Hi all,

 

I've been trawling through these forums for well over a month now, and I've finally decided to sign up to become a member.

 

I have been looking into getting a pet budgie for a while now, but I wanted to take the time to make sure I had done all of my research;

(I feel now I'm well versed in cage size, quarantine, diet, natural perches, no sandpaper, tassels or mirror etc...)

My family have owned pet budgies before when I was a bit younger, and now that I've moved out of my family home, I think I'm ready to get another feathered friend.

 

I'm hoping that there's someone here who can help me out in finding a budgie,

I'm after a young male, hand tamed or not, (I plan on having a tame budgie) that would be available some time mid to late february.

Not particularly fussed on colour, as long as he's happy and healthy, but I'm a sucker for blue or bright yellow. Also, I am located in Melbourne.

 

I have done a bit of searching on gumtree, but would prefer to deal with someone knowledgeable.

 

Thanks for reading, glad to be here Such an informative site.

Welcome to the forums Sweetpea I hope you continue to find everything you need here

 

As for finding a budgie, I personally don't like Gumtree, because a few of my friends have purchased animals from there and it turned out that they were poisoned by the people they bought them from! (this was a couple years back)

 

But don't let that stop you, I personally think that buying from one of our breeders here (no, I'm not a breeder) KAZ breeds quality birds, but she's the only one that I can actually say is from Perth Can't remember who else So many names

 

 

Hope you find one within the forums

Hi thanks for the welcome!

 

Yeah I thought some of the ads on gumtree looked a bit dodgy... :/ definitely a last resort.

Edited January 29, 201213 yr by sweetpea

There is a list of breeders on this forum somewhere.......... see if this is it:

Also enter your request into the trading post part of the forum. Someone from near you may answer. You may even find someone there has budgies ready to go, so a good place to look if you are looking to buy as well.

 

http://forums.budgie...showtopic=18921

Edited January 30, 201213 yr by Hezz

Not really sure if u would actually go this far, but when I was in Geelong, we went to the Adventure Park, and along the way, there was a sign saying Budgies and Cockatiels for sale

 

 

Okay thank you, I will have a look around and maybe make a post there.

 

Geelong might be a bit too far for me, I'm a bit of a slacker and haven't got around to getting my licence yet... so I will have to bribe a friend to drive me.

Edited January 30, 201213 yr by sweetpea

lol

I think there are a couple of members on this site from the Melbourne area who breed. Sometimes people don't log on for a few days, so just keep checking back.

Hello Sweetpea your members name is the same as my siamese kitty

It is nice to see that you have done your research on caring for a budgie. I bet you are very excited to find a budgie ( I know that is how l would feel.)Just remember that once you have found one you need to post a picture of the budgie on here, lol

any luck finding budgies in the Melbourne area?

 

I was sure there were breeders from there on the site. Hopefully someone will get back to you, if they haven't already.

Hey guys, I have found a breeder (via trading post) that will have some tame baby budgies for me to choose from towards the end of Feb. He will be some sending me some photos, which I will be sure to share with you all. It's going to be a long month waiting, looks like I've got a bit of shopping to do before hand though