I picked up a bird a while ago and i know she can fly cause she was flying in the avairy. Well quarantine went well and today she got put into the avairy however she could not get any lift the poor girl. In winter I feed a ratio of 25KG seed to 5KG hulled Oats to help keep condition on my birds. Everyone is going fine with this outside of her (the other birds that came out of qarantine at the same time have no issues flying) poor girl i had to chase her up the log to let her know she can get from the ground up to the perches. going to have to keep an eye on her and make sure she loses come weight. Thinking of putting her in my big cage and giving her a mouse wheel, poor little fatty!

Maybe after a bit of exercise she'll get there

I've had a few of those also

I think a week or two in the avairy and she will be right I really did not notice her getting so fat as i thought it might be the norm for show types if a pet type was anywhere as big as her I would be worried but i thought nah she's fine... now I know better, trial and error

Fat show birds can still fly, just not as... energetically sometimes

You may find it was also from being in a smaller cage she found no reason to exercise her wings (it's usually a cock trait) slacker hens

She is a really nice bird she is a few years old and if I did not already have guys inside she would come inside as she is happy to sit on my hand and does not bite. I think she may have been semi tamed before being sold.

 

We need to write a budgie exercise book with all the yuppies now days i am sure someone would buy it!

"And lift that millet, lift that millet, lift! Lift!"

I was thinking along the lines of "and flap those wings... 2....3...4 and flap those wings 2.... 3... 4 and rest okay three more sets and you can have a millet SEED ready okay and flap those wings....."

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Can you post a picture of Microsoft Corporation ®. Fatty before and after for us on this post

Can you post a picture of Microsoft Corporation ®. Fatty before and after for us on this post :hap:

 

 

HUH Will see about getting a picture of her for you over the next week.

 

 

Also to those who PMed me, just want to clear up no I do not feed my Budgies 30KG os seed a day I buy 25KG of regular budgie mix and 5KG of hulled oats and mix them and it last me a few months

I did a typo lol instead of MB I did M S and putting that together is does the Microsoft Corporation ®

Microsoft Corporation ®

 

LOL does too!!

Edited August 17, 200816 yr by the pie

also with the show type sometimes you can get birds with lots of feather aswell. ive been to a mans avairy were all of hes birds are on the floor. as they have to much feather for lift off. lol

 

best of luck

 

Joel

also with the show type sometimes you can get birds with lots of feather aswell. ive been to a mans avairy were all of hes birds are on the floor. as they have to much feather for lift off. lol

 

best of luck

 

Joel

 

Feather is NOT the reason those birds cannot fly JoEl

also with the show type sometimes you can get birds with lots of feather aswell. ive been to a mans avairy were all of hes birds are on the floor. as they have to much feather for lift off. lol

 

best of luck

 

Joel

 

Feather is NOT the reason those birds cannot fly JoEl

 

well the man has been breeding for around 15 - 25 years and he said that is why so i would think hed know about hes own birds dont you ?

Nope she is just fat! Can't feel her brest bones at all! and she waddles when she walks. Either way she was flying when I bought her (she gave the breeder the run around trying to catch her) so unless her feathers have changed in the past month then I would be going with just fat!

Hehehe you have a BUDDA BUDGIE :hap:

Hehehe you have a BUDDA BUDGIE :hap:

 

 

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LOL :hap:

lol my lutino hen is developing the same problem she now goes up and down the wire to the hulled oat's, she wont eat anything else!!!! Greedy little piggy she is, on top of this she has also taken to being feed by the three males that are in the avairy with her!

Every day now for the last week she has been getting finger exercise, she is quiet happy to sit on my finger, so I just lift her up and down kind of quickly so that she flaps her wings, 2 minutes a day of that better do the trick, or she will be put in a seperate cage and made to eat a healthier diet!!!

Remove the hulled oats, keep with the routine you are doing you could also move the perches so that they aren't close to the feed stations, Making them Her and Him, having to move for to eat :D

 

Just a thought

She seems better already she has decided that she rules the avairy and is happy with the top perch but to get to the top perch it is a LONG climb from the seed dishes which are on the ground so i saw her today crash lading on the ground from the top perch eat and then climb all the way back up, she was puffed so I figure that it had to do her some good!

She seems better already she has decided that she rules the avairy and is happy with the top perch but to get to the top perch it is a LONG climb from the seed dishes which are on the ground so i saw her today crash lading on the ground from the top perch eat and then climb all the way back up, she was puffed so I figure that it had to do her some good!

I have a ladder a metre tall for birds like that. I also put large branches in the aviary from ground up on an angle so the "special needs" budgies dont have to wreck their tailfeathers climbing the wire.

I am the same Kaz I have a massive log branch thing that runs from the feed dishes up to the other end of the avairy and then a complete network of branches to get up to the perching rails and the "top perch" I was thinking of Harley & Lime (who are yet to go into the avairy) when I set this up but glad I did from the get go as some of the English types that come out of Quaratine are a little on the pudgy side so going to change the mix up so that they get less oats and more veggies!