budgie advice

Hello. Had this boy for an year and I’ve noticed the cere color change. It’s light blue and now has a tan color on top. I’m now concerned about Peppys gender too. When i got him they said that it was a male. Is it a girl or a boy? And is this normal?

Hello I’m new to these forums. So my budgie Luke Is 3 years old has been experiencing wet droppings occasionally for a couple months and then 2 weeks ago it was pretty much every dropping that was wet so I called so many vets and most of the avian vets in my area are on leave due to COVID but I...

I hope this was the right spot to post in. I noticed a splayed leg budgie up in Kijiji in my area. I've got an extra cage (Might not be the best cage for a splayed leg but could work until I could get the best one possible for the baby) and the time. I stay at home all day. I have a Lovebird and...

So, I'm new to this forum and budgie ownership. I had a canary when I was a kid, also a rescue with behavioral issues, and I never intended on taking on a budgie at first but it sort of found me. Backstory: this budgie was found outside during an early snowstorm almost two years ago. She had...

i have a budgie named aspen, hes a good birb, usually, today i left my door open by accident, and next thing you know, little aspen is just rubbing his head on the door, i have no clue why he is doing this. his companion, stormy, is not doing it, but he is. does anyone know why he would do that?

I rescued a budgie a week or two ago, he's clearly male and the rescue said he was about one year old but I'm leaning more towards 2-3 years. He's been very hand skittish but has an amazing personality. He's adapted very well, no visual issues, the rescue said he recieved a vet exam and has no...

Hi! So currently I have three budgies in a flight cage together, which I am aware isn’t a good idea. I originally went to get one more budgie for my lone budgie, Percy, but upon seeing the situation these birds were in, I took two. Now, however, we have found out that we have two males and one...

Hello! I recently got my budgie a new cage, and it still has one slotted dowel perch in it. He likes to hang onto the side of it and gnaw on it, and starts making a squeaking noise only while doing that specifically. Most of my searches came up blank for a situation like this specifically, and...

Hello everyone! About three weeks ago, I adopted a 7 year old budgie named Paco from a family who weren’t interested in him anymore. I wanted to give him a better life, plus, I wanted a bird! I gave him a bigger cage, better food, and more toys, and just a few days ago, he finally became...

This is my oldest budgie, Percy, who is give or take three to four months old. I can usually tell gender of a budgie well, but as he is recessive pied, his cere has me a little stumped. I originally thought he was a boy, but now he is lighter rings around his nostrils on his cere, and a small...

this is my flight cage set up for my three budgies, Percy, Calypso and Grover. Over lockdown, they’ve been pretty much free roaming, but I’m going back to school, meaning they’ll be in their cages a lot more than usual. Just want to know if everyone thinks this is enough of an enriching...

Can people post the best budgie cage setups they’ve seen (or their own!). I’m looking for inspiration for my Prevue flight cage. Thank you :)

Hi, I have three budgies - two bigger English ones, and a smaller pied English one. The two bigger ones seem to be picking on the smaller pied one, Percy, even though he is the eldest. What could be the reason? Do you think we should get another pied? Note - we got the two youngest only two...

We had a normal day. The guys came out flew around and played. I put them to bed around 7pm. About an hour later I heard seeds hitting the bottom of the cage. I went over to see what was going on. Neither was in his normal sleeping spot. Tweetie was on a top corner perch. Buddy was moving around...

Hi everyone! I have a big bag of millet which is stored underneath my stairs in a cupboard. However, my parents cleaned out the cupboard with strong cleaning products whilst I was away, and didn’t think to remove the bag of opened millet. I think I already know the answer, but I’m assuming this...

Hello, I currently own two budgies: Benji and El. Benji is a rescue and I was never able to get him completely comfortable with me/hand trained. Yesterday I heard a flapping commotion in their cage and found him on the ground in an odd position. I was able to help him upright but he stayed...

My friend @parrotman was kind enough to help me through this situation , and has let me to this place . my budgies Mango and cookie , have been having watery poop since the last one month , at first I thought it was diarrhoea , I suspected that it had happened due to the unhygienic millets...

My budgie Sky has been on Harrison’s lifetime mash for awhile now and she seems to like it (or at least tolerate it) but lately she has taken to sneaking into our cockatiel’s cage and eating his pellets as well. Our cockatiel is currently on HARI’s Tropimix, we were wondering if it would be...

I have 2 budgies, a boy (Rain) and a girl (Tro). Tro and Rain are currently in separate cages but I've noticed that Rain is constantly hanging out at Tro's cage whenever I let them out. Every morning after breakfast, he paces in front of his cage door until I let him out and he goes straight to...

I've been posting threads and forums the past couple of days about our parakeet with sudden tail bobbing and signs of respiratory illness. My parents are practically impossible to talk into going to the vet. But I'm so stressed out by the idea of him struggling and us doing nothing to help him...