Getting budgies in the mood for love?
Hi. We have two budgies, a boy and a girl. They're about a year old. They live in separate cages but they spend a good part of their day out of the cages, frolicking together around the house (under human supervision, of course
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1) Is there a reason you feel you need your own budgies to have babies, rather than rescuing budgies abandoned at a local shelter? See petfinder.com for the many beebs in need of a good home. If you decide to adopt, the below questions are moot.
2) Is your female in good physical condition to be laying eggs? How was her last vet checkup? Did the vet do bloodwork and were her calcium levels okay? Do you know how to supplement calcium? What diet are they on?
3) What will you do if they abandon a baby? Do you know how to hand feed? Are you willing and able to hand feed every three hours day and night?
4) Do you know how to tell if the female gets egg bound? Do you have a plan if it's 3am and she's egg bound?
5) Do you have a plan if a baby is injured or sick?
6) Despite all your efforts, some of the babies may die. Can you handle that?
It is possible to breed if you don't have answers to all these questions, but your chances of success and the survival rate of the chicks and hen go up if you do know them all.
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How will you handle them? If you want tame pets, are you willing to handfeed or co-parent? Will you let them fledge? Will you let them interact with their parents?
Can you afford vet care for however many new parrots there may be?
What happens if you can't rehome all of them? Will you keep them? If you do rehome them, how will you find people to take them in? Will you charge money? Will you not?
Lots and lots and lots of things to think about before breeding.
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