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How old do you have to be to fly?

EASY 10 POINTS;How old is a budgie when it learns to fly?!?

  • Well yesterday i got my budgie, my mom used to breed budgies and it is defo a baby (bar head) and a male. Its cere, is purple- blue. Similar to my tame adult male. She reckens it's 6-8 weeks. It cannot fly. It looks just like this- the eyes, bar head, and even the colour-it's grey. I held it yesterday and it has already learnt the 'up trick' and i have handled it, inside of the cage. Anyway.... It cannot fly yet as it has not molted and has not grown flight feathers. When will it grow flight feathers? On average, when do budgies learn to fly? Any advice on how to help it fly? Also, its a cross wing. Even from the top. It tries to fly- would this stop the ability to fly?

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    A baby Budgie , should be flying at 8 weeks, but in your birds case something seems to be wrong, you say it has no flight feathers?at 8 weeks it should have flight feathers, if it does not then there is something wrong , could be French moult. It will not moult till at least 6 months,as for flying it should fly as soon as it has flight feathers, cross wing does not affect flying. The cere color on a baby does not show a deep color till it reaches maturity, so I would not take it's present cere color as a definite sex indicator.also the age seems to incorrect . Every one seems to be obsessed with the training,but I would have the health of your bird checked out as something does not seem right feather wise.

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in a few more weeks it will be able to fly. to help it learn you should hold it in one hand, place the other hand close and it will hop to the other one. then gradually increasing the gap keep trying and when the gap is too large it will have to fly. make sure you do this on a lounge so if it fails flying it doesnt fall onto the floor and die.

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They should learn to fly at about 2 months, so they will probably learn to fly any day now unless their flight feathers have been clipped.

Tyler

Definately a baby. It will lose the bars and it's eyes will lose their solid colour. It will always be grey. Budgies stay the colour they are born, they just get a bit brighter when they get their adult plumage. I'm sure your Mom explained that. It could just be that the bird hasn't had a chance to fly. If it does the 'up trick' it trusts you. Put it in a quiet, closed slightly darkened room to keep it calm and to make sure it can't fly away. take it out and put it on top of the cage and feed it treats so it is used to being outside of the cage. Do that 3-5 times a day a few days or until it seems calm. After that, put the bird on top of the cage, step about a foot away, hold your 'perching finger' horizontal to the cage and show it the treat with your other hand behind your 'perch hand'. You need to coax it to fly. Never have training sessions lasting longer than about 10 minutes or you risk stressing the bird. Always keep it calm and friendly. If the bird gets stressed, put it back in the cage for 30 minutes and try again. No more than 5 times a day. Once the bird is used to short flights, extend them by a foot or so each time. It takes patience.

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