Hello!
I have a Budgie named Blair, who if I must say, is an INCREDIBLY stubborn bird.
When I first got her it took several months until she began to trust me, and we bonded very closely. She would fly up to me, sit on my head, try and eat my hair, it was lovely (except from the hair thing) however, I had to move from my old house and in my new house it wasn't safe for her and my other budgies to come out of their cage. the cage is quite large and i have multiple toys and foraging activities in there, but what was meant to be only a few weeks of just keeping them in a cage turned into months because of COVID and other things. Eventually it was like my budgies didn't know who I was anymore which is completely understandable, and I started their training once more.
However two out of my three budgies passed away and that left Blair, they didn't go in a nice way and the accident had left Blair traumatised. I've left her to grieve for a few days and have just spent my time sitting on a stool by her cage reading out loud or singing, she sings back sometimes (probably to get me to shut up lol) but whenever I get a bit closer she freaks out and flies to the other end of the cage. So I decided I would start her training again with target training, which started off incredibly well, and she did actually enjoy it enough she would want to come out the cage to do it again. However my house is near a road and one day while she was out a motorbike rode past and revved the engine really hard, it spooked her and she just darted from her perch and smacked into the nearest wall, I rushed to her and picked her up in my hand gently (she does not like anyone touching her) and she absolutely went berserk!!
I knew she was stunned and didn't liked to be touched so I checked her for injuries and once I knew she was okay I popped her back in her cage. The next day when I tried speaking to her or a little bit of target training she completely ignored me, which I thought was fair enough she does get angry with me often. so I left her alone. Today however she was chirping happily again and I decided that she had forgiven me and started training again. However as soon as I opened the door she flipped out, and tried to bite my hands.
I am worried that because I handled her to check her over that I have broken her trust and I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to build up that trust again. if it can be built up again or any training tips.
I have a Budgie named Blair, who if I must say, is an INCREDIBLY stubborn bird.
When I first got her it took several months until she began to trust me, and we bonded very closely. She would fly up to me, sit on my head, try and eat my hair, it was lovely (except from the hair thing) however, I had to move from my old house and in my new house it wasn't safe for her and my other budgies to come out of their cage. the cage is quite large and i have multiple toys and foraging activities in there, but what was meant to be only a few weeks of just keeping them in a cage turned into months because of COVID and other things. Eventually it was like my budgies didn't know who I was anymore which is completely understandable, and I started their training once more.
However two out of my three budgies passed away and that left Blair, they didn't go in a nice way and the accident had left Blair traumatised. I've left her to grieve for a few days and have just spent my time sitting on a stool by her cage reading out loud or singing, she sings back sometimes (probably to get me to shut up lol) but whenever I get a bit closer she freaks out and flies to the other end of the cage. So I decided I would start her training again with target training, which started off incredibly well, and she did actually enjoy it enough she would want to come out the cage to do it again. However my house is near a road and one day while she was out a motorbike rode past and revved the engine really hard, it spooked her and she just darted from her perch and smacked into the nearest wall, I rushed to her and picked her up in my hand gently (she does not like anyone touching her) and she absolutely went berserk!!
I knew she was stunned and didn't liked to be touched so I checked her for injuries and once I knew she was okay I popped her back in her cage. The next day when I tried speaking to her or a little bit of target training she completely ignored me, which I thought was fair enough she does get angry with me often. so I left her alone. Today however she was chirping happily again and I decided that she had forgiven me and started training again. However as soon as I opened the door she flipped out, and tried to bite my hands.
I am worried that because I handled her to check her over that I have broken her trust and I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to build up that trust again. if it can be built up again or any training tips.