Something I would like to know, could anyone confirm this for me. When I had budgies before when I was young I got the idea that once a bird was tame & imprinted on humans, especially males. It was useless as a breeder. But I get the impression on here that many people, have tame birds [at least finger tame] & then breed successfully with these birds. I had some males that once they were tame they never produced fertile eggs when paired up with females.

I have these two males that I bought from a pet shop, so I don’t know their history, they could even be someone’s discarded pets.

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By the way, they are the best of freinds, always together, maybe it's a case of a problem shared a problem halved, or maybe it's something else (Laughing out loud).

I have mated them both with a couple of hens & never produce one fertile egg, I gave them young from other nests to foster & they fed them successfully, but maybe their problem is just that they are infertile. Some female are very aggressive & some males seem scared to mate with them, but in both cases I have put another male with their hens & straight away got fertile eggs. The cinnamon grey green especially I would like to succeeded with, as it’s a nice looking bird & very vigorous, but it’s problem may be that, I returned home one day after being away & found it hanging upside down, by it’s ring, it almost died I had it inside in a warm place for a week before it recovered, it’s recovered fully now, but only has one toe forward & one backward on it’s ring leg, have anyone had success breeding with a bird with an injured foot?

Edited May 6, 200718 yr by Norm

Hey Norm. I don't have any experience "YET"with the breeding side of things, However it's in the nature to breed so i don't think that it (The one with 2 toes) would have a problem, maybe some thing a little flat like a piece of Quad as a perch so he has better footing...

 

with the "ïnfertile" boys, could you try again?? or is their a test that can be done on budgies kinda like a sperm count thing to see if they are in fact sterile???

 

Just my thoughts though, I hope it all goes well with you and the boys, i really like the light blue one Very VERY nice

Both my males that bred recently were tame and all up they produced 8 offspring in total.

I have not had this problem. When my birds were breeding, the male was very tame, the female only slightly. They raised young successfully, and with them being tame it actually made handling and taming the babies very easy. The actions of the tame male actually helped gain the female's trust, even during breeding. But I know my experience is not mirrored all the time.

 

Is it possible in their previous attempts that conditions were just not right for the successful raising of young? It is not as easy as people sometimes think. It seems the younger the male is when he is set up for breeding, the more problems can occur. It takes practice for successful mating, and a certain level of maturity to keep up with feeding the hen and eventually the young. I don't think males under a year and a half are completely ready in all aspects to produce and raise young successfully, but that is my personal opinion and is not shared by everyone.

Edited May 7, 200718 yr by Rainbow