Posted February 17, 201213 yr Hi. I just found this page and forum last week and love it. It has been a real help and education, so much has changed from how I was taught to care for budgies when I was a kid. We are teaching our kids the importance of doing the 100% best for the animals in your care and so we were researching Budgie care last week and found this site. To my horror I discovered the cage I bought 6yrs ago was one of the bad ones so today he got upgraded to a flight cage (pics to come, when I figure out how to get them from my phone to the computer). When I was a child my Uncle set me up my own aviary with budgies, zebra finches and king quails I loved it, it was so calming to sit in there. In 2004 my husband bought me a aviary and a few budgies for my birthday as his first ever birthday present to me as we had only been dating 6.5 months. All went well until I took in a rescue bird and it turned out to be diseased. My boy was the only survivour and I promptly removed him from the aviary and put him in a supposed budgie cage so we could clean and disinfect the aviary, then a move happend and the aviary got damaged and then we discovered our new house floods so can't use the aviary. His new cage is 76cm wide, 45cm deep and 45cm high, his old cage was a stupid tall house shaped thing. He hates fruit and veg and I saw the tip about baby food on here (I think) and have been adding a little each day to his seed and discarding after a hour or 2, he is eating some of it Yay. I ditched the perches the new cage came with and got him a rope one and calcium one, unfortunately the rope one is a little big but its the only size sold locally so ebay for a smaller one next week. Sorry for rambling, its past my bedtime lol. I look forward to chatting and learning more about what is best for my boy. Oh (I will post this separetly) I want to get a young handraised budgie for a companion for him but don't have a second cage to quarantine as I am never putting a budgie in a house cage again. Why do you need to Quarantine? Do you need to if you know the breeder's birds are disease free or is it for introduction purposes? thankyou
