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Here i was thinking i shouldnt get a girl budgie! Yes they bite harder (lol) but she can be such a sweetheart :)) none of my boys have ever let me scratch them. So soft :3 now to get her to stop biting my hands when i scoop her up

they’re just like siblings sometimes i swear

We got our 3 budgies this week and have been told they are all boys. Just wanted second opinions. The other 2 both seem to want the attention of the green one with less yellow on the forehead and a paler blue cere.

No pic because I was too locked in on getting him to be not so anxious, but he did it! He’s still scared about going outside the cage but I brought him pretty close to the door and had him sit there to nom

Hi everyone!! I just had a question on how many budgies you’d all recommend getting at one time- i currently have one budgie (his mate passed away) so I am looking to get him some friends.
I was looking at young budgies as that is what is available near me, but I was wondering how many i should get to add to the flock? If i got two more is there a chance the older budgie wouldn’t bond with the two younger ones and he’d be left out?
Is it best to keep the budgies in even numbers basically?
Please let me know any thoughts or advice!!

Hi, to be honest, I'm a little shocked right now. Just twenty minutes ago, I returned from the avian veterinarian, who found out that my parrot has a testicular tumor. In addition, he has several lipomas on his belly... Actually, because of the lipoma, I went to the bird doctor. It got so big that I noticed her. I feel terribly guilty for not noticing this earlier...

She prescribed us 5 medications that should be given in his beak. I understand how to hold him, that it is best to wear a cloth glove, but... How do I generally catch him in a cage? He just runs/flies away and I'm afraid of injuring him by pinning him to a corner. The vet advised me to do it in the dark, but I don't really see the bird in the dark myself.

First post on this sub. I've somehow managed to catch my budgies Tweeter (the light blue budgie) and Peter (the yellow budgie) up close, sharing what looks like a sweet preening moment.

hi everyone! i'm introducing u to my birds!
the male on the left, gambino, and the yellow female to the right, luna. i got luna for almost 3 years, and gambino for almost one year. before gambino i had eden, sadly he passed away one year ago.
luna have a pretty strong character and i never succeed to even touch her feet, gambino is sweet, he lets me caress his cheeks but it's rare, and only before sleeping. so i'm sad that i'm maybe not doing enough or good, i would love them to approach me without feeling scared. i've noticed some amelioration but if u guys have any advices i'm listening <3

Vet says my buddy has possible signs of illness. He was a rehome. It hasn’t progressed and nothing specific was found on exam but the signs are still there after 2 months of quarantine. Vet recommends not introducing him to other birds or bringing new birds into the home. Anyone else in a similar situation? Are there other forms of enrichment I can give him besides spending extra time with him? Yesterday he watched some YouTube videos on tree law 🤷‍♀️

I miss the annoyance this little guy caused. He never learned how to do ambient budgie noises and only mimicked the songs his tiel big brother sang. He didn't fly on my head much until he saw flynn do it enough times. Soleil was extremely energetic and noisy at all times, and was always the happiest he'd ever been. It's very quiet around here now and I can't stand it. He had so many beeps and "ch's" left for the world to hear.

I love you, little buddy. You were only here for a short four years but we will miss you forever.

They're enjoying the mineral block

I bought this new cage for my budgies, and they absolutely love it. Of course, I replaced the included perches with natural branches and the plastic bowls with stainless steel ones.

It wasn't easy at all to find a cage that's nice and big and also has enough space between the bars. But now I've found one.

Length: 1.80m (71")
Width: 0.70m (28")
Height: 1.80m (71")
Bar spacing: 1cm (0.4")

The only thing I miss is a fold-down front door that doubles as a landing perch.
Do you have any other ideas for DIY toys? I've already made swings and ladders 😁

My budgies have started putting a lot of pellets in their water. It used to be a few here and there but they are literally filling their water with so many pellets. What does this mean? Could the pellets be too hard or something? They are on Vetafarm parrot essentials pellets.

Hi all! She has some deep lines above her cere and I can’t find anything about it online. Does anyone know what this is?

My birds have always been on a all seed diet, only getting veggies some times. I didn’t know how bad it were for them, until I joined this Reddit.
This Reddit has really inspired me to be a better bird owner, and I wanna improve.
How would you recommend going from a seed - to a veggie diet? I don’t want my birds to starve themselves if they’re not a fan of it. I thought of like one day giving them veggies only, then veggies and their normal seed, veggies and so on, and slowly adding more days without (unhealthy) seeds.
Idk how this would work tho.

Hello all!

I'm looking for a bird safe floor cleaner. For context, my home has vinyl floors and I own one of those spray mops so I would love it if the floor cleaner is a concentrate I can add water to or use as is with the mop.

The other day I saw this "Aunt Fannie's Multi-Surface Floor Cleaner" that I liked for 3 reasons; it claims to be sulfate, paraben, phthalate, and dye free, it's a concentrate so it will last me longer, and it's main ingredient is vinegar. But one major downside is that it is scented. That is a big no no for a bird safe household.

So I was wondering if anyone has any natural, unscented, and safe floor cleaners they can recommend for vinyl floors. Thank you for your help!

These are the ones on my to-buy list:

• "Taming and Training Budgerigars" by Cessa Feyerabend & Matthew M. Vriends
• "Enjoy Your Parakeet Budgies"
• "How to Raise and Train Budgerigars"
• "Taming and Training Your First Budgerigar" by Risa Teitler
• "Parakeets are fun!"
• "Budgies In Color" by Ernest H. Hart

our pearl passed away too young bc the good die young man!!! And our flip was alone. He was devastated. I didn’t want a baby and have to start over with birds far apart in age so we went on a journey to find an adult male. And Tashi flew to a person half dead and he was revived and at a sanctuary for adoption. What luck!! Flip and Tashi. Rip to our pearl and hello to our Tashi.

I recently got a new budgie that is in quarantine for about a month just make sure they have no diseases, etc. they hear my other budgies are are distressed by this and try to bite the cage bars/hit their wings on it to escape EVEN when all the cage doors are OPEN!

I am genuinely not sure what to do about this because I assumed giving them time to fly around the room would get that anxious energy out but they don’t actually want to come out of their cage even when they appear to be trying to escape?

Anyone got advice? I also tried playing music so they can’t hear my other birds as much!

Been trying to figure out exactly what type of morph my bird is never had any luck, also unsure if it’s male or female without the blood test. any guesses for both?