Hi,

 

This is my first post, and my first budgie since I was kid, so I'd appreciate a bit of advice please.

 

I recently bought him - about a week ago - he is a pretty little green budgie of about 6-8 weeks old. He is very friendly and is already happy to sit on my shoulder and climb onto my finger, he never shows any agression and spends a lot of time attention seeking by perfoming daft tricks in his cage and chattering a lot to anyone who will listen.

 

We spend a lot of toime with him, and he's let out of his cage every day.

 

This is the problem.

 

One of his favourite tricks is to squeeze himself upside down between his cuttlefish and the cage bars and then drop to the floor. He does this often and seems to really enjoy it and the effect it has on an audience. However, he's taken a load of feathers out of the back of his neck doing this and I noticed he now has small wound there.

 

okay - so I can easily move the cuttle fish, but my question is if it's ususal for budgies to actually hurt themselves perfoming acrobatics and then keep on doing it?

 

And also - should I treat the small scab or let it heal on its own? I presume the feathers will grow back quite quickly.

 

Do I have a particularly loony budgie?

 

Thanks.

they do things like that alot and may hurt themselves in the procces i think you should move the cuttlefish so i think its not really unusual that your bird does this but its not right that it hurts itself

Thanks for that - yes of course I will move the cuttlefish - I just wondered if it was normal for them to "play up to the crowd" in quite such a loopy fashion. He also gets his claws on two different walls of his cage - in the corner - and then turns himself upside down, lets go an plummets to the floor. He seems to thinks its hilarious.

 

Anyway - thanks - they are obviously bonkers then - which suits me fine, as he's really lively and fun to be with.

 

I'll keep an eys on his back, and hopefully the feathers will grow back soon.

I think that when he is doing something that looks painful to you, don't laugh, or make any loud noises, because your bird will think that you like it. Instead, pay ALOT of attention to him when he is calmer, and behaving in a safer way. If you seem entertained by calmer behavior, he might realize that you like it more than the crazy stuff.