Budgie Biting

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umm ok thats chrys

I'll try to do this for a few weeks and do you want me to tell you what happened evry day just a breif summary? if so that would be great but i have a question. My green one comes on my finger and hops on my hand but when i put him on my shoulder he tries to fly to the cage after like 4 mins and he also sometimes go down my hand and goes up again  and flys nicley to the cage. how cna i prevent him to doing this ( he only does this sometimes ) should i keep him away from the cage? when hes on my shoulder?

I'll be watiting for your reply

Thanks
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Thanks Chris

MY budgies spend most of thier time playing outisde of the cage or they sit on ( cuase i leave the cage door open and they just come out by themselfs and play)and i also play with them too like try to make thme come on my finger talk to them. it and both of them have thier wings clipped they somtimes only sometimes fight with each other and later they start scratching each toher happily. if u can tell me some information on how to tame my blue one and keep it with a good bond with me that would be grateful

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hi

I have 2 budgies and i got them 2 months ago. one is a green one and the other is a blue one. my blue one BITES HARD when i go close to it with my finger. it also makes this chirping noise that doesnt look like it wants me there and IT JUST STRIKES AT MY FINGER and tries to bite me. but my green one is nice he likes my finger and licks it everytime i go to it and also hops on my finger. can u tell me some ways that i can prevent my blue one from biting me? or tell me why it is.

Answer -
Hi, Kunal.  Thanks for posting!

Evidently, your green budgie is tame, but the blue one is not.  Perhaps the blue one wasn't handfed as a baby and/or has had some bad experiences with humans during it's lifetime and this is why it bites.

Biting in caged birds is a learned behavior.  They learn to bite in order to get their way with their humans.  If a bird isn't tame, it will bite/try to bite it's humans so it's humans will leave it alone.  When the human pulls back their fingers when biten (which is only natural), then the bird learns that all s/he has to do is bite/attempt to bite and their human leaves them alone.  You have to teach s/he otherwise.  However, this will be difficult to do if you have 2 budgies, as birds prefer other birds to humans.  The blue budgie doesn't need your companionship because s/he has the companionship of the green budgie.  The green budgie likely was handfed by it's human and/or tamed when it was a baby and imprinted on humans, whereas your blue budgie wasn't.  Makes for a big difference in the birds!  

You need to train your blue budgie not to bite you.  Do you let these birds out of their cage(s) during the day?  If so, I assume their wing flight feathers aren't clipped?  Are these birds in the same cage or separate cages?

Please respond to my questions so I can help you further.  My website has some information you need:

http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/birdinfo/index.html

Thanks.

Chrys

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Hi again, Kunal.

I can't guarantee you can tame down your blue budgie.  As I stated in my previous post, since birds prefer other birds to humans, your blue budgie might not want your companionship since the other bird is present.  My website provided information on the process involved to tame down your blue budgie.

You'll need to take your blue budgie into a neutral room where s/he can't see/hear the other bird and/or get to it's cage.  Set the budgie down in this other room and just you and the bird interact with each other.  Play with him/her, start teaching s/he to "step up" on your finger as you say those words and press your finger to his/her lower chest.  Always reward your budgie for positive behavior, but never reward for negative behavior.  In other words, when your blue does what you ask s/he to do, then reward the bird with it's favorite treat.  Don't reward when bird doesn't do what you ask.  Just take this time you have together with your blue with your goal to gain your birds trust.  You should have these sessions several times per day, but you will need to end each session when you've lost your birds attention...you have to have his/her undivided, total attention in order to make this work.  Some days you may only be able to work with this bird for a couple minutes, other days you might be able to keep his/her attention for longer.  This is why taming takes knowledge on your part and much time and patience.  It won't happen over night and cannot be guaranteed.  You can't force a bird to do what it doesn't want to do!  And with the other bird present, well, sometimes you can tame a second bird, other times not, it just depends on the individual bird involved.  However, you have to understand parrot behavior and know what you're doing.  

If your blue is friendly enough that s/he will sit on your shoulder (some parrots never step up on fingers because they fear fingers), then allow the blue to sit on your shoulder as you watch TV, mess around on your PC, have dinner, do dishes, etc.  This would be a step in building trust with your birds, which is your ultimate goal.  You can do most anything with a parrot that trusts you.  Your problem will be the other bird in the house.  The best pet birds are single birds in the home, as long as the human is able to spend enough time with their bird.

Chrys

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Hi again, Kunal.

While I'm very interested in knowing how you and your birds are doing, especially after I've provided you some guidance, you don't have to keep me informed on a daily basis.  Occasional updates would be just fine!

A bird feels safe in/on/around it's cage.  It's cage is it's personal territory, the place a bird probably knows more than any other place in a home, therefore, a lot of birds like to stay "close" to their cages ("there's no place like home").  If you don't want your bird going back to it's cage whenever you are interacting with it away from it's cage, you'll need to stay away from the cage and/or place the cage in another room.

Chrys