Hey there,

 

My budgie Benny did something the other morning I have never had a budgie do before. He is a little tame bushie, and normally always stays in my room overnight. However I had one sleep in day so I put his cage in another room for the night for some quiet in the morning. When I went in in the morning I found him stuck half in and half out of the cage! Dispite his size he had moved one top bar all the way over he has gotten his head and both wings through before he had lodged himself in. He couldn't move forward or backwards and I had to carefully feed his wings back through the bars so he could free himself. I am so sorry I didn't get to him sooner but I never thought he would do something like this!

 

Has anyone else had their budgie do anything similar? I've had budgies learn to open doors but never try to force through the bars...

 

Needless to say he stays in my room at nights always now.

 

- I'd like to add, the cage bars are of normal budgie cage spacing and not easily moved. Also I've never seen him display this behaviour before.

Edited October 24, 201212 yr by rachelrose

I had this happen once a long time ago but he got out, I called him Houdini lol.

More recently I lost a small young budgie through inch wire still can't work out how he did it, couldn't catch him though he stayed for a little while.

Not sure what you can do to stop him from doing it again though hopefully he got it out of his system.

Cheers Jenny

1/2 inch or 5/8 inch is recommended. I'm not sure what that is in centimeters.. I've gone as high as 3/4" before, but then a baby was able to get out of that, which I figure was because the baby was smaller at that age. So I don't put babies in that cage anymore.

 

My guess is that your Benny will remember that bad experience, and not try it again. But to be on the safe side, you should check your bar space, and consider replacing the cage if it is wider than 5/8". Aren't bush budgies considered to be smaller? So maybe the bars are just too wide for him.