hand taming experience so I will be starting from scratch. The majority of the information on hand taming out there caters to hand raised birds. I want to give my bird the chance to gain my trust so its good to have an idea of how long it takes.

+Monk ey I just want to let you know how much yoru video has helped! I have been using it to go back and review how you made progress with your bird. Finn is now at the point where he is stepping up for me regardless of millet or not! :) I'm so happy and I couldn't have gotten this far without your video.

Kuorwle i dont understand for how much time did she read in the first steps

@@twickled4553 probably she was reading for 30 - 120 minutes

Good, I am still trying to tame mine xD

how about no I'm sure that 3 years they are now lying down on the couch chilling eating Millets and tortilla chips

how much they get to tame with you plese reply

I'm still trying to tame mine! I have 2 in one cage and their green and the other ones blue. The blue one is very very aggressive. And the green one is calm. When I try to open the door they fly out and I can't grab them. And the blue one bites me😭😭💔

same situation floofy waz here

true

Lol

You could try putting food in your hand instead of his food bowl. That way when it's dinner time the only choice he's got is to go near your hand. After he's eaten some from your hand put the rest of his food in the bowl. Do this every day. Food is the best way to an animals heart. If your hand = food then it = happiness like said in the video :) Slow movements are good too as sharp sudden movements will scare them.

Outlinegm that would starve the bird!

Budgies / parakeets are usually skittish and it depends on wheat going on while ur working with him..... Cockateils are usually less skittish and train easyer

Newly brought , untamed parakeets are always expected to be wussies , because you are a stranger that’s suddenly trying to handle them, it’s normal, parakeets are prey animals, whatever gets close to them , other than their own kind, it’s automatically thought of as a predator

Clip his wings

They always try to bite my gold earrings which is really annoying since they're expensive, and throughout the months, they've destroyed my earrings. my mom isn't too happy about it. lol

THE Goat same but with my glasses 🙃🙃

@@shortmini0n I've seen you somewhere in a thread

Yanelli Yeeted You that makes sense

I am planning of buying two budgies, a male and a female, I want to tame them, so that they sit on my fingers and be comfortable with me. Its ok if it doesn't learn to speak (the male)....Will it be difficult to hand tame both of them?

how long did it take you?

Kirsty MacAskill About 2-4 weeks

+Ally'sTV haha okay. I just got a blue budgie named Ali and I have had him for 4 days and still not tamed. I am just very impatient lol😂

Kirsty MacAskill Me too...when I tamed him it was hard being patient, i'm very impatient as well. Even when taming my hamsters or past animals, it's hard for me lol. :D

+Ally'sTV haha yep. I have gotten to the, "putting the hand close to the budgie" stage I think. I have not got millet but this treat stick thing and he demoshished the whole lot. he fed from that a few times while I was holding it. so yah, that's cool😂

+WhiteWolfos Mine was older and it took him 3 days to start eating form my hand and a week to start doing tricks for treats...

green.brown.blue Thats awesome. I get not all birds are the same.

WhiteWolfos Hum, I dont think so... I put him on my desk on a perch and he just got used to seeing ppl. It's what the breeder told me to do, which means it is just an universal method. :> Which imo makes sense, because the cage is where the bird chills out, feels safe and is not bothered by big clumsy human hands :P .After 12 hours of sleep he is always SOOOO ready to spend the rest of the day outside the cage ^^.

green.brown.blue The bird I'm referring to is a wild sparrow. Budgies are more social and if you bought it from a breeder instead of the trees they are more used to people up close from the beginning. Birds are also different so I do think that their env factors, traumas, age, socialness and fear and your methods +environment you show them affects how fast they warm up to people. There were alot of cats, cars and sparrow-eating crows in my area so the birds in my house were already predisposed to added stress. I cannot leave them at the window or they will go berserk because the predators will try to catch them.

+WhiteWolfos i have 2 birds

Gone but not forgotten. I feel you right beside me, I know I'll see you again, beautiful friend.

Screened Ninja :(

Penguin Love i knew my budgie since the first day i came home.. He died 5 years ago.. I miss him so much..

Nightwish Septiceye Im so sorry. He's in a better place with my bird now. They are happy..

Nightwish Septiceye along with the other birds who have sadly passed

I will also read Harry Potter too to stay on the safe side :)

+TheRoshan89 My bird hates coming out of the gates in the front of his cage, but has no problem with me taking the top off to take him out. I'd try that, if your cage has that option. I think birds just hate to be lowered instead of raised. :3

HOWWW

iCabeAllred How? It was filler.

Budgies are a lot different. They are a lot more skittish. The smaller the bird the more skittish they are. It took me 6 months to even get remotely close to my budgies. It took me 30 minutes of having my cockatiel home he was already cuddled up on me.

sad

Every bird is different it might only take 2-3 weeks so just do it and hope for the best

F

I've noticed that female budgies are much harder to train than males. The males are gregarious and friendly, and generally take less time to train.

That would be racist if it wasn't nature

Memar Game Channel it all depends on the personality of the bird

most likely, budgies live to around 10 years old

Hoooowwwww

She adopded a older one

@Judging Budgie good luck

don't try to get close to the cage, as it is obviously afraid. Just walk by the cage, gently throw a treat inside his cage, and move away. repeat this consistent till you notice it becomes comfortably when you are around the cage, work from there. Now the bird knows : hey if he walks by something good is about to happen. Then he will slowly gaining trust in you. Go at the birds pace

Lol u write funny lol

Ewcewa wooz Don't be scared! They usually aren't aggressive. I only ever got it by mine who was aggressive. My other two has never bit me. However one of them got out of the cage and I had to cup my hands around him to bring him back into his cage and he bit me. Usually their bites don't hurt. They usually choose flight over fight so don't be scared! ♥️

Ewcewa wooz don't be scared.....💖my bird is not aggresive i tamed my bird for 6 days!!!!💜

The budgie isn’t scared of me* I am scared of the budgie*

It depends on his personality, I had pretty kind birds and I remember I had this meany budgie who bite me. I was young so sometimes I beat him with my fingers (not too hard thought )but he was always mean.... Lol

never mind he is like my best friend now even after his worst cleaning he is still close to me

Bunnystorm 101 omg your so luck I have a cockatiel and it's been a little over a week and she won't go on my fonger

My bird is a sraight up BITCH like if you put your finger near hear her so that she can get on shell do it just to crawl up your arm and bite your ear lobe the crazy part is that she knows what shes doing,welp i guess bitchy bird for a bitchy person

Well if you guys have violent birds at least try to get the nicest ones if you are picking one

You really shouldn’t start the training process that soon. The birds need at least 5 days to a week to get accustomed to your home and the noises it makes. Start the process after your birds are comfortable in their environment.

Benji idk YESS

kingcrimson234 my dog was named Bibi. it was girl. i miss her.

nobody gives a shit ok

One of Billions geez thats harsh.

Frosty GD but it’s true lol.

My first thought was "I'm going to read Harry Potter if I get a bird" and then I heard the word "parchment" and went back in the video to listen to that passage.

OMG your picture........UGH🙅..........

Jeja Josipovic7 why r u mad

No body cares

Shut up

If u have an African gray, why are u here then?

Yea thats the quastien ;)

***** THIS IS FOR BUDGIES NOT FOR UR STUPID BIRDS

She was supposed to put a title there, but didn't. It's the format, it expects you to type something

+Cindy99765 thanks

Nice eye

ahmet karatas Yeah i would never have seen that!

Is your problem profile pic Dan and Phil !?!?!?!!?

Ginny Van guilder yes >3< *ladder hands*

+Alice10893 i read harry potter

+Alice10893 i read harry potter

The fact that you recognized Harry Potter from just a few sentences amazes me. Guess I shouldn't be calling myself a potterhead.

Ron Anderson You shouldn't.

@@imAwareOfYourAddress it trains them to think hand = way to get around then they'll have to get on ur hand if they need to get around

Hannah bunny66 But the bird wont really bond with you, they will just think of you has a food source and that’s it.

They just can't escape and be scared as fuck,if they fly again they'll do everything to get away from you

every bird is different.

Tamed mine in 1 :)

Some birds just need more time to relax and get used to a new enviroment. As long as they have a roomy cage, is it really so bad to give them extra time to adjust? It's not like Angela G. just ignored their budgie all this time and never gave them toys or something.

I got it to go on my finger on the first day

same mines sitting in my hand out of the cage with confidence on the 3rd day

it’s been 4 months for me 💔