Table of Contents Budgies are fascinating little creatures. They’re often sweet and gentle, but they can also be a handful when it comes to their health. This is why it’s important to know what healthy budgie behaviours look like in order to recognise the warning signs of illness or injury. Here’s a complete guide on…
Getting a budgie is exciting, especially when it is your first one. They are intelligent and loving birds that will love you to train them and spend time with them and talk to them – and of course, you plan on giving your budgie the best that you can. One of the most important decisions…
What are the best nest box bedding materials Choosing the right nest box bedding material to put in your budgies nesting boxes is more important than you might think. It will create the ideal environment for your mother hen and chicks. And there are many different options for nesting box bedding material, free materials like…
Often overlooked protein, is one of the critical nutrients you need to provide your budgies with.
How Do You Know When Your Budgie is Ready to Breed? All babies in the animal kingdom are cute, but once a baby budgie gets its feathers, it is perhaps the most adorable, tiny, bird baby. If you are like most new budgie owners you want to know when your budgie is ready to breed,…
Budgies are nomadic moving from place to place during the dry season in search of new foodstuffs and water, they can cover many kilometres in one day. In the wild, the trigger for our feathered budgie friends to breed is normally the rains coming. The rains coming means that budgies have access to water and…
Table of Contents One of the joys of keeping budgies is breeding them. That excitement and anticipation that comes from seeing the varieties (mutations) that produced by different pairings. Based on my own experiences budgies can be temperamental when it comes to pairing, here is my best advice on how to encourage your budgies to…
As a budgie breeder, hobbyist or professional nothing is more exciting than when a new batch of chicks has hatched. If it is the first time you have successfully hatched chicks congratulations! The question now is when do budgie chicks leave the nest. For the first few weeks of a budgie chick’s life, they are…
Sometimes we can harm or little feathered friends by being too kind to them. Of course, we all want to give or budgies a treat from time to time. And it is recommended to vary their food so they maintain a balanced, and nutritious diet for optimal condition. But what foods are harmful to budgies?…
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