Budgies!

[Zoohtasim]

This was their set up before which I didn’t realize how barren it was till these but I took out the old chewed up perch and put some of the old toys they had stopped using back in, moved some around, and I’m getting some new ones for them now. And some new perches and food.

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Amazing cage size! That's perfect for two budgies! But I noticed a lot of rope perches and frizzle toys. They are okay but birds can injest them sometimes and cause a lot of problems. So I suggest lowering the number of rope and frizzle toys there. Also you can get seemingly natural wooden perches which are like in one end very big and one end small. Basically they are rough and they are better for the budgie's feet. The perches I see are dowel perches and extremely bad for your budgie's feet so I suggest you change them too!

 

[Zoohtasim]

Sooooo many toys and things to choose from LOL so overwhelming.

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And in my country I have to make DIY toys cuz budgie toys are a luxury

 

[Zoohtasim]

Here are my baby birbs from this season!

 

[HappyClucker7]

The perches I see are dowel perches and extremely bad for your budgie's feet so I suggest you change them too!

Dowel perches are okay as long as you have plenty of other perches in the cage. I have two dowels in my cage, all the way at the front so it's easier for the budgies to get at their food and water bowls.
I also used a knife to make the dowels more uneven, like natural wood.

 

[Zoohtasim]

Dowel perches are okay as long as you have plenty of other perches in the cage.

But it's always better to have none

 

[Serin]

It's a myth that dowels, just by being dowels, hurt their feet. I have raised more than 100 birds over like a decade, using all manner of perches, but rarely without dowels. Dowels are completely, 100% safe perches that are easy to fit in the cage and easily cleaned. And given a choice, many of my birds favor them over alternatives as sleeping spots for their level, even surface.

The myth stems from large (read: heavy) parrots historically kept in small round cages with one dowel. The bird, without any exercise to its feet, got arthritis and pressure sores and was also obese from the poor diets provided to parrots last century and before, exacerbating the problem.

The dowel was not to fault. The lack of any freedom of movement and multiple sized perches to sit on was to blame. A few sizes of dowel perch in a cage is all that is required to maintain foot health in cage birds, though they enjoy more varied things to sit on like springs and swings and natural sticks with bark to chew.

But dowels will not hurt you bird unless one is the only thing they have to stand on for years on end.

 

[HappyClucker7]

It's a myth that dowels, just by being dowels, hurt their feet. I have raised more than 100 birds over like a decade, using all manner of perches, but rarely without dowels. Dowels are completely, 100% safe perches that are easy to fit in the cage and easily cleaned. And given a choice, many of my birds favor them over alternatives as sleeping spots for their level, even surface.

The myth stems from large (read: heavy) parrots historically kept in small round cages with one dowel. The bird, without any exercise to its feet, got arthritis and pressure sores and was also obese from the poor diets provided to parrots last century and before, exacerbating the problem.

The dowel was not to fault. The lack of any freedom of movement and multiple sized perches to sit on was to blame. A few sizes of dowel perch in a cage is all that is required to maintain foot health in cage birds, though they enjoy more varied things to sit on like springs and swings and natural sticks with bark to chew.

But dowels will not hurt you bird unless one is the only thing they have to stand on for years on end.

Yep, definitely agree with this!

 

[KingD]

Here are my baby birbs from this season!
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Are budgies relatively easy to breed?
I've bred other breeds but not Budgies.

I did have a pair in a large-ish outside aviary but I didn't have any success.

 

[Zoohtasim]

It's a myth that dowels, just by being dowels, hurt their feet. I have raised more than 100 birds over like a decade, using all manner of perches, but rarely without dowels. Dowels are completely, 100% safe perches that are easy to fit in the cage and easily cleaned. And given a choice, many of my birds favor them over alternatives as sleeping spots for their level, even surface.

The myth stems from large (read: heavy) parrots historically kept in small round cages with one dowel. The bird, without any exercise to its feet, got arthritis and pressure sores and was also obese from the poor diets provided to parrots last century and before, exacerbating the problem.

The dowel was not to fault. The lack of any freedom of movement and multiple sized perches to sit on was to blame. A few sizes of dowel perch in a cage is all that is required to maintain foot health in cage birds, though they enjoy more varied things to sit on like springs and swings and natural sticks with bark to chew.

But dowels will not hurt you bird unless one is the only thing they have to stand on for years on end.

Yup but they are very smooth which is slippery isn't it?

 

[Serin]

Yup but they are very smooth which is slippery isn't it?

No, birds have traction scales on their feet.