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| Buying your first Budgie, what's needed? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 1 2016, 03:15 PM (6 Views) | |
| Raymac | Feb 1 2016, 03:15 PM Post #1 |
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Housing Budgies can be housed indoors in a large wire cage with a plastic base or outdoors in a purpose-built aviary. The cage should have some horizontal bars on it to allow climbing – this means many round cages are unsuitable. Bars should be no wider than 12mm apart to prevent escape. Kept outdoors, your aviary should allow room for the birds to fly around properly. Budgies kept indoors will need to be let out of their cage daily to exercise – make sure you keep all doors and windows closed when you do this. Covering the cage with a cloth at night will encourage your Budgie to settle down for sleep. You should provide a bath for your bird, either fixed to the outside of the cage or a shallow bowl placed inside the cage – although some birds may prefer to be sprayed with tepid water instead. The cage should also contain plenty of toys to keep your Budgie amused, particularly if it is kept on its own. Community: Budgies can be kept alone but prefer the company of their own kind. They can be kept in pairs (hens with cocks) although if just keeping a few birds together, either sex should be fine. For larger aviaries it’s usually best to keep more hens than cocks – otherwise the cock birds may fight over the hens. You can also mix pairs of Budgies with other small parakeets although if kept in a breeding aviary you shouldn’t mix more than 2 species. You can keep budgies in cages or aviaries but they need a large enough enclosure to move around and spread their wings. Your budgie's cage needs to be: away from draughts and direct sunlight but somewhere light and airy away from the kitchen as birds are affected by fumes like gas lined on the bottom with newspaper, wood shavings or bird-sand (not sand sheets, these harm your birds feet) big enough for it to move around in fitted with a mixture of different thicknesses of perches that gives your birds feet some exercise, also for the bird's feet to grip comfortably. I'm sure you will have many more suggestions to add, leave them below. |
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