Question about finches, and budgies (parakeets),

[monarc23]

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Some do, ours no longer carry birds. Good thing person working in the pet department , try to tell me a canary was a parakeet.

They only carry fish now, still hear the worker telling someone a Fat goldfish was ready to give birth. It was the breed of goldfish, and they lay eggs. She knew some fish give live birth, just didnt know which.

haha oh my gosh that's bad! okay its' probably a good thing that my walmarts around here dont! LOL! *Phew* LOL!

 

[duckncover]

sorry typo...

 

[deerman]

No longer breed budgies, still breed cockatiels and parrots. Raising budgie and cockatiel about the same. Once they start, they will breed year round if you dont stop them. Start the 2nd set before the babies from the first nest leave the nest.

Will try to post some pics.

 

[First To Hatch]

thanks for all the feedback, my walmart sells fish but no other animals lol, so your parakeet would have to be the only one if u want to teach it anything? i cant like have 1 parakeet in its own cage and a pair of finches for breeding or a pair of parakeets for breeding seperatly?


my cousin had this one male that would climb up on his finger and stuff, and he was in a cage with another female and was around other birds in their own cages.


right now if i can i want a pair of zebra finches and a pair of budgies (chances are ill only be able to get 1 type tho

) and then i was thinking of keeping 1 budgie and getting social with it then the rest post on sites that i raise them and sell some but also keep some back for breeding but would then need new outside blood


but now that u read that paragraph that makes no sense is back to main question can i have like anotherr pair of birds and a parakeet in its own cage that social

cockatiels are looking more interesting too i think ill do some research on em tomarrow

 

[monarc23]

you can but that lone parakeet will more than likely long to be with the other two and will fly off your finger to their cage and cause fights lol!

So unless you do it in another room i dont see it working out too well (if they can hear eachother even you'll stil have some challenges to overcome).

 

[deerman]

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Oh yes you can have other birds. Still able to tame and bond with the budgie. They just will not learn to talk if they can hear other birds. You can even add birds after one learns to talk, just not when teaching him to talk.

Male cockatiel talk,but very few females.

 

[crtrlovr]

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Oh, yeah. That's what my pair did, and partly the reason why I now have 21 cockatiels

I didn't know it wouldn't psychologically scar them if I took the eggs away; now I just wait until their clutch is complete & take them anyway

Hate it, but the earth has been repopulated; at least in this house. We have enough tiels!

We also have 13 society finches (had 10 and now obviously we have at least one mating pair, since 3 wks. ago I was counting heads and there were 3 extras, and they were teeny-tiny!). I'd tried selling some, but I made all the buyers sign an agreement that if at ANY time, for ANY reason they were no longer willing/able to care for the bird, they'd bring it back & I'd refund their $. I wanted to make sure they went to good, caring homes. Two did great, one lady returned hers b/c they were gone all the time at work & bird was alone 95% of the time (she cried when she brought her back, & when I started to write her check, she asked that I put "supplies" or something like that on the memo line instead of the bird's name b/c she didn't want Peppy to think she was "selling" her back). The other one "just died". Nuh-uh. Beautiful healthy bird, siblings all 100%, the woman didn't know what she was doing & exposed that one to drafts, inhaled toxin, or SOMETHING. As a result I just decided the rest of them would live out their lives here if I couldn't guarantee their happiness & safety. I was only asking $35 each, dropped it to $30, and still had few inquiries, and we're talking combination parent/handfed standard grays, pieds, and Lutinos. ah well...

ETA: not all the tiels I now have are offspring of my first few pairs; several of them are rescues or rehome situations. They are welcome to join this flock and have buddies to live a good birdy-life with. (after quarantine & clearing health report, of course).

 

[deerman]

Need to remove nest boxes, or seperate the sexes. To stop them from breeding. best to only let them raise 2 or 3 nest a year.

 

[crtrlovr]

they didn't HAVE nest boxes after they laid that second clutch while they b/f the others were even out of the nest box. I took it away as soon as the 2nd clutch was peeping out the hole. I put the babies on newspaper in the bottom of the large cage the nest box had been in originally and thought "great! maybe now those two will stop trying to raise more babies." gee, was I wrong... I've found eggs in the weirdest places -- anywhere they think they have a ghost of a chance of hiding them. I won't separate the pairs b/c at least one male (Rowdy) suffers GREATLY from separation anxiety and cannot live without his SugarBaby. He goes into a complete panic if he cannot see her, and when I've had to take her to the avian vet, Rowdy had to come too. He's VERY high strung. I now just try to do "egg check" periodically if I notice a pair not readily visible for a day or two. (Egg check includes: under ANYTHING that has 1/2" space or greater, potted plants, behind the supplies on the shelf, corners of the cages, on the floor anywhere in the room, under the large padded footstool, and particularly the floor of the conure cage (which he rarely enters; he plays on top of it and roosts on a grapevine). I have them all in a dedicated bird room where they are never locked into their cages unless there's a bad storm coming. The rest of the time they're free to play on the gyms, sit in the trees I have in their room, etc. They have bathing bowls on top (glass bakeware makes really good birdbaths; they're heavy enough to be stable), large manzanita (sandblasted so they're not slick) trees/gyms, and of course the finch & conure cages to visit as well, so they keep themselves entertained.

 

[crtrlovr]

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got one baby now... long story, but yep, that pic says it all!

So many people see baby 'tiels and say something along the lines of "that's the ugliest thing I've ever seen"...

they do have to kind of grow into themselves, don't they?