i was gonna ask on yahoo answers but i know that everyone here knows more than people there, i got a few questions i want cleared up:

 

1. i live in the eastern part of the usa and since its september fall will be coming soon, i want to know is a budgies natural breeding season in the eastern us in the fall or spring? and how many months does it last? and what times of the day to they like to mate? is it in the morning or the evening or both?

 

2. my female budgie has been getting all puffed up for about a week or two. shes not always puffed up but she does alot, is she sick? or is does she have an egg in her? or is she just threatened by me?

 

3.my female budgie that is single is obssesed with her mirror. like she'll sit there all day long watching her reflection. The thing that concerns me is that she stays with that mirror more than she eats, like has each day passes she cuts her eating time down, the others eat2-3 times an hour, she used to be like that, but now she is only eating once an hour and today she only ate once within a 3 hour period just so she could be with that mirror. now i know the simple answer is "remove the mirror" i tryed that, she went crazy, when i took it out she flew around the cage looking for it, she didnt eat for the 4 hours i had it out ( i stayed in the room the whole time it was out) and she eventually started yelling untill i put it back. also lately shes been wanting to mate with it, like she'll go over peck it and sit like she wants it to mate with her, she'll put her tail in the air like a female sits when they r mating. and the thing that is so heart breaking is that when all 7 r out of their cage, she is always alone, not even her own sister wants her around, her sister will kick her and bite at her untill she moves, and all 7 pairs off even the single males sit together and feed each other and i just feel terrible seeing her alone, it almost makes u want to cry seeing her getting pecked at just cause she wants a friend, i hate seeing her like that. so i thought about it, i dont want to mate her, two breeding pairs r enough and two females is just a mistake, so i heard that budgies and cockiteils like being together, the cage shes in is huge, well at least for one bird, her cage is bigger than the one breeding pairs cage, the cage was ment for birds like cockiteils and lovebirds so i could get her a cockitiel friend, the local pet store sells them for $90 and i get $82 a month, so i could save up for two months and after that, considering i would need to get budgie and tiel food, i could do that too, the store sells that for $3 and the only things i would need to do before i would get one is get a perch for a cockiteil right?so what do u all think about my female busgies behavior? and do u think getting a cockitiel would help her? or is there something else i could do? thanks in advance

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