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Thanks Maisie... I go through my property manager for everything, I think she has to contact body corporate on my behalf. I know she has though, because she CCed me in on the email, and that was sent to them on Tuesday first thing in the morning. So it's only been 4 working days.... not that long I guess. I suppose if another week or so goes by with no response I might ask her to follow up.

Hello! As many of you know, I am planning to get a budgie as soon as body corporate gives us written permission (all fingers and toes crossed that they do!) The thing is, we live in a townhouse. It's not big, but it's nice and open downstairs, and there are glass doors and windows looking out at greenery, and we have a tiny courtyard too. So I don't think it's too squashy a place to keep a budgie in a nice sized cage. But the only thing is... it's an open plan downstairs, so the lounge room, dining room and kitchen are all one big open space. It's not like there are walls separating the kitchen from the rest of the house. Upstairs is only really small - bedrooms and bathroom, and can get quite hot - so the cage will have to be kept downstairs so the budgie has lots of nice views of outside and a large room, and can watch us walk around doing stuff. I'm just wondering, if I kept the cage in the loungeroom, do you think that will be okay? Because I know that budgies are not supposed to be too close to teflon when you're cooking. Of course the cage won't actually be IN the kitchen, and the thingamy above the stovetop will be on sucking up the fumes and hotness whenever we use frying pans... .but I just wanted to check. How close to the stove do you think is safe to keep the cage? It's just because the kitchen doesn't have any walls or barriers, so technically the cage will be in the same space as the kitchen, even though it's not going to be all that close to the frying pan. I am thinking we'll be okay, but I just thought I'd check. Let me know if you need me to clarify anything.

Nope I guess this weekend is out. Hopefully it comes through next week some time. I just hope they don't overlook it and forget about it because it's not a priority to them. I thought saying yes or no should be a quick thing to do... just hope it happens soon!

Thank you! Still waiting I was really hoping it would come through today so we would have the weekend to get the budgie. We got approval from the owner the very same day the property manager received our email - it was very fast! But it's been 4 days now for body corporate... which doesn't sound like long haha but it sure feels like it Yep I have indeed been window shopping. I'll let you all know if we get approval.... sigh.... well, there's still another hour or so until the working day ends so fingers crossed haha

Nope, different pair... although, the male was a grandson of that other pair that had the fallow..

Sorry to hear about the little ones that didn't make it. Did you get a chance to see if they were cinnamon or not? Good luck for the rest of the batch, I'm keeping my eye on this thread

He's absolutely beautiful! I love the vivid colour on his back, above the tail. I don't know a whole lot about budgie varieties but I would have said opaline spangle too

Aww... we were calling it a female at the time although it was too early to be certain, but then years later I found out that recessive males' ceres never go as dark, so I wasn't sure how to tell what it was! That's really interesting about the cinnamons- come to think of it, the only ones we ever bred that had cinnamon markings (two yellow ones) were female. I had this pair once that was a yellow hen with black eyes and the markings on her wings were grey and spangle-like (her stomach had a dirty sort of tinge, but not enough to be olive or grey, just a mustardy yellow)... and her partner was a sky blue spangle. For some reason, every time they bred, when the baby had a black eye she raised it, and when it had a red eye, she completely rejected it and wouldn't feed it from the moment it hatched. I never found out why she rejected the red eyed ones, but I really wanted to know what they would have looked like. The ones that she did raise, with black eyes, turned out to be completely yellow all over, without any of her smudginess. In case you're wondering, this mother had Sunny Boy (above) and a green spangle as her parents... and the father had a sky normal and green spangle as parents. That doesn't help me at all in guessing what those red eyed babies would have been, but it's an interesting mystery anyway! Sigh... all this budgie talk.. .. HURRY UP BODY CORPORATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the only clear front on photo I can find. It seems to be a fairly even colour. I have no idea!

Thanks - yes it did have red eyes. Liv - how can you tell from this picture that it's a female? Or is it a sex-linked thing?

Thanks everyone, great to meet you! Let me know if this isn't the right place to put photos... but here are some of my old budgies: Here's sunny boy, who was a very tame pet and a great talker This is the most unusual one I ever managed to breed. The mother was a violet normal, and the father was a sky blue spangle.. all the other babies we got from this pair were sky/cobalt/violet normals and spangles. So this one was really interesting, and unfortunately it did not live to adulthood so I never got to find out if it was a boy or girl and see what it was going to end up looking like. Young siblings of the one I just posted above... These two were eggs that were left to go cold, and I begged my parents to try fostering them. I can't believe it worked - we gave them to my mum's cousin who had budgies nesting at that time, and they raised them up until they were about this age and then tried to kick them out of the nest so we took them. They were such a lovely sweet natured pair. These are all from a different pair than the others... just goes to show that even when they think they're big enough to leave the nest they can't help but still burrow and squish together!

Hi everyone, nice to meet you! I am going to get a budgie soon! Well... hopefully. We are renting, and have asked our real estate. The owners happily agreed to let us get a budgie, but we are still waiting to get written approval from body corporate. I suspect it will be okay because our body corporate bylaws state that we cannot have any pets without written permission and that written permission must be obtained before bringing any animal onto the premises. To me, that sounds like we're likely to be allowed a small pet since our owners are happy - otherwise surely they'd have a blanket ban on pets? Anyway... will have to wait and see! In the meantime, I am getting impatient haha... so I thought I'd join and say hello! I have been having a look on here for a while and you guys seem to have great advice and experience, and share the love of budgies ------ A bit about my background with budgies..... I got my first pet budgie, Ricky, from a pet shop when I was 11 (after years of nagging for one haha) and he was a beautiful pet who was extremely tame and talked, but he flew away So we got another one from a friend who we knew bred budgies in their backyard - Sunny Boy. He was very tame too and he lived for about 8-9 years. About one or two years after we first got Sunny Boy, I got a small aviary as a combined Christmas/birthday present.... and we got about 5 more budgies from my mum's cousin who bred them. That was the start of a wonderful journey of breeding budgies, which brought so much joy as well as sadness at various times. I really enjoyed breeding budgies and watching them grow up all the way from the beginning! I think I have had over 40 budgies in total, and my parents still have some although they have stopped breeding. They still have a couple of the original ones we bred, which are now over 11 years old! Now I'm starting my journey all over again, planning to get a new one as a pet, with my husband who has never had pets and is also very excited. I consider myself fairly experienced with budgies, but I know I still have a tonne to learn, and it's been a while since I had them as pets. I think it will also be a pretty different experience having one as an adult than when I had them as a child/teenager. That's all from me for now.. I will have to go back and play the waiting game lol... but I'll let you know when we get one, and in the meantime I might dig up a few photos of some of the ones I used to have