Hello from Munich (Germany)

[sayris]

Hello everyone,

since I dicided to breed budgies, I am looking for a good forum where I can get more informations or answers if I have a question. I hope it is ok to be here even tho I am from germany :-) . My english is not the best in writing so please forgive any mistakes.   My Name is Ines and I am a single Mum with my 12 year old daughter from Munich.

I have loved budgies for all my life and always wanted to breed with them. But in Germany we needed a permission to do so until 2012. Luckily I heard that we don`t need that permission any more just a month ago. So I started making my dream come true and looked for good budgies. I love the medium size budgies. 

I started having budgies again after a brake of 10 years. I have seen a budgie in a small add. It was sitting in a very small round cage. It could go 3 Steps left and right. No toys, no sand...nothing. I waited 3 days because the add was having over 300 clicks, so I thought there will be someone taking the budgie. After the 3 days I asked if he is still there...and so it was. By express I ordered a cage and went to take the budgie the same day. Here you can see the small cage up on the one I bought.



I named her Litchie:


Now Litchie should not stay alone. So I got a beautiful yellow pied male for her. Unfortunatly one day he hang him self on a long rope that they pull out of one of their toys :-(.

No that I want to breed I got or will get some wonderfull birds.

First here is Bärchen (little bear). A violett opalin male YF.



The next will be a double factored spangle violet cock and a mauve violet spangled hen. Later I will post pictures. Than I will have a very dark mauve violett cock. And a opalin spangled hen in mauve violet. Yes I love the color violet and mauve :-). 

Next year will be the first time for me to breed so I also took an experianced pair. I am very excited already and can't wait to start. But I have an very high requirement on my self. The first will allways be the health and strengh of the birds. A budgie can be absolut beautiful. If he is a litte bullier...I wount breed with him ether.

I am happy do be here.

Greetings Ines

[OP]

You are most welcome to the forum, sayris. We do not mind at all that you are from Germany and don't worry about your spelling I make plenty of mistakes myself. I am so pleased you rescued the budgie from that hideously tiny cage. I am not knowledgeable about breeding, however we do have members that are. Some of them may not be online as we have different time-zones. I wish you great luck in your breeding campaign.

[splodge]

Hello and welcome! Your English is better than my German (I did French at school a long time ago!)

That tiny cage is awful. I can't imagine keeping anything in there.

[suesbird]

Hello from Jo, Pippin and me and welcome

[Deleted]

Hello from me & Squawk who live in Berkshire, England.

[Hezz]

Hi and welcome, Ines.

Don't bother with the sand; simply line the bottom of your cages with newspaper to make cleaning easier, and throw it out each day. Make sure your birds have cuttlebone and an iodine block to chew on when they want to, and cut all those tassels off any toys they might have, to prevent the same thing happening again, as happened to your other cock bird.

Unfortunately, we have only a handful of members who do or have bred their birds; most of us are pet owners and keep them for their happy nature, but we will endeavour to help you out where possible.

[sayris]

Hi everyone. thanks for the warm welcome :-) .

[abbynbudgies]

there is a site...http://www.cutelittlebirdiesaviary.com/ she has awesome information on breeding, read the articles on her site and I am sure you will learn much!!