Ive managed to get my budgie to perch on my finger?

by using millet as a reward. I tell him to ‘step up’ and he perches on to eat the millet. Then i put him back over a perch, and say ‘step down’, which he also does.

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2 comments a "Ive managed to get my budgie to perch on my finger?"

probaly up to 2 weeks to a month

He’s learned to do it, so slowly wean him off the reward, over a matter of weeks, until he steps up and down without it. Same as you would when teaching a puppy to sit.

Or, as an alternative, try giving him a sunflower seed, instead of the millet, and then work your way from the seed to nothing.

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