Care of Birds

There have been cases where they do, but it is not recommended to mix different species of birds in the same cage. Cockatiels are much bigger than parakeets, and can cause serious damage from a single bite.

You have to buy a breeding box, when u get home take out your parakeet and place the breeding box inside with the egg. Leave the box open, and when parakeet sits inside close the box or its door. If this doesn't work, I'm sorry.

the bird is just stretching . parakeets usually do this after standing still for a long time or after sleeping

Parakeets usually loose feather.

New feathers grow in place of lost feathers.

If your parakeet is loosing too much of its feather than you should take it to a avian docter.

And if its not loosing its feather or colour of feather is dull than , you are not feeding it a balanced diet. Feed ur parakeet fruits like apples, strawberries and green veggies to keep it healthy.

Of course you can! In fact an all seed diet is very unhealthy for your bird. It can decrease there life span by half. They espescially like lettuce or oranges.

VARY YOUR PARAKEETS DIET!

Well, this is possible, if you want to have baby parakeets. If you do, keep thing in the same cage and install a nesting box. If you do not want to have babies, I sugest geeting a cage for each keet.

Any Parakeet can talk. You just have to train them. Talk around them alot like a parrot.

males generally are more apt to speak than females. not all parakeets talk if youre referring to the broader category of 'keets which include budgies, quakers, rosellas, ringnecks etc. hand tamed birds are more likely to talk than parent raised.

I would say that your parakeet is probably a girl. I did a lot of research on parakeets sexes and about training them. I am a parakeet expert and I know a lot about them. I am very certain that your parakeet is a female. A males cere is white with a tint of blue and pink.

--Hope I helped

Dr. M.C

The Association of Avian Veterinarians recommends the following diet for a parakeet: 50% cooked beans, whole wheat bread, cooked rice, pasta, and seed

45% fresh broccoli, carrots, yams, spinach, dandelion greens, other green/orange fruits and veggies

5% eggs, tuna packed in water, well cooked meat Parakeets are lactose-intolerant and cannot eat a lot of dairy product. Also, parakeets are HIGHLY allergic to chocolate and avocados and should never be given either. Junk food such as pretzles, potato chips, etc. aren't good for a parakeet either! You can feed a parakeet fresh fruit such as apples and cherries, but be careful about the seeds as those have toxins in them. Lettuce is fine, but it really has no nutrients in it. It's better to give them other, healthier greens. Parakeets do NOT overeat. If anything, people tend to give them too little food, thinking a seed cup is full when really it's just full of the hulls of the seeds the parakeet has already eaten. Be sure to refill your parakeet's food supply daily and to give him or her lots of fresh foods too. You'll find millet in many pet stores. This is very high in fat and is a treat for parakeets. It should only be fed to them occasionally. Parakeets in the wild certainly did not have millet year-round!

I have been reading so much about parakeets lately and I read that it may be because of lack of exercise. So try to take your parakeets out of their cage once in a while. You can also try putting some new toys in their cage and introducing new toys once they get tierd of the old one.

up in the trees, migrate and bathe and drink together, too. very social birds.

They can do. However please bear in mind that different species of birds have different beaks.

Birds with short beaks are fed small grain-size foods which they can break open. Whilst birds with large beaks are fed larger food which they won't accidentally swallow and choke on.
Parakeets can eat finch food, but they should ideally have food produced specifically for parakeets due to their beak differences.


There is some great information on the internet, such as this article (click here), about feeding birds.

Female: Amy, Rose, Macy Male: Jr., Taz, Mike

There are many different species of small parrot that are referred to as parakeets. The most commonly kept species is the budgerigar. Budgies can live to be in their late teens or early twenties if they are well cared for, but most pet budgies do not live that long due to bad breeder practices, poor nutrition and lack of proper veterinary care.

They shiver a lot. But seriously, birds don't loose all of their feathers when they molt. They lose some of the feathers on the torso, which are replaced with new feathers. The winter feathers trap warm air around the body better than the summer feathers.

The best species depends largely upon the lifestyle and personality of the human caretaker. Even though they are smaller than other kinds of parrots, most species are very noisy and messy. A budgerigar is a good species to start out with to see if living with parakeets is right for you. Check to see if a local bird rescue organization will let you foster a bird for a few months to see if it will work out. It's a bad idea to treat parakeets as disposable just because they are often cheaper and more easily available than large species. If well cared for, the lifetime commitment of parakeet ownership can be 15 years or more.

They are dogs, cats, and maybe even much bigger birds, So keep them away from dogs or cats! My bird died because my dog killed him, so be very careful and never leave them alone with another animal that is loose.

If you get 1 young and put him in a room you're in most of the time, then yes. If you put 2 together then they will socialice more with each other and will be more difficult to tame.

Budgerigars don't live in nests except when they are taking care of babies. They are cavity nesters, which means that they build nests in small spaces like holes in a hollow tree. In captivity, they live to build nests inside specially constructed nesting boxes.

Noramally, is pretty difficult to determine wether the bird will lay eggs or not. But keep in mind if it's one bird, it wont hatch. It takes a female and male. Females can lay eggs on their own but it wont be fertilized. You could probably tell if the bird goes inside a nesting box (if she has one) often.

This usually depends on the budgie or the store. If you buy a really fancy budgie, it may cost as much as a ferret or more. A regular budgie costs as much as $20-$29.

To communicate. All living animals communicate with each other, either through body language, sounds or both.

In the wild, parakeets make screeching sounds to communicate with other birds.

Birds are also a lot more socially complex than most people realise.

When feeding, wild birds will normally split into groups, while one group feeds, the other group will circle the food from the air or keep watch from trees, acting as sentries or guards. If a predator is spotted, the birds will call out to their feeding friends to get away.

Parakeets make noises to communicate either with other birds or their human family. They will also use sound to warn others of dangers.

well i have 2 keets myself and i myself isn't sure iwhich one it which. online it says that females have a tan or pink cere. and males have blue-purplish. but the owner i got them from says the pink is male and the blue is female i don't know which one is which yet. we will see if they mate

That is incorrect males have blue and females have dark pink and a little brown in them. So your parakeet is a female.

For the rare parakeet it is quite simple - if the nostrals are blue - it is a boy.

if the nostrals are pink, red, or brownish - it's a girl.