Parakeets (Budgerigars)

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. =]

yes millet is healthy for them

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!

Probably leting you know he want out. Or he just likes the sound of it or is bored. Does your bird have plenty of toys to play with.

Yes, all birds sneeze. Sometimes they may shake their head after sneezing, or a nostril might be visible if its protective feather was disorientated. If the bird is sneezing too often, it most probably means that it is sick. Their sneezes sound just like tiny versions of a human sneeze.

Parrots can eat oranges but it is not recommended because oranges are very acidic for parrots. So the occasional piece wont hurt your parrot.

This depends on what sort of breed it is as most parrots are different sizes.

The largest parrot is the Hycanith Macaw which is around 39-42 inches long when it's fully grown.

The smallest parrot probably is the buff-faced pygmy parrot which is 8-10 cm long when it's fully grown.

A single English budgie should have 40 droppings a day,if not,then that's a problem.

It is in the best interested of your pet to not feed it food that is meant for chickens. It lacks vitamin D and the parakeet diet doesn't need the protein and fibers that are in chicken feed.