Feathers

Hi TigerBlue Eyes, this is the second time I have seen this list posted and it really worries me. These cages all have a small footprint (18 X 18) and get higher and higher. These tall cages are not good for budgies. Budgies need flight cages. ie. long cage width so that they have room to exercise and fly from side to side. To quote Daz and others on this board "budgies are not helicopters". They don't do well in tall vertical cages.

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Snowflake and Aussie look like they are posing for that photo. It is a great shot. The babies are looking great.

Hi Jen, welcome to you, your budgies and Charlie

Great read. I was planning on going to my first budgie club meeting this weekend. Although that may now depend on how a certain 3 or 4 day old chick is going.

Hi Beth, I welcomed you in the pics posts I have a Lhasa Apso crossed with a Jack Russel, and strangely he looks like a Silky Terrier :fear Feathers.

okay, I don't get it. Grif? How does that go with donut, is it a brand or something? I agree, I have been in love with her since she was all fluff and pins. Makes you feel special doesn't it Goodness, Karen has so many to name, and then she manages to remember who is who, how clever! Is Pintpot another little one from Ken's aviary? Poor little darling, I hope all goes well for him. All your babies are looking so beautiful.

Hi, welcome to the forum. Billy is a real cutie, and I love little dogs too

Your YF blue is a chubby looking little thing

Hi Janet, pleased to 'meet' you, feel free to hang about as much as you like. Take care, Feathers

Hi Bianca and welcome. As you may have noticed, a lot of people here like to see budgie photos

I think boy too.

The second photo was so great

How gorgeous they are!

Great photos. Isn't it amazing watching them go through all their stages to a fully feathered fledged bird. The difference in the sizes as they all hatch and grow. They are looking really good, Kerrie

Hi Tony, you are doing great. Kiwi has come a long way by the sounds of things. Now you need to make his out of cage time fun, by giving him special treats or seting up a bit of a playgym, near to the cage. Hopefully doing all this will make Joybell a bit jealous and, monkey see, monkey do, will start to copy kiwi. You have made great progress, it is harder to do with 2 than it is one on one. Give it time :hap: As for the cage, try changing things around a bit from time to time, using new toys and different perches. Natural branches are good. Mirrors are often not a good idea if you have more than one bird as some birds fall in love with the budgie in the mirror. I would also try to use more hanging toys. They love simple toys such as bells, linked rings, hanging balls with bells in them. Even some cotton rope or paper pegged to the side of the cage for shredding. Moving every thing around now and then stops them from being territorial or scared of anything new you put in there. Plus this gives them more time to get used to your hands in the cage. Don't give up on the vegies, just experiment with different ways of serving it up. Mine started to love their vegies when I started cutting off the little tiny balls off the heads of broccoli and grating carrot very finely etc. So the bits weren't much bigger than their seed. That got them used to there being yummy little things in a bowl in their cage. After a while I didn't have to cut it soo tiny and I could add more and varied vegies to it. Now they will accept bits of carrots or a slice of apple of a broccoli head shoved through the side of their cages. The budgies know when they need to go and attack a cuttlebone or mineral block. They just haven't felt the need to grind down their beaks or top up on calcium yet. They will, in their own good time :hap: Hope this helps, Feathers

Lola looks like she has a green chest.

I am beginning to have a fascination for blue footed budgies too... It started with bubble's blue footed budgie.

Interesting bird, and WOW, that is a lot of breeding cages.

love it.. very funny :budgiedance:

Cheeta, he is really gorgeous :budgiedance:

This is one for the breeders, it is obviously starting to worry you that there might be trouble. If it were me, I would take them out and leave the breeding pair to it.

Poor 'lil Squee, she found her treat... eventually Great pics

They are all very beautiful budgies. I love the blue in the first 2 babies.

The first budgie is beautiful. great pics.