Parakeet training session

Bibi the American budgie at about 9 months old. This is a sample training session. The behavior is not yet on cue as I am currently shaping for more energetic spins. The conditioned stimulus is a tongue cluck. Parakeets seem highly food motivated and thus easy to train.

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• budgie
• parakeet
• pet
• bird
• cute
• trick
• smart
• learn
• teach

[wishingstars163]

Aw! That's cute! How long did it take to train them? I want to teach mines to do that! But I just got it today and they're (2 of them) are scared of me. :(

Whenever I come over to their cage, they stay still and when I walk away, they back away from me :(

How can i bond with them?

[Ichijojichan]

@wishingstars163 I've found millet works wonders. They love it, and if you get long sprays of it, you can hold one end in your hand while they nibble at the other. Eventually, they will eat millet seeds right from the palm of your hand. I liked to sit quietly near Bibi as well, just so he'd get used to me and feel calm about me being near him.

[MonkeyPsycho]

if the cere of my parakeet is pinkish and white what gender is it.

[Ichijojichan]

@MonkeyPsycho Female, usually. They all look that way when they are babies, though, and there are some males whose cere never turns blue.

[CantonGirl2861]

hey, i want to get that beautiful wheel for my budgies! it probably will help both of my birds, what kind of toy is that???

[Ichijojichan]

It's a bird toy, I got it in a big box pet store, it came with a fake parakeet as well. The packaging was purple, if that helps.

[MewIchigo1chan]

Cool, \I know of a basketball toy I want to get when I have a budgie again :3 To those who have difficulty with training,it's easier to train if your budgie is only coming in contact with you as a trainer so he doesn't get confused.Also keep him from playing with another budgie till he is tame,since other budgies distract eachother and are harder 2 train.They r social and will seek you out as a playmate.Slowly begin to interact with them.More info if u ask me on my chanel.Dont want 2 spam here.

[Eavengp]

a way to get your parakeet to like you is to give it its favorite treat (it has to be the kind you hang on the cage) and hold it near the parakeet lifting your finger every now and then (slowly or it will get scared) so it realizes that your finger helps and not hurts. once you have done that you can put your finger in its cage sometimes and lift all fingers one at a time to show that your hand is the same is your finger. i cant get further than that though but it still knows your finger.

[Beatboxbizboy]

@Ichijojichan Mine Has Long Strands Of Millet In Its Cage, But When I Try To Feed It Some He Runs Away, And Also He Wont Go On My Finger Unless On A Certain Branch, Is There Anyway To Help Us Bond More

[kiwi142009]

hey i had a bird and i got another bird one of my bird waz almost tamed and wen the other one came should i restart and tame thm both at the same time?

[thecrazyappleoflife]

@wishingstars163 u just leave them for three days and thn. thyl get use to the cage. and so u start taking it out. and playing with it. or u cud hand feed them sometimes. not all. make sure they have names for u to call them. thier smart birds. theyll know when u call they my saying thier name. if u keep say tht bird or u . u might as well name them tht. this probly didnt help cuz u know had yur bird for a year. but just so u kno

[hopperhorse123]

@xVikaBla well i have a huge patio door, and windows everywhere.

[xVikaBla]

@hopperhorse123 My birdies never flew against anything even though one is handycapped. and they enjoy flying a LOT...

[hopperhorse123]

@xVikaBla acctually i was moving a troublesome female and her mate to a new cage, the boy loves me so he was no problem but the female is a real bitch. for somereason she couldnt get back up the cage when she fell to the floor so as im trying to get her she keeps falling on her wings stragely untill it ripped out one of her fly feathers, leaving her bleeding for a few secounds.

[hopperhorse123]

@xVikaBla if you dont want your best friend budgie to fly into a window and break its beak/ neck then clipping the wings is what you do. Just make sure to get a professional unless you are one. If you cut them to short, youll hurt the bird, if its too long they will be able to fly, somewhat.