This week I did two jobs in the garden before winter closed in. I finished a small 2 by 2 meter aviary from the ground up, and I fitted huge 6-meter polycarbonate panels...
A chick hatched with feathers that never grew right. One year of hand-feeding, crop checks, a vet diagnosis, a cone collar that failed, and an aviary built around a bird...
Budgie Care Series
Budgie Colors and Mutations Explained: From Wild Green to Sky Blue, Mauve and Rainbow
Most people picture a budgie as a small green parakeet. In the wild, that is correct. Wild budgerigars from Australia are light green with black barring, and green...
Pingo can’t fly. He lost most of his feathers and he gets around by walking and climbing. Standard cages are built for birds that fly from perch to perch, which...
Last week I walked into the aviary and stopped. Several budgies had thin, patchy spots on their heads. A day later, more birds looked the same. If you have never seen a...
Toy My Budgies Can’t Resist I did not plan to build a playground that day. I had an old nest box left over from a previous project – the one I made for...
Most budgies love water. If you have ever seen a budgie fluff up, dip its head, and throw droplets all over the cage, you have seen a happy bird doing exactly what...
This is my third DIY budgie cage, and by far the biggest and hardest one I built. The first two were wood and wire. This one is wood and glass. I wanted three things:...
Budgies can learn to sit on your shoulder, play with toys, step up on your finger, and even mimic words. But none of that happens before trust. Bonding takes time and...
Getting your first budgie is exciting. They are small, social, loud in a good way, and full of personality. They are also easy to get wrong in the first 30 days. This...
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