Bleeding Budgie
Hello, my budgie for some reason has blood on a feather on his head and on his foot. When I was changing the food and water, there was blood all over his toy and a perch. None of the birds attacked him. What do I do ?
My new parakeet does not want to eat
I just bought a new parakeet from a store yesterday, the store was not that good, cage was not clean, no toys, and some birds seemed to he in poor condition, bit some are pretty healthy. I bought this one out of pity, i named it Lilo. It has been bought for three days and […]
Mating
Hello, I did separate my Budgies to avoid any further mating, would you please advice when and if possible to put them back together. Thank you and kind regards,
Unexpected budgie behaviour/act
Hello, so, I got two parakeets for Christmas. I already know so much about them, but. Something really weird happened in the middle of the second night. At 4:43am in the morning, I just heard a weird loud like a banging noise in the cage. But not chirping. When I woke up around 9am and […]
Parakeet health
My parakeet has one nare much larger than the other. Is there anything I should be aware of because of this? What is the optimal indoor temperature for my parakeets?
Parakeet laid 6 eggs none have hatched
My parakeet laid 6 eggs the first one was laid nov 7or 8th and still has not hatched. The other ones were laid a few days apart. She is sitting on them a lot and only leaves them enough to drink or eat so she spends most of her time on them. Why aren’t they […]
Budgie Laying Eggs – Urgent
Hello, Few months back I adopted 3 young albino Budgies. The vet was certain that the two white ones were females and the light green a male. To my surprise the white Budgies are now a couple, I was surprised once l fund an egg at the bottom of the cage. My questions are: 1- […]
Parakeet foot health
I have a parakeet, Ollie is 6 months. He doesn’t let me handle him yet. My questions concern: his nails, do they have to be trimmed? He has yet to go to the vet. He sometimes rocks from foot to foot, could this be food related or boredom? He is eating Nutriberries broken down by […]
Mating
hello, is it possible for Budggies still mating during the process that the female is laying eggs.
Parakeet laid 6 eggs none have hatched
My parakeet laid 6 eggs the first one was laid nov 7or 8th and still has not hatched. The other ones were laid a few days apart. She is sitting on them a lot and only leaves them enough to drink or eat so she spends most of her time on them. Why aren’t they […]
Hand reared bird
Hi Lafeber team, 1) When should I start to hand feeding a baby bird(like Lovebirds/Cockateils/budgies babies)? I mean at what age. 2) What happen, if I just started to hand feed a baby bird at age of, say like, 1 and 1/2 months, which has fully grown feathers, yet still fed by mother bird and […]
Budgie eggs
My budgies had eggs before but after they were 5 weeks old the mom started to bite them and I moved them to a different cage. Now they still trying to have more but every time she lays eggs she either eats them or she leaving them outside the nest !
laying eggs
We have a large cage with a female cockatiel in and a younger Male budgie and recently my cockatiel has been laying eggs. We went to our pet shop and found that there is no way they are real eggs and they say we should remove then carefully, we have been doing that to the […]
Fishers and budgies cage shifting
I have pair of Fisher bird and budgie pair. Both are in separate cages and both have laid eggs and hatched 3-4 babies just few days before. Question is that I want to shift both pairs in other new cages during babies hatching period. As current cage is not in good condition anymore. So can […]
Poorly budgie
l keep 3 make buddies in a cage together sharing food water dishes. During the first lockdown when I got to the end of a bag of food it was stuck to the bag. I did not scrape the seed loose but fed the birds on the free moving seed as we were in covid […]
Parakeet health
I have three adopted parakeets in quarantine. They are rescued from a hoarding situation in a basement. They were declared healthy by at vet at the shelter and a group facial exam showed nothing. If you were giving these birds a wellness checkup, what would you check for considering their prior filthy living conditions?
Budgie
Actually I am not going ask any Question now.. I am replying to say that my little budgie has started acting normally and she is now eating the food.Actually for half an hour she was not eating anything. But now she is well. Thanks for the concern?
Budgie
U have answered harshly for my previous question because I know that you want me to take good care of my lovely budgies.Thanks for that..I have successfully removed the nest box. Let me get into my question..Today my baby budgie fell down from a height of 2.5 feet to the floor.She behaved for a moment […]
Budgie eggs
Hi….You had suggested me to remove the nest box immediately…..But I could not do so as there were small young birds which were not knowing to fly..I had decided to remove the nest box when those small birds learn to fly.But the budgies mated and laid eggs before the maturity of last clutches of eggs..Now […]
Baby parakeet
What does it mean when baby parakeet has a brown black beak not cere
English budgies not sitting on the eggs at night
My English budgies who are over 2 years old, are not sitting on theirs 8 eggs during the night, but sit on them all day. This is their first time laying eggs. I saw them breeding many times. Now, I wonder if the eggs ( hoping they are fertile ) will still produce baby, since […]
Budgie nutrition
I feed my three budgies a mixture of sprouted millet, chop, scrambled egg and pellets. Is this good for them?
Laid eggs, fighting with others, help?
I have a huge flight cage with six parakeets. Today we noticed a clutch of three eggs after finding one egg broken on the cage floor three days ago. The clutch of three eggs has been laid in a meet log. The bonded pair appear to be working together however they have the eggs in […]
Budgie regurgitating
I have a male budgie about 14 months old. He has started regurgitating. Most of the time its only 3-5 seeds but occasionally its more forceful and he regurgitates and the seeds go everywhere. Its not every day. Is it just him maturing or is it a problem? He’s active, eats well, droppings normal.
Bird Sickness
My budgie won’t play, chirp, or barley drink water. I change it’s water fresh every day, feed it, and it’s eyes keeping closing and keeps sleeping, plus 1. It’s not a new bird 2. it’s acting very lazy, it’s getting hard for it to step up ;( , is it sick or not ? ps. […]
How to get Parakeet to eat pellets
I can’t get my parakeet to eat pellets. Would it harm him to omit seeds for a day to see if he’ll eat the pellets?
Changing to pellets or Nutri-Berries
My budgie won’t eat pellets. Do you have any tricks to get him to eat the pellets? He also won’t eat the nutriberries.
Feeding Nutri-Berries & Pellets
Are Lafeber pure pellets any better nutritionally than Lafeber Nutri-berries? What’s the best way to get older budgies to eat pellets? I read budgies eat insects in the wild but I assume feeding budgies insects is NOT necessary given the protein in pellets/Nutri-berries?
Parakeet
I have 2 parakeets and the behavior isn’t always a good one. They have a variety of food, seed and veggies. Not fond of fruit. I give them boiled eggs from time to time. They get the treats ,etc. they constantly click on the bars. They do not live in same cage , one got […]
Breeding
Hey! I have two budgies that are not breeding. I had them for 3 months now and everything is set up perfectly for them to breed. I give them a balanced diet with veggies but no eggs since they don’t seem to like it. I even took my other male out of the cage so […]
Not laying eggs after mating
My budgies mated and the female started going in the box but did not lay egg
Budgies
My budgie laid 6 eggs out of which 3 eggs are hatched and still 3 are to be hatched…This is not the matter. I am facing difficulty in cleaning the nest box. Because it is impossible to remove the young birds from nest box.. Are there any bad impacts if I dont clean them? If […]
My Budgie Not Hatching Eggs
I have a budgie pair.female laid 5 eggs one week ago.one egg dropped by them and she’s not sit on eggs more times.she stay with male for sometime and go in.after 5 min. She again come outside. This is her 3rd time of eggs.but early clutches were also infertile eggs.what can i do? Plz help.
About budgies
I didn’t not keep any pot in the cage but my budgie laid the egg yesterday night and I buy a pot and kept the egg inside and kept the pot inside the cage but my budgie is not sitting on the egg what to do please say
Budgies
One of my budgies beak(downward part) and its tongue has become black colour.Why is it so?Is it dangerous or not a problem?
Budgies
How many days after will budgie eggs hatch?? My budgie laid eggs before 18-10 days….Still it is not hatching..Why??
My budgie’s chest under his feathers looks like he has a bleed
3 days ago i saw a tiny brownish area under his feathers in my budgie’s chest area, which i ignored. Last night the area seems to have gotten bigger. Upon moving his feathers his entire chest area under his feathers seems lyk he has a bleed?. But there is no blood showing you can only […]
Budgies
Should we have to feed the baby budgie which is hatched 2 days ago?or else will its mother will feed it?
Female Budgie Agressive Towards Mate
Hi there, I’ve talked to you before, thank you for the amazing advice! I have a male budgie and a female who have had 6 babies (hatched and growing)! All of a sudden, we have seen the female get really aggressive towards the male, pouncing at him, and I’ve noticed her crest/front feathers rise. We […]
My Budgie’s gender
Hello, I have recently gotten a new budgie and well- the owners said its a cock but we have suspicions. I have read a lot of information online regarding how to identify a gender of a budgie but my family and I continue to have contradicting arguments. The age of my budgie is not precisely […]
My Budgies won’t breed
Hi, I have two pares of budgies both more than a year but there Ceres have not turned blue and chocolate brown. They show all the signs that they might breed but don’t, we have all the things we need and they have a coconut they, we were going to make a box but we […]
Budgies
What happens if a female budgie lays a clutch of eggs more than 2 times in a year?Will it affect life of a budgie?Is it very much necessary to remove nest box?
Budgie eggs
What is the maximum number of eggs that a budgie can lay at once??(Please suggest me the at most number)
Budgies
How do I stop excessive regurgitation on toys? My budgie has recently developed a habit of regurgitating for his toys almost constantly. He will not interact with my other birds and when I remove the toys he simply regurgitates for the cage bars. tips on getting Budgies to eat vegetable chop. They will eat whole […]
Budgie eggs
My budgie laid its eggs for the first time..Will all eggs become unfertile as it is for the first time?
Budgie not sitting on eggs at night
I have two breeding pairs of budgies, Both have laid eggs. One has 10 the other has 7. They do not sit on the eggs at night only during the day. Do you think these eggs will be viable? They like to keep swapping nest boxes so I think they have laid eggs in both […]
Follow-up to sweet Ollie
He seems in addition to normal grooming to be pursuing some sort of black mites. It’s not constant but frequent. Does he need to go to the vet? If so, how do I get him out of his big cage into his travel cage without setting our progress back? Additionally in two weeks time I’m […]
Sweet Parakeete
I’ve had my sweet Ollie for almost two months. He is very attentive to me, engages me in “conversation”. We have spent countless hours building trust…here’s my question – how long will it take him to let me handle him. Whenever I put my hand in the cage near him he moves away. I can […]
Pin feathers
I recently got three budgies, and they’ve started molting. The pin feathers make me nervous, and I’m not sure why?
Can Budgies talk?
Can Budgies talk?
Avi-Cakes & Nutri-Caked
Please explain to me what is the difference between the Avi-Cakes & the Nutri-Cakes? Does one have more in it then the other? Do they have the same taste?
Different Colored Budgies
Hi, I basically have the same question. Do different color budgies get along living in the same cage?
Taking Care of Baby Budgies (pt 2)
Hi again, Our two budgies laid seven eggs, to hatch anytime soon. I read online that the parents will most likely keep mating over and over again, but if we don’t want that, can we separate them? Also, will the baby budgies mate with each other when mature? I read online that they might, but […]
How to Take Care of Budgie Eggs
Hello, We have two budgies who mated and layer seven eggs together. Tomorrow is going to be the 18th day since the first egg was laid. From researching online, the eggs generally hatch somewhere between 18-23 days if fertile, but I couldn’t find consistent results online. How long should we wait till we could deem […]
Why doesn’t our budgies go inside their nestbox and lay an egg?
Why doesn’t our budgies go inside their nestbox and lay an egg? By the way we have 3 pairs of budgies in one big cage.
gender
is there a certain thing that a male does that a female doesn’t. i am now very into parakeets because i now have to and i want to know as much as possible to give them a better life than at the pet shop.
Bird hates to be touched
We’ve had our pet parakeet for 3 years now. The first 2 years he was able to come out his cage after school. I have owned several different parakeets over my lifetime. I wanted to spend time with the bird so I grabbed him and he got extremely infuriated. He is very jittery and does […]
my bird eggs
Hello sir, I am vasanth from chennai. I am having 4 budgies….. 6 months ago 2 baby birds were born … one died in that….. so now there is only 1… It is not matured and got mate with another budgie and now there is a egg…. That small baby budgie dont know to take […]
Drinking water
I’ve had my little budgie for 2 1/2 weeks I keep a shallow dish of water in the bottom of the cage and a dish of seed and pellets , every day I try a different fruit. The only thing he’s enthusiastic about is the seed and to my knowledge he has never had any […]
My 7 budgies
My birds all fly in the house will thy have eggs
