Julie-Anne

Hi everyone - I am brand new to this forum...I don't know anything about budgies, so I am sure I am going to learn heaps, but I do know that they are absolutely gorgeous and I love them. I am the proud mum of one baby - I am not sure what colour you would call 'her' (for now, till/if her cere colours) she is very light coloured, almost white, with a tinge of yellow in her plumage and given that her eyes are pink, I have assumed she is an albino. We have called her Billie, and we got her Friday last week. When we purchased her from the pet store one of her wings had been clipped, which has been good in that she is almost hand tame already, however I note with interest that both wings should have been clipped ? Why is that, and should I take her to the vet to have her straightened out ? She is a lovely little girl and she responds very well to my husband and in fact probably loves him the most so far. She did have an accident on Wednesday where she flew (as well as she can given that she has a clipped wing) into the wall and had a little bleed from beside her beak. She was very quiet on Wednesday night, however lived through the night and is almost back to normal in that she is eating, drinking, chirping and being quite normal. The bleeding has stopped and there is no damage to her beak, however she has what looks like a scab beside her beak. She was scratching it on Thursday night which I assumed was a good sign, given that when a human's scab is itchy, it means it's healing. Am I right ? However given her accident, she is now much more skittish around myself and our daughters, and only really responding positively to my husband. Should we try to keep everyone else at bay for a while, and let my husband be the primary handler until she is feeling a little more confident around us girls ? I might also just mention that about this time last year we also had a budgie, this one was a boy and his name was Charlie and he was the most beautiful bright yellow budgie and he was also a baby when we got him, and we hand tamed him to become an important member of our family - Charlie was my boy and he loved nothing more than sitting on my shoulder and playing with my earrings!! However after only 9 short months of having Charlie in our lives, he got sick during a moult and died. It was the most devastating pet death I have ever been through and many people thought I was crazy crying for a budgie, however I am sure I will now find like - minded people who understand that a hand tame budgie is so much more than 'just a little bird' and that the pleasure you receive from a budgie cannot be adequately described. Anyway that, I am sure, is enough for my first post !!! I can't wait to hear everyone's advice and when I am at home I will try to upload some photos of both Billie and Charlie. Cheers, Julie-Anne