Budgie Article

[Scully]

I found this comment on a site...

General Care
Like with any pet bird, water should be changed daily and the food container should be emptied of discarded seed shells and other debris on a regular basis. You can keep their feathers clean and shiny with a short spritz of warm water every week. You might even let them splash in a bird bath occasionally. A heated bird bath would be quite a treat for your parakeet. There should be bird toys and perches in their cage, but you should also take time to take them out for play. Parakeets are very active and enjoy the exercise. They do like to fly and getting the feathers of their wings clipped will help keep your birds from becoming hard to manage when they are out of their cage.


You can keep their feathers clean and shiny with a short spritz of warm water every week. You might even let them splash in a bird bath occasionally

spray weekly/bath occasionally?

A heated bird bath would be quite a treat for your parakeet.

like where do you get a heated bath!

They do like to fly and getting the feathers of their wings clipped will help keep your birds from becoming hard to manage

They like to fly....but clip them anyway!

[judy]

lol scully, I like your last comment.

[Scully]

nice avitar!

[judy]

thanks, shes actually meant to be snowing, but cant get it to work lol.

[Berserka]

I love the way some people say opposite things in the same paragraph. At least it shows I'm not the only ditz.
Water holes in Oz are usually very cold. Don't see how the budgie would care about warm water!

[Liz]

Mine really enjoy a light spray with the hose. I'm sorry, but I'm not putting a heater on my hose.

And of course they like to fly... why else would they have wings?

All the same, I hate it when I write something and read it later, and I realize I sounded like a complete idiot. Thank goodness BC has the option to modify a post!

[judy]

I guess I spoil young harriette. I give her luke warm baths in the bathtub. she loves them.