After you bring your budgie home, give it a week before you attempt to interact with it.
After a week, slowly introduce your hand to the cage, try offering treats, like millet, through the cage bars.
Once you can rest your hand on the same perch the budgie is sitting on, trying putting some food or millet in the palm of your hand and offer it to your bird.
After about a day or two of having the bird eat from your hand, try to get it to step up onto your hand. While doing this, keep the food in your palm, and move your hand closer to the bird, gradually apply pressure about your budgie's legs and tell it to step up. Eventually you won't have to apply pressure.
They say that younger birds will tame easier, based on my experience that isn't true. How long it takes for you to tame your bird depends on bird as an individual. I've tamed a 3 year old budgie, but I was unsuccessful with my current budgie, who was a little over a year when I started and is currently around 2 years old.
The photo above is of my pair of cockatiels, they are tamed but my budgie isn't.
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Ultimate budgie care guide
Non-FictionHaving had budgies for 8+ years, I feel like I should share with you everything you need to know about budgies.
