Transformations
Small Birds, Big Results
Taking budgies from fearful to fearless, hormonal to healthy, confused to confident
Azuki and Her Eggs
Azuki laid more than FIFTY eggs in the two years after arriving home.
Her human tried everything, I mean EVERYTHING. Different foods, more darkness, changing the cage, everything the internet told her to do. But she kept laying eggs year round.
Upon examining Azuki, we realized she was consistently laying eggs because she was in the presence of MASSIVE hormonal triggers, resulting in the persistent breeding and egg laying.
We worked together to remove each of these triggers systematically at the end of 2023 and she continues to be egg-free.
Cookie's Biting
Azul and Greenie
Azul and Greenie, two young adult male budgies, were sold to their new human and told that they are “hand tame”.
Their behavior showed something completely different. They were scared, stiff, and would just freeze up or run away anytime they were approached.
They had no interest in food rewards and no familiarity with the inside of a home environment either.
Luckily, their human learned about The Budgie Academy through a friend and one Signature Series later, they are confident and consistent in coming to interact and learn all types of new behaviors!
They now enjoy running around on the desk and chatting up a storm during our weekly community lives. 🤣
Cielo and Her Nails
Cielo was the first budgie to join The Budgie Academy community, and her nails were getting quite long!
Her human commented that she didn’t feel comfortable bringing her to the vet for a nail trim because they always trimmed them overly short, resulting in falling and sometimes even cutting into the blood supply.
Using cooperative care training techniques, we taught Cielo to hold still while we gently trimmed just the tip off the nail.
The result, a calm, stress-free experience for both Cielo and her human and no more getting caught on her human’s shirts. 🤩
Gazou and His Hormones
Did you know male budgies also can have hormone problems?
Gazou started showing excessive breeding behaviors around 2-3 years of age, and for the next 2 years, he was mating with objects around the house nonstop.
His humans not only saw his quality of life decreasing due to his constant breeding behaviors, but it became medically dangerous when they saw blood on objects around the house he had been mating with.
They had tried everything suggested on the internet, but after following us, they realized much of the information they were given was false.
Through the Hormone Solutions Course, we identified multiple triggers that were present, causing the persistent breeding behaviors, created a sustainable plan to reduce them, and now, he is returning back to his pre-hormone budgie self. 😊
