Comments for Budgie Breeding

Tarina, 7 October 2023

My dad bought my mother a pair of parakeets for their anniversary Dec 21st, 2022 not knowing the sex of either. They put them in a nice moderate size cage in front of their picture window and that's where they've been ever since. Never let outside in natural sunlight. They did put in a cute gourd shaped wooden nesting type box thing for them to get in when they wanted to. To their amazent in July they saw 2 eggs in that little nesting thing and to their amazement each bird would sit on the eggs. Not sure exactly how much later one of the eggs hatched and the blue parakeet would chew up the food give it to their green one who in turn fed the hatched bird. All the while still sitting on the unmatched egg. About 4 days later the 2nd egg hatched. This baby was a lot smaller than the first but the 2 adults did the same thing feeding this new baby along with the first hatched. Now 3 to 4 weeks later the babies seem to be almost as big as the adults and are getting encouraged to leave the box by the adults. One is green like the one adult the other blue like the other. It is amazing. Unfortunately parents don't really know much about raising baby parakeets. They have gotten a second cage. Any information to help ensure these babies are properly and well taken care of would be much appreciated. They don't intend on keeping the new ones at this time. However I know how much they love their pets and after them being born in their care I think they may change their mind. Lol is this normal for parakeets to have babies this quickly being brought into a new home? They were paired together already when my dad purchased them from the pet store. Thank you to any and all that share info!

Bev, 2 February 2023

My first time having chicks was a total surprise. The mom is in our clothes hamper. It has front and back escape areas. My husband has now build a platform so I can made it more comfortable for them. One is 10 days old and the other two are two days and one day. Hopefully all will survive I just worry about the older chick vs the babies.

Alison, 6 March 2022

Parakeets are really fussy about what they consider nesting material. We found that they wanted something fibrous that they could make into a nest with a roof. I think we settles on crafters' cane, which they spent a lot of time shredding and manipulating

Jeffmaxleo, 5 March 2022

I have 2 budgies in breeding age and they are very healthy and I keep them outside in the sun for 4 hours every 3 days . I don’t know if that is enough because the room in which I have my budgies does not have windows that give sunlight . So will they breed ? And can I also move the location of the cage while they are breeding ?

Judy, 15 January 2022

I have a nesting box but the birds will not keep nesting material in box. I have tried a few things as material and they throw it out. My bird laid 2 eggs in the fold or pleat of a curtain. I just let it go . QUESTION... is this ok... Thanking you in advance Jjmyers

Vipul, 1 January 2022

my pet is not breeding but its stomach is big and i want to know that if we touck that bird the eggs will vanish or not

Neal, 2 September 2021

Hi I ha e 2 beautiful budgies and the female lead 5 eggs 4 hatched unfortunately 1 baby died so I removed it from the nesting box so I have 3 gorgeous baby's they are around 3 weeks old now but they keep coming to the hole and one has fell out on the cage floor ( I have a cage in my living room that's wear they have always been) can I move the nesting box on the cage floor or do I leave it???

Hiep, 11 August 2021

my parakeet’s wings were clipped when I bought him. Please let me know if the wings will grow back by itself. Thank you in advance Hiep

Diana, 21 July 2021

I have a pair of Parakeets an the female will not leave any kind of nesting material in the nest box you have any suggestions

Mary, 27 June 2021

The female has dropped 2 eggs. Should I leave the female in gage with eggs and put the male bird in another gage by himself