i had a female for 5 month and a male for two they get on when they have no other option i had a white bird (snowy had him for 3 weeks but died choking) and the second day he followed ME around the house I dont know why i wish my birds where like him he was an angel he followed me he loved head scratches everything a bird owner would ever want now i want to get my birds now to do what snowy did and for me to take them out of the cage on command (like step up) PLZ HELP :",(
The problem isn't that your birds don't trust you, it's simply that they aren't motivated to behave the way you want them to. Birds, which are very bright animals, especially budgies, can easily learn to do a wide variety of behaviors if you put in the time to train them properly. For instance, you can train your birds to follow your around the house or to easily come out of the cage. The key for training is motivation as the birds must be motivated to do the things you want them to.
You can motivate your bird using some type of reward (try a new type of bird treat you think your bird will like) that is given after the bird behaves in the way you want it to (inversely, withhold the treat when the bird behaves in an unwanted manner). This should help to reinforce the behaviors you want your bird to adopt. To get slightly more complex, you can use some basic practices of classical conditioning (made famous by Ivan Pavlov's work with dogs). If you pair a food reward with another type of stimulus, say ringing a bell, then the positive behaviors acquired through the use of the food reward will, after sufficient pairing of the food reward and ringing bell, be similarly evoked by the bell alone. This is because the bird will develop an association between the food reward and ringing bell, and will therefore react similarly to both stimulus after sufficient exposure to them in tandem. (Speaking technically within the classical conditioning framework developed by Ivan Pavlov, the food reward is a unconditioned stimulus while the bell is a conditioned stimulus). The nice thing about being able to reward positive behaviors with a bell is that it can be used over and over again unlike the food reward which, after using many times, will cause your bird to become satiated (no longer hungry) and thus no longer motivated by the food.
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So, to enact this advice, you would simply give the bird a reward (a food treat) when they successfully follow you and you would withhold the treat when they do not. It will take a lot of experience until the bird begins to associate the desired behaviors with the food reward, but in time it will learn.
Your bird is a very bright animal, as I'm sure you know, and I bet you'll be very impressed with how effective these training procedures are. Best of luck!
