It depends on how much chocolate and also what you do with the chocolate. For example if you have a half pound bar of chocolate and throw it at a parakeet, then yes, the chocolate bar has technically killed the parakeet. A lighter weight rice crispy chocolate bar probsbly won't do as much damage.
Parakeets eating paper may be due to boredom or a dietary deficiency. Providing a variety of toys and activities can help keep them entertained. Make sure they have access to a proper diet and consult with a veterinarian if you're concerned about their behavior.
Parrots, like parakeets, don't necessarily need gravel. However, providing a substrate like sand or grit can aid in digestion by helping grind down food in their gizzards. It's essential to research specific species requirements as they vary.
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The eggs will take about 18-20 days before they start hatching. The hatchlings are altricial - blind, naked, totally helpless, and their mother feeds them and keeps them warm around the clock day and night. Around 10 days of age, the chicks' eyes will open, and they will start to develop feather down. The appearance of down occurs precisely at the ages (around 9 or 10 days of age) for closed banding of the chicks. Budgerigar's closed band rings must be neither larger or smaller than 4.0 to 4.2 mm.
They develop feathers around 3 weeks of age. (One can often easily note the colour mutation of the individual birds at this point.) At this stage of the chicks' development, the male usually has begun to enter the nest to help his female in caring and feeding the chicks. Some budgerigar females, however, totally forbid the male from entering the nest and thus take the full responsibility of rearing the chicks until they fledge.
Depending on the size of the clutch and most particularly in the case of single mothers, it may then be wise to transfer a portion of the hatchlings (or best of the fertile eggs) to another pair. The foster pair must already be in breeding mode and thus either at the laying or incubating stages and/or rearing hatchlings.
As the chicks develop and grow feathers, they are able to be left on their own for longer and longer periods of time. By the fifth week, the chicks are strong enough that both parents will be comfortable in staying more and more out of the nest. The youngsters will stretch their wings to gain strength before they attempt to fly. They will also help defend the box from enemies mostly with their loud screeching. Young budgerigars typically fledge (leave the nest) around their fifth week of age and are usually completely weaned a week later. However, the age for fledging as well as weaning can vary slightly depending on whether it is the oldest, the youngest and/or the only surviving chick. Generally speaking, the oldest chick is the first to be weaned. But even though it is logically the last one to be weaned, the youngest chick is often weaned at a younger age than its older sibling(s). This can be a result of mimicking the actions of older siblings. Lone surviving chicks are often weaned at the youngest possible age as a result of having their parent's full attention and care.
Hand-reared Budgies may take slightly longer to wean than parent-raised chicks. Hand feeding is not routinely done with budgerigars, due to their small size, and the fact that young parent raised birds can be readily tamed.
Caged birds with lice or mites will scratch a lot. Whether or not your parrot has lice or mites, it is wise to get a mite spray from the pet shop and spray it every couple of days. The spray does no harm if used properly.
well honestly yes its not good to keep two parakeets together. my brother and i hade two parakeets and we kept there cages together and so later in life my pretty bird cookie died today. :( And my brothers bird died of not being able to see the other bird ever since we moved the cages away. its been a tragedy. so no do not put them in the same cage and dont even let them see each other and if you put them in the same cage they will love each other male or female or both male or female and they will HATE you so either they love you or they die of stress or they love each other and hate you.
cause if Ur normal Ur crap is a little to big and spicy for a parrot
about 7 hours or until 2 o'clock to get food and like they say early bird catchs the worm.
lettuce may be fine, but it has no nutrients in it, it is better to give them other greens. Broccoli, carrots, yams, spinach and a good basic seed mix. Do not feed chocolate or avocados, they are highly allergic to these things. Dont forget the Grit either.
yes! when the eggs are hatched the male will help the female feed the babies.
About $15 with the store Petco shopper card and about $20-22 without.
for some reason my budgie and my lovebird get along and seem to mate. i don't think budgies and love birds get along.
Loads. But most are inexpensive. For starters, a cage. If there's only one parakeet, then a fairly small one. Some perches toward the top for (s)he to play on, maybe a swing, toys, etc. dry seeds you can buy at a pet store, and get a water bottle, leave it out for a night, and use THAT water to feed your keet. Make sure you put the seeds and water in open bowls that you buy, not closed. Rather than eat out of not open bowls, like dispensers or something, keets have been know to starve themselves. There are other, some optional, nutritious things you may add, that you should ask someone at a petstore at.
Okay so you said a "mother" parakeet, well if you don't know when it comes to animals and their children you don't mess around with them. The parents are very protective of their children. Maybe that other bird went near the other birds babies and the mother got mad. Or maybe they got into a fight. But she's been caged with her for years? Hmm this is puzzling. Well im like really sure about the whole baby reason. Wait by any chance did you have a male bird??? If so maybe they were fighting over that mate? Or over extra space in the cage??? Sorry for your loss Sincerely. echub The only recorded instances of parakeets fighting is in captivity. It is very rare, and always it is among females. There are two reasons they fight. They would fight over a mate, or fight over nest space. Fighting over nest space is the most common, but is still rare. You need twice as many identical nests as you have female parakeets. That means if you have two parakeets you need 4 identical nests. You can remove the extra nests only after each female parakeet has chosen her own nest, and really you should leave an extra nest or all the extra nests as a precaution. Also you cannot house two female parakeets and one male. That doesn't work. You need to house a male and a female, or two males, or even three males and one female. If you need to house two females together, you must make sure there are more males than females. That means if there are two females you need three males. =End New Answer= A mother parakeet would do that because she would probably want to protect her babies. Try buying a male. The mother budgie shouldn't kill this one. Hope this helps you.
you should get it young so you can tame it easyer and make it talk quicker
if you just have one parakeet, it needs as much attention as you can provide, because parakeets are naturally in flocks in the wild. a single parakeet will rely on you to be it's flock. if you can't spend much time with it during the day because you work, go to school, etc. then think about getting it a cagemate. i have two males because I'm going to college. they get along fine. you also need to let them out for at least an hour or two a day to play and socialize outside of their cage. =]
It's looking as though they did. The whole class of Aves (birds) seems to owe its existence to dinosaur parents -- although these would most likely have been rather unassumming smallish dinosaurs, not T. rex or Apatosaurus.
Although canaries and parrots are certainly birds, DNA studies have found the most dinosaur-like creatures alive today are -- chickens.
Parakeets will usually breed once or twice in a season depending on rainfall, food availability and water availability.
For a pet bird not to be scared of you you would have to hand tame them, though it is much easier to tame a pet bird when they are young/a baby. Some bird breeds however you cannot tame, such as Finches and Canaries, but birds like Cockatiels, Budgies and breeds of Parrots are great "hand" pets to own.
You would be better off talking to an avian or someone who is an expert on taming birds. TRY GOOGLE!
Good luck, and hope I helped :)
A birds wing looks like a bunch of fethers. take a look for your sellf at bing.com or google and punch in "what dose a birds wing look like" and there you can see.
Birds tend to not like each other, especially if they are the same type of bird.
You can tell if your budgies are in love if the kiss (they would open their beaks and you'll see their tongues touch and stuff), they would preen each others head, go on top of each other and... make a baby :P My budgies kissed and preened each others head a lot!