Hello!

Hello everyone, I'm a new lovebird owner My daughter's been wanting a pet and I decided on birds!

I have three lovebirds, which I was told were "White Face". One "mauve" male (no clue what that means), his name is Onyx. And two green females who are identical and I have no way of telling them apart so they are not named yet. I'm planning on getting a second male as well for the unpaired female and moving her out of the cage. I've only had them for six days.

They are supposedly young, "less than a year old" I was told, and appeared to have been completely ignored by any human. They are placed in the family room, where the TV is usually on at all times except at night and any movement used to get them worked up (flying all around the cage all nervous), you didn't even need to be close to the cage and they'd be nervous. They seem to have gotten used movement to the point they start singing with people inside the room.

I'd love to receive any tips on how to tame them and be able to interact with them! I was told to "let the cage open" but they just flew frantically around the room and they were NOT happy to be anywhere near me, had to use a towel to catch them because after hours they had no interest in getting down from the curtains. Also cutting their wings is not an option yet, I don't trust taking them to the vet and then them getting free and leaving, and I don't know how to do it myself :c



I've always wanted hand raised birds, no matter the price, because I had a lovebird who was trained when I was younger (it belonged to my father) and I loved cuddling with it. I had a cockatiel a while ago that I bought, and was young enough to hand raise but needed to be hand fed, I didn't know this when I bought him, the store called me hours after I bought it telling me to buy formula cuz the bird was young, in my inexperience, the bird died a few days later because I didn't know how to feed it, so I'm traumatized and will NOT be buying young birds eeever again. So I want to try to tame adult birds so my daughter can experience nice tamed birds like I did when younger!

Hello! Welcome! They are some cuuuutteee little birds! Aw! I love the name for the male! So I don't think you can tame them because they are bonded to each other then they may just like their own kind and there would be no reason to like you. I had a hard time training one bird that never had people interaction and no one was ever to tame him. I'm sorry, maybe if you do get a male he could just be the tame one because most likely if you put him with the others he will find a girl friend and fall in love and then ya... I hope someone else can help! Maybe they have better advise!

Congrats, they are so cute and very beautiful!

That's a sad news :\ I was really looking forward to taming them and interacting with them. If they are just to stay in their cage, they'll be pretty much like a fish x.x; Just feed and watch, not the type of pet I was hoping for... that sucks!

I could just get a second cage for the lone female and have her as my "pet" bird and the other two just to watch and listen to... The two are bonded, but the lone female isn't, will she suffer if I take her out?

Got the second cage Hopefully the lone female will be able to be tamed!

Your Lovebirds are very pretty. I realize you are new to birds and I don't say this to offend, but those cages really aren't appropriate for anything other than travel cages. Your birds need perches in a variety of shapes, sizes and textures to keep their feet healthy. They also need plenty of room to exercise and a variety of toys to keep them busy and happy.

Breeding healthy birds isn't as easy as it my sound. Please give it a lot of thought and do some more research before taking on that kind of responsibility.

You might be able to tame her, If you take her and put her in a different cage farther away and try to tame her that may work!

Allee said:

Your Lovebirds are very pretty. I realize you are new to birds and I don't say this to offend, but those cages really aren't appropriate for anything other than travel cages. Your birds need perches in a variety of shapes, sizes and textures to keep their feet healthy. They also need plenty of room to exercise and a variety of toys to keep them busy and happy.

Breeding healthy birds isn't as easy as it my sound. Please give it a lot of thought and do some more research before taking on that kind of responsibility.

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I understand the cages are small, that's why I was planning on taming them and letting them free roam my home until it's night time, but since the pair probably won't be tamable, my dad's going to hand make a larger cage for them The lone one will keep that cage for over night stay and once she's used to me and trained, she'll free roam the home My father's birds used to be like that, allowed everywhere until it was night time :B

And I don't plan on breeding them anytime soon, probably will wait one year into owning them for that, I expect that by then I should know much more about owning birds.