{"id":14503,"date":"2020-02-27T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windycityparrot.com\/blog\/?p=14503"},"modified":"2020-02-27T21:31:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:31:44","slug":"can-i-train-2-1-year-old-budgies-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?p=14503","title":{"rendered":"Can I Train Two 1 Year Old Budgies to Fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol<\/span><\/span> Wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitch: I read on line something you wrote about the possibility of training adult budgies.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have inherited two budgies – about 1-year-old.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They are in a cage and have never been trained.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They seem very happy with each other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They are very active and chatty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I don’t like the idea of them being caged all the time and encountering your online comment gave me a glimmer of possibility that these two birds could learn to fly around our home but I don’t have a clue where, to begin with, this.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Since they appear happy should I just keep interacting with them from outside their cage and leave well enough alone? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I truly love them and want to do what is best for them. I live in Santa Barbara CA.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hi Carol.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We advocate keeping your birds flighted.<\/span><\/p>\n

except when they are new to your home.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We clip their wings and then test for flight trajectories ie landings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Birds don’t need to be taught how to fly, they need to learn where and how to land.<\/span><\/p>\n

Start from 6 inches over a bed to ensure no damage to your bird chest.<\/span><\/p>\n

If they can fly a foot toss the bird onto the top of its cage so it knows where to land.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every week back up another foot.<\/span><\/p>\n

While this is going on teach them landing zones.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tops of the drapes are not good because of poop.<\/span><\/p>\n

They will get crushed on door tops.<\/span><\/p>\n

We don\u2019t let them fly on the first floor of Windy City Parrot because doors are opening all-day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Upstairs is another issue having a 50-foot long space to fly.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Keto our ringneck has been with us for 2 years and is a great flyer despite some damage to his left wing he suffered before coming to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clicker training videos for birds – from tricks to flight –<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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He likes mirrors and ball toys with bells.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This stand on a former CD storage unit is 9 feet from his cage and has a Mango traveler atop.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The perch is 52 inches off the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please note another stand in the background for “TV” time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chili, a blue Quaker, who we’ve had for 3 weeks now came to us clipped but we always clip new bird’s wings and would have if he was not already done so.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tripod stand (sorry, no longer available) is set low to the ground so he doesn’t hurt himself if he jumps off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Notice the gateway, that he likes climbing onto the bed and then on to my shoulder while in my office chair, next to the bed.<\/span><\/p>\n

BTW the boys are on “lockdown” for light therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Locked in their cages for 72 hours with the lights on.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what it looks like at night.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lastly, because Chili is still a “floor walker” I gave him a place to go for now that he can easily access.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He hangs out for a while so he’s “not on his cage”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chili<\/span><\/p>\n

Keto<\/span><\/p>\n

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Written by Mitch Rezman
\nApproved by Catherine Tobsing<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carol Wrote: Mitch: I read on line something you wrote about the possibility of training adult budgies. I have inherited two budgies – about 1-year-old. They are in a cage and have never been trained. They seem very happy with each other. They are very active and chatty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[195,196,188,197,198,205,192,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-parrot-care","category-bird-behavior","category-bird-cage-info","category-bird-enviornments","category-bird-lighting","category-budgies","category-flight","category-parakeets"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2-bidgies-600-2-8.jpg?resize=600%2C445&ssl=1",600,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2-bidgies-600-2-8.jpg?resize=463%2C348&ssl=1",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2-bidgies-600-2-8.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2-bidgies-600-2-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1",600,600,false]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2-bidgies-600-2-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phcfkq-3LV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}