Male Budgie needs loving forever home!

[boudicca]

Hi, my first post!

A farmer posted on our village FB page that he’d had a budgie visiting his farm for a couple of weeks, no one responded that they’d lost one and no one offered to help! The farmer managed to trap him in his large chicken coup when he went in for food! We are animal lovers and offered to help catch him! We bought a small cage and some seed to assist and we managed to tempt him into it! We are unable to keep him and a friend offered to take him but has now let us down :-( We’ve now had ‘Budge’ for a few weeks while we were waiting for said friend to get organised! He is the most lovely handsome budgie and we have fallen in love with him, we desperately would love to keep him but our lifestyle is such that it would be unfair! He needs friends, everyday we play non stop budgie YouTube vids and he chirps along! He speaks to himself in the mirror too :-) He is not hand tame but has sat on my finger a couple of times, so I’m sure he has had human contact. He is currently free range all day as we have stuck perches up all over the lounge LOL and at night he climbs onto a treat stick and is carried back to his cage.. after a few attempts as he thinks it’s a game! He doesn’t eat a wide variety of food but we have found out he likes sweetcorn and cucumber as well as his seed! He’s just been through a little moult but appears in good condition!

We love him to pieces and we could only let him go to a very loving, knowledgeable owner, with other budgies and where he can have lots of free fly time and stimulation!

We called him Budge in an attempt to provide a temporary simple name so as not to get attached, which failed spectacularly LOL

We live near Colchester Essex and we would be willing to travel, provided Budge is OK with that!! Is there anyone who can offer our lovely little man a forever home?

We have photos but I don’t know how to add them?! He’s lime green chest, yellow head and black and yellow feathers.

Oh and we have checked the lost and found pages but no description that matches him! He also has a small white ring on his left leg, but it has no number?!

[Marianne Marlow]

Are you sure that you wouldn't like to keep him?

He sounds like he's having a great time!

[boudicca]

Jul 14, 2021 11:59:32 GMT Marianne Marlow said:

Are you sure that you wouldn't like to keep him?

He sounds like he's having a great time!

We would really love to but we just can’t, our lifestyle is such that we aren’t always around and away at weekends a lot. Budge is benefitting from us still having to work from home at the mo, so I’m in the lounge with him most days, but there was never any intention to keep him, we just wanted to make sure he was safe.. especially having witnessed the Sparrowhawks terrorising our garden residents!

[ffiscool]

ah bless.. so glad he is with you for now.

if you are on a computer, then you will see the add image to post button.

you will need to load it onto something like youtube or similar

however, if you are using a mobile, go to the bottom of the page and you will see desktop. once you click on that, the add image to post will appear. you can then add it from you photo library on your phone

[jellybean]

He sounds like a little sweetheart, I hope someone on the forum who lives near you can take him in.

Thank you for looking after him just now, he sounds as though he's having the time of his life.

[boudicca]

Jul 14, 2021 12:19:56 GMT ffiscool said:

ah bless.. so glad he is with you for now.

if you are on a computer, then you will see the add image to post button.

you will need to load it onto something like youtube or similar

however, if you are using a mobile, go to the bottom of the page and you will see desktop. once you click on that, the add image to post will appear. you can then add it from you photo library on your phone

Thank you 😊 I’ve managed to add a couple of photos 😊👍

[boudicca]

Jul 14, 2021 12:45:55 GMT jellybean said:

He sounds like a little sweetheart, I hope someone on the forum who lives near you can take him in.

Thank you for looking after him just now, he sounds as though he's having the time of his life.

He is he’s just participated in my MS Teams call ha-ha I really do hope I can find him a lovely home too 😊

[ffiscool]

aww very cute. hard to tell what age, but not a baby

[jellybean]

He's a little beauty.

[boudicca]

We may have found him a lovely forever home with someone half an hour away! She has 2 ladies and a boy and wanted another boy! They free fly all day and then go in a large cage with toys at night! She’s coming tomorrow to meet Budge and take him home... there will be tears!!! Who knew Budgies could steal your heart in such a short space of time!! Clearly featheries are as bad as furries!!!

[tweetiepiesmom]

It sounds like you have found a terrific home for him. Please give her the information about this forum - we'd love to keep hearing about him and hear about her others. Yes, the little budgies very quickly make us love them with their happy chirps and antics. Thank you for taking care of him.

[Hezz]

He is one lucky little bird to have run into some caring people in his time outside. I’m so pleased to you have found him a forever home, and thank you for not taking the obvious route of keeping him when you realistically knew that it wasn’t the best for him.
Good luck and go with blessings, little Budge.