i forced her before will she hate me forever and never take bath
give her a bath in the dutch oven with LOTS of cooking oil. She wont resist ;u)
I have had several parakeets and can tell u from experience some parakeets will bathe daily or even several times a day while others will only bathe once a week whether they think they need it or not. My females bathed daily but one male I had only took bathe once a week and sometimes not even then. Try getting a misting bottle and use luke warm water and mist her lightly while she's in her cage, she'll have a fit 1st couple of times but will tolerate it even if she never gets to liking it or else just let her bathe at her choosing.
sometimes running water and vacuum cleaners and heavy metal makes birds want to take a bath. my cockatiel will land on my shoulder when i wash dishes and by the time i'm done with the dishes she is all worked up croaking and fluffing out her feathers that when i give her a spray bath with warm water she opens her wings and turns around and fluffs out for me! but at any other time she would not like it. buy a bird-bath spray in a pet store. you don't need to keep using it, you just need a spray bottle that never had chemicals in it, you can re-fill it with water. put the bird in the cage and take out all the food to keep it from getting wet. The spray the bird, but try to make the water fall on top of the bird, so spray over the bird to give it a rain shower, don't spray AT the bird. i think this sort of spray-bath is least painful for the bird in that the bird won't hate you too much. give your bird a treat of millet afterward. some birds will bathe themselves if you just leave a dish of water out for 'em. try leaving one out for a month or 6 months and see if the bird uses it.
