Sailorwolf

Seperate cage

I know they can remove cataracts in humans dogs and cats. Hopefully they can for budgies. The red eyes would probably be the cause of the cataracts, although I don't know of anyone else on here who's inos have cataracts. Does Shadow have any shade that he can use to escape from the sun?

I was thinking Pat and Akala too. Is bubbles a boy or a girl? If bubbles is a girl, you won't get any opaline offspring in this generation. If bubbles is a boy all your baby girls will be opaline and your boys split for it. What colour is bob??

You've also got to make sure that light isn't shining directly into the nest box. Hens prefer total darkness

Haha (Laughing out loud). No, feather dusters are the budgie form of Down's syndrome. It is caused by nondisjunction of the chromosomes during meiosis.

She sounds good. Note of caution: Zip ties can have poisonous zinc in them which is harmful to birds. I find a good toy is to cut up toilet paper rolls into rings and to put them on the perches. They love trying to rip them off.

Sounds like a feather duster. They are the budgie form of Down's syndrome.

Blocking off the nesting box entrance so they can't get in should prevent them from breeding.

Which one is that?

That's good. :rip:

My girl sounds like a canary

Cool, because I like the idea that I can put green leaves in their cage, sort of like a forest. Any particular types, or are all eucalytus trees fine?

Magpies and Mynahs both mimic very well

You should read the fat contents and nutritional info on the back of the packets. That's what I did when I was deciding between budgie seed or canary seed and the canary seed had more fat content in it than the budgie seed, by quite alot. So I just bought the budgie seed.

First you need to analyse why your budgie may be biting. Did you change anything recently? It could be, like you said hormones. But if you are completely exhausted of solutions, then read this: http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....10033&hl

He looks like my old canary, Rodney

I found this cool as heat pad that you can put into the microwave for 6 minutes and it provides the heat of a water bottle for 12 hours. I haven't bought it, but I might. However a microwave doesn't work in a power cut. What if you got a bag of rice or wheat and you heated that up (dry with out water) on a gas stove. Then put that heated rice in a bag of soft material. I think that this would retain heat quite well. I will have to find out. What do you think?

That's good then. I was just worried about the pacing because she never used to do it. I thought maybe she was getting senile in her old age .

Birds breathe via air sacs, which they expand and contract to push fresh air through the lungs, they don't have a diaphragm in the sense that we do and I think (recalling lectures) that their ribcage is static, bUt if they are squeezed they can't breath even more so because they can't expand their air sacs, so are very fragile. Just remember to be careful.

Hmm, yes, I was also wondering if Eucalyptus leaves are okay for budgies to eat. Are they?

I have this little platform in my cage, which I use to put treats on and the wheel etc. Lately Saffron, my 4 year old female, has been very repetitive in her movements. She will run backwards and forwards on the perch and continue to do this for ages with out stopping. This is particularly annoying when she does this on the platform, as her nails click on it and because this is very repetitive, it makes it very hard to study while she is doing this. So I thought I would solve the problem by putting the budgies' small penplax gym on top of the plat form inside the cage. I layered the bottom of the gym with newspaper. This seemed to stop her and she quite liked perching on the gym, so i thought all was well. Well, lately, I haven't been able to pay much attention to the budgies, due to my exams and studying in another room (they are still pretty noisy, (Laughing out loud) ) and so I came into my room last night and found that she had ripped up the paper, chewed it to bits and made a little clearing in the corner and I found her sitting in it all fluffed up like she was on a nest. I immediately removed the gym, but I found she went back on the platform and tryed to make it suit her taste. So I took the plat form out and now their is nothing but perches, so hopefully no nesting opportunities. My question is will she be okay, now that I have taken her "nest" out, she won't lay or anything will she? And why do you think she was being that repetitive? She seems perfectly aware when she is doing it as she will chirp every now and then and she will stop if I open the cage door. Thanks for your help and any advice that you give. Here is the picture of the gym: My budgies aren't in that cage anymore, it is an old picture.

Not neccessarily. Feeding each other is a bonding thing. Males will do it to each other. I have one female who is a grump and particularly does not like Arkady, a young boisterous male, but when he is offering food she will take it.

You could make an elizabethian collar to stop him scratching his beak.

Hehe sooo cute. Ozzy is looking really blue in those pictures.

Such a little chub. Cute His butt looks a bit blue,in those picks. You sure he isn't a goldenface or something, or is it just the camera?