Posted April 29, 201312 yr G'Day folks just thought I would say hello. HELLO I joined this site because it has a lot of information on breeding budgies, and I have just started to breed budgies. I had budgies as a kid and have had budgies for my own kids. we have a range of pets, 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2 long neck turtles, a tank of fish and a duck. and we started with 1 budgie that started to lay eggs on the cage floor and then sit on them. so we decided to get het a mate and now we have a totale of 7 budgies with more on the way ( 2nd clutch ) I have made a bird room to keep our cats away and to keep the budgies safe i have an old aviary that I am fixing up as well. Cheers Mark
April 29, 201312 yr hey welcome to the forums. Notice you say you started with 2 budgies. Now you have a total of 7. I wouldn't go inbreeding these you should probably go shopping for some partners for these 5 birds that don't have partners. I would look at a few threads on inbreeding. Hope to see some photos soon Edited April 29, 201312 yr by L__J
April 29, 201312 yr Author no inbreeding I only want to breed strong and healthy birds. this is how it all started my wife wanted a budgie and went to a friend who had breed some, she chose a young bird that turned out to be a female. 4 years later I as I pat the bird, she went into the mating position. a short while later she started to lay eggs and incubate them on the cage floor. we decided to get her a mate, we thought the male that we got was too young to mate. turns out he wasnt. added a nest box. get 13 eggs, 8 infertile. she started laying eggs right after we introduced the male before they had mated. only have 1 breeding pair. the others are too young - 10 weeks old I have been looking into purchasing some breeding pairs and some other budgies to add different blood lines and to breed with the ones I decide to keep from the 1st pair. I am planning on starting to breed later this year, I wasnt planning on any more babies from this pair so soon. still learning.. I will be seperating the pair once these eggs have hatched and the dad can look after them.. first one is due to hatch in around 5 days. and I will seperated the sexes once I can work out which sex is which. I think so far that I have 4 males 1 female. I will post some pics of them as soon as I work out how to. I have seen a couple of budgies that I would love to get.. a female grey dom pied and a male violet dom pied Mark
May 1, 201312 yr Hi and welcome Mark. Sounds like you know what you are doing and have focus with regards to your birds. I wish you well. Photos would be nice when you can Edited May 1, 201312 yr by **KAZ**
May 2, 201312 yr Hi mark Welcome to the forum. I'm only very new and gave found it very helpful. Your birds look great. I particularly like th way they look against the corrugated iron. I have started to build a aviary and lined it with corrugated iron myself. I think it shows the birds off nice. Regards Brett
May 2, 201312 yr Hi Mark, Welcome to the forum. I too am new, and certainly find it very helpful. Your budgies look gorgeous. Cheers, Sandy
May 6, 201312 yr hello welcome to this site. have fun because this is one of the best sites i have ever joined
