August

if you do give it to you budgies, make sure you clean is all i have to say, toy looks farmilar to something i've seen in birdy stores, just make sure you disinfecte it some how, just in case her birdies have something that she doesn't know about... sick birds are no good.

Oh My goodness so cute!

Just posting a thank you to kirby and everyone that answered your questions when this past clutch first started to hatch, the questions you asked were the questions that i was asking to myself this morning and the answers were a short click away i had a 4 day old chick thrown from the nest this morning, i fed him warmed him up and stuck him back in. by the time he was put back (about an hour) he was screaming for mom. this guy is the last in a clutch of 7 first 4 eggs hatched and he's almost a week younger than the other youngest. anyway just expressing my thanks to all of you ladies and gentlepeople. now all i'm hoping is that he stays in that nest box. thankyou thank you thank you

i asked my vet this question too, i thought my birds had a nasty and were dying. she told me that it was an increase of sexual hormons in their blood. my bo's feet always get darker when there's a girl around or when breeding. i don't know how true this is but she answered it like it was a common question so. it does seem to fit in my flock

piece of string on the floor and q-tips, rarely play with the 25$ toys... oh well i like the pretty colours

love those cages they're super easy to clean, which is a bonus!

Wow i've been looking for something like this for a long time thanks for the hook up!

Thank you guys, soo much its been werid, most people around me arn't bird people and say its old just set it free(as in out doors) thank you

:angel1: A few years ago a pair of budgies came into my life through horrible and at the same time happy circumstances, I was working in a pet store. I was a kennel tech (the special person that feeds and water’s the animals and cleans up their poop) and this woman calls me, crying asking if we take our budgies back if the owners cannot keep them anymore, of course I said, so she showed up about 30 minutes later with these two very large budgies, and she came into the back and chatted with me for almost an hour, her daughter was finally aloud to come home from the hospital after almost two years battling cancer the only problem was that none of the animals could stay just for her safety, there was the later named Bo who was a very tame loving boy, who chatted away to anyone who would listen, and then there was Reba a very large cranky cobalt blue hen that accompanied him, the woman held my hand right before leaving and looked me straight in my eyes and said ‘make sure they go to a good home together’. She left, I cried a little and when we closed that night Reba and Bo in a hamster cage, came home with me on the bus. So these two were the birds that took me back from the brink of cat hood (I had lost a Quaker a few years prior and wasn’t ready for birds again) So fast forward a couple of years (and 18 birds) Reba and Bo blessed me with a few wonderful clutches and then on her last clutch almost a year ago she hatched and raised a Quaker parrot chick (till 2 weeks old and too big for the nest box, she only laid one egg and was a dud) and since been dubbed the Superhen, For about four months now Reba has been in her own cage in quarantine because she was looking really ill, blood work and other weird test later discovered she has a growth on her uterus (the vet thinks). Now Reba is looking worse for wear and appears to have shortness in breathe if startled and sleeps almost all day. Is it time to say goodbye? When do you know? Bo’s still kicking he’s the resident baby sitter. Loves to play with the babies and helps me hand feed them, shows them that the green stuffs better than kibble and millet, :angel1:

Thanks Eterri for clarifying that for me

Don't budgies have a gland down there and they groom it to distribute the oil(?) around their feathers, i may have my species mixed up, but i recall something to that effect. all the time doesn't seem normal though

Going to be the Green sheep, my favorite is the original light green, followed by blue spangles and ino....

I encountered an unusual man today through my birds, and currently I’m not sure how to take it. I had my burdies in the paper a few weeks ago, I’m starting to look for new homes for them because I leave for university in 6 months and my parents are not willing to keep them all, a few of my mother’s personal favorites will stay but the rest with the biggest regret will have to go. So this man has been trying to contact me for about a week (I couldn’t get back to him, our puppy broke his elbow but that’s another story) so I finally got back to him and he says that he’ll be over in 20 minutes and doesn’t give me a chance to say no. So here I am first thing when I get home having 20 minutes to clean cages (I leave at 5am so no time there) right that’s going to happen. He’s looking for a breeding proven pair all I have are bonded pairs that I assume will breed well. Light greens, cobalt’s and opaline’s, then he tells me that he wants prettier colours and points to my sister’s breeding pair, I tell him that they are on eggs so I’ll give him a call but they will all be artificially raised for pets not ideal for breeding birds. Then he goes on to tell me that he wants a proven breeding pair because if they don’t produce he will have to get ride of them #(QNFIW#)($#@!!! WHAT! Getting rid of bubs because they don’t produce, then I find out he has a pair of budgies that he picked up separately in the bargain finder and thinks they are going to breed after a few weeks with him, ^um okay… creepy person. Then he causally drops how he gave the last two pairs that didn’t produce for him to the SPCA…. I don’t know what to think… this man expects me to call him offering my babies to him when he gives them away when they don’t produce… GAH! I’m lucky if I get more than five hatched eggs a year! I don’t know if he was ignorant or what there is no money in breeding budgies… especially around here, I still have a hand-raised hen hanging around the house. I just want good homes for my babies! Is that so hard to ask I’m thinking of asking FFARRA for help, god knows I don’t want to get rid of them but certain things happen? Bah number of bubs that need homes in April 12, number of decent homes found… possibly one, but this man… I have already thrown away your phone number… don’t expect a call :yelling: ( i did give him a few pointers on trying to get his to produce, including vet checks, feed, and told him that if he was going to get rid of those ones that i would take them (hopefully find nice LOVING homes..) but in the end i know i will have to find a house off campus becuase only crazy people like us would care for budgies and birds the way we do. bunch of dirty horrible flying rats... i love them... just one question how would you have continued in that conversation i was about ready to beat his face in... but i smiled and let him go on his way ... :dbb1:

Wow! if there is a connection there. I have two budgies that did have really bad scaly mite. both were treated quiet aggressively (with an injection), and neither of them have been able to reproduce, maybe there is a connection it would explain things around here.

i have no idea about how you can get harrisons but i and all of my birds and the dogs that get the crumbs LOVE harrisons, mine do prefer it to zupreme and roudybrush(sp), i've heard that it does have excess salts though so that may be something to consider, if you can get your hands on it go for it, but read the warnings and stuff, for sure no additional supplements. just fresh stuff and seed.

i hand raise chicks and i haven't seen a difference in genders, no different than any other species of parrot

i am very much aware of the training and time it takes to build up the trust, i have two quakers that i take out every weekend, and i am part of the over nighters club(worst night of your life!) but i think it benefits them more so, we take the fids to an area that isn't know for very many birds at all, no trees ect. so its defiantly an as idea location as you can get. i i'll try and drop past them the idea of renting a gym in the winter so i can bring the little guy out. thanks for the info,

thats what i'm worried aboyut too i know its no bigger than a grain of rice for a larger animal like a dog, but would it be different for a bird, and would it stay put becuase of the size of the birdy and the chip

i am currently involved with a small free flight group in my city, more like three crazy old ladies and me, and i would like to be the person after a long debate about how small birds can not be let out, to have a budgie do it, and come better than their 'toos and caiques. so i have a little princess who is doing great with her indoor commands, i can place her around and corner and she still comes and we're getting use to the harness, but i want to know if budgies can take being microchipped? and has anyone done it, its my only stipulation, because if i can't, i won't let her off lead out doors. how have your budgies reacted to it?

i've had to deal with a few nasty cases of scaly face and in my experience when its as advanced as your describing that you need to go into the vet to get a few shots, i can't recall what they were but they did do the trick it took 4 injections and 2 months but i have a happy healthy grateful budgie, if you want i know mineral oil can help sooth the irritation while waiting to get into the vet. i'd leave the cream alone unless the a vet gave it to you, if its from a pet shop chances are its doing more harm than good, just make sure you don't get any oil on the feathers, or wait it out because it is on the eye. hope your little buddy gets better.

i had to go and hug my puppies for a good 10 minutes even though they really would rather me not hold them as tight, so many of those dogs looked like mine, good for you for getting those budgies, i took a poor budgie from a petstore a while back, he's had scallyface so bad his beak will never be normal, bacterial infections and a scared liver because of a horrible diet for years, but he sure is one of the best budgies a person could ask for, they know you saved them and they won't let you forget, its the best thank you anyone could give, because they really mean it, good job!

watching that i can't help think its a sperm bank... later all the lonely hens sneak a rub when no one is looking! oh dear... is it just that rope in that spot? duplicate the rope and hang it at the other end of the aviary... :devil:

lucky bumb!

i feel like a poop. i've never seen a scale in k-mart/walmart, i bought mine from an industrial kitchen supply store $120 and it goes up in .001g increments up to 2kgs, poop weights .10g :ausb: (Laughing out loud), i feel safer with the smaller numbers, in the mornings before breaky, most othe them are within .25 of their normal rate, but thinking about it 25$ is a little bit more intelligent.

is there an ingredient that you can add or a formula that you can give to a budgie chick that can help put weight on them? and fast?