I have been offered some budgies very cheap from a local bloke who has too many and needs to move some on. Not sure how many he is going to offer me but I just want to work out what my options are. The aviary I plan to put them in is 2.5 metres X 2.5 metres with a pitched roof that is about 1.8 metres high at the sides and about 2.5 metres at the top so it's reasonably large. Can anyone tell me how many birds I could keep in it permanently and on a short term basis? I am considering taking as many as possible off him and then moving on the ones that I decide not to keep. At this stage I have no ideas what colours, ages. etc they are and I won't know until I go there on Sunday.

Anywhere from 40 to 100 depending on perching arrangements, feeding stations etc.

Make sure the birds you are bringing home are "well" and he isnt just offloading problem birds on you.

I doubt there will be any issues, he seems like a pretty upfront sort of bloke. He just has too many birds from same clutches, etc so he wants to get some out so that he doesn't get inbreeding, etc. I seriously doubt he'll be offering me that many anyway so I'll just take them as long as they look okay and then I'll weed out the ones I don't want for whatever reason and try not to keep too many that are closely related. Hope there's some nice ones! I kind of like these sorts of mixed bags cause sometimes you can come across something you weren't expecting...