Something seems to be wrong with Roxy, she is so unsettled. She keeps climbing all over the bars of her cage and biting them. She is not feeding herself so i had to syringe feed her and that was with lots of protesting from her.She is not doing many poos and they are watery poos when she does one. Could she be constipated from the change of diet, i am giving her egg and biscuit mix with seed added to it and also peas,corn and carrot.If she is what can i do to help her? i cannot lose her . :hap:

Oh no!! I hope she is okay :hap:

I dont know anything about hand feeding chicks. Perhaps she is losing that 'baby' behavior and wants to move to the fledgling stage and sit out of the cage with you. You are her mum and she wants to follow you.... Thats normally what fledglings do isn't it???

PM Libby....she is the "budgie whisperer" of hand feeding babies where I am concerned :hap:

Thanks Kaz, i have sent her a PM.

Oh , I hope everything is okay

Roxy is better now, she did a better looking poo this afternoon and then after that she settle down and started showing interest in her food again.

She might just need to adjust, much like a human baby that is given solids for the first time

it may also be that she wants to be with you because you are her budgie mom so seperation anxiety?

Debis she in with another bird? Elly is right and it can lead to major dramas. There was a discussion about this a while ago with regard to handrearing versus parent care/handling. I have found with the handraised ones they can suffer alot of seperation anxiety if they are very stronglybonded to a human. It might be worth considering a budgie friend for her soon so she doesn't go troppo when you aren't home.

I agree with MB on that part, there is a good article called something like Let Birds be Birds it is PINNED in one of the forums, I think one of the first ones a good read.

i have 2 other tame budgies in the house but in a different room to her. She calls out to them and they talk back to her. At night when they are having free fly time i sit on the lounge with Roxy and one of my budgies comes near her but the other will not. I am trying to slowly get her to spend time with the other 2 budgies. I am home most of the time as well.

Is the plan for her to go in with them eventually or will they aways be seperate? If they are to be kept seperate it might be an idea to consider giving her a friend of her own.

that is a good way to introduce them and then slowy you can put the cages next to each other, this may be why she is acting this way too she hears them and wants to get to them.

Is the plan for her to go in with them eventually or will they aways be seperate? If they are to be kept seperate it might be an idea to consider giving her a friend of her own.

 

 

I am not sure yet if i will put them together or put her in a cage next to them, they would be out together at night for play. Tweety and Runt are 2 male budgies i have that are very close, they preen each other and feed each other. They also both talk. Runt is a very dominant bird who was also handraised by me but can get very cranky and Tweety puts up with him but Roxy is a hen and i think she would not take it so i could have some fights if i put them in the same cage.

persnally, I agree for now keep them seperate and let them have play time maybe in your next clutch you can find her a little female to have a playmate.

That's what I thought too, a friend close to her own age would be nice so they can grow up together.

I am hoping that the boys will eventually accept her and the 3 of them will be good playmates. Tweety is only 18 months and Runt is 8 months old so they are still young themselves. When i started buying budgies i was allowed by my hubby to have 2 in the house but the rest had to live in the aviary. I had to do lots of pleading to get Roxy to stay in the house, he wanted me to put her in the aviary after she fledges. There is no way i would ever be able to have 4 in the house.

My trio with Latte, Cookie and Scooter works okay, but Latte is the bossy one and the boys are closer to each other than to her. - they grew up together so i think its a gender thing.

My trio with Latte, Cookie and Scooter works okay, but Latte is the bossy one and the boys are closer to each other than to her. - they grew up together so i think its a gender thing.

 

 

i glad to hear that a trio can work, i hope my 3 will get along together. I think it will be a competition between Roxy and Runt to who is boss. She already chirps cranky at him if she is cuddled up to me and he tries to come for a chat and kiss me.