**KAZ**
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Is it possible you have a red mite infection ?
PS good tip too from Taz Devil
Well the mites are fairly small some a grey and others are red
Well then you have a red mite infestation as I suspected. they are very virulent. They hide in tiny cracks in the cage....in the joins of the bars, in the slots of the perches, behind drinkers and any crack or crevice. They suck the budgies blood and they hide in the ear canals of the birds too. You really need to get this sorted bigtime. And the most thorough clean of all cages you have ever done in your life with the right product. If you are breeding stop and get this sorted out.
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There is a budgerigar club in Melton http://www.bcv.asn.au/Melton.htm
and note...the secretary Peter Thurn is a member of this forum............known as Chookbreeder
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We got her specifically to train to talk etc as the little boys do for my partners mum .... but now thats not going to happen
WRONG assumption girl budgies do talk...maybe not as eassily or as readily but they do talk.
Female budgies DO talk. The simple fact of the matter is so many people keep saying only boys talk that noone bothers trying to teach females to talk. People who are so convinced a female cannot talk, will never talk etc are the very ones who wont ever try.
Quote from a budgie owner................
When I was 11 years old, my mother brought home a beautiful white parakeet. She started talking after about six months,and she was definitely a female. She talked better than any bird I've known, including my African Gray. She picked up phrases, like "Quick,shut the door",and "Uh-oh, Frosty's out!" She enjoyed dive bombing into our cold cereal, and would only bathe in a champagne glass! She was quite a personality and talker. She had a very extensive vocabulary, and lived a long life.
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My talker isn't my extremely smart male budgie Skyler but the handraised female Holly. When I started hearing words and phrases taken from the recording in the motion detector mirror toy( "where are you Babies" "good budgies", I love you")I presumed it was Skyler although he never spoke anything but budgie, chicken or tiel before. It was hard to make out and most words were surrounded by alien invader noise, "static" and tons of strange sounds. I finally realized the talker was Holly. I guess Skyler lets his "cell phone" speak for him.
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You tube.........talking female http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJQjZxvuBjk
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Contrary to popular belief the female budgie will talk with equal enthusiam as a male budgie. I have handfed many budgies and have had many reports back from customers that their bird is talking whether it is male or female. "Hemsky", owned by Shea Long (one of our future veternarians), is a budgie I raised in the past year and Shea just emailed me to tell me Hemsky's vocabulary now consists of: "Pretty, Birdie, Budgie and Hi Cutie". Shea also adds that Hemsky is "a very smart little girl", always entertaining. Hemsky is only five and half months old.
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i had a wonderful talking female called sparky who shared the room with a norwich canary
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ANOTHER TALKING FEMALE BUDGIE.....
http://talkingbudgie.homestead.com/thesensitive.html
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As long as people continue to say females wont talk, then noone tries to teach them Its just another one of those OLD WIVES TALES.............saying that they dont when they do.
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two budgies and you may as well give up now ....
can come out of bird toys and stick onto a birds beak either damaging the beak or making it impossible to eat if not noticed immediately.
Getting Rid Of Mites
in Pest Control
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also spray all cages and cage equipment, all perches, toys and drinkers and food containers ( remove and replace all food and water after )..............red mites hide in the tiniest of spaces like slots in perches and in the joins of cage bars......the eggs look like specks of pepper.