my budgies

Question
ok I actually have a couple of questions but I'll ask them all in this
paragraph. First of all my cousins gave me my budgies so they came
together in a pretty small cage with a pull out drawer on the bottom to clean
droppings and stuff.  The floor above that is wired.  First question is there any
thing I should do with this cage?  Then I read on the Internet that budgies
are easier to train when they see you as their flock.  And are easier to train
seperatly.  So my aunt brought us this much bigger cage with two perches.
And we moved the girl budgie in there. Second  question: should I have
separated them, and if not should I put them back together? Now my budgie
is a really nice bird. He's never bitten me, and I can sort of feel his emotions.
I'm likethat when it comes to animals. Anyway even though he's nice and
quiet and sometimes let's me feed him, he's very nervous around me. If I put
my hand to one side of the cage, he would move to the other side on the
one perch the cage has.  Third question, how can I let him like having me
around?  Now I've tried perch training him before, but due to my emotion
sharing of animals, this is hard for me.  I don't know how mush I should push
at his belly or where EXACTLY to push. Are pens good perches?  One time
when he was out of his cage I decided to give it a go and when I push to
make him step on, instead of stepping on he fell over backwards! By then I
was saying to myself that this was going to be difficult. I'm always afraid that
I'm forcing my bird too much can you help me?  Thank you :^)

Answer
Hi danny!

I recommend putting both in the larger cage. At one I bought 4 new budgies and all are fairly tame by now. One female is still vicious, but only when she is around her chicks. They can be tamed together, and a lot of the time this helps because on bird sees what the other is doing and if you offer treat rewards then the other bird will do that trick or step onto your hand to get the treat too. Your other bird is probably just skittish. Or maybe he is just in a bad mood. Slowly let him get used to you, he'll come around. Put your finger just above their feet and push lightly. If he feels like it he will get on, if not, try again later. You can keep your birds separated, but keeping them together would work too.

Hope this helps!
Erika