I sadly lost all my budgies and my two cockatiels the other week during a frost.

I'm absolutely devastated! Not only did i get the bad news on my way home from being out of town, but also I had recently successfully bred my first ever chicks, they too succumed to the frost.

I have loved budgies my whole life, and the hen of the 2 chicks, i had hand raised.

 

Apparently my partner walked out to the aviary to check them all and the chicks as we would do every day, and found all my precious birds on the bottom of the cage, the hen near the nest box, with the 2-3 week old chicks inside. He too was devastated as he knew how much they meant to me and he too had bonded with them all.

 

I still get upset when i think about it, and have put a hold of my budgie breeding for the time being. I thankfully have the pleasure of my beautiful feathered boy Noddy, who i had also hand raised when a friends hen had rejected him and have kept as an inside pet since I got him. It eases the heartbreak of losing all my feathered friends when I get out of the bed in the morning to be greeted with a reet reel whistle from Noddy! :rip:

I am really sorry about your loss, that is terriably that you lost the lot in one go. I don't mean to be heartless but are you sure they were not sick becaus emy cockatiel Charllie she is an idiot she will sit out in the open at night at degree some nights, she doesn't do it all the time but she has done it on a night it was freezing and it rained all night and I expected her to be dead the next day but she was fine she didn;t even get cold and the other day when it was frost everywhere she sat out in the open alnight again she must of had frost all over her and she was fine again. and a week ago the whole 4 goe a fright all sat out in the open and they all to were fine.

My budgies have sat on the wire all night 2 when there has been rain and frost expecting them to be dead or die from colds but they are all fine.

But then I guess you may live in a much colder area than me. I live in the Goulburn Valley country Victoria.

But again about your loss, very sad

Very sorry for your loss :rip:

yes seems very odd

frost can be cold but if your birds have been useto out door elements

is your floor dirt

Thanks for your condolences Splat, i thought that may have been the case too and had looked at considering an autopsy but i just couldnt do it... They didnt show any signs of illness very happy birds and I always would check them twice a day Im from the wimmera region western victoria, the forecast that night brought rain, frost and fog and was minus 2 at 8am. I hope to soon get the aviary up and going with the sound of budgies again, awaiting to finish my studies and let my broken heart mend a bit.Thanks Rachelm! Genericblue, we have concrete floor and had scattered dirt over the bottom and would clean it out once a weekly. Do you not suggest concrete at all?

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I am so very sorry for your loss.

It must have been devestating to hear about what happened. I know how much you must've loved them all, but they are now all playing together over at rainbow bridge.

Fly free, fly high, fly forever little birds.

Oh my gosh. This story broke my heart. I'm very sorry for your loss!!!