Most people picture a budgie as a small green parakeet. In the wild, that is correct. Wild budgerigars from Australia are light green with black barring, and green remains the dominant color in nature. In captivity it is a different story. After more than a century of selective breeding...
WHY WOULD YOU LIKE BUDGIES?
Budgies are small, social, and curious birds that can bring a surprising amount of life into your home. Every budgie has its own personality, and getting to know them is one of the best parts of keeping them. If you want to see what life with budgies can really look like, you can also follow Alen AxP on YouTube, where I share my everyday experiences with budgies and my garden aviary. Whether you are just thinking about getting budgies or already have them, I hope you will find something useful and enjoyable here.
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Pingo can’t fly. He lost most of his feathers and he gets around by walking and climbing. Standard cages are built for birds that fly from perch to perch, which makes daily life hard for a bird like him. So I built him something different. I call it a walkavarium — a wide, glass...
Toy My Budgies Can’t Resist I did not plan to build a playground that day. I had an old nest box left over from a previous project – the one I made for budgies and cockatiels – and I did not need it anymore. Instead of throwing it away, I cut it up, painted it, screwed a...
Most budgies love water. If you have ever seen a budgie fluff up, dip its head, and throw droplets all over the cage, you have seen a happy bird doing exactly what nature intended. Bathing is not just play. A regular 62 budgie bath helps your bird preen correctly, removes dust...
This is my third DIY budgie cage, and by far the biggest and hardest one I built. The first two were wood and wire. This one is wood and glass. I wanted three things: more flying space, no seed mess all over the room, and a cage that is easy to clean every day. After a few weeks of work...
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