Yeah, the feathers towards his feet became this way in the past week, is it normal?

5 mins later I turned my phone on and I didnt realise I was watching a budgie video earlier so that automatically started playing really loud but I immediately turned it off and now my budgie is running in her cage to get out. What do I do😭😭😭 she has a friend in the cage but she goes crazy for "virtual budgies" only😭 it's her bed time too but now I unleashed an inner demon in her

My budgies use to be okay with sitting on my hand and my female use to fly to me when I held out millet. Now they both want nothing to do with me. I feel like they have bonded to the point they want to be left alone. How can I fix this?

Hello everyone! Sorry if this post shouldn't be here; but i need some guidance! An hour or so ago we found this little budgie in our apartment's elevator and we have no idea who's it is😢 all the vets are closed atm so we have him in a big box with holes on top of it. Can anyone provide any tips on how to make it as comfortable as possible while we figure out what to do? Like what food i can gice or how to make the space less threatening....I can't let him loose anywhere because we have a lot of potentially dangerous stuff around Also is it sleeping in the picture or should i be concerned? Thanks in advance!

Benji minding her p’s & q’s .🤍💙

I just had one of the most stressful past several hours after one of my budgies escaped from their aviary, but I’m so happy to say that she is HOME SAFE. I thought I would share what I did to get her back in case someone else ever finds themselves in the same situation.

I’m in Southern California so it basically never gets crazy cold during the day. My budgies live in an aviary outside alongside my quail. During the winter, I bring them inside at night in a smaller cage. Last night before sunset I went to bring them inside and after putting Pablo in the cage I started to get concerned I hadn’t seen Lola. I look all over the aviary, she’s not there. I told my partner so now we’re both double checking the aviary and then we’re walking the perimeter of the yard trying but no luck. We tried holding out seed, calling her, playing bird calls on the phone but by that point it’s already dark and wherever she is I’m sure she’s hunkering down for sleep anyways. So after looking for awhile we call it quits and part accept she may be gone forever. Our only hope is she’ll come back tomorrow morning.

After a very sad and stressful night (lots of tears and nightmares), I wake up at dawn knowing it’s probably my best bet to find her if she’s still nearby. So I go outside and start playing budgie flock calls on my phone. I walked around the front and back of the house and suddenly I hear her call back in the neighbors tree across the street! I ran to grab my partner and Pablo (her mate) and a lot of seeds to hopefully coax her to us. We try for awhile and then she flies across the street back to the big house in our backyard. Same thing all over again, we try to coax her, she is talking back and forth with Pablo but then suddenly she flies across several houses to another big tree (ugh!!). So we grab Pablo and take off down the street, we knocked on the neighbors door and they kindly let us into the backyard to look for her. But at that point we didn’t hear any more calls from her and couldn’t see her.

At this point we figure she must have flown off into another tree and we didn’t see it. So we dejectedly return home and just hope she’ll come back. As we walk into the backyard, lo and behold, we see her sitting on one of our wild bird feeders! Now she’s clearly hungry and so we coax her with the millet seed and walk her back into the aviary. Success!

TLDR; playing bird calls on your phone DOES help! At least for them to initially respond and you can locate them. After that, good ol hunger and millet seed are the best thing. Looking at night is not helpful but looking first thing in the morning at daylight IS.

So glad to have our baby back home and safe.

Is there anything I can do to stop this?

They both share a cage and she never chases him in the cage but when they're out she'll do the head bobby thing where they're trying to kiss/give food and my single braincelled boy keeps falling for it, after a few beak touches she pecks him and he flies away from her, only for her to chase him around until they cycle repeats :/ it doesn't happen EVERY time they're out of the cage but it does happen a lot. Is she just trying to show dominance or something?

Hi so I was looking to get new budgies and I came across this guy who had these two budgies for nearly 2 years. They are in a really small cage and have NEVER left it because of his cats.. and they have never been hand tamed or even stroked. Is it possible to tame them still? or no. Please let me know but either way I’m going to buy them off him to get them out of that situation.

Charlie, the green one in the photo, he has been with us almost since his birth, he was 5 years old. For the first 2-3 years, he was the most cheerful bird. He was flying, playing with toys, always talking to us... Then, 2 years ago we bought a new one because he was alone, they were happy as well. Then, 1 year ago we bought the third one ( the white one in the photo). Unfortunately, the white bird, our third Budgie, is the only one left.

Charlie hasn't been well since July after his partner Passed away. He is good with the new bird too but after her he stopped flying, and never leave his cage. Although he was eating well, cheerful, talking to us, he almost forgot flying. We we're just happy he survived.

Yesterday, I wasn't home. My little brother found hım in the Cage struggling, like passed out. Then my mom trying to comfort him but he passed away in her hands.

This is like losing someone from the family. We know that this was going to happen someday but this is heartbreaking and you cannot ready for this.

Also, I like the other bird and I don't want to lose her but I'm too afraid to buy a new budgie yet.

There are too many emotions, even guilt is one of them. Our house has suddenly become so quiet that it is painful to stand in it