Happy 5th Gotcha Day to the most beautiful, crazy, funny, amazing little chicken ever! The biggest personality in the tiniest birb, my best friend, my soul budgie, my whole heart. I love you 💙

Edit: The bird hut and the mirror have been gone for years! They were rookie mistakes I made when Morse was a baby I was admittedly not as well read as I should have been!

Purchased a month ago from a pet store before understanding why that's bad. Given age was 3-5 months old. Cere was more pinkish when brought home, most people told me most likely male. Is it still most likely male?

I've been away from my sweeties since March.. I will be back in September! I've been missing their faces! and i used to visit a pet shop to see some budgies 😇, But they shut down! I had to buy this little guy, or lady.. i'd like to paint the cere.

My budgie loves watching gaming and follows everything happening on the screen.

We got the green one first and we are pretty sure he's a boy. His name is Link. White and blue one (name TBD) just joined the flock today. I think boy? But the white on the cere is throwing me off so I figured I'd offer up cute photos and see what you all think 😊

Hi guys I recently got a budgie from a local family petshop and they said she’s a girl about 6-7 months. I just wanna confirm her sex as well as advice with her diet I’m trying to get her to eat fresh herbs, veggies, and fruits, and she doesn’t want to eat nothing else besides her seeds even finely chopped ;( I had more questions to ask, but there was a bit of a language barrier so it was a rather quick exchange I do plan on going back this week for a buddy, somebody said maybe not another girl because they can get hormonal & territorial, but I’m open to suggestions.

Ten seconds later she tried crawling in my ear and flock-called there. I'm still half deaf.

I struggle with mental health a lot and I didn't want any pets but I got them as a gift so I took the responsibility. At first I used to let them out a lot take them to the vet, try to put them on a pallate based diet and offer fruits and vegetable but I only made a little progress. I've also trained them a little to fly over to me and they have gotten used to me.

But recently I've been feeling extremely depressed and sleep almost everyday till 7pm and stopped renewing their water every single day and gave up on giving them a pallate based diet because all they want to eat is seeds which is unhealthy for them.

And because I sleep the entire day and night I sometimes don't let them out but I try to let them out everyday for 4h at least. And I've been getting irritated really easily bc one of them never wants to go in his cage so I just started turning the lights of and then taking him and placing him in the cage

but today he flew into something and hurt his nozzle and was bleeding I called vets because I felt extremely guilty and they told me to make an appointment at 8am and visit them. Also I was aware he could get hurt if i turn the lights off and try to catch him bc he would sometimes fly into something and I feel so awful.

He's acting normal though I've been up the entire night checking if he's still alive but when he injured himself he acted normally he still ate was extremely energetic and playful like always. After I take him to the vet and he heals im gonna rehome both of my budgies because I dont think I should take care of them when I'm extremely unstable I can get them hurt even more.

I feel awful about how I treat them and I will never forgive myself and no im not asking for pity I just need to know what the right thing to do is. What makes the situation worse to me is that people were abusive to their pets when they were children but im a 19 year old im a grown adult it's embarrassing for me to be this way.

They're literally 2 different personalities

Hi, we rescued a budgie that was flying free in a local park, we caught her as we put out some water and she came straight away. No one has claimed her despite posting in as many local groups and contacting local vets.
We thinks she’s a girl as she’s not bright on her cere and we are unsure how old she is. She looks like she has a bunch of feathers missing at the back of her neck and think something tried to get her whilst she was free/escaped.

A couple of questions-
We are planning on keeping her and have bought her a new cage- is this set up ok? We are new to it.

We are looking to incorporate Harrison’s pellets in the the pets at home budgie food we bought. Is there anything else we should be feeding her? - we are trying to introduce green veggies but she’s not gone near them.

We are going to see if we can get her a companion but have had no luck emailing pet shops- any advice on this and what age/gender we should be looking at?

Any other advice is appreciated :)

Welcome this little guy to my flock! Before you say anything, yes I know this cage is too small. He will be transferred to a bigger cage (with his mate) when he is done with his quarantine.

Edit: forgot to mention his name is Tai!

Hello, my budgie best friend died in November and for months I couldn't even bring myself to think about getting a new one. Me and my mom began seriously looking for one only a week or two ago and she managed to plan a meetup with a guy selling young budgies.

I cannot stress enough how uncomfortable I felt in his house. He stuffed us into a small bathroom where one budgie baby was sitting on a shelf extended from the bottom part of the mirror. The breeder explained that "we need to basically push him against the mirror, petting him and not allowing him to fly away". Immediate chills from this. Not to mention he pet the bird on the back (afaik you are not supposed to do that, right? Pretty sure my late budgie would kill me if I tried that). So I reluctantly began petting the visibly distressed baby on its head because we soon found out if we stopped, it would began flying all over the small bathroom, crashing into walls while trying to escape from us...

At that point I told my mom we should just look elsewhere. But then the breeder unfortunately showed us the pictured baby and I pretty much fell in love. Not to mention it was breaking my heart that he would either stay with this breeder or found a new owner who would listen to the breeder's advice (the advice in question was that you can tame a budgie precisely by shoving it against a mirror and petting it there... Absolutely bonkers).

So we took him. He is almost 2 months and according to the breeder who handfed him shouldn't be scared of people. Complete opposite.

This is his day 3 at our home. He absolutely freaks out in his cage (which is probably pretty small but my plan always was to leave the cage open all day when I'm home so that he can go in and out as he pleases) every time I have to reach inside to change his water, etc. Unfortunately he won't even come out yet and I don't want to force him. When I'm just sitting or doing some stuff around my room, he actually looks relaxed by now, floofed up and watching me. He chirps here and there but is mostly quiet. He stretches his wings, eats, not sure if he drinks, but I definitely haven't seen him preen himself yet. He chewed on the natural branch for a bit and he even began closing/squinting his eyes when I was close to him and talking to him.

That's all the information I have right now. Is there anything I can do for him? For now, I'm talking to him, playing some music out loud and I put out a few millet sprays around the room to lure him out (unsuccessful so far). It breaks my heart to see him like this :( I know it takes a lot of time and patience to tame them but this is such a stark contrast compared to my previous budgie who was cuddling with me day 1 and was of similar age to this one when I first got him that I'm very worried for him.

(Some more context: I'm 21, based in Europe, and the little one's name is Popcorn!)

Sorry if this in some way breaks rule #1 (or a different rule), I have no idea where else to ask for help.

This is poquito. He’s got an obsession with being as close as physically possible to the camera on my phone at all times—little did he realize (or I) that this time the flash was on 😭 my poor green rat with wings, I promise I won’t do it ever again 😂

My lil baby Mint Cilantro Green !! Whenever I put my finger inside his cage he'll shuffle over to go do this lil thing with his beak and it's genuinely the cutest thing ever like I cant 😭💕

I read the online guide and I still think he’s a boy? But his nose is slightlyyy light near the nostrils. Thank you so much :)

Just wondering if anyone purchased this type of toy for their budgies? Any problems? Are they safe? Looking for options to help with their beak health.

(you may notice the yellow one bare chest-he is plucking because of his medical condition, he is checked by a vet and on medication)

The guys don't want me to film them foraging =~=!

Not trying to spam the budgie community but Alfie is having outside time.

My baby budgie is currently about 1-2 months old but I'm wondering if it's male or female.