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| pet budgie just started laying eggs.. | 3/31/2007 |
Q: I've had my pet budgie for around 5-6 years now, and recently she's been very affectionate. Hasn't ...
A: Hey Jacqueline, It's perfectly normal for a female keet to lay eggs without a male bird around. ...
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| eggs and mating | 3/31/2007 |
Q: I have a male and female budgie that have had 4 babies in November, 4 babies in Feb. and she just ...
A: Hey Laurie, I think you should separate the dad from the rest. Or take away the nesting box. Yes, ...
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| breeding budgies | 3/30/2007 |
Q: Good Morning Riley, I have two pairs of budgies. Both pairs are showing sings of nesting,one more ...
A: Hey again, I don't think females would go into a mating position, because usually she tries to get ...
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| female budgie died after laying 2nd egg | 3/30/2007 |
Q: Our female budgie (approx. 14months)laid 1 egg yesterday and 1 egg this morning. Male budgie would ...
A: Nerida. Thanks for posting! I'm sorry to hear about your loss. Male budgies are not supposed to ...
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| i think my budgie is very ill | 3/30/2007 |
Q: heyy, ok ive had my budgie Nicki for almost a year and she is half trained and friendly when she ...
A: You know your bird better than anyone else does...if you think your bird doesn't look right, she ...
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| Parakeet Breeding | 3/28/2007 |
Q: Ok well this is a pretty complicated story and question. Well I used to have four parakeets, 2 males ...
A: Arooba. Thanks for posting! There are so many things wrong with your situation! You REALLY need ...
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| breeding budgies | 3/27/2007 |
Q: Good Morning Riley, I have two pairs of budgies. Both pairs are showing sings of nesting,one more ...
A: You shouldn't bother replacing the shavings, because she will just pull those out too. She doesn't ...
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| Nesting Budgies | 3/25/2007 |
Q: My question is that my budgies had babies the other day. Im not sure how many there are but i think ...
A: Hey Efrain, I have had a few questions about this. A baby budgie should only really come out of the ...
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| Budgies | 3/25/2007 |
Q: I had two baby budgies born about a week ago. Long story short, the male died, the babies died and ...
A: I am very sorry for your losses and what your and your bird are going through now. I will try to ...
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| new baby budgies | 3/24/2007 |
Q: My female, sophie, laid eggs last week. already the chicks (3/4 hatched) are alive and well. what i ...
A: Hey Luna, You can find out their gender by looking at their cere (where their nostrils are). If it ...
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| eating too much | 3/24/2007 |
Q: my parakeets eat just too much! they are beginning to be really fat! do you have any way to make ...
A: It doesn't really matter who trains them, it's very important that they should go out for half an ...
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| Breeding soon after a clutch leaves the nest | 3/24/2007 |
Q: Our parakeets second clutch hatched 6 1/2 weeks ago and the babies have already left the nest. ...
A: Hey Dionne, Well I think it's maybe that you removed the nesting box that made her attack her ...
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| Basic | 3/23/2007 |
Q: Hey there I am thinking of getting a pet budgie and have some basic questions for you: I've a cage ...
A: Hey Tara, I think that'd be okay for one budgie. And that is a perfect place for a budgie, beside ...
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| bird biting other bird | 3/22/2007 |
Q: The problem is that the male keeps biting the female. What do I do?
A: Hey Jason, If this isn't harming the female, then I would keep them together because the male plays ...
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| sex of budgie | 3/21/2007 |
Q: I was recently given a white budgie but do not know what sex it is. Is there an easy way to ...
A: Hey Glynis, thanks for posting, You sex a bird by the colour of its cere (a patch of skin where its ...
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| egg laid/broken egg discovery | 3/21/2007 |
Q: I have had a female budgie (named Nimbus) for at least 6 years. I had a male before but the never ...
A: Hey Jeff, I would just but the nesting box on the cage you have now, if Nimbus lays the eggs on the ...
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| Tips for breeding budgies | 3/20/2007 |
Q: ! I have two budgies, Skie and Angel, Skie is about 2 years, and Angel is about 1 and a half. I ...
A: Hey Sofie, Well, first, you need to get a nesting box. No nesting material will be needed, Angel ...
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| My parakeet just laid an egg, HELP!! SOS!!! | 3/19/2007 |
Q: , this morning I woke up to find that one of my parakeets laid an egg. I'm still a bit confussed ...
A: Hey, Cindy, Let's sex your birds first. You sex a keet by the color of the bird's cere, not its ...
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| Parakeet Nesting/mating | 3/18/2007 |
Q: Can you tell me like all of what you know about nesting, mating, and the eggs? I am really excited ...
A: Hey Tara, Well actually your birds might be too young to mate, however here's how to get prepared. ...
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| budgie eggs | 3/14/2007 |
Q: Is this normal, are they good. Ifthey are no good what did i do wrong because my other pair just ...
A: Hey Brian, You know, the exact same thing happened to me. My budgie laid 5 eggs and they kind of ...
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| black dots | 3/12/2007 |
Q: o thats what you were talking about my keet is actually 3 years old so i doubt it if its about his ...
A: Katelyn. I don't know what these black dots could be based on the information you've provided. ...
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| baby parakeet | 3/12/2007 |
Q: Our parakeet laid seven eggs. One hatched 3 days ago. It looked like the daddy parakeet was biting ...
A: The only reason you would need to hand feed a budgie is if the mom isn't feeding it. So there's no ...
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| black dots | 3/12/2007 |
Q: there are no bleeding anywhere and the black dots are on his head on top of his cere. no ink or ...
A: Katelyn. I was asking you to take a magnifying glass and use it to see if you could tell what the ...
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| black dots | 3/11/2007 |
Q: i have a male parakeet and one day there were balck dots on his head. i thought they were mites and ...
A: Katelyn. You'll have to describe these black dots better. Do they appear to be something in the ...
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| eggs | 3/11/2007 |
Q: i have an aviary with around 15 budgies in eggs have been layed in the boxes but they have thrown ...
A: Darren. Thanks for posting! Aviary breeding budgies most always doesn't work. If you want to ...
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| chronic egg layer | 3/9/2007 |
Q: My female budgie is about 4 yrs old and her mate died about 2 months ago...it was very sad but she ...
A: Hey Agnes, thanks for posting! You should leave the 5 eggs she is currently incubating right where ...
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| breeding/cage size/sexing | 3/8/2007 |
Q: It has been about 8 years since I've had budgies when I had them before I was breeding them and had ...
A: The cage you described seemed way too small. The cage I have for two of my budgies is 14 by 14 by ...
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| hatchlings | 3/6/2007 |
Q: Riley, thanks so much for your prompt response. I guess the problem could be the diet, though I ...
A: Yes, the process is the same for all parrots. I've used Zupreem fruit blend pellets for many ...
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| hatchlings | 3/5/2007 |
Q: My parakeet laid 6 eggs, of which 3 were fertile. The three that hatched, seemed fine at first. ...
A: What you really need to do is remove the oldest from the parents completely and handfeed it with ...
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| pleez read! | 3/4/2007 |
Q: my female had baby bugies and now they are kids. i just found out that females could get eggbound ...
A: You can simply take away the nesting box. But if she does already have eggs, then she will lay them ...
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| budgies | 3/4/2007 |
Q: i was just wondering i got 9 budgies outside in an avairy and all of a sudden today theyve been ...
A: How many nesting boxex do you have in the aviary? You would need to have a couple extra boxes than ...
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| breeding | 3/3/2007 |
Q: I have been searching the internet and have found lots of different heplful information about the ...
A: I highly doubt that your birds would want saw dust in their nesting box. One, because they cannot ...
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| breeding | 3/2/2007 |
Q: as you know i have just lost my boy and still devasted but i really regret not allowing him to mate ...
A: Well Rebecca, some budgies like soft bedding for their nesting boxes, just wood shavings. However my ...
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| watery droppings | 3/1/2007 |
Q: my bird just happened to have watery droppings. i found out that it's diarrhea (spelling) and i ...
A: Hey Hannah, This may be simply caused by your birds diet. You may want to offer your bird celery, ...
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| hi | 2/25/2007 |
Q: thnx for ur past answer ,, u told me that ther is a chance that my budgies will be couple ...
A: Hey again, Well I do believe your budgies will get used to each other, but for my budgies it took a ...
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| illness | 2/25/2007 |
Q: We all thankyou very much but sadly he died last night being in the hands of a vet. He told us that ...
A: I am so sorry for your loss. I wish I could have helped more but I'm afraid there is nothing I could ...
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| Taming | 2/22/2007 |
Q: I want to ask another thing, can they see well with those red eyes? What can they see and what can ...
A: The albino parrots I've had/seen seem to see very well with their red eyes. They see everything ...
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| Feces question | 2/19/2007 |
Q: I am a veterinary technician in Aurora, CO and we just had a client come with with her bird ...
A: It's called coprophagia. The reasons why birds eat their own feces is controversial, but can be ...
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| percent of bringing baby | 2/19/2007 |
Q: i had 2 budgie from one year male and female ,,the female is young and shes the american large size ...
A: Yes it is possible for them to have chicks, but for that would would need to wait until a good time ...
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| weard behavior | 2/19/2007 |
Q: i have male and female budgie from 1 year ,and i have realise that the female is doing a weard ...
A: This is just normal behavior for budgies. My female does it too. Now that you have given me this ...
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| fluffy and tired | 2/17/2007 |
Q: James seems to be very tired, quite and fluffed up at the moment. He always has his head in his wing ...
A: Well Rebecca, this may just be that he is simply tired lately, and when bird tend to sleep they ...
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| illness | 2/17/2007 |
Q: ------------------------------------------- The text above is a follow-up to ... Thank you so much ...
A: How you hold the bird is by putting your middle finger and pointer finger on the bird's shoulder (in ...
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| My 2 birds | 2/15/2007 |
Q: my question is that I just got a female bird for my male bird. They are both blue parakeets. But the ...
A: Well, to tell you the truth, he IS being a jerk. The male bird doesn't like this female invading his ...
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| baby food formula | 2/15/2007 |
Q: im just wondering, how do u make baby parakeet food formula?
A: There is no real baby budgie food formula. The mother will regurgitate food for the babies, but ...
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| rubbing beak | 2/14/2007 |
Q: i have this container full of food and when a parakeet pokes at it, seeds come out.i caught my ...
A: This is perfectly normal. You will find your birds rubbing their faces on the food container, the ...
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| Mating Parakeets | 2/14/2007 |
Q: I don't know a lot about parakeets, but I had a male and female. The male died before he and the ...
A: I have gone through the EXACT same thing. My male budgie passed away and they hadn't mated yet. I ...
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| baby birds=not afraid | 2/14/2007 |
Q: my baby budgies usually dont run away from me but whenever i touch them they start squaking really ...
A: The baby budgies aren't used to you yet, they find you ask a scary monster. But once you start to ...
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| clicking beak | 2/13/2007 |
Q: but i seperated one of the keets and he reaaly doesnt have anybody to talk to except for me.hi! my ...
A: It's just a noise they make, either to communicate with each other or just chatting away to ...
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| illness | 2/13/2007 |
Q: my budgies name is James Blunt and i have been a bit worried lately about him. First thing in the ...
A: Sacha. Thanks for posting! Sorry for the slow response, my computer has been giving me some grief ...
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| Budgie illness-odd behavior | 2/12/2007 |
Q: Our male budgie, about 4 yrs. old, seemed to have what appeared to be a seizure today. He suddenly ...
A: I apologize for the slow response, my computer wasn't working for a while. You need to have this ...
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| baby out!!!!!!!!!!!! | 2/10/2007 |
Q: i put them in my garage. is garage temp. ok?actually, he didnt escape. he just came out of the ...
A: Well the budgies I have are in the living room. One this you have to know about budgies is they are ...
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| baby out!!!!!!!!!!!! | 2/10/2007 |
Q: actually, he didnt escape. he just came out of the nestbox. there is also another baby bird that was ...
A: Yes it's fine to put then back in, but there is no need to. They are simply curious and will keep ...
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| baby out!!!!!!!!!!!! | 2/9/2007 |
Q: my birds mated and had babies.one was young and still had baby feathers and came out. i carried him ...
A: The budgie isn't coming out too soon, and he/she is probably just curious. You said that this baby ...
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| Unknown white flakes | 2/9/2007 |
Q: I have two parakeets and one male and one female and they are both about a 1yr. old. Recently there ...
A: Well how large are the flakes? It could just be that they are molting. But molting only last for a ...
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| big droppings | 2/9/2007 |
Q: my female layed eggs with a mate and a couple hatched. since then, shes been having HUGE droppings. ...
A: Hey Katelyn, thanks for posting! Most likely she has huge droppings because she's spending all/most ...
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