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Why I feel like Mia just always trying to figure out how to jump to the shoulder that’s just an inch too far away
Mia is so sweet!
I'm glad we're on the same page! I'm honestly so happy to hear you speak about this. People often really confuse that small/medium sized birds are really different to their larger counterparts. If I were to let my budgies out on the first day they came home, they would've flew and hurt themselves on the walls. Not to mention, most people who do end up letting them go flying like them end up chasing their birds to get them back in the cage. It's just a bad idea. Having them acclimate to their surround for awhile is a better approach! :)
Mia: "How do i get to the shoulder WITHOUT getting closer to Newt..." lol
I'm about to get tomorrow 2 budgies, this video comes in hand!
I’m getting budgies in 3 days!
How did it go?
Newt's loud "achoo" off-camera and out of the blue (9:16) reminds me of my dad's sneeze 🤣
I read you were getting a new bird!! 🤦 I am not too bright......
Maybe its a hint
Thank you for posting this! I am about to get a parrotlet, and this is great information. You have the best channel. No nonsense and your birds are SO CUTE! I love them!
this was very helpful! would you ever do a topics video on prepping your home/space for a new bird? I've been worried about what kind of houseplants to avoid, non-stick pan coating (is there a distance where that would be okay? or not at all?), when and how things like candles or incense can be used in your home (if at all?). on one hand I read a lot about how dangerous these things are, and on another I see other bird owners online using these things in other parts of their life/house.
Anything that makes smoke is harmfull unless totally seprate from the bird. Teflon can be harmful even on a differnet side of the house.
If you use candles for scent, there are many alternatives (boiling orange zest, etc.)
I reccommend joining the forum Avian Avenue, theres lots of good info there.
@@KiwiAndCompany Oh that's so cool! I'm also on the forum, I have been recommending it to others here as well what a coincidence :D
I got my second bird a week or two ago, and i’m pretty sure she came from a hoarding situation so she’s very skittish. as much as it hurts to say i probably wont be able to gain her trust for a long time :(
a arigatou thanks,, that made me feel a lot better about the situation :) i still do want to try to atleast hand tame her so she doesnt get hurt when i let her out of her cage
How are they do now
@@Justaguywholikes69 there was a time before my first bird passed where she was friendly and chirped and preened with her partner. now she still chirps sometimes but isnt too trusting of my hands or anything. she really thrives with another bird, and im planning to adopt one soon i just havent gotten around to it. it took around a month i think to gain her trust enough for her to step up when the other bird was around.
theres been ups and downs. right now we’re at a low point but thats bc her best friend passed a few months ago :(
@@ellen2494 hello it’s been a while since your comment but I just wanted to know, how is your bird now?
@@thatsroughbuddy5211 shes been through different waves of trust level, right now she wont step up but will sometimes eat millet from my hand. sadly her companion passed away sometime last year but her new companion and her are very happy even if they dont trust me too much. i keep their cage open when im around and they are very happy birds. i think some birds just arent people-birds if that makes sense
I’m getting a new parrolet tonight I have 3 cockatiels but haven’t gotten a new bird in 5 years so definitely a needed video.
I've literally just had my parrotlet a week so thanks for this. He is skittish so body language tips are appreciated.
I love birds and appreciate your channel!
I have two young budgies, they love playing with their toys inside the cage, they will eat millet spray and seeds from my hands, one in particular will easily follow the millet and get onto my finger. The other one is more skiddish, and will just fly around my room and land on my ceiling fan. They will spend hours up there. I can coax the one back down with treats but I don’t want to reinforce just flying up to the fan all the time. The other one is much harder to get back in the cage even after leaving them alone up there for awhile. Suggestions?
Haha its been one month since I got by fourth budgie
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,ó_ò,
Don’t worry I have 4 (O_O”) (I feel the pain) 2 of mine can sometimes be brats (-~-“) But they are usually great little sweethearts! I’ve had them about a week now.
I have 9
One talks very much😎😎😎😎
Lillo's Channel- budgie guide i had 31 when i was 11 years old 😎
@@vara.x 🤩🤩🤩🤩
@@vara.x now I'm 11 yrs old 😁
u and mia are matching colors its so cute
Very good information ❤
I’m a partially involuntary new bird foster parent 😂 I found a paralyzed wild bird last week and it was with my neighbor for two weeks until today (they know more about birds but they’re moving so I have the bird now). It’s some type of water hen and it can’t fly or stand up due to the paralysis. I hope it can recover. 😞
Thank you for sharing all your knowledge about these amazing birds, my daughter owned 2 budgies and a canary, 1 budgie died because she kind of neglected them n didn't look out for the signs she was sick until it was too late! so ever since I've been learning so much about them n now am feeding them lots of vegetables as my daughter only fed them seeds And the budgie has never been out the cage so I'm slowly taming him as I can't bare for another one to die never coming out the cage like the canary hes out n so happy but it's a working progress with the budgie, so am looking forward to your taming video but I should have cracked it by then as today he ate millet out my hand 😁 I'm super proud of hes progress as he's always been very scared bless him but things are definitely looking up thanks to all your amazing videos thank you so much again you and ElleAndThebirds has changed our birds life for the better but children should never get birds 🐦 as they need so much care and poor old mum's get left to look after them ❤❤
I got so exited
I thought you got another flying toddler😑
I’m just getting a bird this weekend so this is super helpful!
Looks like Mia and you wore the same dress today 😍🙂😍🙂
The nature sounds part that u mentioned made me regret what I did today so much.. I thought he liked it 😩🥺 man.. I probably bumped us back to square one of getting used to the environment.
I have a question why is my parrolet breathing so hard? She makes little click sounds every 1 secound. I just got her yestereday... I got her from a breeder
Thanks for the video😄
Aww I love birds
How long do i give my baby lovebird (weeks old) space/boundary if it needs to be handfed (with formula)? I’m scared if i don’t feed it, it’ll starve and go weak :(
when I got my bird and I tried to get her from her travel cage and into the main cage and while trying to lure her out she hopped right onto my hand and asked me to give her scritches
Where did you get that swinging branch? Is it a diy branch?
A peta commercial started before this video and it was of owls screeching and now my Budgie is scared
I'd love the list of websites to be in description or comments
My father had a bird when he was little, he got robbed.
The robbers tried to steal the bird and next thing they hear is the bird screaming my uncles name,
He screamed “JOEY!!!! “
Yesss! Thank you!
I got my cockatiel 3 days ago he is 5 months older and he is not hand raised
He is in smaller cage now but I want buy new big cage for him so I can put some toys inside the cage so is it ok to buy new big cage for him now ? I am worried about he will get stressed
You definitely can, I would be sure to slit introduce things though! Leave the cage in the room for a while, add a toy at a time, let the bird see and evaluate before being confined to the scary new area!
@@FlockTalk Thank you so much for your suggestion and your video was really helpful😊😊
HELP PLEASE. i got a 8 year old conure from this lady that just left the bird in the cage. she never git it out just once. the bird is super territorial and just wants to attack me all the time. i dont know what to do. please help me
also the bird never had toys in its cage but this 1 toy that i cant tell what it is bc it was just poop. so it wont play with toys what do i do with that too
You can ask a bird forum lie Avian Avenue Parrot Forum, trust me its worth it!
Hi there. I have 2 green cheeks and 2 sun conures. I am having troubles with my my green cheeks always chasing away my sun conures. There are times the GC's are in one area of the room and then they see thr SC's playing with a toy or eating food and they decide to chase them off, but the thing is I put the same food and kind of toy on the GC's area as well but they still try to chase the others off. Any tips?
I FEEL SO BAD FOR MIA COULD YOU NOT HAVE BEEN 1 INCH TO THE LEFT????
What do I do ,I grabbed my bird and scared it and I want to bond again
I’m getting a budgie on SATERDAY! ❤️❤️❤️
Saturday *
May I know what's your little blue bird's breed name pls
Mia is a little parrotlet:)
I got my parrotlet a week ago, the problem with me is that he's not hand raised and i know he is afraid of hands but i literally dont have another choice and i have to put my hand inside the cage to put food and that hurts me a lot cause he alsways gets scared and i dont want to do that T-T. What should dooooo???
Put food on your finger and feed them
Go to Ginger's parrot rescue or another legit bird rescue if you want to help parrots! Us loving them so much actually hurts them in the long run pegood they suffer greatly because they live so long and we get disinterested in them. Vet bills will come too and they ain't cheap.
Hi thanks help so much
Hey, hello.
So I have had my birds for almost four weeks now. They still aren't to excited about stepping up. They are getting alot better with target training. But they still are not very hand friendly yet.
How soon after getting them, should their stress level be down enough for another 1hr30min car ride to the vet?
Four weeks sounds like ample time to decompress after a big change like moving to a new home! I would just be sure to keep soft music on in the car so the road sounds don’t startle them too much!
@@FlockTalk check.
Their ride from store to home was with classical and lavender leaves and flours.
It’s been 5+ weeks with my shy little parrotlet, he was not hand raised and is currently afraid of me
Right now the best we can do it have him eat bits of millet from my finger and walk outside the cage onto a table
He’s only motivated by millet though hng, I’m not sure how to get him to like me too
Thats a great start! You spend more time around them, only associate positive things with him.
There are others that have better advice than me in a CZcams comment, go to a bird forum and ask for help. Such as Avian Avenue Parrot Forum, I've gotten much help from these people to tame my beautiful budgie :)
I am getting two new cockatiels today and this video has been very useful. Thank you!!!
BTW any name suggestions?
sorry just seeing this now. What did you name them? I am getting a cockatiel today and I am calling her phoebe -> phi phi. Are they good birds?
@@foreverelm5603 phi phi is such a cute name oh my goodness! I named mine Biggie and Pabi. Biggie is really scared and a little chill whilst Pabi is almost fully tame he already goes/flys onto my finger/shoulder but only for some millet lol. But he is soooo stubborn like seriously it’s cute but torture
@@bangally3551 haha! I got phoebe the other day and she is settling in well and is already eating out my hand! :))
@@foreverelm5603 wow that’s big steps! Did you get already tamed or untamed?
@@bangally3551 untamed
Your parrotlet and conure.. (I believe it’s a conure?) seem to tolerate each other well. Are they good with each other all the time? Would you have any tips on the two together? I have a parrotlet and absolutely adore conures so would like to get one in the future but I’m unsure as they both have such big personalities and obviously the size difference! Thank you for your vids they are so helpful
i know this is an old comment but she (now?) has a video on introducing mia and newt to eachother :)
I was curious. How full of toys/ stimulation should the cage be when you first bring them home? Since they will already be dealing with a new stressful life change.
Decently full, you want the cage to have enough things that you won’t need to be sticking your hands in there to add more scary things once the bird is already inside. Plus additional things gives them plenty of spaces to hide to help them feel safer and settle in quicker!
@@FlockTalk thank you. 😁
I got a 1 year old green Conure that’s hates being touched. He doesn’t step up or like hands one bit but he does like getting on my shoulder does anyone have any advice on how I can teach him to step up? (I’ve taught him to target and have tried to lure him with treats but still no progress)
You might want to just start simple, he might be a bit tamed but just try taming him again. I have a taming video on my channel that might help!
my bird looks like a giraffe when he's scared. Stretches his neck so far it scares me XD
Damn I guess I won’t get him out with my hand he’s good after I do but I will give space
I have a cockateil since 3 days....but tried to step up the bird many times and it ran away 🙄
He's not tamed
Use ur logic
he's scared and you can try to tame him😁
But is very difficult 😐
@@futurefreefliers5861 i waited one month due to corona to get the bird....so i was overexcited.....now i will not touch it
@birds birds birds absolutely right ❤️
@@Dr.Souravagrawal watch my video for taming budgies!
Cockatiels are similar to budgies, this taming process will be very helpful
@@arigatou312 another bird is not necessary. birds can bond with humans the same way they bond with other birds if you treat yourself like part of the flock.
my closest avian vet is about 3 hours away
i have 2 budgies and i wanna give them pellets but where i live i can't find any so what should i do
Order them online
I have a lovebird (black mask, 3 months, handfed) I got 5 days ago. He's semi friendly comes out of his cage will fly to my head or shoulder on his own but will bite any finger that gets close to him. Is there any training I can do to mellow him out.
Feed treats with your hand so they associate your hands with yummy food. Start with a long spray of millet, then slowly shorten it after a few days and try to get them to take from your finger or palm.
Any update?
One thing that I know about parrotlets from being a parrotlet owner is that they are too small for their own good. The chances that they can fly away or be accidentally killed by an unsuspecting person is very high and it is very very easy for them to get diseases and die. Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) is one of the main diseases you should look out for and it's just so so so unfortunate how such loveable creatures are so vulnerable because of their size. My own Ari flew away a few weeks ago and I still can't get over her disappearance and I'm having mental breakdowns every time I see anything related to her. Please be very, very cautious with your parrotlet so it can live its best, healthiest and longest life with you.
Can you suggest some avain vets because I am getting a bird soon. I have done my research and i know everything but the avain vet part
It depends on where you are :)
Yeah first comment and first view
5 th!
Also, keep your birds away from a dog or cat cus mine almost died today. My brother opened my door while my birds were out of their cages and the dog ran in and started attacking one of my birds and i ran in because he was screaming and yeah I had to get the dog off of him. He's doing fine but I think he's just traumatized. He got a lot of love today
My brother isn't traumatized my bird was
Get him to a vet immediately! Birds are the best at hiding illness, I experienced it myself. Don't make the mistake like I did :(
New bird eating ONLY millet and nothing else.....what to do
Get out of cage the millet and put an other type of seed. Lillo ate only one tipe of seed but i gave him new seeds without his favorite seeds. Type by tipe... Now he eats everything i give him.
@@futurefreefliers5861 i m trying to feed vegies and fruits
@@Dr.Souravagrawal mmmm.... Ok
What parrot is?
@@futurefreefliers5861 lutino cockatiels
@@Dr.Souravagrawal it takes a long time to convert them to another diet, maybe mix some millet with some mashed sweet potato, also try Harrison’s pellets, super fine pellets looks kinda like millet, try and mix some of those will millet. Maybe wrap some cabbage around a big piece of millet, there are lots of videos online about it though so good luck with changing your birds diet!
How many birds do you have?
Just the two, Mia the parrotlet and Newt the conure!
Hey, I was planning on bringing home a second parrotlet soon, but I don't really have room for a second cage. Would housing two parrotlets in one cage be alright? They would spend most of their time out of the cage, but I worry about territorial behaviors developing. Also, do you have any tips for introducing them and encouraging them to get along?
That would be too dangerous. I'm afraid to say, you'll have to find space for another cage.
Is it ok that my vet didn't do a blood test? Or should I seek out another vet?
Some vets won’t do the blood draws for smaller birds (usually anything smaller than a cockatiel) because the amount of blood taken can be risky for extremely small birds. In those cases they may just do the fecal exams instead! If you worry about your vet I would ask their reasonings for not doing the exams and they should be able to help!
@@FlockTalk Thank you! she's a parrotlet, which does mean she's tiny, so that makes sense! She is my first bird so I'm paranoid about everything. Btw give mia my love!
Hello I'm a subscriber to your videos I enjoy them find them educational.
Perhaps you can help me just recently purchased a male Blue Pacific parrotlet supposed to be a male. What I ordered the parallel Pacific Blue parallel mail from this breeder who owns the Pirate Store also knows other breed is he said I can get it back and get the birds for your four of them you could pick one from them they're all males said okay I go up to the store and then woman had three left one was purchased in the morning I got the bird and I got the one that was the darkest blue they all look very close but I picked the darkest blue one and said you know by the way and I'll see the blue Street next to the eye how do you tell that this is a male versus female at such a young age 2 months of age she said well it's hard to tell I said I don't see the blue dark blue rump on bird either which also is the mail and she said well well that's because they're so young two months old they don't show to the street next to their I don't show to the royal blue colors is pronounces and they get older. So I axed how do I know this is a male because that's what I asked for that's what I want because females can I problems with eggs and getting blocked and everything and I just want to mail. And the owner to store the breeder he know that when he went to go get the birds specifically for me to four of them so I can pick one. And she said well she turned it upside down she's looking at the birds vent and she said I from my experience I would say this is a male said okay while paying 350 $350 for the bird I see what if it turns out to be a female can I bring it back to exchange it for a mass uses no. So what I'd like to know is how do you hit what other techniques message is there to determine a two-month-old bird is Young is my Pacific Blue parrotlet Male what other techniques are there to make that determination of the sexes?
Thanking you in advance Fred. I look forward to your response in my CZcams account thank you..
Umm my parrotlets fluff up and fly wings while chirping and then jump to my hand and run up my shoulder and hang out. So not always a scared reaction.
new bird???? 🤔
When I got of bird it was clipped 😭
My bird knows the way around the house -_-
Heyyy Hiiiiii
90% of those who watch this video will have a parrot, if yes then like
true dat
You’re voice know much better with the mic it is Clear
Omg im second like❤️😳
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Set it free??
what- she didn’t say anything about letting birds free, that’s a very bad idea lol..
What kind of blird you have😯
What kind of bird you have
My bird let me touch her in 3 days from the pet store.
How did you do it
@@nsdbacon8177 I put my hand near her , not too close every time I go to her cage. I talk in a very soft tone saying it’s ok. And I was in my room with her basically everyday without leaving and just talking to them.
@@hudsys8495 oh ok thanks for replying but actually 4 days ago my lovebird also let me touch her and let me hold him on my finger 😅 but thanks for the help
I have a cockateil since 3 days....but tried to step up the bird many times and it ran away 🙄
@@arigatou312 dont worry bro...its in pair 😄...thanks for your concern
Trying to get a bird to step up only 3 days in isn't the best idea in my opinion. Have 2 cockatiels and a budgie, his friend just died and he is extremely skittish. Giving him time to get used to the new cage and showing him that the other two don't mind me.