My sweet, scruffy, spiky man 🩵

today my budgie Guava died. I don't know. I just wanted to honor her memory a bit. I miss her already, she leaves behind her buddy. Anyone have any tips on how to get through the next couple of days?? Especially with these crying-induced headaches...

Update: oh my gosh, thank you so much for the outpour of support and beautiful words. thank you. i made this post before heading to bed out of pure sadness not expecting a lot. thank you for being here for me guys. guava will be near and dear in my heart always. 🤍

my poor baby🥹

Got her last Thursday from the pet store been working really hard everyday taming her and teaching her tricks.

So yesterday me and my friend were hanging out for my birthday and he wanted to get a baby budgie for himself but despite searching every pet shop we found nothing that caught his eyes so as a last resort we decided to check the local petstore that I frequently visit to shop for my birds , cats and rabbits. They said they only have a breeding pair that were not for sale along with a disabled budgie but my friend said no and we left without seeing the budgies. This morning I was looking through my gallery and I saw Timon's pictures and even cried a bit cause I missed him then my thoughts came to the budgie that our local petstore had so I decided to check it out at night. I did not know the budgie's age , sex as I hadn't seen it but decided to buy it in honor of Timon. I went there and asked them if they still had the special needs budgie and they said yes so I asked the price but they said since I'm one of their regular costumers and since no one else wanted the budgie I could take it for free. I went to pick the budgie and saw this cute baby budgie who couldn't be more that a month old in a small dirty cage close to the cage of the breeding pair ( most likely the parents ) and I couldn't let him stay there any longer so I put him in a box and took him home. He's currently sleeping all snuggly in my hands and I'm absolutely smitten by him. He's such a calm sweet little baby! I named him Pumba as a small tribute to my lovely Timon and since this baby is also special needs like him I definitely need to make his enclosure as comfortable as possible for him.

We miss you, Simon.

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I wanna show my cutie Mei, she is 6yo but still a baby girl to me!

These 2 were beyond content. Listen to that beak grinding!!

As some of you may have seen, my sweet girl Taro was stuck in an ER rafter for 9 hours before I was able to get her to a better bird-safe facility. She was having seizures and deteriorating quickly to the point where I thought euthanasia was inevitable. The vet decided to try treating her for metal poisoning as a last ditch effort, as there was no cause found for the seizures.

Miraculously, her seizures stopped. I was crying tears of joy to know that my little girl has made a turn for the better. She is still breathing heavily and so her hospitalization will continue, but she is alert and active 🥹

Ever since I got my girls they have been menaces who chew the walls and trim around doors/windows. I gave up trying to stop them because it seemed impossible. After this incident, i am going to cover all their chewing areas up with cardboard and regularly check it to ensure they haven't chewed back through to the wall. If this doesn't work, they will be cage bound in their mansion.

Please don't let your laziness stop you, if you know your birds are doing something they shouldn't do, stop them! Take it from me, someone who almost lost their baby because of it.

TLDR: my budgie almost died from heavy metal poisoning because i was not vigilant in preventing her from chewing the walls/window trim

Hi everyone!

I’m a first-time budgie owner, and I recently got two adorable budgies!

This is Sky! The seller told me Sky was a girl, but I’m starting to have some doubts.

Sky’s cere is a bright, uniform bubblegum pink/purple, which makes me wonder if Sky might actually be a male Recessive Pied budgie.

I’m still learning, so I’d love to hear your opinions! Do you think Sky is a boy or a girl?

Thank you so much for your help! 🩵🩷

My old cage cover doesn't fit because this one is GINORMOUS! They absolutly love it but im having trouble making sure they get enough dark time because I still haven found a good cover. If anyone has any recs lmk

Btw the old cage is underneath as my white budgie came to me injured and can't fly so needs to use the cage to climb back into their cage. She's slowly practicing and getting stronger at flying but it's still a controlled fall 😂

I keep moving him away and he keeps going back 😩

Recently got this budgie, pet store wasn’t able to say for sure if it was a boy or girl

Chirping/garbles, senior male hitting his beak on the juvenile male, bobbing?

I have asked this before on this subreddit, for the deeper blue one we were told a girl but our vet told us “she” was actually a “he”. Now that he is a bit older hopefully it’s a bit more clear. The lighter blue one is also quite young around ~3-4 months old

Was on a call with my mum and I HAD to take a pic of him looking so angelic

Tell me your favourites please :> im looking for an upgrade

(Pictured is Olive trying to take a bath in the waterbottle, there is clean water in the bath behind her lol, and cameo of blueberry)

I'm learning more and more for my budgie making her as happy as possible, as of recent learned she absolutely loves her foraging toy that I stuff with millet she has to earn, anyway do you all use feeders that they have to mess around with? I read a simple bowl can borrow them i just want feedback from you experienced owners I'm learning things.

This is my senior Chiclet, the handsomest (and sleepiest) man I ever could ask for. We got him in December of 2013 at just a couple months old and he’s been a “life of the party” type bird ever since, though with a few more naps these days 😅 he’s about to celebrate his 13th birthday very soon. I’m not sure exactly which day it is unfortunately but I know it’s within the next week or two.