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>>181025 First, you need patience. Buckets and buckets of it. Fortunately this generally won't take more than a few weeks, maybe a month, tops. I'll assume that you've bird-proofed the room so you can let them play around freely and that they're no strangers to their environs.
My strategy is to first get the birds interested in you. This happens by talking to them a lot, paying them a lot of attention and so forth, chatting with them in a friendly tone. (Doesn't count if it's nap time though.) Remember to maintain some sort of eye contact: they need to know that you're talking to _them_, and not around in general. Birds don't have a "staredown" thing unlike dogs and some other mammals, unless your manner of looking is aggressive.
Then you need to get them used to, or at least feeling neutral with regard to, your hands. This tends to happen over time as you're cleaning the cage and all that.
Once they cheerfully come to the side of the cage where you're closest and sort of, indicate that they'd perhaps like to sit on top of your head, you can start offering them things with your hands. Lettuce, bird treats, that sort of thing. This transitions your hands from "non-threatening" to "yay, incoming treats and lettuce".
Then you combine these two. Open the cage door, wait until the bird comes to greet you there, offer your finger just outside the threshold. Possibly offer a bit of lettuce to them that's just out of reach, unless they step on your finger. Eventually they will. (If either of them is female, you'll likely get bit, too, since they tend to gnaw on anything.)
Once you've got that far, you need to train them to get off your finger when you say so. A warm, soft, comfortable perch is something that budgies tend to really really dig after all.
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