I am new - from Los Angeles :)

[tanja]

Hello everybody,

I am new here. I am living in Los Angeles with my husband and we are right now preparing a new office room in the house for me.
This office room will be also home for my very first own budgie. 

When I was very young, my mother got a blue male budgie. He was very young and she actually needed to hand feed this little guy. But because of that he bond to her a lot and started to learn to talk very soon and he became very good at that! I lived all my life in Germany and moved to L.A. on May 1st this year!

Some years later Ricky our budgie died and my mother did not want to get another one, since she was breeding dogs (Chihuahuas). I wasn't allowed to get one for my room either... But I loved this little blue guy and now I have finally the opportunity to get my own little budgie and that's why I registered on this forum, because I hope to find people in my area Los Angeles - Woodland Hills, I am even looking for breeders here in CA, so I could get a baby bird, rather than an already older budgie from a Pet store.

So if someone here breeds budgies in the Los Angeles Area, I would love to know! 

Thank you all very much for such a nice forum about this amazing birds!

Tanja

[mizloco]

Hello Tanja and welcome to the forum. Here is a list of breeders in usa:
breeders
There is masses of information on here, especially at the top of each section marked stickies.

[OP]

Hello Tanja, good luck in your search for the perfect budgie for your home/office.

[tanja]

Hi guys,

thank you very much for the warm welcome :-)
I will take a look on the breeder list! Thank you for the link mizloco!
Yeah the office room is a nice little room with not many things, that could be harmful
if the bird is not yet adjusted to me. as soon he is tame I would also introduce him to
the other rooms of our wonderful home :-)

[ffiscool]

Welcome. LA! How nice. Not been there for a long time. It's very exciting having a new budgie! Loads of good advice on here and great people

[tanja]

Thanks ffiscool!
I just took a quick look over the list and it seems there are only 3 breeders in CA available.
But only 1 of them is reachable. The other two are like 4-5 hours away :-( Damn...
I wrote Michael Blair an e-mail and hope to hear from him, he lives like 30-40 minutes away from me.
If I really can't find a breeder, then I probably need to buy a budgie from PetSmart. They have some
younger ones as well.

[ffiscool]

It might be worth calling the ones too far, as they may know of people that do breed a few, and can put you in touch with them.

[Marianne Marlow]

Welcome!

[tanja]

Thank you Marianne! :-)

Just got an e-mail back, that my mail to Michael could not be delivered... Seems like I have to contact the ones too far and see if they know people in my area. I did not know that it would be so difficult to find a breeder, when you really need one lol xD

[birdguhl]

Welcome, Tanja! It's great you've joined our worldwide budgie-loving community, and we look forward to hearing all about your new friend when you find him or her.

[tanja]

Thank you for your welcome message birdguhl.
Yes I will keep you guys posted, when I get my own little baby
I actually would like to have a boy again.

[BudgiesBuddy]

Hi Tanja and welcome to forum

[samwiseg]

Hi and welcome! Glad you found us and hope you find a little budgie buddy soon, no doubt there is one out there for you with your name on it

[tanja]

Hey BudgiesBuddy and samwiseg!
Thank you so much for the welcome messages!

I tried to write all three of the breeders in CA yesterday, but none of them
responded to my mail yet. Let's hope they will. Maybe they did not have a chance yet
to read their messages.

If nothing works out and I can't get a budgie from a breeder I need to look for local bird shops
that have budgie baby's. Hopefully on Monday we will finish the work on my office room, then I will get a new desk and after that is done I will focus on finding my little feathered friend. :-)

[samwiseg]

Will keep my fingers crossed for you! Have you got a cage yet and if so please can we see?! We love pictures