Well, I bought my first budgie on Sunday! Little Cobalt Spangle hen. Tossing up between Sky and Minx for names.Here is my cage setup:

 

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/wild_spot/cage.jpg

You can see her hiding at the back right on her calcium perch.

 

A shot off the bottom half and floor:

 

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/wild_spot/cage2.jpg

I guess I just want to see what you guys think of the setup? I've never had a bird before so i'm winging it (pardon the pun!)

 

I'm thinking about getting more smaller feed dishes and spreading them throughout the cage with seed, vegies, fruit in them.

 

Does the water thing look okay?

 

Enough perches? There are the two natural perches (gum tree branches) a clump of gum leaves, a small calcium perch, and a swing right at the top. I haven't seen her use the swing yet, but she loves the natural perches and the calcium perch.

 

I'm going to start hiding some fruit and bean sprouts in the pinecone before I go to work.

 

So thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions? Thanks!

 

* Bummer. I tried to resize these but it obviously didn't work!

Edited May 12, 200916 yr by KAZ
changed oversized piks to links

hmmm looks good... maybe put the perches on either side so she can excersise but if she is out... should be okay!

Great!!!

Generally the better cage for a budgie is a wide cage rather than tall. it allows them to fly across the cage. But your budgie is out a lot ? so I guess your cage will do for awhile till you are ready for a change.

The top perch allows pooping in both food and water dishes from what I can see, so that part isnt good, but your choice of using branches is just great

they love those rings toys a lot, and good to see you havent put a mirror in the cage

What is that attached near the right of the upper perch ?

 

 

I think MINX is a great name....every second blue budgie in the world is called SKY

Edited May 12, 200916 yr by KAZ

I tried to find a cage that was wider, but this was the best I coudl find... eventually when I find what I want I will upgrade. I didn't even notice the perch could reasult in pooping in food and water, thanks! I'll see how I can move it around...

 

The thing attatched near the upper perch is a cuttlebone and calcium? thing.

 

She is in there all day while i'm at work, but I am going to try to let her out for an hour or two each night to fly around. Since she is taking to taming so well I'm not going to clip her wings, so she will get a good workout flying when she is out.

 

It's hard to tell from the picture, but the top perch is toward the fron of the cage and the bottom perch engles from the front to back. The calcium perch is at the back, so there is a few places she can fly from perch to perch. However I do see how it wouldbebetter with them on the side... I might have a rearrange tonight. if I do i'll post more pics tomorrow and see how I went :]

 

She hasn't been eating the leaves so far, and I put some millet in her seed dish but she didn;t look to have touched it this morning when I left. I tried handfeeding her some but she didn't eat any.