Elly

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That is wonderful to hear, the radio always helps, I always leave a radio on in my house when I leave not just for Merlin but for all my animals.

Welcome back, your budgies are gorgeous

If you could take a better photo in the natural light that would be best I agree with JB on what it is but the mutation we would need to see the back of the wings. also it is hard to tell if it is a Yellow Face 1 or 2 looks like a 1.

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What color is the poo and I am glad you didn't get another one. How he is doing today?

I wish I would have saw this topic before you went out and got another one I assume you did and put the budgie in the cage with her. It is always best to quarantine any new bird into your flock especially if you think your existing one is sick or even if it is healthy the new one can be sick. Quarantine is recommended for at least 30 days and that means a different cage, different room and always washing your hands before you interact with them. The best thing you can do is let your new bird settle in Finnie gave you some great advice. Another thing to see if they are eating is to blow lightly on their seed and if they empty husks fly off you know they are eating. Poop as mentioned is another good way to know if they are eating. It should be hard white droppings with black in the middle if it is runny it can be normal for a few days but if it is a real sloppy poop and all white or all black then your bird is sick and needs to one go back to the shop or two take it to an avian vet ASAP. Pretty my late budgie was a very quiet and insecure for a very long time in his cage and that is very commen for pet store budgies without a lot of human soclalization. Think about if someone plopped you into a new enviroment in a cage with no more friends it would be pretty scary. Single budgies are wonderful to have especially if you want them to bond with you. When you have 2 budgies and both are not tamed and bonded to humans you will have 2 birds that are beautiful, sing, and interact but only with each other.

Welcome, I agree with everyone they are 2 females and they look to be around 3-4 months as they still have their bar lines down to their cere. We have a wonderful section called the FAQ's that gives you a lot of good ideas on diet, behavior, taming, cages types and more.

Beautiful birds, I particuarlly like the first one, thank you for updating us

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Congratulations to Wendymoon who submitted this cute photo of her bird Don't forget to add your photo into this month's competition (if you have not won this year yet) you qualifiy. Only 2 more months to qualify to be part of Budgie of the Year!!

Put in your best entry for Budgie of the Month. Every one has until the end of each month (U.S. Time EST) to enter a picture. Members vote at the beginning of the month to chose who will be the winner. You can win only 1 time within the year so for example if you won March Budgie of the Month then your pictures can not be qualifed to win again. This prevents 1 member winning all the time and makes it fair since each and every one of us have different talents with our camera . One picture per member per month. Please remember to keep to the board rules of maximum, pictures should not exceed 480x640 AND links will not be accepted ONLY images. If this is not met then you picture will not be accepted (notification of non acceptance is not guaranteed). Any post you make to this thread will not show up so please do not repost. Do not post questions on this thread if you have a question you can either PM me or post in the Competition Area, thank you. Good luck to all that enter. Winners are recognized for the whole month and a Budgie of the Month Picture (example below) is is added to their signature line and it is removed after the month is over and is added to the next winners signature line. Click HERE to see all the different emblems that are used. They have been created by our own BBC members and we appreciate their help. created by mysixbabies Also note that all monthly winning pictures will be automatically added to the Budgie of the Year fpr 2010. To check out "2008 Budgie of the Year" CLICK HERE OR "2009 Budgie of the Year" CLICK HERE (NOTE: you can only win 1 month per year to make it fair for all members, so example if you win Jan then you are not elibgible to win for the remaining months of that present year) Important Information: if you are the Budgie of the Month and are entered in the Budgie of the Year your original photo most stay up and not be moved, deleted, or link broken, this is the only way we can verifiy that that photo was the winner, if you decide to move, delete the photo your photo is disqualified from the Budgie of the Year Competition. Interested in our Monthly 2009 Winners? CLICK HERE and feel free to look, this is a readme only post, to congratulate the winner feel free to click on the CLICK HERE to Congratulate Link in this thread under the photo. Read here on how to post pictures within guide regulation Photo Regulations/How to Post TIPS on taking good pictures that WIN [*]Make sure you have good lighting, the best is in the daylight without a flash [*]Try and take your budgie's picture without the bar cages, many camera's will let you zoom in and you can put the lense between the space [*]If it is a close-up use your macro setting (symbolized on some camera's by a flower) and then press the shutter button 1/2 way and let it focus

Voting will stay open for 3 days and then the winner will be announced. You can vote for more then one picture of you chose. If you have not yet won for 2010 don't forget to enter for November Budgie of the Month!! Good luck to all that have entered this month. Please if you have questions or comments PM me don't leave them here they will be deleted.

wonderful news.

xxxxoooo I hope everyone stays safe. Like your new siggy too by the way.

I would keep your hand out of the cage for the first week and work on just getting him to come to the site of the cage and feel comforable that way. If you go in the FAQ there is an article in there that I wrote up about Taming your Budgie. It is my experience on how I tamed my pet store bought budgie. Do know the first week is not an indicator of how they will be for the rest of their lives. The first week or couple days they can tend to be quiet and not move it doesn't mean that they are settled and a lot of people mistake this behavior and pet their budgie during this time which makes them more fearful of your hand when they do come out of their shell. I suggest reading the article it gives a lot of information of what I am already saying and more. Good luck

What a darling pictures, congratulations to Jack Robinson for taking and submitting this picture to be considered.

Sorry I was late on getting the voted started I apologize. Voting will stay open until Tuesday, Sept 7th - US time. If you have any questions or comments please send me a private message. Please don't leave comments on the voting post. Good luck to all that entered and don't forget if you haven't won this year yet you can enter for October Budgie of the Month by clicking HERE

Sorry I was late on getting the voted started I apologize. Voting will stay open until Tuesday, Sept 7th - US time. If you have any questions or comments please send me a private message. Please don't leave comments on the voting post. Good luck to all that entered and don't forget if you haven't won this year yet you can enter for October Budgie of the Month by clicking HERE

Put in your best entry for Budgie of the Month. Every one has until the end of each month (U.S. Time EST) to enter a picture. Members vote at the beginning of the month to chose who will be the winner. You can win only 1 time within the year so for example if you won March Budgie of the Month then your pictures can not be qualifed to win again. This prevents 1 member winning all the time and makes it fair since each and every one of us have different talents with our camera . One picture per member per month. Please remember to keep to the board rules of maximum, pictures should not exceed 480x640 AND links will not be accepted ONLY images. If this is not met then you picture will not be accepted (notification of non acceptance is not guaranteed). Any post you make to this thread will not show up so please do not repost. Do not post questions on this thread if you have a question you can either PM me or post in the Competition Area, thank you. Good luck to all that enter. Winners are recognized for the whole month and a Budgie of the Month Picture (example below) is is added to their signature line and it is removed after the month is over and is added to the next winners signature line. Click HERE to see all the different emblems that are used. They have been created by our own BBC members and we appreciate their help. created by mysixbabies Also note that all monthly winning pictures will be automatically added to the Budgie of the Year fpr 2010. To check out "2008 Budgie of the Year" CLICK HERE OR "2009 Budgie of the Year" CLICK HERE (NOTE: you can only win 1 month per year to make it fair for all members, so example if you win Jan then you are not elibgible to win for the remaining months of that present year) Important Information: if you are the Budgie of the Month and are entered in the Budgie of the Year your original photo most stay up and not be moved, deleted, or link broken, this is the only way we can verifiy that that photo was the winner, if you decide to move, delete the photo your photo is disqualified from the Budgie of the Year Competition. Interested in our Monthly 2009 Winners? CLICK HERE and feel free to look, this is a readme only post, to congratulate the winner feel free to click on the CLICK HERE to Congratulate Link in this thread under the photo. Read here on how to post pictures within guide regulation Photo Regulations/How to Post TIPS on taking good pictures that WIN [*]Make sure you have good lighting, the best is in the daylight without a flash [*]Try and take your budgie's picture without the bar cages, many camera's will let you zoom in and you can put the lense between the space [*]If it is a close-up use your macro setting (symbolized on some camera's by a flower) and then press the shutter button 1/2 way and let it focus

What a cute picture...it was taken by Cory. Way to go Cory!!

No there is no other way to tell that I am aware of.

I believe it is all on how they are taken care of you can have an indoor bird with a very terribly dirty cage and an outdoor aviary and very clean and well managed or you can have an out of control outdoor aviary with breeding going on and fights and an very nice clean indoor cage. That is my opinion it depends on the conditions that the bird is in and it comes down to genetics too and if the bird is of a healthy stock. I say this as Pretty passed away within 2 years of me having him and Merlin is not going on his 3rd year at my house and is healthy and they were living in the same cage indoors. I hope that helps, it really goes on the same basis of what Dave was saying.

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.