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budgie advice

  1. J

    Baby Budgie Health

    Hi! I recently became the “parent” to a roughy 5-6 week old budgie. He has started regurgitating food on me, and while I know this is probably a normal behavior, I wanted to get a second opinion. He does not seem to be in pain, or doing this involuntarily, but it’s happening quite a bit. Any...
  2. budgiebabe

    Budgie mama overproducing eggs?

    Hi! I'm new here, but I always end up here when I'm looking for answers. I have had my budgie Opal for 4 years and she just laid her first clutch of eggs starting in mid january. She has laid 10 eggs total now. With the first 5 eggs, 2 were damaged by me (I feel so guilty), but the other 3...
  3. F

    Urgent Budgie with red discharge

    Hello, I am hopeing someone can give me suggestions as to what might be wrong with my female budgie. She is about 4 years old. I started noticing these redish discharge marks at the bottom of the cage. I have already taken her to our avian vet and they did some bloodwork and it all came back normal.
  4. B

    Budgie and GCC??

    i’m sorry if this isn’t the best place to post this but hi! i currently have a 5/6 year old green cheek conure, everyone has said he is male but i’ve never had him sexed, so i’m not sure how accurate that is. anyways, i recently moved into an apartment and have had to work more hours, i worry...
  5. Marlo

    11 untamed budgies

    Hello, I’m in a situation where my family has 11 birds. 10 of the birds are from a pair of birds that we had. The male passed away some years ago, but the female is still with us. I understand that these birds have not had it good. The birds bred 3 times and I honesty don’t think they were take...
  6. mori100

    Antisocial budgie? concerned with behavior

    hello, i have two budgies and they are the first ones i've ever taken care of, so i am a pretty new budgie owner... i have a few questions regarding their behavior, im not really sure if i should be worried or not :shrug: and i also apologize if using "antisocial" in the title is considered...
  7. I

    Urgent Black spot on budgies lower beak

    Hello! I am new here but my Male budgie has a dark spot on his lower beak and im extremely worried for him. I just wanted information on what i could do because i love him very much and it does make me paranoid to see something unusual like this. I just started seeing it a couple days ago but I...
  8. oksugar

    Recessive Pied Budgie Gender Help

    Hello, I recently adopted a budgie from an animal shelter with no background information other than it was brought in as a stray. Its gender hasn’t been confirmed but it’s likely very young. It’s Cere is light pink which would normally indicate female but I read somewhere the recessive pied...
  9. M

    Urgent Budgies have yellow feathers around eyes

    Hello everyone. I got some new budgies a few days ago and yesterday evening I noticed two of them have yellow coloured feathers around their eyes. I would appreciate any advice on whether or not this is harmful and if I need to go and visit a vet.
  10. PaperSarah

    To Mirror or Not to Mirror? The Pellet Reckoning?

    Hi there, I have one budgie named Florian that I am trying to care for as best as I can. He had a boyfriend, Sprout, who was a special needs budgie we got in 2020. Unfortunately Sprout passed away in 2022, so Florian has been a widow since. He has always had a rather nervous disposition. We...
  11. V

    Advice on budgie spats

    Hi, I’m Viv and have a female budgie, (Lucy Lu) that crashed into my window last August and after extensive attempts to find the owner, without success, decided to give her a home even though I’ve never had a budgie in my life. After a crash course in caring for her I’m glad to say she’s...
  12. R

    Found a budgie

    New here and apologies for asking in advance. I found a budgie flying around my house, for four or five days I tried to get him, and today I finally coaxed him into a cage. On the first or second day I noticed a spot on his lower back(?) above his tail has exposed feathers as in you see the...
  13. bloopitybo

    male budgies getting really aggressive over female

    hiii so ive had budgies for around 5 years but ive never seen any of them get aggresive like this, so currently ive got xam (male, 5yrs old), nina (female, 2 years old), beep (male, 2 years old) and xam and nina's son bloop (male, 1 year old). Theyve got a cage but theyre always open and...
  14. B

    Fluids in budgie’s crop

    My Budgie was pretty young. I’d say 2-3 years old. His name is Loki. He had fluid in the crop and the vet gave him antibiotics for a few weeks. She did test and everything but still couldn’t figure out what’s going on with him. He was so skinny and nothing seemed to help. He was at the bottom of...
  15. D

    My Budgie

    Hello, I recently decided to get a bird about two months ago. I have been having struggles as my buddy does not want to be my buddy. Things were going great and he was stepping up but that changed for some reason. He now is terrified every time I sit and talk to him and whenever I’m close. I’ve...
  16. R

    Budgie flew out of the cage

    I've owned my two budgies for 9 days (first time owner) and i've been slowly trying to gain their trust, I clean their cage daily, change food, put my hand in the cage, clean bowls etc etc so they have grown to not totally despise my hands. Today while I wanted to clean some poop off of one of...
  17. Rio&Friend

    Can my budgies eat this!?

    Hi, everyone. I just wanted to know if this vegetable are toxic to birds because they semed to love it but I’m not sure if its toxic for animals. Its called Banana Stem. Its 97% made of water and its good for humans.
  18. madyb

    Stressed over the mama budgie and her babies

    Hi everyone. This is my first time here on this forum. I may mumble a bit; apologies in advance. Backstory: I've had my gang of budgies since 2017 and successfully stopped their egg-laying adventures. They're cage-free birds (they've got a room of their own, about 25 m2), and unfortunately...
  19. Rio&Friend

    My budgie is flying over the ceiling fan!

    Hi guys… Whenever I bring my bird yellow colour out he would be a good boy when the fan is off but when the fan is on he would be flying over the fan! I dont know how to control his flight. Please help me! :budgie8:
  20. Gersha

    Father budgie panting, what can I do to help?

    Father budgie panting, how can I help him? So around 2 and a half weeks ago my female budgies eggs hatched, all has been good and well until recently we noticed that our male budgie is panting a lot. The female isn't and seems fine. He doesn't seem to be hot as he's not extending his wings...
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