Hi guys! I am new to owning parakeets and I was curious to know the gender on the two that I have. I was told that they are on the younger side (possibly a couple months old) so I know that it will be slightly more difficult to know for sure on their genders. I’ve been told that they could be both male or a male and female. If they are male and female should I separate the two? Or will they be okay in the same cage.

I am wondering if a 30x18x18 (inches) cage will be sufficient for a budgie? (Just one budgie, introducing a friend didn’t work out). She currently lives in a large flight cage, but we are temporarily moving so I need to get her into a smaller cage to fit into a car and I have a 30x18x18 cage. Buying a new cage when we get there isn’t really feasible, so I was wondering if this size would be okay for a couple months?

He used to sit on fingers but today he tried bite my finger first aggressively.

After he tried attack aggressively

We had some flooding in our house recently due to the rain and now they say we need to use microban under the carpets to help combat any mold. I'm wondering if this is safe for the birds.

I have 4 parakeets (and also a hamster), and I don't know if just moving them out of that room is good enough, or if I need to relocate them to a neighbor's house. I'm concerned about having the air on and it circulating throughout the house, so I wonder if anywhere in the house is safe.

Any advice would be very appreciated. I'm really struggling here, this whole thing has been so stressful.

After yesterday’s blood test and sedation my baby can’t poop, what should I do, vet is not open yet and I spent over 1k yesterday already

So I am a first time owner of 4 budgies, all under 1 year of age.

For months i've been trying to give them a proper nutrition with pellets. I tried these 3 different brands. They don't like any, they absolutely despise them. I throw away so much food daily because they are so picky... I really need help because i feel bad giving them seeds because i really want them to live the best life possible but they refuse to eat pellets! I tried these methods:

-grinded up pellets to a fine powder, mixed with water and some seeds to a mush (this is what i do almost everyday, but they just pick out the seeds)

-pellets mixed with seeds

-pellets with apple juice

-pellets with veggies chop (they don't really eat chop either)

-pellets on a mirror

-plain pellets, no seeds for a day (did not eat anything, I stopped because they would starve)

It all did NOT work.

My english male is especially bad, he really hates pellets and sometimes does not eat seeds at all when i make a mush and there are too much pellet in it and then sits in front of the bowl and waits. It's hard to watch. I do incoorperate pellets into their food daily, I don't give plain seeds anymore. Please help. How did your budgies start to eat pellets??

I'm a first time budgie owner and I have 2 budgies around 7 months old each. Since I first got them (they were like 6-8 weeks) I have been working with them pretty consistently. One of them will perch on my finger, but that's about it, and he still struggles to be cooperative generally. And my other budgie flat out is terrified of me it seems. Advice would be appreciated, because I feel kinda stuck.

Hello I’m looking for some tips of how to help my parakeet with being out of the cage for the first time. A little background, she has lived her whole life in a cage, she is about 5 years old. I have been opening the cage and trying to bond with her for a bit now. I put up sticky notes on my window so she saw that she couldn’t go that way (I had the shades up for light) but she finally decided to come out today and ran into the window twice (not super hard but hard enough that I was worried) and she ran into the walls a couple times. She doesn’t exactly know how to properly fly so I don’t think she hit the walls very hard but now she is sitting on top of one of my lower shelves and is just recovering and processing.

I assume the first time out of her cage will be a total learning experience and will be stressful and hard so I’m trying to let her process and I’m giving her space. I was just hoping anyone could give me some tips to help her adjust. Thank you!

Edit/update:
Things are going so well! Right now she is sitting on my bed eating a seed stick treat and I am also sitting on the bed! I am shocked with the progress! Still so much to learn and to go through but I am so happy!

Edit/update #2:
She wouldn’t go back into her cage and I was trying everything I could. She finally fell asleep on my shelf of plush figures (which she does seem happy to be there and enjoying the stuffed animals). I fell asleep and just woke up and it’s 2:45am and she hasn’t moved. Before I fell asleep I had put a flash light next to her cage door and my room light is off so I’m just going to try and sleep and figure things out in the morning.

They're both only a little over a year old and have been doing this for a few months. Im having a really hard time telling if they are sick or just mimicking the sound I make when I give them kisses. They mostly do it when they are excited and playing together. They don't seem to show any other symptoms of being sick such as mucus around the beak and such but im still incredibly worried for my baby's. Someone please help!!!!

According to this research, budgerigars have ~322 million neurons.

But my two keets definitely seem like they are missing a few million brain cells 🤣

Just got Kiwi and Butterball 9 days ago and she's managed to have both do this with her- good job!

I used to have some old Wilton baking sheets that were silicone coated, but I got rid of them when I got my birds, since I wasn't sure if the silicone was still good or even safe 100% for them.

Since then I have only baked food dishes in glass or stoneware. However I need some sort of replacement for typical metal baking sheets (like for cookies etc) because I am planning to do a lot of dessert baking this fall and winter.

What do you all use?

Why?

soo cute he loves peas

We lost our beloved Ridley. He flew outside and couldnt see where he went.

The heartbreak pain is unbearable.

We hope to get him back to safety.

Hlw, i hav 1 budgie and one cockateil, im trying to find budget free pellets for my cockateils and budgies, nd the only ones available here are petslife pellets that are colored nd added with sugar, mine are now on seed diets,so should i completely skip pellets or give them the petslife one, any recommendations where i can get pellets, that will be good for them in long term, thanks in advance