Budgerigars make great pets and are easy to care for! These tips from Videojug will show you proper care for your feathered friends.
So, how to care for your budgerigar. First things first, their home. Their cage should be big enough for them to spread their wings and to have little flight.
Ideally, you want the bird to be out of the cage most of the time and to use the cage only for feeding, going to the toilet, for sleeping in at night, and when you are out of the house, when the bird is not being supervised. In the cage there should be perches; different lengths, different sizes, different fills for the Budgie. There should be a food bowl with plenty of food all the time.
Budgies eat small and often and you will find that they munch through that food so make sure there is plenty of food in there. Plenty of fresh water, every single day you should change the water make sure you are cleaning out those bowls. Make sure there's also grit inside the cage, there should be a fresh bowl of grit every day to every other day inside your cage, it's really good it helps aid digestion, so especially sometimes movement, stress, new environment, new people, new temperatures.
It can cause diarrhea so you want to make sure you have some grit in there, it does help the digestive system. Cuttlefish should also be available for the bird. Cuttlefish is a fish bone; it provides plenty of calcium and minerals for the bird.
Not only that, Budgies' beaks continuously grow, it also helps keep them nice and trim to stop from overgrowing. You also can have a mineral block which is something like this, it gives extra vitamins and minerals in there. Also, it not just gives them vitamins it also helps trim the beaks well.
For their food you want to make sure they have got a balanced diet. We advise the Beaphar Xtra Vital food; it contains 26 different seeds, fruits, nuts, and egg in there. We find it's the best diet for them.
There's no change over period so whatever your breed are, whatever the pet food store had your bird on before, you will find they don't have any upset tummies because it is a complete diet. Ideally, budgies in the wild live in a flock of birds, therefore, kept as pets, you really want to keep them in a pair or more. We find Budgies can get depressed quite easily therefore kept on their own they can get depressed therefore make sure there are plenty of mirrors and bird toys to prevent them from boredom.
If you can't afford Budgie toys you can make things out of wood and plastic, obviously make sure they are not poisonous and safe for the birds. You can move them around the cage that also prevents boredom and get's them to move around the cage a bit more. Now, on the bottom of the cage you want sand sheets.
This soaks up all the urine and feces but should be changed daily to every other day. Now, birds love to bathe. Whether it's you go to a garden center and get them like a mister and spray them every day to every other day or you can get them something like a bird bath which you can clip onto the cage.
You will find, you'll see them splashing around in there they really love it and it will make them happy. It prevents dust holding into their feathers and keeps them nice and clean. Now, every three months you should ideally be giving them mite spray.
This is red tiny mites, they're like a type of pesticide, it can irritate your birds badly, it will feed off their blood, it will make them have, it will make them loose their feathers, and it will really stress your birds out, and worst case scenario, it actually can kill the bird. So it's really important every three months you are using a mite spray. Especially in the summer, that's when they're most common to be around your bird.
They so breed really quickly, so you want to make sure you're doing it. It's very easy to get rid of them, all it is, every three months, spray your bird. It prevents them for three months and it also kills them.
Make sure when cleaning the cage that you are using a natural product. Make sure you go through with a bird disinfectant. This wil
