Ratzy

Yikes, I have only ever seen one snake in the wild, but we get tigers, copper-heads, browns and who knows what else. I'm not scared of snakes really, if you leave them alone they usually don't go for you but your lucky Kaz, that it didn't manag to kill any of your dogs or birds.

Yeah, maybe I'll just keep them outside. :rofl: I haven't got around to getting another bird or 2 but I think I will.

No she isn't laying an egg, I think she was in mating position, I looked it up. They are in a cage outside but i am not breeding until next year during the school holidays ( when I can be there 24/7.) I took them in because I have a kind of play gym inside and they play on it from time to time. As for the box a friend told me not to grab them and that way I don't have to. I'm getting rid of the box!

Okay, I'll try. If she starts doing it again anyway.

No, she can come out if she wants to and I was worried so I didn't move her.

Thanks for saying that Kaz, I wasn't really sure whether it was the right thing, but anyway, it is already starting to grow back and he can fly across the room.

Maybe, but she doesn't look stressed, she's doing it again. She isn't panting or anything and it is not that warm. There is some paper in the box and she is ripping it up! She is now trying to chew the box! Huh?

My female budgie, Marigold, has been acting strangely. I put her in a box with her mate to carry them inside. She has been holding her wings out and her body pressed against the bottom with her tail up. She is not fluffed up or anything, though. What is she doing, has anyone elses budgie done this?

Yeah I know!

Aww.... your budgie is so sweet! With the taming, spend a bit of time around the cage at first so he gets to know you during the first week or two. then start sticking your hand in. Hope that's a bit of a help! Oh, I almost forgot, welcome to forum!

okay I will Elly!

I have clipped my budgies wings, I know that some of you are against clipping wings but Skye isn't the tamest bird. Anyway the feathers grow back in a couple of months, Marigold's are starting to now. I have let Skye out twice and he's is starting to sit on me. His only problem is that he bites, hard! How do you stop a budgie from biting?

I'm almost crying with disgust, Boofer (deceased) had bad scaly mite when I brought her but it wasn't that bad. I was treating her when she died along with her mate. A pet shop near me had a lot of baby budgies with really bad scaly mite and a man who knew nothing about budgies wanted to buy one for his little girl. The one he chose had a severe beak deformity and was opening and shutting it's beak repeatedly. I pointed out the problem and the shop keeper wasn't happy. The man chose an adult female budgie next and wanted to know if it would talk. The shop keeper said it would but it was a pretty old bird. I started to say it probably wouldn't talk but he wouldn't listen to a little girl when an experianced shop keeper was there. I hate being treated like I know nothing!

That could be a problem so make sure when you put them together you move things around inside the cage and move it to a different spot. Take the bird inside the cage they're going to live in, move things around and pop them both in.

You can put budgies and cockatiels together. Only the cockatiel might be a bit aggressive at first. I don't really know any site with cheap cages but do you have a school fate or junk sale near you? There may be an old birdcage there. Put them in cages side by side and take one step at a time.

Get some gloves maybe, then, when you don't do anything about him biting, he'll get bored and eventually quit.

He doesn't really know about birds unfortunately. It's perked up a bit and if it gets any worse she says it will go to the vet. I tried to tell her that once it really starts to show symptons it will probably die. Every classmate gets to take the bird home each weekend and I really hope it won't go home this time. My bird Boof was sick and then we had to go on holiday so Mum and Dad left it at somebody's place that had a cat and a dog. I'm pretty sure that that contributed to it's death, poor thing.

Yikes, the poor owners. I wish I could help.

Hi Ratsy, I saw your other birds on your link. Look like nice birds, now they have settled in to-gether, could you maybe get another pair to keep numbers even and maybe stop any hassles? Don't forget your quarantine routine though. Do you have any breeding box's in aviary? If your not going to breed yet and don't have box's in they should settle in o.k after quarantine. If you got the birds from same breeder or shop, you could maybe quarantine them to-gether. By next breeding season they should be used to each other. No I'm not going to breed until next year so maybe I will buy another pair (if Mum and Dad let me) and thanks for looking at my birds.

I've presently only got 2 birds and would like to fill my avairy/huge cage up with some more little critters. I thought I might get another female but would it be okay? Or would it just create jealousy?

Thanks, krosp, I'll try.

My teacher brought in her pet lovebird as a classroom pet but recently he's been acting weird. Sleeping during day, eyes closed, less active, less noisy, never see eat and drink and falling over are some of the poor creature's symptoms. My teacher just says he's just a bit unwell but I'm worried. She says she'll take the bird to the vet if he gets worse and I've tried telling her that it will be too late but she just doesn't listen! She used to have another one that died because half of it's wing was ripped off and she didn't notice, it was like that before she got though. So I thought she'd know that it will be too late by the time she gets it to the vet. Can I have some advice on persuading her? Please!

Wish you had a camera.

Maybe a non-breeding splendid fairy wren? I dunno, my grandad's a birder, I could ask him. That's the only one I can see in the bird book, but I'm not sure that you get them in your area. It won't be a kingfisher, there is 10 species and only 3 don't have blue-green heads.

http://mybeautbudgies.weebly.com/ You can see my budgies on this link. I made a site to put up stuff I know about budgies.