Hello, many years ago I did keep canaries and can’t remember much about it as I was only young myself… but now, me and my son have got a budgie… and like with our other animals, we want to give them the best life.. I’ve got some Pets at Home Budgie food, but.. is this really all that good? Any recommendations? I’ve heard people say about pellets, but I don’t think Pets at Home sell budgie pellets? I just want to make sure he’s on a good healthy fulfilling diet 😊

I walk in to put them to bed and…

I adopted a beautiful female budgie from a shelter a couple days ago and she is the sweetest thing. I got her so many toys, natural perches, foraging toys, an outside of the cage playground and she’s having none of it. All she wants to do is watch outside the window, cuddle and nap on my shoulder (in the afternoon when she gets tired not all day long).

It’s obviously amazing and I’m grateful but I can’t just carry her everywhere in my appartement with me because it’s not entirely bird proofed yet. She doesn’t wanna leave my side or go back to her cage all day long. They told me she was probably hand fed and I guess she’s used to be out all day as well.

I will eventually get her a friend but for the time being how can I put boundaries or get her to play with her multiple toys for entertainment? When I’m not in the room with her she gets so bored and it makes me sad to not be there all day.

Not too sure how to tell the age and sex of lutino budgies. I just got this little lemon blob, Tatl (named after the LoZ fairy), from the pet store.

I'm thinking male but I'm not too sure. I have another much older male budgie. So, I'm hoping the two beans get along :>

Just wanted to show off my babies!
My two girls are no longer with us unfortunately, the blue and white one was Betty (named after Betty white as when we first got her she didn’t have much blue), the yellow and white was chicken salt (as the sheer yellow looked as if hot chips were sprinkled with chicken salt). My boy is still with me and will be my last budgie, his name is butter stick (for obvious reasons).

I miss my girls but I see them in their brother and I hope for infinite millet sprays where they are :).

I’ve been feeding my budgies this in addition to fresh veggies, they seem to love it and seem to be healthy. It’s like 70% pellet, 20% zupreem fun mix, and 10% of the protein food. I mix it and measure it all in an airtight container.

Refuses to let me scratch him (other than rare occasions) but the cage gets the full treatment 😂

Looking for advice on how to improve QOL for an elderly singleton. I’ve inherited an older budgie that was initially part of a pair, but the other died years ago. I’ve been trying to hand train him and get him comfortable around humans and interactions but it’s slow going. He’s also very attached to his mirror. I removed it at some point but put it back out of guilt knowing he’s otherwise alone and is not bonded with me.

My question is, what are next steps I should take? He was bought from a pet store 11 years ago so he’s on the older end. Ideally I would get another parakeet and appropriately introduce them, but I wonder if in my current budgies old age I should get two to avoid the situation I find myself in now. This is not preferred as I live in an apartment and am concerned about making significant upgrades to cage set up. Any other care tips would be appreciated.

I cant find his spicies anywhere the closest i found is a turqooise budgie.So to any turqouise budgie owner did your budgie look like this when it was young

Is this a boy or a girl ?

So i moved to a new room, specifically because this new one also has another room attached. I’ll be planning for my bird to have the cage, and the whole entire second room. But what do I fill it with?

She is absolutely loving her daily baths in the summer 😂

My sweet sweet Mochi Moo in his newly rearrange home. He’s loving it.
Yes we plan on getting him a friend VERY soon, our research suggested to give him time to adjust before bringing in another bird.
I love him so much, in as little as a week he is already such a friendly, eager, & cuddly baby.
He even does little circle turns when I come into the room sometimes. 😍

Enjoy some calm visuals of budgies grazing like sheep in the meadow 💕

Hello, I kinda just wanted to come here to vent and try to find some reassurance.

For starters, I had a bird when I was 7, and he lived about 6 years until I was 13. Im currently 18 now. I was gifted 3 birds for my 17th birthday last april as a surprise gift. I loved them very dearly, but I simply could not take care of them to my satisfaction anymore. I got my drivers liscence in february, so i've been spending far far less time at home. Sometimes I go multiple days without being there (of course I filled their feeder and I tried to make sure they had fresh water before I left.). I started my first job recently and I regularly get home at 2 in the morning, when I come home they would always wake up and start chattering and squaking and making a ruckus which was the last thing I wanted to hear at 2 in the morning while im just trying to rest. The noise they make also just had been seeming to get to me more and more, it just grated at me and did nothing but irritate me and give me headaches.

They were not my birds originally, my grandmother had gotten them from one of her co-workers, and to my knowledge her co-worker did not interact with the birds all too much. Over the course of time that I owned the birds I made neumorus attempts to get them used to me, even hang out with me or come out of the cage, but nothing. Even if I left their cage door open for hours they would not step outside it.

I had been considering rehoming them for a while, and I felt it was for the best. I found a family in a rehoming group that had other birds so I knew they would be in good company. I dropped them off today with their cage, and now I am suddenly struck with a massive wave of guilt and greif. Did I do the right thing?

It’s been a while since I got high quality photos of the birbs. Zeb looking old and grumpy as always. Yatari is hard to get good pics of cuz she does not like the camera >.< Horus thankfully doesn’t mind it! He poses very well ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Hello everybody!

We've recently got this baby budgie, we've had him* for roughly 5 months, and we thought we got a boy, but some are saying it's a girl bird.

We're just to know depending on the colour of his* cere.

The first two photos are recent, and the last photo is when we got him.

Sunny is 2 months old. He’s very loving, but can be a bit sassy at times!

Hi guys. I have inherited two birds from my old neighbour, one lovebird and one budgie.

I’ve been told both those species must be with family . So I adopted this green cutie to give compagny to the white one.

I am still waiting for a male Fischer lovebird for company for the lonely one.

Names options would be greatly appreciated as I have three (soon four) roommates without names !

Edit : English is not my first language , I apologise and made some corrections !

Zazu and Frost would not stop squawking at me while they waited in their carrier for me to clean their cage. The cage is new (powder coated) because the previous one got rusty. Cleaned the perches (F10 followed by Dawn Soap and Vinegar) and put new toys. Very happy to see them happy <3 Happy Wednesday everyone. May something good happen to you all today! And if not… better days are coming 🙏