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Expert: Riley - 3/23/2007


Question
Hey there I am thinking of getting a pet budgie and have some basic questions for you:

I've a cage thats 18 inches high 16 inches wide and 12 inches deep is this ok for one budgie? Will a budgie be ok being alone in my room(which has lovebirds to chatter with in it) or4/5 days a week for 8 hour work shifts? I can let it out morning and evening and play with it for a bit.

Do you think it'll take long to handtame a 6/9 week old baby budgie?

Cheers, ~Tara.

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Hey Tara,

I think that'd be okay for one budgie. And that is a perfect place for a budgie, beside other birds, that way he/she won't get lonely. Well if you're going to let your bird out in the morning and evening it will just get used to you, and there's not need to hand tame it. However if there were two of them, that would be a different story. If there is anything I can help you with let me know!

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I can answer many many questions on nesting, eggs, etcetera. Behavior, illnesses, diet, training and taming. There are some things I can't answer on illnesses but I do believe I can help with most of them. My strongest areas would be nesting, eggs and mating.

Experience

I breed budgies. Only budgies. And I have exprienced all of the things I wrote when you asked me what kinds of questions can you and can't you answer.

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I studied bugdies for quiet a while before recieving my first. I know what to do in an emergancy and also basic information people may need to take care of their bird(s).

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Whenever one of my good friends has a question about budgies, I'm the one they ask. I don't think of them as clients, I just would say I help them in times of emergancies or general knowledge around the subject

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