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Group: Site Members
Posts: 3
Joined: July 29, 2010
Member No.: 6,198
Country: USA
City/Town: weehawken, NJ
Gender: Female
Breeder: Yes
Show Breeder: No
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Budgies Kept: 4
greetings budgie lovers! So my landlord breeds budgies, he has 6 of them altogether, and we took one of the babies. We thought he was a SHE ... but 3 months later his beak turned blue
in those 3 months his mother managed to lay another 4 eggs... and those 4 hatched as well. Our landlord has absolutely NO ROOM in his cage for anymore.. and our cage is huge with only one bird. so we took the babies.
Im hand feeding them right now...I read that you are supposed to feed the really young babies (where they have little feathers) every 3 hours. and the more mature babies w/the set feathers about every 6 hours. Im a bit concerned because both my husband and I work... I fed the babies at about 9 am, 12 noon, and 2:30pm before I went to work. I wont be home till 10:30 tonight. They wont go hungry in the 8 hours that I'm not home will they? They obviously wont die but their only babies.. and I'm concerned for their health. I think I might put them back into the nest untill they're in their transitional period of switching from handfeeding to bird seed.
I will be posting pics of the little guys once I get home from work. Looking forward to what everyone has to say!
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Joined: October 6, 2005
From: NE Ohio
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Welcome to the forum.
I am not a breeder but there is an excellent article on this forum that goes through the benefit of parent raised bird vs hand fed birds. I do suggest you put them back with the parent until they are weaned and if you want them tamed you can handle them vs feeding them or you can give them treats as they get older. The benefits of parent raised birds are huge...especially with behavioral issues.
Group: Site Members
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Joined: July 29, 2010
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Gender: Female
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Budgies Kept: 4
QUOTE(Elly @ Jul 29 2010, 09:26)
Welcome to the forum.
I am not a breeder but there is an excellent article on this forum that goes through the benefit of parent raised bird vs hand fed birds. I do suggest you put them back with the parent until they are weaned and if you want them tamed you can handle them vs feeding them or you can give them treats as they get older. The benefits of parent raised birds are huge...especially with behavioral issues.
Anyways, welcome again.
Hey thank you... thats what I was thinking. I should wait 2 more weeks or so. Our 3 month old budgie wasnt as young as they were when we first got him.. and hes used to us. Heres some pics of my little guys.. and their 3 month old big brother
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Country: Australia
City/Town: Maleny, Sunshine Coast.
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From: manitoba
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Group: Administrators
Posts: 15,679
Joined: October 6, 2005
From: NE Ohio
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Very cute pictures, we have a special forum for Budgie Pics if you want to post them there and you can always post a picture in the monthly contest.
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From: Hamilton
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Country: Australia, Vic
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Remember to quarantine the new ones. Oops! Almost forgot.... welcome to the forum!
This post has been edited by Ratzy: Aug 2 2010, 19:04
New Budgie Family From New Jersey!
Jul 29 2010, 11:27
They obviously wont die but their only babies.. and I'm concerned for their health. I think I might put them back into the nest untill they're in their transitional period of switching from handfeeding to bird seed.
