My 12 year old son has recently taken an interest in Budgies so we've been out collecting a few birds to start him off. A family had to shed two birds this week so we went to get them and were told that both birds were young. Less than 6 months old. The family originally bought 2 birds but one escaped so they went and got a replacement. This replacement bird is obviously a young bird. The other one seems much bigger and possibly older, plus it has a leg band. The pet shop where this bird was originally sold, informed the family that it was a young bird and the lady says that it was small when they first bought it just before Christmas so she is convinced that it is only about 6 months old. The leg band ring is Purple and has CBC 526 imprint code. The birds are from the Cessnock area so from my reading of other information on this site would it be safe to assume that the bird is hatched between September 1 2010 and August 31 2011 by someone in the Cessnock Budgie Club??? This would make the bird between 20 and 32 months old, not 6. What are the chances that the leg ring is wrong??? Did the pet shop proprietor mislead the previous owner??? It isn't a problem but we would like to know since he want's to breed and the age of the birds is important in that regard only.

sounds like you need to contact that budgie club and find out who owns the leg band.

You can contact the club ring registrar or the NSW ring registrar and find out. I would think it would be highly unlikely to be the wrong ring. Have a look on the Budgerigar NSW website for the phone numbers.

Thanks, I've tried to locate info about Cessnock Budgie (Budgerigar) Club, unsuccessfully. There is a post in this thread (http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=31039 ) by Maddy, where the CBC leg band is referred to so I assume it exists.

 

NSW Budgerigar Society only lists Newcastle and Central Coast Branches.

 

I am about to email the NSW Ring Registrar, Barbara, so I'll post here the result of this inquiry.

CBC is part of the Hunter Branch of BSNSW. Simple numbered leg ring in Purple confirms bird is nearly 2 - 3 years old, as I thought, meaning the shop that sold it to the previous owner either had no idea or deliberately sold an older bird as a young one.