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for awhile now one of my budgies pearl, will not stay on my finger and let me put her into the cage for bedtime and its gotten espesially bad recently. im not sure what has changed because she has never cared to much before! pearl is very hand tame and will step up no problem for any reason at any other time of the day, but as soon as its bedtime, she refuses to step up or stay on my hand as i go near the cage. i have to end up traping her or tricking her, like for example, letting her fly to the window set up of perches and then trying to very quickly shut the curtain so shes traped in there, then i can reach around and grab her, she can fly very well! it is no easy task, it is not safe and incredibly frustrating for the both of us :-(
ive tried doing training sessions where during the day i will bring her in and out of the cage on my hand and reward her once shes in there and hasnt flown away, but as soon as its night aand time for the real deal she refuses. she shares a cage with another budgie, but recently i set up her old cage to see if maybe shed prefer sleeping on her own, and shes also been very hormonal recently (pearl is a male, i just cant help say she) getting possesive and even agressive towards me when too exited, she zooms around the room and pesters orchid the other budgie. when she is like this she is also very hard to handle, it is even more dificult to catch her when shes in these episodes. but it didnt help much and turns out orchid has a little seperation anxiety, wich makes sense now that ive noticed, as she lost her last cage mate before i got her and she was very stressed out on the cage in her own, biting at the bars even if she could see pearl in her sight so i had to put them back together. despite this, orchid doesnt necessarily even like pearl much. pearl i would say is uuh, socialy inept? she was hand raised with from what i know little other budgie interaction, and also had a mirror. its hard to explain but, she treats and talks to other birds the same way she would a toy lol. she has the instict to chase em around but she dosnt actually really know what to do. soon after orchid met her, i think she picked up that pearl was different, so quit trying to befriend her, where as the female budgie i had before her never gave up in trying to swoon her bless.
they get to be out of their cages all day, their cage is a decent size for this and once in her cage she is fine, sometimes pesters orchid but is otherwise not unrestful. though i am hoping to be able to upgrade their cage soon to a double flight cage, but it will be after moving sometime mid year.
but anyway, i dont know what to do about this and it cannot keep going on :-[ any suggestions?
sorry for bad spelling and grammer btw
ive tried doing training sessions where during the day i will bring her in and out of the cage on my hand and reward her once shes in there and hasnt flown away, but as soon as its night aand time for the real deal she refuses. she shares a cage with another budgie, but recently i set up her old cage to see if maybe shed prefer sleeping on her own, and shes also been very hormonal recently (pearl is a male, i just cant help say she) getting possesive and even agressive towards me when too exited, she zooms around the room and pesters orchid the other budgie. when she is like this she is also very hard to handle, it is even more dificult to catch her when shes in these episodes. but it didnt help much and turns out orchid has a little seperation anxiety, wich makes sense now that ive noticed, as she lost her last cage mate before i got her and she was very stressed out on the cage in her own, biting at the bars even if she could see pearl in her sight so i had to put them back together. despite this, orchid doesnt necessarily even like pearl much. pearl i would say is uuh, socialy inept? she was hand raised with from what i know little other budgie interaction, and also had a mirror. its hard to explain but, she treats and talks to other birds the same way she would a toy lol. she has the instict to chase em around but she dosnt actually really know what to do. soon after orchid met her, i think she picked up that pearl was different, so quit trying to befriend her, where as the female budgie i had before her never gave up in trying to swoon her bless.
they get to be out of their cages all day, their cage is a decent size for this and once in her cage she is fine, sometimes pesters orchid but is otherwise not unrestful. though i am hoping to be able to upgrade their cage soon to a double flight cage, but it will be after moving sometime mid year.
but anyway, i dont know what to do about this and it cannot keep going on :-[ any suggestions?
sorry for bad spelling and grammer btw
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