Budgie Questions & Answers

I've been thinking of getting a budgie, but I only want one. I'm afraid it could get a little lonely though, but I do intend to spend a lot of time with it. Will having the TV/Radio on when I'm not there help? How much attention would it need?

it looking like hes nodding it which is very weird?

This is the 2nd time that it has happened. I am not very experienced with birds, but I feel that something may be wrong with her. She is a female budgie, I have had her for almost a year now. She is starting to become aggressive towards the male, so I was planning on getting another male for her. I don't know what makes her really stressed during the night, but her screeching does not stop unless I take action. I'm afraid that she might be in pain and I am not aware of it. I really have no one else to turn to right now, so please give me your answers.

the cats like their dry and soft food but i want to give them more of a variety - healthy?? and the birds as well

It's exactly 1 month old today, it's fully feathered, it nibbles on seed I put in the nest box and occasionally pokes its head out of the nest.

I recently got given 2 budgies from an outdoor aviary, but 1 is constantly pacing the bottom of the cage, and is missing all his tail feathers( don't know if this was caused by the family cat) or by himself pulling them out, the other one seems very content.

I'd be extremely grateful if i could get any advice on this. I have 3 budgies at the moment. 2 male and one female. I got the first male about 2 and a half months ago. I had a budgie a few of years ago, which believe it or not flew to me from a tree outside! He was very tame to begin with, within a month he was the best thing ever, we were inseparable. After he died i was devastated. Was like i lost a best friend. I decided to buy another budgie. I took my time in trying to tame him, but after a month a friend gave me a pair of budgies that she couldn't keep anymore. One male and one female. The pair are rather young, although i can tell they've had their first mault. The three get along perfectly fine. No fighting. They are fine for me to be around, i open there cages as soon as i get in. The newest male bird has hopped onto to my hand a few times, but only because he was trying to get away to the other side of the cage! Although i can tell he's the bravest out of all 3 of them. He's also reluctant to bite me when i have had to pick him up to get him into his cage, the female has a pretty tough bite on her! But he will never bite me. I'm just wondering if it's ever going to be possible to tame these 3 so much as they will come and want to sit on my shoulder? Thanks in advance.

I had a budgie and a goldfish. What about you?

I have two budgies and i really need it since its getting warm outside.

I've had him for almost 2 weeks and he's still a baby. I got him from a pet store, so he was completely wild. He has plenty of toys (but no mirrors) and a good sized cage. I really want to get him tamed pretty soon, because I want to get him another budgie as a friend after. Sometimes he will eat millet spray if I'm holding it on the end and sometimes he will hop on a perch if I'm holding it. he still freaks out whenever I cover or uncover his cage and he usually doesn't like my hand in there. So what should I do? Which road should I take to tame him? Any tips or anything would be really helpful. Thanks. :)

Hi my name is Kylie, and I just got my budgie/parakeet yesterday. We think its a he because it has some blue in his white Cere, he has still a lot more time to change colors of his cere because he is still just a young baby. I'm just worried about Skylar (his name for now) because hes not eating, I haven't seen him sleep, or drink.. and he always puffs up his feathers and shakes his wings, then shrinks back down to normal feathers.. I'm very worried about him, I don't think he likes me right now. He doesn't move at all from the place he sits.. If i put him at the bottom of the cage he wont move, if I put him at the top, he doesn't move. He lets me pet him and touch him and lets me hold him but sometimes he will get frightened for some reason and fly even though his wings are clipped. Skylar doesn't bite much, even when I take him out of the cage he barley bites. Hes SUPER quiet, Ive only heard him chirp a few times. Whenever I'm near his cage or if I put my hand in it his heart beats really fast and I can see his chest pumping hard, I can also see him shaking. Hes pretty much a spazz, and hes hand fed!! Or at least that's what our pet mania (pet mania- name of pet store) said. Skylar also has green blobs of poo, some have white mixed in, and Ive had budgies before so I know what their poo and things are suppose to look like. I'm not sure if this is quiet normal for a bird or if hes really just scared for the moment, I will have to see.. I just don't want to end up with a dead budgie by the end of the week! Should I let him be and not touch him for a week to keep his stress down, or should I continue to talk to him and pet him to keep him a friendly bird when he gets older?? I only want whats best, right now hes in his cage and I have a towel over it to keep him feeling safe and so he wont worry about his new environment, I hope he sleeps :/ how long do you think it will take him to eat and drink, and for that matter to even move from his spot?! should I be quiet when entering the room, and not talk or speak to him and just let him have his space or will that spoil things?! please HELP :/ thank you- kylie

I adopted this pair of budgies from the animal shelter. Their background story is the owner bought budgies at a pet store and let them breed until he had too many. Seven blue budgies came from this owner, so I'm assuming they might all be from one clutch. I am guessing they are about 8 months old due to the iris color. OK, so this one pair was so obviously bonded that I adopted both of them. They also looked very healthy and alert to me. One is obviously male with a bright blue cere. The other was put in the male cage at the shelter but the cere is mostly white with a blue tinge near the beak. The other males had a deep blue cere and the other females had a brown cere. At first I thought this one was also male, but after reading online, I think s/he is probably a female. Would you experience budgie people let me know what you think. The two feed and groom each other a lot, but I hear same sex pairs do that too. OK, my next question is a tail bob. I've had them for one week and during that time I've noticed the female(?)'s tail bobs slightly even when she is resting. Otherwise she seems healthy, eating, playing, etc, not ruffled at all. Should I be concerned? I have an avian vet lined up but I haven't taken them for a well-bird check yet because I know it will stress them out a lot and they are just getting used to their new home. Thanks. Also, do budgies need grit? I've read everything from they need it to it can be harmful, only give in small doses if at all. So I'm confused.

My budgie seems really interested in biting my hair and my clothes. He's also interested in any kind of string that he can find. How can I get him to stop doing that? It wouldn't bother me, but I don't want my shirts to have holes in them and he's damaging my hair, too. I forgot to mention: he has a cuttlebone, so he doesn't need to chew on fabric to trim his beak.

Hi i have bred my budgie before and done alot of research on it and apparently they shouldnt be mating without a nest box. I took away their nest box a while ago after their first clutch grew up a little bit. Now it has been at least a month and i saw them mating 3 times in the morning. I am scared my budgie will get eggbound (no cuttle fish at the moment) and i dont want her to lay the egg off the perch. The problem is that my family dont really like pets and they dont want more budgies. If breed them i will give them away or sell them, but they think i will get too attached and keep them. I think my budgie is pregnant! What do i do? I know budgies cant get pregnant but i forgot the proper name for it.

I have a budgie and its cage is way to small (Well thats what i think) and my dad could build a cage. I need to know what i need and how to build it.

Our budgie laid 8 eggs. 4 hatched and we lost one. The other 3 are doing quite well. she is not sitting on the other 4 eggs. I candled them and 1 for sure is still alive. The other three i am not 100% sure. Can i incubate these eggs some how and give them a chance? I dont mind hand feeding after they hatch if they do that is. She keeps pushing them out to the side of the nest box when i took them out to check them they were very cold. she has been doing this for several days. Is she just overwhelmed and not wanting them to hatch? These are the 4 eggs she laid later than the other 4. I gently kept pushing them back to her to get her to sit on them. I think the only reason they are still good is because the 3 babies kept huddling over the top of the eggs before she started pushing them to the sides.

I work at an after school club, with a mixture of special needs and main stream children and we are looking to get a pet budgie! Does anyone have any information on things we need to know? prices? background?..etc.. about budgies? also do you think it is the kind of pet that is sutable for children to be handling alot? holla back! ...love x

I would like to breed budgie i have two 6 weeks babies 1 male 1 female of course, how often do they breed? Once a year.....?????

I don't think there is really any kind of Prophylactic care for a Budgie, but I might not be searching hard enough. It might be the fact that I am too tired to give a damn. Anywho, anyone?

My poor budgie has a very bad sinus infection, we just cuaght it late on. He had a respitory illness a few years back and recovered, however his brother died last year from an infection. He was a much smaller bird to begin with and now he's very, very underweight. The doctor said the next 48 hours were crucial and had given him a saline shot and vitamin shot. The shots almost seem to have made him worse becuase since he was laying down most of the day (we think his legs were sore). Oddly enough he still tires to play with his balls or sit by his mirrors when he can get around. He's also on a antibiotic in his water, I gave him a few eye droppers full by hand today and we tried feeing him some popcorn (favorite food of his) and pellets. He mostly chews and drops it and gets stubborn and won't eat. I'm horribly worried about him. What can I do to get him to eat?

We have a lorikeet and give him pincushion bush flowers every day. He loves them.My budgie has been copying the lorikeet and now wants some of the flowers as well. I presume its safe but just want to make sure. any1 out there whom knows?

i have a 13 month old male budgie and i would like to teach him how to dance like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS-yHA6hhMwfeature=channel how can i? thanks:)

one has a crested gene, though not expressed on it the other does not, so will the babies be crested. Fully half ?

I hear they become sexually mature at 3-4 months but some say they breed at 12 months. So when, and how often do they breed.

it supposedly is a male, its 6 weeks but has a pink Cere, the lady is a proper breeder, and people travel all over the UK to buy from her, is she wrong, she said I am 99% sure its a cock but I thought they had a blue Cere

my male budgie has recently been acting strange recently. the feathers on top of his head spike up suddenly and moves his head round in a circular movement and makes a funny noise. he then walks up to my other budgie and touches beaks with him. what does this mean???

HE SEEMS QUITE WITHDRAWN AND NOT COMING OVER WHEN I GO TO CAGE PLEASE HELP

Ok so my last budgie died from this same issue which was never resolved we even took her to a specialist vet for birds and spent heaps on her. Recently ive noticed the other budgie has become really thin and weak aswell as vomiting We can't afford to spend as much as on the other budgie which didn't even help her.. Would the best option be to get her euthanized e.g Put down..? But because my other budgie died we bought another for company now we're back to square one =/ stuck with another lonely budgie.. We can't really afford to spend heaps of money like we did last time on the other one that died even after vet treatment anyway the vet said it was cancer. I don't want this bird to suffer like my other one did I actually came home to find it dead on the bottom of the cage not a good experience. And I know about the grit and we feed our birds proper seeds and sometimes vegetables (but they don't like vegies..) when i took my last bird to the vet they wanted to put it through tests which would have been uncomfortable for her and probably just comfirmed she had cancer which can't be treated.. In the best intentions of the Animal It should be euthanized? That's my question..

i know budgie poo looks like a white thingy w/ black at the center my budgies poos are like this but sometimes i see a white discharge made by my female budgie what is it?

i have a boy budgie named tommy and he isi 13 months old can i still teach how to talk? how can i?

Okay, so my budgie, Blue Jeans, loves to climb to the very top of the cage, but sometimes he falls down because his wings are clipped. Well, today, he got to the very top, and fell all the way to the bottom hard and fast. I didn't check on him, because he got right back up and started climbing again. I left the room, and when I came back, I noticed that he had a little blood stained on his forehead. I don't know if that was from his fall, or if him and my other budgie got into a fight while I was gone. I heard them chirping and squawking while I was out of the room, but my guess is that they were just talking as usual. Blue Jeans is fine now. He's asleep with the other budgie, Buddy, and they're back at the top of the cage. Does it sound like Blue Jeans is okay?

Hi, i have a budgie named pete who is almost 2, now, up untill a couple weeks ago he wouldn't do much, and he was terrified of humans. I began to feed him seeds out of my hands, and within a few days of doing this he is now a very social bird, now the problem is, all he does is sleep now, unless hes eating. He will ALWAYS fly out of his cage and onto my shoulder, go very close to my neck (for warmth, i imagine) and tuck his head into his back and goto sleep. When hes not on my shoulder sleeping, hes in his food bowl sleeping. Is there something wrong with my bird? ** EDIT ** Sometimes hes really hyper, usually when music is playing, but most of the time he will fly on to my finger, start to get puffed up, and then he gets really lazy or weak, and just goes to sleep.

At my Mum's work, they have got a single male pet budgie and he has been pulling his feathers out. We would all like to know why so that we know if its anything that can be sorted or not. Please guys!

http://www.budgieplace.com/taming.html http://www.budgies.org/info/taming.html or you can use my own method which i call Budgie Super Hero Training Well first make sure your room or rooms are safe. Like anything they can crawl underneath like a dresser or bed put pillows. Make sure there is nothing the can fly into and have it fall on your budgie. Then train your parakeet Perch On command by getting a perch and hold it in your hand . Tell your bird perch and if it doesn't get on the perch than just show it your hand on the outside of the cage and it doesn't scare your bird it just makes it move. It should get on it. Keep trying and then it should get onto it and know Perch' on command! Then using your finger as a perch. It is a lot easier than training Perch. You tell your bird perch and instead of a perch use your finger. And now it should be a Budgie Super Hero! Please tell me how i id and if it worked for you!!!!!!!!!

I have a nest box , its lengthy but not have low height, my female budgie have layed eggs and one of them hatched, male budgie try to get inside but but he cant because of the size of hole, is this a problem or i left it as it is going?

I just got my budgie and he does not freak out when i open the cage and stroke him from head to toe, is he good or am i

I want to know if that pairing could happen. p.s.(I am not going to breed a pair like this i'm only 13)

I have heard alot diseases for female budgie, but there arent any specific one for male, do u have any idea?

My budgie laid 6 eggs.out of which 5 chicks are out through eggs.Last time 2 chicks died to to unknown reason. This time I decided to take more care so that I can save them . What kind of care is needed to get all chicks in good condition. I already isolated that budgie couple from others,food is good then temp. is about 30-40 deg. centigrade in day time in night it's 15-20 deg centi.Budgie nest is made from sand (mitti) like sand basket. Please guide

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Ok i know everyone says look at the ceres or something but i need the right way without a vet. could someone tell if these are male or female parakeets and the colors of each gender i have a male but i need a female.thanks. 1. http://www.rspca-radcliffe.org.uk/sites/rspca-radcliffe.org.uk/files/budgie%5B2%5D.jpg \ 2. http://mypetbudgie.com/budgies/2006222budgies-1.jpg 3. http://wishalong.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/parakeet-1.jpg 4. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/kathy5/other%20birds/pic_cere_rp1.jpg 5. http://www.justforbirds.net/images/Docbirds/pic_cere_paleblue2.jpg Can you please tell male or female for each and any tips on breeding and pairing these birds and what to do to raise them with the parents raising them. I honestly do not care if they are good pets not hand raised because my male is and the offspring are going to a super huge avairy where they will the rest of their lives im not selling them for money or anything i just need the basics and my male is over a year old from a bred pair so he will not be related to a female i am getting.

Hey! I went on vacation for a month, leaving my pets in a care of a friend. When I came back, he told me my budgie's male mate died. The female seems in complete denial, refusing to do anything. I was wondering, could anyone tell me tips to keep my budgie stimulated. We are gonna buy another later in the week, but I feel so bad for her. Any tips welcomed!!! Thanks!

I know it's a male, but what does that mean?

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I think it would be great if she did. I had never seen her, the banshees or the creatures live (i was born in '97 so i was too young :() I loved Mantaray and i thin that if she had another album out it would be spectacular. But I have a feeling that she won't. What do you think? I also read in an interview w/ Budgie from the banshees about the Banshees back on stage: Dear Blue Nose, a Siouxsie The Banshees concert would require at least Siouxsie Severin to grace the boards together. I personally would suggest a minimum of the ‘Kaleidoscopic Trio.’ What do you guys think?

my female budgie always folllows the male and somtimes she kisses him and he doesnt want her to and then she cleans him for bout 23 minutes thats very long. is he her son or does she want babies?

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My female budgie MIGHT be pregnant but I'm not sure! she has been in the nest box a lot the last 2 weeks and my male budgie has been feeding her constantly, and shes been chewing on the cuttle bone like crazy! I put pine shavings in the bottom of the nest box but she and my male have been taking it out and shoving it in the bottom corner of their cage and at first i thought she might be wanting to lay eggs there but its been like 4 days since i last saw them mating so im not sure because there hasnt been anything yet! but i just dont want any suprises so please any advice or tips would be most helpful because ive never done this before and i want to hand raise the babies if there are going to be babies!!! :) thanks that video did help but it was a lovebird one so i dont know if its basically the same thing or not. but yes my hen is a lot tamer now and not as jumpy so i dont know if she is settling into the mother hen stage haha. how long does it usually take for her to lay the eggs? and how long does it normally take for them to hatch?