Originally posted by wolfsoul
No doubt..they should socialize them before they sell them. That way they wouldn't have to deal with a million budgies flying everywhere and people would, I'm sure, prefer the performance of hand-tamed budgies peacefully jumping on to the employees hand they would also sell alot better..
That is RIDICULOUS! Do you know how many budgies we go through? We go through about 25/week, so we certainly wouldn't have time to hand tame all of them. Plus, we would then have to charge more for the time we paid our employees to work with the birds and nobody would buy them because they could get one for less than half the price elsewhere and have it tamed withing two weeks.

I personally catch them with my hands, but not before a LOT of fluttering wildly about. A net is a perfectly good solution for someone too timid to catch them with their hands.