Catherine

I have been through this on vet's advice, too with budgies and cockatiels. I don't know which pellets you are using, but I have found that they never accept the multi-coloured ones. I began with one cockatiel and one 2 year old budgie. It took the budgie 6 months to convert. When he got a mate, she just copied him and ate the pellets. I have gotten 6 seed-eating budgies within the past 2 months. Four are this season's chicks, one a year old and one is 2 years old. From the day they arrived, I put a small quantity of pellets in their seed dish. They did not eat them but it got them used to the sight and smell of them. Once they were all out of quarantine, the 6 new budgies all went into a cage together. Once they were settled, I put out a smaller amount of seed and a dish of pellets plus vegies etc. I refilled nothing. On the very first day I let them run out of food, they started eating the pellets. Now, I leave only pellets over night so they eat them in the morning. I am still giving them half a teaspoon each of seeds per day. They are getting to realise that it arrives in the morning and then there is no more. They have stopped hanging around the seed dish in the afternoon. At the afternoon feed time, I remove the seed dish and leave other new stuff. They eat everything else and leave the pellets to last. BUT they do eat them. I think you cannot really expect them to convert quickly. It does take some time.

You want to get a cage which gives maximum flying distance across the cage.

:huh: Have you got a triumphant photo of him with his bell?

:sadsorry:

It is wonderful to see him looking so well!!

Well done! Soooooooooo cute!!

Roger Roo is still being a good Daddy.

Well done, summer. It was an excellent shot and the colours are magnificent.

Thank you. Those photos are great. You still take wonderful pictures.

Thank you very much. Roger Roo and Aimee are doing a very good job of raising their chicks.

Congratulations!! Well done.

Roger Roo and Aimee have four chicks. Roger is a very good daddy.

Vetafarm make excellent bird hand raising mixes. I can recommend them. They ship anywhere in the world. Vetafarm

That is what hens do. It is safer for each pair to have their own enclosure when breeding.

I love the little guy with Santa. The one you entered for the Christmas budgie competition is hilarious. Very witty and clever.

I do wish Ash the very best for a full recovery.

He is a little darling. I wish you many years of joy with him.

I love it!! It is such fun to read, 007, that it takes someone else ages to 'do' the birds. I get up early to have time for the birds before work. But you have more than me. Chuckle.

A great picture! Well done.

Thank you for your thought-provoking article. I take issue only with your remark about Ladas. I drove a super-reliable Lada Cevaro for 11 years. Everyone told me not to buy it but it was a good car and I enjoyed it. I sold it and it is still doing well 6 years later.

Thank you very much for your help. I understand the significance of the iris ring but am not sure what the pink cere would mean. I, too, think that yf spangle is gorgeous. The vet is not 100% that this one is a cock but I am. I have samples in for PBFD testing and the lab does the sexing for no extra charge. I have certificates for all my other budgies that they are PBFD clear.

They are a really deep plum colour. They look black until you see them in natural light. They are much darker than the one sunshine has posted.

I have two new baby cock budgies. The white one has plum-coloured eyes. He is an albino? What mutations might his parents have been? The other one is a yellow face opaline spangle ... ?