okay is this normal

 

We have 2 budgies Lucy and Olly

 

Lucy is fine she seems to have settled after maturity very nicely

As for Olly he is the nightmare of the 2 He is constantly fighting with lucy. When he struts around the cage she just ignores him. but now olly has gotten into licking the bars of the cage and have seen him licking the perches they sit on. we have 3 ordinary perches and 2 branch perches.

 

Anyone have any ideas whats going on. Is this him going through bird puberty or just plain weird behaviour

Wish I had an answer for you

 

 

 

But it sound plain weird to me

I would make sure his cage is covered for at least 12-14 hours for the next 2 weeks to see if that helps this type of behavior, also change the cage around and make it interesting and give him things to do like different toys, foraging for food etc...

 

How large is your cage? If your budgies are fighting they may not have enough space.

 

Post a picture of your set up please.

Sounds like behaviour that is common with a mineral deficiency. Have noticed this with cattle, they will start licking fenceposts, rocks and rusty iron buckets and the like if they need trace minerals and salts.

 

Put a mineral block, cuttle bone, a little bit of himalayan rock salt (not too much) and some of that pink shell grit or oyster shells in for them. Also carrot peels, sweet potato peels, silverbeet, spinach.

They also need to forage on a bit of native bark, branches and flowers from gum trees, grevilleas or bottlebrush/callistemon too.

Hi here is our cage setup this is temporary while I build a new cage in the cupboard below the cage

 

is this to small and we change the cage everytime we clean it out it has new branch perches too