1) What kind of bands do you use? The ones I put on my baby budgies have already come off (no not because I put them on too early, they wore them for about a month and then the bands started breaking of widening for some reason and coming off)! Not to mention the numbers wore off in two weeks so I had to hold the bird at a certain angle to read the imprint. Cheap piece of garbage, I guess I should have gotten metal ones instead of plastic. Oh well, they lasted long enough to know which bird was born first or second and so on.

 

2) When do you take your male out of the cage to prevent them from having another clutch?

I haven?t used ring before, but if I did they would be from the budgie society in my area which are metal and the correct colour for that year.

 

As to the second question removing the hen is a wiser choice to stop another clutch because at the end of weaning it is the father that feeds the babies.

But my cock and hen looked like they were reading to start another family before the first clutch had even reached 3 weeks yet.

You remove the nestboxes not the birds and if that fails take away the hen.

But my cock and hen looked like they were reading to start another family before the first clutch had even reached 3 weeks yet.

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LOL they do that.

 

I'd do the opposite of FidKid, but I'm not an expert. If the cock is steadily feeding the young birds, remove the hen to a different cage. She may lay an egg on the ground, but will probably ignore it for the most part. If all the babies are out of the nestbox already, remove the box. But you will probably already have eggs in it. That's the hard part.