Immediately after a small feathered friend appears in the house, his owner has a question how to tame a budgie in his hands so that he is not afraid and behaves calmly. Moving to a new place in a bird causes a lot of stress, so you need to give it time to get comfortable in the apartment, examine its cage, get used to the surrounding voices. This will take a week, or maybe two.
When the parrot is no longer afraid of every rustle, you can check how tame it is. To do this, put a couple of centimeters in his cage with his fingers, if he is not afraid of his hand and even reaches for it, then taming will not take much time, but if he dodges and flies throughout the cage, then the feathered bird was completely wild.
How to tame budgerigar ? Of course, with the help of feed.
Many may object, they say, to make the bird starve inhumanly, because the parrot has a quick metabolism, and he must eat very often. During the day, the feeder should not be selected, but at night it needs to be put out of the cage. In the morning you need to pour food on the palm of your hand, several grains should be on the fingers. Careful smooth movements should approach the perch with a seated bird. Some birds sit on their hands the first time to eat. If nothing happened right away, then you shouldn’t be upset, you need to repeat this procedure every day until the result appears and a budgie sits on your hand.
The photo of these cute creatures awakens tenderness and tenderness in our hearts for them, so I want the bird to become a faithful friend and interlocutor, fearlessly sit on his arm or shoulder. Making food in the cage is not so difficult, but how to tame the budgerigar in the hands of a room where it can fly away freely? To do this, you first need to let him get used to the new room, allowing him to fly freely.
There should be a place in the room where the bird can sit down, as if in a cage on a perch. An ordinary
table lamp can become such an object
, not bad if it is located just opposite the face. If the parrot doesn’t land on it at all, then it can be prompted by scattering several grains there. Before you
tame the budgerigar to your hands, you should make sure that he feels confident in the room and does not tremble with fear at the sight of an approaching hand.
On the thumbnail, you can put a seed or another treat, slowly approach the sitting pet and put your hand so that he has to climb his index finger in order to eat a treat. If such manipulations are done all the time, then in a short time the feathered one will become completely tame, he will not only not be afraid to climb his arm or shoulders, but will also pester himself, begging for something tasty.
Hand parrots are very amusing, it is interesting to watch them. With frequent communication, birds quickly get used to people, they fly up and sit on their shoulders or hands, can peck at the ear. Pets love their owners not at all for the food that they offer them. Parrots like to talk and play with them, so you should not forget to take care and attention in relation to your feathered friend.