Caring for Parakeets : Taming a Parakeet
February 6, 2010 by
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If your parakeet is wild and excited, learn different ways to tame and calm parakeets in this free pet care video. Expert: Elizabeth Cantu Bio: Elizabeth Cantu has owned and been working with birds since 1994. She works with an avian veterinarian on behavior modification on birds. Currently, she owns a website that designs bird toys. Filmmaker: julio costilla
make sure you scratch its head and ensure you avoid the eye and the ear.
ive tamed all my birds, and have never purchased a hand raised bird. The key is to pat them and scratch their head. The best way is to keep it in a quiet area for around a week with nothing exciting or scary. use a stick or something and insert it through the cage and begin to use it to scratch it, slowly work your way closer and closer till you actually touch it when once you start touching it the trust will grow dramatically and will begin to be tame. this usually takes a week to do with steps
is 8 hours okay
i mean while i’m at school
There is no need to take food away and that could be dangerous if you forget that you you’ve removed their food. If you simply offer a spray of millet (not from the palm of your hand but a long millet spray at first) first thing in the morning, before they eat their breakfast, they will be hungry and the millet will be tempting. After they take a few bites of millet, they begin to trust and you can gradually use shorter sprays of millet until they are eating out of your hand.
it is possible, but it will be really really hard because it older. it’s better to train them when they r younger.
i have 3 budgies, and one of them comes out of the cage by itself and when i go to handle, it’ll come on my finger, sit for a while but as soon as it hears the other birds, it’ll fly back to the cage, anyone have any suggestions on how to keep him from flying back?
U you say umm alot o.o
This is so wrong, yes you can tame a bird this way but WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO WHEN ITS LESS DAMAGING AND EASIER WITH OTHER METHODS?
you are cute!
sorry by the commet you just can’t take away their food
you can’t train a bird get out of youtube you dont take away there food.You let them get used to your hand being in the cage.Right
@DemonFlame4 That must be because you were giving your bird negative experience of you. You can’t say that you want to it show some respect if you had been bad to it. It may be because youv’e taking it to your hand without the birds own will or etc… You should get him a friend if he’s being that long lonely. People, go to forums and get some knowledge before going youtube watching some taming videos… When getting a bird, no good breeder would sell you a bird alone, get a least two.
this is not correct! sorry…taking away the food is not taming a budgie! I have two budgies and I never took their food away. they are very tame because I invested a lot of time in dealing with them. If you want budgies that trust you and jump on your hand you need to have PATIENCE. you cannot just force them to do as you wish because you paid for them..sorry..that’s stupid and makes me angry. Also, budgies are not made to be kept alone! you should always keep at least 2 of them.
My birds beat up each otherfor the food lol
I haven’t really touched my parakeet in 7 years, I’ve fed it, cleaned it, watered it, and saw it become fearful of me just by walking by its cage. But enough is enough, I want this bird to show some respect to me and man up. Anyone know if it’s still possible to tame this bird?
you call yourself an expert!? putting away food is a inproper way to tame your bird.
lets see, if you would sleep with me, if i let you starve for some days.
this is stupid.
NOT GOING TO DO THAT! MY NEPHEW WHO IS 15 WAS CLOWNING AROUND. He heard me complaing about my one crzy keet and thought this would be funny. Sorry I left my CPU on and sorry about the commet I removed it.
NOT GOING TO DO THAT! MY NEPHEW WHO IS 15 WAS CLOWNING AROUND. He heard me complaing about my one crzy keet and thought this would be funny. Sorry I left my CPU on and sorry about the commet I removed it.
it sounds like this bird needs more time and compassion. putting a bird to sleep because he’s “mean” is cruel.
fasting birds is unnecessary if they are willing to work with treats. a budgie with a healthy diet will still work for seeds and millet without starvation.
@ThePattycake1313 No way! Maybe put it in another cage? Anyway how long did you have him?
pluck the broken tail feather. it will grow back
I have 5 birds. 3 boys 2 girls. Its not really a problem to my birds to have an extra boy than girl. 2 really like each other and are always next to each other. The other 3 are all friends chirping.When i first started training them, I put my finger in front of them and they got on. Then my other finger and they got on. Soon they got the hang of it. Now, one of my birds sits on his little toy swing that is close to the bars of the cage and lets me feed him from there. I love my birds.<33
What I do to help it get used to my voice is read it stories, and it’s fun for me too!
I have two parakeets and the male when into a bag which he tryed to get out but we hade to help him.When he came out his hail was like messed up ( one tail feather this way and the other the other way) will he eventualy straten it?? Or could this be seriouse??