Munchie's Mum

Gorgeous! I have a very similar budgie. Here are pictures of her at 10 weeks and 2 years. She's been my second best breeder and produced some gorgeous coloured babies.

Oooh I love the green on the back of this one's head. I've never seen that before .

Cute! One of my budgies started with green and blue feathers in funny patches, then as it grew it lost all the pretty blue it was just green. I love the blue patches he had as a young adult:

Has anyone had this happen before? I have 2 female budgies on their own eggs in the same box. It's a standard sized budgie box. They seem to be quiet happy with the arrangement. There are at least 2 spare unused boxes so its not like there's a shortage of space. The previous owner told me they are sisters. They seem really bonded, but at some point must have mated with males I already had. My question is, does anyone know if them nesting together is going to create problems later? Especially when the eggs hatch? Thanks .

I agree, you need to make sure the number of males at least equals, if not exceeds, the number of females. I recommend at least 2 more males than females. That way the girls have less to fight about. And I'd suggest putting nesting boxes in, with 1-2 boxes per pair. Don't place them too close together. That should sort out the problems. If it doesn't, you may just have to separate them.

My old budgie Cruddy used to do that to hands and feet. He'd go for it if you had no shoes on, and when he finished he'd leave a wet spot. So gross . We tried to stop him but he persisted so my mum just let him get it over with .

Hey MB (those are my initials :sad:), I tried to reply to your PM but your inbox is full. Where in Melbourne are you located? I'm a stay at home mum too. We have a big backyard and cubby house, so bring along the pet kids :sad:. Perhaps clear out your inbox a little and drop me a PM so we can yack budgies :sad:. :greenb:

Thanks for the warm welcome . And sorry about the picture issue. I did see the restrictions for image sizes, but on my Invision forum I have it set to resize any larger images automatically, and I thought yours might too. My apologies . It's funny, when I started out with my aviaries, I never actually intended to breed budgies. I previously had a large flight cage with 9 budgies, and shifted them into the aviary when I bought it. They paired up and started breeding about a month later. I thought it was fantastic cause I'd never seen babies before. I bought a second larger aviary and moved some into there plus a few bush budgies that came free with the aviary. They paired up and had babies too. I had no idea they shouldn't breed til after 12 months old- I just kind of let them do what they wanted. They would have been around...maybe 10 months when they bred. Well at least now I know for future reference. Once the current clutches are out, I'll take the nesting boxes out. Thanks :parrot: .

Hi All :happy-dancing:. I'm new here (obviously ). I'm Miranda, 25, from southeast Melbourne. I have 2 large aviaries of budgies of all colours. We've had the aviaries for about 12 months. We started with 9 budgies, and ended up with more than 60. We've had to sell 30 already. The little devils breed year round, regardless of the weather. Right now I have 4 females sitting on a total of 11 babies. The most I've had from one clutch is 5 chicks. The poor mum was rather flustered and grumpy for a few weeks :happy-dancing:. My males are very friendly- they'll gladly land on my hand for grass seed or lettuce. I also have a tame blue Quaker named Munchie, and a tame Green Cheek Conure named JoJo. We adopted the conure last week. Both love to eat food straight off my dinner plate! Here are some of my budgies. Nacho: http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th.../nacho_eggs.jpg Muffin and Scone: http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th...ffin_scone1.jpg Unnamed, but one of my favourite colours. She needs a new home though because she tries to take over everyone's nests. http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th...ies/budgie1.jpg Emerald: http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th...ies/budgie3.jpg Aussie, because of his colouring: http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th...ies/budgie6.jpg Boof. My husband named him because of his head. He'd never seen an English budgie before, hehehe. http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th...Budgies/b28.jpg Oompa Loompa, named by my (then) 4 year old daughter. She has been my most successful breeder. She's had 4 clutches this year and is a great-grandmother. http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th.../newbabies2.jpg Stumpy was the only surviving baby from a nesting box that flooded in the rain a few months back. I hand reared him til he was almost fully weaned, but he unfortunately died suddenly one night. Poor little Stumpy :happy-dancing:. http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th...ies/stumpy3.jpg Munchie, my blue Quaker: http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th...hie_fluffed.jpg JoJo the Green Cheek Conure: http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq27/th...dgies/jojo1.jpg Those are just some of my flock. I also have a pair of tiels, pairs of button quails, baby quails in an incubator, and 4 massive Japanese quails. I love my birdies! So, Hi to all budgie lovers out there :happy-dancing:.