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Post by Budgiefeets on Jun 19, 2021 21:16:51 GMT
Do you call female budgies "hens" in here recently our budgie likes to lick and chew on my hand and arm and her feets gets warm. Is this like a mating ritual she is making with my hand ? Only happens when i have my hand in the cage.
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Post by Hezz on Jun 20, 2021 2:36:55 GMT
All female birds are hens, although there are some that do have their own fancy name. I don’t feel that the licking and chewing on your hand are sexually related, but rather that she is checking you are the same as you were last time you were at her cage. Part tasting your skin and that can move on to preening, sometimes the hairs on your arm, or any freckles and moles you may have.
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Post by Budgiefeets on Jun 23, 2021 19:45:00 GMT
All female birds are hens, although there are some that do have their own fancy name. I don’t feel that the licking and chewing on your hand are sexually related, but rather that she is checking you are the same as you were last time you were at her cage. Part tasting your skin and that can move on to preening, sometimes the hairs on your arm, or any freckles and moles you may have. That sounds like it
For now she likes to climb around on a dream catcher with some feathers and pearls on it. Is that because she want to build a nest there or want to preen the feathers or just play tarzan ?
We try to take her away from it and make he rinterrested in other stuff like toys and water on a plate.
That works for a bit until she is tired and then she sits still on my finger and allmost sleeps.
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Post by Hezz on Jun 24, 2021 0:57:55 GMT
That looks much more interesting than ordinary toys or water in a bowl. . As long as there isn’t anything on it that she can break or chew pieces off. If there is a hook holding the dream catcher think about using if for something a bit more substantial for her - a hanging ladder or swing, a three- or four-sided structure from which you can hang some other interesting things such as bells, chewing and foraging toys. If you live in an area where you can access some fresh seeding grasses (no fertilisers, herbicides or pesticides, and not close to a busy road) do some foraging of your own and hang the grass stems and watch her play, especially if you wet the grass down beforehand. Note: always wash the grass before giving it to the birds.
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Post by mona on Jun 24, 2021 3:58:28 GMT
Just keep an eye on the pearls (esp if small size) and any threads in the dream catcher
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Post by Budgiefeets on Jun 25, 2021 0:08:18 GMT
That looks much more interesting than ordinary toys or water in a bowl. . As long as there isn’t anything on it that she can break or chew pieces off. If there is a hook holding the dream catcher think about using if for something a bit more substantial for her - a hanging ladder or swing, a three- or four-sided structure from which you can hang some other interesting things such as bells, chewing and foraging toys. If you live in an area where you can access some fresh seeding grasses (no fertilisers, herbicides or pesticides, and not close to a busy road) do some foraging of your own and hang the grass stems and watch her play, especially if you wet the grass down beforehand. Note: always wash the grass before giving it to the birds.
She allready got a playground with a sling and chew toys with bells. She used it a bit for now. And her cage is full of wood toys with bells and she allready chewed one of the toys to bits.
We put some seeds on the playground and she likes to eat those and drink from the plate that we call swimming pool
Can budgies eat normal lawn grass ? I live in a flat with plenty of grass fields around in our small park.
So we just just get some clean grass and put in the plate with water ? We hope she will bath one day.
We will try and find a branch from a tree in the forest and then we will strips/mount it to the cage roof so she can climp on it. we live in EU. Is there any speciel kind of tree/branch we can use that is non toxic ?
We have the beech as a common forest plant. Is that one safe ?
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Post by Budgiefeets on Jun 25, 2021 0:10:46 GMT
Just keep an eye on the pearls (esp if small size) and any threads in the dream catcher There are some pearls but they are to large for her to swallow and there is no hooks. Only strings and feathers and few big pearls. We just cut her nails since they got to long. She was against it but we had to :s
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Post by Budgiefeets on Jun 25, 2021 18:42:38 GMT
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Post by Hezz on Jun 26, 2021 1:15:39 GMT
There are plenty of internet sites that list toxic and non-toxic plants for birds, just google it and compare a few different ones as not all agree, but err on the side of caution if there you find conflicting information. If you swap her cage perches for natural tree branches, different thicknesses and textures, I doubt you will need to trim her claws either. It’ll also give her something else to safely chew on.
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Post by Budgiefeets on Jun 27, 2021 6:26:22 GMT
There are plenty of internet sites that list toxic and non-toxic plants for birds, just google it and compare a few different ones as not all agree, but err on the side of caution if there you find conflicting information. If you swap her cage perches for natural tree branches, different thicknesses and textures, I doubt you will need to trim her claws either. It’ll also give her something else to safely chew on. 2 of the perches should be nature and the 3rd is just wood
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Post by Hezz on Jun 27, 2021 10:04:43 GMT
She needs more than only three perches to give her feet the exercise needed to keep them healthy. She needs different textures and thicknesses, angles, knots, movement and uneven-ness. You need to think not about what looks good to you but what a bird would be perching on in the wild. Perches there are not static things; they will be thick, thin, move with the wind, some smooth, some very rough, definitely not straight.
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Post by Budgiefeets on Jun 28, 2021 18:03:15 GMT
She needs more than only three perches to give her feet the exercise needed to keep them healthy. She needs different textures and thicknesses, angles, knots, movement and uneven-ness. You need to think not about what looks good to you but what a bird would be perching on in the wild. Perches there are not static things; they will be thick, thin, move with the wind, some smooth, some very rough, definitely not straight. We will go have a look in the forest eventualy here in the summer. We just bought her a budgie cave since we noticed she likes to look for places like this. So we hopes she will sleep in it.
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Post by Hezz on Jun 28, 2021 20:10:55 GMT
Nooooo; take this out, please!!! This is perfect nesting site material for a budgie hen. You do not want to be encouraging her to look for places to nest and lay eggs, and she doesn’t need a cock bird to do so. Anything else that is dark and enclosed should be removed or discourage her from going to even in the room where she spends most of her time. Budgies are happy to, and naturally do, sleep on a perch. Not only may the construction encourage her to begin nesting, but she is likely to chew on the cotton fabric which can cause a build up of fibre in her crop which can potentially be fatal.
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Post by Budgiefeets on Jun 29, 2021 19:40:13 GMT
Nooooo; take this out, please!!! This is perfect nesting site material for a budgie hen. You do not want to be encouraging her to look for places to nest and lay eggs, and she doesn’t need a cock bird to do so. Anything else that is dark and enclosed should be removed or discourage her from going to even in the room where she spends most of her time. Budgies are happy to, and naturally do, sleep on a perch. Not only may the construction encourage her to begin nesting, but she is likely to chew on the cotton fabric which can cause a build up of fibre in her crop which can potentially be fatal. OK..we dident knew since we never had a female budgie before. She looks around for nesting places and bites in everything to see if its material for nest. Even the lettuce we feet her with gets biten to pieces.This is getting a small problem since we cant have her on our finger for long time until she find a new spot for nesting. And then she becomes a magnet to that place.
Even when we play with her on the playground then suddenly she looks on our hands to see if there is a nest place/cave under our hands. Either its that or she still thinks she is a baby and want to cudle up in some cosy corner spots.
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Post by Budgiefeets on Jul 1, 2021 23:07:10 GMT
Overall she is cute and we like her the way she is. we also bought her some rings with bells and she likes to hang in these with 1 foot only. It looks like a danger stunt but she is very good at it. Still we find it strange she dosent want to eat millet and normal seeds for budgies. It has to be some speciel mix. And most of the healty food we give her just gets biten to pieces. It dosent looks like she eats it..ect apple or any salad pieces she is offered. She has this "zoomie" thing going on when we let her out, where she flies around uncontrolled a few times and then she gets playfull with everything after that. Mostly this dreamcatcher and the new rings we gave her. Money well spend She uses her feets for everything and sometimes she puts her foot on my lips or nose and want to climb my face like a mountain. Sometimes i can steal a kiss on her belly and other times she bites my nose very hard. If only she could talk
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