Hi everyone!

 

I'm from Brisbane. I have had budgies as pets for most of my life. Ever since I was a kid we had budgies, once as a pair and the rest of the time just individual budgies.

My latest budgie Frankie died about a week ago I was heartbroken. We had him for about 6 years. He had had a realllllly rough time of it. Several years ago he started developing a darker toe on his right foot. We rushed him to the vets at Mt Gravatt and he ended up losing that toe. The vets told me that it was because I was only feeding him seed (Trill) and that something was going wrong where his body was throwing out blood clots into his leg/foot. This was a shock for me as we had alwayssss fed out budgies in the past with Trill, and then supplement with vegies. The vet likened trill to maccas for humans.......that put it into perspective. So we tried to get him onto other types of food.....but he was majorllllly fussy....and stubborn.....We ended up going back to trill as he just wasn't going for it....he ended up getting sick again last year with another toe on the same foot going dark in colour....and him struggling to breathe......The vets again put him through surgery and removed another toe. He spent weeks with a 'cast' on his foot...and us hand feeding him medication..... Recently he had realllly improved in himself and was so happy and full of energy.... Then last weekend I went out to his cage like any other day, but he had passed away during the night. It was sudden....no sign of problems with his foot......not sure what happened. Lots of tears.....

 

The house is really quiet without a feathered friend here.....so we are thinking about getting a new budgie very soon. Learning from previous mistakes, we will be concentrating a LOT more on the food side of things with this next budgie......NO trill will be in this house lol

 

We have only ever bought our budgies from pet shops in the past.....but I have been turned off pet shops more and more over the years......so we want to go through a breeder this time.....

I've been looking online, but there is hardly any info on budgie breeders in Brisbane......1 or 2 come up on google.....arghhhh where is the best place to contact to get some names of people I can contact? I am in the south-west side of Brisbane.

 

Thanks,

Louise

Edited February 26, 201213 yr by Louise

Hi Louise and welcome.

 

I also live in Brisbane around springwood area. I have only just set up my birds to breed so I won't have any babies for sale for at least 3months.

 

There are many other breeders on here from the Brisbane area.

Maybe put a comment in the wanted section of this forum.

Awesome idea Kaitlyn!

Thanks so much!

Sorry to hear about Frankie, they each take a little bit of us with them when they go . I don't think the seed mix would be the cause. Yes they need greens etc but that is a general budgie mix. If he had other issues I think that was more the cause of his death. Most people with a pet bird would use the bird mix's from supermarket's rather than special mix's. Good luck with finding a new birdy friend.

 

 

 

 

 

P.s why not check out community notices and see if you can find someone in the local budgie club? Maybe they can give you some help with finding breeders near you.

Edited February 26, 201213 yr by robyn

Robyn, I was always dubious about the seed mix being blamed for the issue. I have fed all of my past budgies on it and none had an issue. To be honest, they kind of guilt tripped me trying to make out that I wasn't looking after him properly......When I was..... They sold their own seed mix in the vets so maybe that was the intention to get me to buy that instead. I was certainly convinced it was the trill mix after the 2nd time that he had to go into surgery....Probably spent a good $1000 at least on surgery and tests etc....He was such a part of our home though so we couldn't imagine NOT doing anything for him. A lot of people would probably think we were nuts lol But I don't care!

 

Yeah, will have to search out some budgie clubs, as I'm not having much luck finding any breeders.... Thanks Robyn!

Hello welcome to the forum.

I'm sorry for your loss. People who might call you crazy for doing anything for a pet, do not understand the relationship between an animal and human. It is a shame.