I looked and looked for a Forum as nice as this one, but for Budgies. Couldn't find one. IndianRingneck.com has the best forum ever! So I decided to hijack a little bit of the Ringneck Forum and make it a space for those of us who love Asiatic Parakeets, but love Budgerigars, too! (Hope that's OK........)
Put your Budgie stuff here! I'll start:
My name is MissK and I love Budgies. I love their pretty looks and their vivacious attitudes. I'd like to keep a great many, but it seems not suited to my lifestyle.
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The Budgie cage is about 18"x30"x32" high. It is furnished with natural fig branches, hand made jute ropes in varied thickness, hardy kiwi and grape vines, natural fir perches, beads, blocks, rings, a bath, cardboard hidey-hole tube, a rag swing and a standard swing, a small mirror, and cuttle bone. I recently removed a pair of store-bought Budgie toys because they got no action. My Ringneck, Rocky, might enjoy them on his play area.
The Budgies eat a seed mix along with some pellet mush and variety of fresh foods. Well, at least I *offer* them a variety of fresh foods...... They prefer fresh greens and Bell Pepper seeds. Sometimes they get a tiny bit of meat or egg.
One of my Budgies is finger tame and the other is not. I was astonished by the difference between the birds, as youngsters, and I'm convinced it has to do with the conditions under which they were kept at the different (gasp!) Pet Stores where I bought them. Riff Raff came from a store where the birds were kept in small numbers in somewhat smaller cages, flying naturally with a broad spread of perches and a few toys, all young birds. Dr. Scott came from a very large cage with a central "tree" perch, a few toys, clipped too hard, with a very large number of other birds of varied ages. Not surprisingly, he was quite a biter and very skittish.
So tell me about your Budgies! What do you love about Budgies? How do you keep them? What do they eat? What do they think about your other bird(s)? What toys do they favour? What do you think is absolutely essential for Budgies to have?
Budgie Geek On!
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-MissK