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Thank you Cloverrye, well said, patience is very important too! Do not push or force feed your Budgie.

Ok ok. So does he eat when you are close to the cage or he only does when you are far away? If he eats only when you are far away, then you should start by taking a spray of millet (budgie’s favorite food)  and try to get the longest one. If it doesn’t stay straight then try tying a pencil or small twig to it. You want to feed him, with your hand, without any close contact to him, in other words, you want to leave your hand as far as possible to him.

Other things you can do:

-If your budgie’s cage is too low or too high, try placing it somewhere, where most of the perches, are at eye/head level.

-Try not to make the house too quiet or too loud, that could stress the bird.

-Make sure you spend time every day interacting with it, talk to it like you would do with a child. Until he gets comfortable with your presence OUTSIDE the cage, Then you can move on to the INSIDE.

!READ THIS! If you bought him from a breeder or someone with multiple birds, other than a pet store, try contacting them again and ask if he was bonded with another bird, or just spent a lot of time with one. When we got our first budgie, she was bonded with a male, but we separated them by only taking the female. This broke her tiny heart and exactly the same thing that happened to your bird happened to ours. Just… she did stand on a perch and not hang. If she WAS bonded, then try your best to get them both together again.

Or else that’s all. It’s just a matter of time and patience.

Hope it helped! 🙂

Well I am maybe not Alen AXP but I do have a question before I answer. Does your budgie trust you? Did you just get it? Because when I got my budgies, They always stayed in one place without moving. If the answer to my question is yes then you should just give the budgie a little time to get used to the environment If he is scared of you, you should ASAP start interacting with him/her. He will never get over the fear of you being close to him if you don’t get close to him in the first place. Try spending a good minimum of ten minutes twice a day with him, talk, try giving him millet… When people (like me), believe that you should let your budgie a day or two to get used to where he is, then stop it. That only lets him get used to the fact that outside_cage=danger & inside_home=safety, But that’s exactly what you don’t want it to believe. I hope this helped :).

It depends if he/she is young. Since budgies when young naturally a pink cere. I changes colors as they grow. If not , and the cere is DARK blue then its a male, or but if he/she is still really young then you need to wait a little while till it changes.

I usually go with its personality, gender, and looks. A very fiesty one i would call Pepper. But if he/she is gray-ish green, i’d call it olive! :3

I am sorry for your loss. I can’t help you more than your Vet. Listen to your Vet and good luck.