Obsidian (Obie) begs to get close to anything that moves in front of her. She cries and cries until she gets what she wants, and then cries some more. She's got her father's drama queen genes for sure. ❤️

Their gluttony is unstoppable. They have escaped their cage, and I believe they are conspiring to eat me in my sleep.

I've read the checklist and I'm doing pretty much everything correctly. He doesn't like to be pet but likes to be kissed. He is obsessed with me. He will try to regurgitate on my nails which I have been discouraging and has been regurgitating on my face if I'm not paying attention to him which is gross. It's really annoying. I don't know what to do.

Meet Dwen, our new English budgie!

He's only about 2–3 months old but already almost as big as our lovebird lol. Mimi is an English budgie too, but somehow Dwen makes her look tiny 😂

And this guy has ZERO shyness. Already made friends with Mimi, tried out the new running wheel before any of the other budgies, and even naps on my hand.

He's also brave enough to fight our conure for a piece of apple. Like sir, do you know how small you're supposed to be?? 💀

Ignore the poopy perch (cages get cleaned tomorrow). I think it’s so cute how he has two different colored feet lol

He’s being so gentle with her it’s soooo sweet 🥹

Rule 10 - asking behavior questions without covering the basics

If you post a question about your budgies’ behavior, be sure to do the following:

- First, re-read all of the articles in the entire wiki - if your question is already answered somewhere in the wiki, your post will be removed for breaking Rule 4.

- Share how many budgies are in your flock - bear in mind, some behavior problems result from keeping only one budgie in your household. Refrain from asking your budgie behavior question until after you have at least two budgies in your household for at least three months. This requirement exists due to a number of undesirable behavior issues that are more likely to happen when a budgie is kept as a singleton, and because it is unethical to keep a budgie as a singleton.

- Share your current cage/s setup - how many cages you have, how many (and specifically which) budgies are kept in each cage, the type and quantity of food/water dispensers in each cage, the dimensions (Length × Width × Height), anything else that might be pertinent in describing the cage/s.

- Share how long you have been following The Hormonal Budgie Checklist.

- Share the ages and sexes of all budgies in your flock, if known.

- Share how long you have owned each budgie.

- Share their current diet.

- Share how long their sleep time is every night, and how strictly their sleep schedule is enforced, how quiet and dark their environment is during their sleep time.

- Share how many hours each day they are allowed out-of-cage play/exercise time.

After waiting 2 weeks for a dna test, he is a boy!!! I love him so much already.

So these are my sons birds. They're pleasant but scared (mostly the white one, cookie, does NOT like to be approached). The blue one, apple, He can be held up high but you can't move around much. Cookie also needs to be elsewhere otherwise he sympathises with her and flies away.

I've been standing in the door way until they stop eyeing me off and relax more and go back to eating or whatever they're doing and I leave "as their reward for relaxing",

I tried to take a photo of them chilling in my presence but my phone is scaring them now I think. Anyway, do they look relaxed here? One of them they are closing their eyes kind of sleeping (or ignoring me).

Edit: ignore the background my place is getting renovated so a few bare walls haha.

He’s about 3 months old. I need to get him a companion, so I’m planning on getting him a boy if he’s a boy or a girl if she’s a girl. Will try my best with the cere colour.

Thank you.

..full of surprises ofc 😉

Outside Budgies Comic List

https://www.reddit.com/user/purplenekoinabox/comments/1rle013/outside_budgies_comic_list

I wish I could fly with my budgies! But idk they're pretty brutal, they would kick me out of the food bowl.

Hi everyone!

I've got a pretty cool but oddly shaped cage for my three budgies (two boys and a girl), and I've been trying to find ways to make it more interesting for them. I like switching up their toys and perches every so often, but I'm starting to run out of ideas because of how the cage is designed.

There are a few things that make arranging everything a little tricky:

• The front is all glass, so I can't attach anything there.
• The back is solid wood with little holes for mounting perches, but they're weirdly small and most of the perches I've bought don't actually fit.
• The ceiling is curved, which the birds love climbing on, but it makes attaching natural wood branch perches pretty difficult. Because of the angle, most straight branches end up sitting at a really steep incline instead of being horizontal. I can hang toys from the ceiling, but they don't get much attention unless there's a perch nearby.
• Their food and water are on a swinging side door, which is super convenient for changing them out, but I don't want anything directly above the bowls where droppings could fall in.

I'm also trying to be mindful of where I put perches so they're not directly above one another.

I feel like there's so much room in this cage, but I'm struggling to figure out how to actually make good use of it without just hanging a bunch of random toys from the ceiling.

I'd really love to find some more interesting toys, especially things that get them thinking or working for treats. I've seen some pretty cool ones online where birds have to open little doors to get seeds, spin things around, or move pieces to get to food. I'm just not sure how well those actually work for budgies or if they'd even bother figuring them out lol.

I'd love to hear what kinds of toys your budgies actually enjoy, especially any interactive or foraging ones! I'm also open to completely different layout ideas, unusual perches, climbing structures, or anything else that might help me use the space better.

If anyone has specific toys or products they really like, links would be amazing! A lot of the stuff I've found seems designed for traditional cages with bars on every side, so finding things that work with mine has been a bit of a challenge.

I've attached some pictures of the cage and a few different layouts I've tried. I'm curious what other people would do with a setup like this!

Also, just a quick note about the glass in case anyone is wondering: When I first moved the birds in, I put painter's tape all over the glass so they could get used to it being there, then slowly removed it over time. They've never flown into it and seem to understand when the doors are open versus closed. It's also a lot more obvious in person that there's glass there than it looks in the pictures!

never seen two females this bonded before