Whoever is reading this please listen so this doesn't happen to your birds. If you are a bird enthusiast and you have more than 2 in a cage I would keep this in mind. My birds have suffered and a couple were fatal of pneumonia. Little did i realize covering their cages kept dust in the cage. Pneumonia is caused by bacterial infection, the dust really helps with these infections. If you have parakeets like mine that like to be little scavengers and eat dropping on the bottom this is ok. But it isn't helping the prevention of pneumonia. Be sure to dust and clean the cage as well every day or two. You may cover the cage half way or not at all depending on if you sleep in the same room. Half way to help keep them warm and the blue light from your phone away so they can sleep. I wish I knew this when I was a beginner at owning birds. Please don't let this happen to yours.
Anna Exline Well it all depends. If you get morning sun I would purchase black out curtains or blinds so they wont wake you up so early. Everyday I change the paper on the bottom and clean the water. I clean and refill it depending on how much they ate or if there is droppings on the food. Hope this helps. These tips arnt just for parakeets. Many parrots react the same way.
Just adopted my first birdie. My sweet baby is handicapped, she’s got a deformed foot so the pet store thought she couldn’t perch, therefore they didn’t give her any perches in her cage, but we tried & she perches just fine & loves it. She sits up on her high perch & watches what’s going on in the house, or the TV lol.
Kimberly Davis Ahhhh this comment is over half a year old but I have a cockatiel with a deformed foot! I swear she’s stronger and a better climber than most perfectly healthy birds!
I’m getting a bird that has a disabled foot as well, the breeder was going to put him/her down so I said I wanted it. Any tips on how to take care of one?
@@americanswetar9921 (& Kimberly), that's awesome guys, God bless you both💞Take good care of them and shower them with love, that's the most important part 🐦Good luck, and never give up! Your patience will pay off.
My step father bred budgies, and canaries. He brought a young budgie into the house and it became the household pet. It wasn't long before Joey, yes Joey, took over. His cage door was permanently open during the day, but closed at night, and covered while he slept. He became quite tame and would fly around the room, land on my head, or shoulder. He would nibble my year and chat away. For Sunday lunch, he had his own small saucer with an assortment of vegetables on it. Any attempt to lock him in his cage at lunch time met with much squawking, so my mother gave in to him, and he became a constant companion at the dining table. He soon picked up speech, and used to call me in the morning. "Brian, get up, it's 8 o'clock " , he woukd screech. One day my step father went out to his aviary, leaving the kitchen door open. Joey flew out, but didn't go very far. My stepfather heard a tapping noise, and there he was knocking his beak against the window. I could go on, but you get my drift. Joey was one intelligent bird. I loved him, and I miss him like anything.
Alen AxP please can u tell me that which cage is this .please tell me the cage modal and price .please I like your video and I scribe to your channel .PLEASE reply
Some great tips m8! Honestly, I have every one of these xD. But its great for first time budgie owners. But, plastic perches are okay as long as they have some sort of gap in between them. Also, don't feed them tap water xD it might build up and collect more germs. Not to be rude, as I love your channel so far. Oh yes! I love the idea of blankets, as not many careworkers I've seen use nothing as a cover, and as a result, the budgie(s) get a bit spooked. Hehe. New sub comin through! xD
Same for me. I bought 2 budgies and they game 8 children in the span of 3 years. Most of them opened the cage on their own and flew away. Others dies from disease.😥
Fur I use to have a budgie. Their poops are small and when they dry, they harden and chip off. Unless you sit on their poops, they don't generally smear on things.
This is very helpful, thank you! I just got two Budgie parakeets yesterday at a flea market. My cousins in the past have had birds but they all died so I’m determined to keep mine alive longer and make them happy. BTW: I love the color of your parakeet, mine is a mixture of blue,green,yellow and black.
Jazmín Cordero how are your birds doing?? I had a cockatiel for over 12yrs, he passed away about a year ago and just got two Budgies given to me yesterday. At least I think that’s what they are. That’s why I’m trying to research into these ones
Greg Arce -They are actually really fine now, thanks for asking. They started eating awhile ago. But the male and female are fighting a lot and I’m scared they might die of stress, they get along but often times they fight:(
Ehhh I've been told it's better to have at least 2 budgies because they're social animals.... In the wild, they have social units. And those cages look too small.
shaylen sanders you should really only have 2 if you can't look after it, like if you have work etc. Otherwise the budgie will bond with the other budgie more and not bond with you
I have a solo male budgie who is quite happy as long as he gets time with his flock (you) he can be perfectly content alone. he gets plenty of interaction both in and out of his cage. He also has a IRN who is in a cage next to him to talk to. they used to play together when she was younger, but I don't trust her to be that close to him any longer. Female ringnecks can be very mean and she is so much bigger than he is.
I played budgie sounds from TH-cam when I first brought my new budgie home as he came from a shop full of excited budgies . It helped him settle in better.
I love this video so much because I have kept budgies for years and my family didn't want to spend money on them.U guys have showed me to care for my budgies and make them happy.Thank u sooooo much!
Mangle Brunke I know how you feel. Last time had budgies and I thought my cat would be okay with it but she started to scare the budgie to death so I took the budgie back to its original home...
Uh, Rats are not "Gross" They make amazing pets, they're honestly much better than hamsters. Rats almost never bite you, they'll lick you, but almost never bite. They're social and active animals, when I had mine, i had a pair, the first one (Chancy) was active, Rats are much more intelligent than any rodent you could even think of buying! They're playful and can easily build bonds with the people in their homes, and can even be taught tricks! Even if that boy did die, I believe the story you're talking about is from a pet store. Although I'm sure not all--MOST Store-bought pets end up dying, or having some sort of disease, where do you think these pets come from? they come from major pet-mills that allow dead animals to just rot in cages with dozens of other live ones, spreading disease easily. I got my two rats from a breeder, although Chancy had to be put down at age one due to tumors, Mew (My favorite second rat~!) manged to live nearly three years, before having to be put down, (I don't remember that reason, all I know is it made it hard to breath and eat, to the point that it was painful) Mew would've died on her own if she didn't have a bond with me, we discovered her illness one night when I wasn't there to watch them, she refused to eat for two days, but when I came back, she happily sat and ate with me.
I feel bad, my birdies aren't used to me yet and I've owned them for over 2 years............ I learned a lot from this video though!!! I'm gonna move them away from the window and clean their cage ASAP and I'm also gonna make a fun little bird bath for them to use and a cute little plate for some fruit. My family doesn't like pears but we have some so maybe I could give them some? I hope it's okay to give them that ^^
Barack Obama I have a budgie it's called jelly. It got use to me in a day so mine is a bit not shy maybe try to put you hand near the cage then put it inside the cage they will get used to that. And then move them around other rooms but first let it get use to you plz like and read this if you need to now
I've been researching and here's what I have seen so far: feed your bird bird seed, a cuddle bone is good for vitamins, a vitamin rock, WARNING DO NOT FEED YOUR BIRD THESE: avocado, Chocolate, coffee, alcohol and of course drugs. Always keep your bird happy and socialize with your bird cuz it keeps it stimulated and happy or get two budgies. Always and I mean ALWAYS keep your bird cage clean so your bird doesn't get sick also don't clean cage with household cleaning agents use bird cleaner witch you can get at a pet store, make sure you change the water everyday, this prevents bacterial infection from the water and don't crowd the bird cage with toys, and get a wide cage not a tall cage. Please comment if you think I'm ready to get one 😁
I'm still a teenager, and my parents won't let me get a bird in their house, but I adore these babies and can't wait for the day I can adopt one! I plan to have a blue-white one just like the one you showed in the video, and I'd prolly adopt my first as a baby and just be surprised at what gender I get later on lol
Really DO NOT give the budgie a mirror. It causes depression and psychosis in the budgie, since it thinks that the reflection is another bird, and tries to feed it, which it obviously can't. Please, just get two budgies instead
Very true! THey will become antisocial and stop eating, because all they want is the bird of his/her dreams, which is themselves Female budgies are affected the most, they will overlay eggs and it will eventually lead to egg binding, where the egg gets softer and softer due to calcium deficiency, shells will become soft and will lead to getting stuck in a female, which leads to death!!
I had a friendly bird that i raised as a new born but he flew away yesterday I'm thinking about getting a parakeet so i won't feel lonely i just hope they're as interactive as they seem in videos
IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS: The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seeds mixture" bought in pet shops or supermarkets, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it is not like that: indeed the health of the pets is at imminent and serious risk. The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, parakeets, cockatiels, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seeds mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH BY FATTY LIVER HEPATITIS. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 6 years of age of the more than 14 that they can live. It is discouraging that in a time like nowadays, in which food is studied in detail for other pets such as dogs and cats, pet birds are condemned to die painfully and prematurely in so many cases. You have to warn people so they can avoid it! This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can not imagine that THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF that we provide to our birds, in which such a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the birds usually prefer to eat the fatty seeds, so that their REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to companion birds in general. It is a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when its unexpected symptoms suddenly begin, they are imprecise, easily confused with other ailments, so the owners usually postpone the visit to the vet at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive and misleading disease, even to administer lipotropic and regenerative liver protectors in curative doses, just in case it is that and not a supposed blow). It's a process of slow and asymptomatic progression, but when their visible symptoms unexpectedly begin (acute phase) the disease accelerates. SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE: First, emotional decay or progressive lack of interest, hard belly (in many specimens, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness more or less accentuated (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up his feathers or inclines more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks and even in a few days, forced breathing with an open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" or that has a "tumor" but it are twinges of pain of diseased liver), abundant greenish stools (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange somehow purple color of skin and beak, an exaggerated appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what seems to be getting better), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a heart infarct). For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) veterinary action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seeds mixture (even if you give it fresh fruits and vegetables and let it exercise, for example by letting it out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and neither you nor your bird know. Also the breeding paste and its pigments and sunflower seeds can attack the liver if they are taken too much or for too long. Without liver protectors, it is almost certain that your bird will prematurely die and in many cases you will not be able to determine its real cause. Hepatic lipidosis it's not only deadly by itself when the visible symptoms begin (sometimes even it does not warn at all until few moments before the death). Even before the acute phase it predisposes the bird to suffer infections, as it weakens the immune system. Furthermore, obese pet birds have an increased risk of many other diseases, including arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Obesity in birds it's not so apparent but it's more dangerous than in other animals like mammals. For these reasons, in addition to administering to the birds lipotropic and detoxifying / regenerating hepatic protectors preventatively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds. PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT: The time to act is NOW that your pet does not have yet the visible symptoms. It is necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE HEPATIC DEGENERATION. Fortunately it is easy to do it: You have to substitute the mixture of loose seeds for some pellets compound food of seeds and fruits / vegetables (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from eating mostly what it likes the most and, whatever the diet, it is ESSENTIAL to add every day to the drinking water or to the food a LIPOTROPIC LIVER PROTECTOR that includes the famous carnitine (which is also indicated for humans) and / or choline, betaine, methionine, threonine, lysine (and it is very convenient to supplement with a DETOXIFYING and REGENERATING LIVER PROTECTOR with thistle milk, boldo, artichoke extract). The liver protectors are amino acids, vitamins (of which they have a protective effect on the liver, such as vitamin C), fatty acids and essential oils that remove the fat from the liver, clean it, protect it and favor its recovery. They are cheap food supplements and it is essential to add them to your pet birds diet to conserve their liver. It is something that professionals as breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know. Even, it are increasingly appearing in the market compound feed for pet birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. But the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fatty seeds... And their birds continue dying of hepatitis due to fatty liver in a large number of cases (probably, in most cases). Now we know that, as fatty liver disease develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more likely as the bird ages. Some web pages that I have found about it (in Spanish). For example, this page echoes the wrong food situation in which these animals are too often: www.timbrado.com/malnutricion.shtml And on this other page: www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n111110B/111004B.pdf it’s described that the clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could imagine and that in many cases they are not appreciated, progress in a silent way and when they are evident, veterinary action may (usually) arrive late. To remark that, in general, practically any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it were a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. To do this, we must thoroughly investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that do not harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from veterinarians, breeders, etc. and administer the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird does not improve, it is necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. Finally, it is necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient veterinary experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it is convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it is better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered. And that a limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated as soon as possible. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest possible fats (only birdseed, or birdseed with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia, fresh fruits and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately ... although nothing could foreshadow a fatal outcome. Acidcare also has protective properties of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflet do not cause damage and will surely save the life of your bird (if it is not too late). Hopefully these comments will be useful to save your pet birds from an absurd death and to keep them with a basic wellness.
What would you consider a loose seed bird food wise? Thanks for the heads up though! I'm planning on getting a budgie myself and this was some life-saving advice!
@@Hallowiskindadead Thanks for your comment. Yes, this is indeed a life-saving advice that breeders and specialized vets know. I'm glad also for your future birbs as they will avoid the most common, yet unknown by the owners and most serious disease on pet birds: the FLD. Instead of purchasing commercial, already mixed loose seeds mixtures, breeders normally make manually their own mixtures with several low-fat seeds, and with very little proportion to none of fatty seeds. Some seeds birds eat: LOW FAT SEEDS: - Birdseed. - Thistle. - Chia. - Foxtail millet (sold normally as branch). - Quinoa (sold separately) - Perilla. The great "invention" of fatty seeds is the white perilla. This one, unlike the other fatty seeds does not damage the liver nor the intestine. It can be supplied in winter for pet birds to better resist the winter low temperatures, but don't give too much because it makes our birds fat. It can replace rapeseed and flaxseed. HIGH FAT SEEDS: - Hemp (very careful with this one as administered in excess causes liver damage). - Nabine (can damage the liver and create indigestion). - Niger seed. - Flaxseed. - Rapeseed. But each time, more and more breeders, zoological, recovery parks and bird owners all around the world do use pellets of compound food, which already includes low-fat seeds, fruits and cereals. With compound food one avoids that the birds filter the seeds and eat only or mostly what they like the most (the fatty seeds). Moreover, some of these pellets already include liver protectors! Normally the birds like quite a bit to eat pellets of food compound, although the switch from loose seeds mix to pellets food compound should be done gradually (as per the instructions of the respective brands). But, sometimes the bird does not get accustomed to eat pellets; If this is the case, don't insist on that the bird should eat the pellets at any cost, because the bird could die for starvation (the smaller the bird, the sooner it may die for this cause. A canary could die in just 1 or 2 days without food and/or water). So, whatever the food, it's essential to include into their diet the specifically developed liver protectors for pet birds (both, lipotropic and detox/regenerating), by administering a few drops in the daily drinking water (as per the respective leaflets), to keep the birds with a basic wellness and their liver clean of fat and healthy.
i'm so excited to get budgies this weekend, two males. they need to be about eight weeks old but there are no breeders in out area (England, warrington Cheshire). a garden centre about twenty minutes' drive away has a lively flock of birds but they aren't young enough :(
Syndra you're welcome! I hope you will think about it 😊 A male friend would probably be best, because 2 females often fight when caged together. if you do get a second, just make sure the cage is big enough for 2 👍🏼 at least 25 inches long is good.
I just found out a friend is moving and can't take her parakeet with her. I have expressed an interest in taking her in whether short term or long term. So I thought I'd get a feel for them. I once took in a baby robin that must have fallen from the nest but had developed wings enough not to get injured. He was in my stairwell and I didn't know where he came from or if his mother was even still alive. But with some homemade bread pieces dipped in water with a (clean) set of tweezers *_and_* of course, a little TLC, I gained that little baby's trust pretty quickly. I'm hoping it will be as easy to break the ice with my friend's bird.
I plan on getting two parakeets for my birthday in two months, because I'm gonna be getting around $150 from my dad for my birthday and Christmas combined, so I think that might be enough. The cage I am interested in is about $80 and it is big enough for rats so I think it is big enough. I really want males but I don't want to breed them so there's a chance I will just get one but it'll be in my room and I'll constantly be talking, and it might help that I have singing frogs in my room lol
So maybe one of you bird owners out there can help me out... I'm a sophomore in high school, and I've been wanting a bird, specifically a budgie for a long time. I finally feel like I'm finally mature and responsible enough to care for one, but I'm still in school from 7:30 - 2:30 Monday - Friday for another 2 years, so he'll probably be alone in my room for almost 7 hours. Is that too much? Can they be kept alone for 7 hours straight, so long as they have food/water and enough toys and mental stimulation? Thanks for any replies!
Thank you for the advice! We just got 2 budgies and we already have 2 chinchillas a kitten and a dog, so we needed a cheap pet. It was a impulse buy and after I saw one of the budgies pluck one of her feathers I knew something was wrong. Thanks for all the advice!
Guys THIS VIDEO IS PERFECT there is only one wrong thing. Budgies are really social animals and when you are traveling/away from home or just being busy with something budgies don't get lots of attention since they live in groups you should give it a bud, depends of the type/temper a conure or finch or another budgie should do.
IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS: The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seed mixture" bought in pet shops or supermarkets, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it is not like that: in reality the health of the pets is at imminent and serious risk. The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, parakeets, nymphs, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seed mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH by HEPATITIS FOR FATTY LIVER. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 6 years of age of the more than 14 that they can live. It is discouraging that in a time like nowadays, in which food is studied in detail for other pets such as dogs and cats, pet birds are condemned to die painfully and prematurely in so many cases. You have to warn people so they can avoid it! This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can not imagine that THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF that we provide to our birds, in which such a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the bird usually prefers to eat the fatty seeds, so that its REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to companion birds in general. It is a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when the unexpected symptoms suddenly begin, they are imprecise, easily confused with other ailments, so the owners usually postpone the visit to the veterinarian at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive disease, even to administer lipotropic liver protectors and regenerators in curative doses, just in case it is that and not a supposed blow). It is a process of slow and asymptomatic development, but when their visible symptoms unexpectedly begin the disease accelerates. SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER HEPATITIS: First, emotional decay or progressive lack of interest, hard belly (in many specimens, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness more or less accentuated (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up its feathers or inclines more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks and even in a few days, forced breathing with an open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" or which has a "tumor"), abundant greenish stools (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange somehow purple color of skin and beak, an exaggerated appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what seems to be getting better), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a heart infarct). For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) veterinary action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seed mixture (even if you eat fresh fruits and vegetables and exercise, for example by letting them out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and does not know. Also the breeding paste and its pigments and sunflower seeds can attack the liver if they are taken too much or too long. Without liver protectors, it is almost certain that your bird will prematurely die and in many cases you will not be able to determine its real cause. For this reason, in addition to administering lipotropic and detoxifying / regenerating hepatic birds preventatively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds. The time to act is NOW that your pet does not have yet the visible symptoms. It is necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE HEPATIC DEGENERATION. Fortunately it is easy to do it: You have to substitute the mixture of loose seeds for some feed composed of seeds (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from eating mostly what it likes the most and, whatever the diet, it is ESSENTIAL to add every day to the drinking water or to the food a LIVER PROTECTOR, a lipotropic that includes the famous carnitine (which is also indicated for humans) and / or choline, lysine, betaine, methionine, threonine (and it is very convenient to supplement with another liver protector detoxifying and regenerating with milk thistle, boldo, artichoke extract). The liver protectors are amino acids, vitamins (of which they have a protective effect on the liver, such as vitamin C), fatty acids and essential oils that remove the fat from the liver, clean it, protect it and favor its recovery. They are cheap food supplements and it is essential to add them to your diet to conserve your liver. It is something that professionals as breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know. Even, it are increasingly appearing in the market compound feed for companion birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. But the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fat seeds... And their birds continue dying of hepatitis due to fatty liver in a large number of cases (probably, in most cases). Now we know that, as fatty liver hepatitis develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more likely as the bird grows older. Some web pages that I have found about it (in Spanish). For example, this page echoes the wrong food situation in which these animals are too often: www.timbrado.com/malnutricion.shtml And on this other page: www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n111110B/111004B.pdf it’s described that the clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could imagine and that in many cases they are not appreciated, passing on in a silent way and when they are evident, veterinary action can (usually) be delayed. Emphasize that, in general, practically any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it were a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. To do this, we must thoroughly investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that do not harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from veterinarians, breeders, etc. and administer the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird does not improve, it is necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. Finally, it is necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient veterinary experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it is convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it is better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered. And that a limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated as soon as possible. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest possible fats (only birdseed, or birdseed with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia, fresh fruits and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately ... although nothing could foreshadow a fatal outcome. Acidcare also has protective properties of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflet do not cause damage and will surely save the life of your bird (if it is not too late).
My budgie was the same. But she now eats fruits on her free will. I started by very finely chopped the fruit and mixing it in with the daily seed. Then go up from there
I needed this. I have had 2 budgies for a while. Didn't know how to bond properly and they haven't left the cage in a long time. I think I will try to approach them like this. I knew everything else about basic care, but my budgies are still not tamed and hopefully i can get them to trust me
AriaGrace try cut them into little pieces and put them on the floor or something (if the floor is dirty then don't and you better put them on a piece of paper or something)
Not sure why sunlight will kill your bird..what do budgies do in the wild. I have never seen a dead birds fall out of trees from 12 hours of sun light especially in Australia..where these birds are from..it's very hot and dry. And a cage placed out of doors or in an aviary.. should be done slowly..especially if it's been kept in air conditioning..these birds are very hardy..and should adapt just fine
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Alen AxP this is a good video thx
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Whoever is reading this please listen so this doesn't happen to your birds. If you are a bird enthusiast and you have more than 2 in a cage I would keep this in mind. My birds have suffered and a couple were fatal of pneumonia. Little did i realize covering their cages kept dust in the cage. Pneumonia is caused by bacterial infection, the dust really helps with these infections. If you have parakeets like mine that like to be little scavengers and eat dropping on the bottom this is ok. But it isn't helping the prevention of pneumonia. Be sure to dust and clean the cage as well every day or two. You may cover the cage half way or not at all depending on if you sleep in the same room. Half way to help keep them warm and the blue light from your phone away so they can sleep. I wish I knew this when I was a beginner at owning birds. Please don't let this happen to yours.
Te pig will the bird wake up if the blanket is not covering the cage completely? also if I clean the cage everyday, should I just do a quick cleaning?
Anna Exline Well it all depends. If you get morning sun I would purchase black out curtains or blinds so they wont wake you up so early. Everyday I change the paper on the bottom and clean the water. I clean and refill it depending on how much they ate or if there is droppings on the food. Hope this helps. These tips arnt just for parakeets. Many parrots react the same way.
i couldn't take the video seriously with the voice 😂
Boxxo lol
Boxxo wth, right? What is this electronic mess? 😂
Boxxo me to
Boxxo "and injury it's self"
very informational but it was really hard to pay attention with the corny text to speech voice i've come to associate with lazy town memes
I knew Steven Hawkings is intelligent, but I didn't know he knew so much about birds!
Master Of Puppets This isn't Steven Hawkings......
Master Of Puppets it's a joke
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Just adopted my first birdie. My sweet baby is handicapped, she’s got a deformed foot so the pet store thought she couldn’t perch, therefore they didn’t give her any perches in her cage, but we tried & she perches just fine & loves it. She sits up on her high perch & watches what’s going on in the house, or the TV lol.
Kimberly Davis Ahhhh this comment is over half a year old but I have a cockatiel with a deformed foot! I swear she’s stronger and a better climber than most perfectly healthy birds!
I’m getting a bird that has a disabled foot as well, the breeder was going to put him/her down so I said I wanted it. Any tips on how to take care of one?
Nice try to take good care of him'feed him'try to teach him to talk and give him a good home. Take care.
@@americanswetar9921 (& Kimberly), that's awesome guys, God bless you both💞Take good care of them and shower them with love, that's the most important part 🐦Good luck, and never give up! Your patience will pay off.
Wish me luck I'm getting a pet bird
roblox player good luck
roblox player goodluck.. i have 3 budgies can they are so cute im obbsesed
Birdspeed.
3 weeks, hows it going?
2 months how's it going
My step father bred budgies, and canaries. He brought a young budgie into the house and it became the household pet. It wasn't long before Joey, yes Joey, took over. His cage door was permanently open during the day, but closed at night, and covered while he slept. He became quite tame and would fly around the room, land on my head, or shoulder. He would nibble my year and chat away. For Sunday lunch, he had his own small saucer with an assortment of vegetables on it. Any attempt to lock him in his cage at lunch time met with much squawking, so my mother gave in to him, and he became a constant companion at the dining table.
He soon picked up speech, and used to call me in the morning. "Brian, get up, it's 8 o'clock " , he woukd screech.
One day my step father went out to his aviary, leaving the kitchen door open. Joey flew out, but didn't go very far. My stepfather heard a tapping noise, and there he was knocking his beak against the window. I could go on, but you get my drift. Joey was one intelligent bird. I loved him, and I miss him like anything.
please what happened to joey please tell me he died of natural causes
"Boredom leads to feather plucking"
I have a disorder called Trichotillomania, and I pull the hair out of my scalp out of anxiety, and boredom. Funny.
Wow! you have a facebook?
...so guess you're a bird 😉
Me too, but out of stress
spirit animal : Bird
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Thank you I have kept budgies for years but I learned so many new things from you today. I enjoy your videos and that blue budgie is SO CUTE!
Thank you very much! :)
Alen AxP please can u tell me that which cage is this .please tell me the cage modal and price .please I like your video and I scribe to your channel .PLEASE reply
Some great tips m8! Honestly, I have every one of these xD. But its great for first time budgie owners. But, plastic perches are okay as long as they have some sort of gap in between them.
Also, don't feed them tap water xD it might build up and collect more germs. Not to be rude, as I love your channel so far.
Oh yes! I love the idea of blankets, as not many careworkers I've seen use nothing as a cover, and as a result, the budgie(s) get a bit spooked.
Hehe. New sub comin through! xD
my budgie hates me xD but I get him out the cage for a few flies around the house
Grace Ng your bird looks just like mine did her name was cupcake she died of a sickness
Awesome video, I lost my father and my cat in the same year and been lonely you're video inspired me to get a bird. I'm new so this helps thanks.
lol never kiss your budgie, at the same time the video shows the girl kissing the budgie
You can kiss your budgie, as long as none of your spit makes it on the bird itself.
Just don't kiss the beak.
@@shelbyroller3409 I’m not going to do that but I’m curious why ?
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I just got two budgies (Oats and Kiwi)! Thank you, this very helpful!
I miss mine, he lived for a VERY long time and died from a tumor.They are wonderful first birds.
Same for me. I bought 2 budgies and they game 8 children in the span of 3 years. Most of them opened the cage on their own and flew away. Others dies from disease.😥
i love how he says dont use plastic perchis but he has them in his budgies cage
What he is trying to say is don't use ONLY plastic, have a variety so your birdie doesn't develop bumblefoot or foot sores
They cam also develop arthritis
A budgie poops every 10-15 minutes? I might reconsider my breed choice lol
Fur I use to have a budgie. Their poops are small and when they dry, they harden and chip off. Unless you sit on their poops, they don't generally smear on things.
That was going to be my question. Once you take the budgie out of the cage, won't it poop everywhere?
Fur it's little poops mixed with its urine... just like any other bird :)
Tyler it's very easy to cleab
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This is very helpful, thank you! I just got two Budgie parakeets yesterday at a flea market. My cousins in the past have had birds but they all died so I’m determined to keep mine alive longer and make them happy.
BTW: I love the color of your parakeet, mine is a mixture of blue,green,yellow and black.
Jazmín Cordero how are your birds doing?? I had a cockatiel for over 12yrs, he passed away about a year ago and just got two Budgies given to me yesterday. At least I think that’s what they are. That’s why I’m trying to research into these ones
Greg Arce -They are actually really fine now, thanks for asking. They started eating awhile ago. But the male and female are fighting a lot and I’m scared they might die of stress, they get along but often times they fight:(
Ehhh I've been told it's better to have at least 2 budgies because they're social animals.... In the wild, they have social units. And those cages look too small.
shaylen sanders you should really only have 2 if you can't look after it, like if you have work etc. Otherwise the budgie will bond with the other budgie more and not bond with you
Ahh ok.
shaylen sanders I have 2 budgies and a cockatiel and they all get on perfectly
I have a solo male budgie who is quite happy as long as he gets time with his flock (you) he can be perfectly content alone. he gets plenty of interaction both in and out of his cage. He also has a IRN who is in a cage next to him to talk to. they used to play together when she was younger, but I don't trust her to be that close to him any longer. Female ringnecks can be very mean and she is so much bigger than he is.
yeah but they let the budgies fly around
I played budgie sounds from TH-cam when I first brought my new budgie home as he came from a shop full of excited budgies . It helped him settle in better.
I love this video so much because I have kept budgies for years and my family didn't want to spend money on them.U guys have showed me to care for my budgies and make them happy.Thank u sooooo much!
Dammit! I have a pet cat and I really want a budgie..
Hidden Snowflake yeah I want a budgie but I also have cats and dogs, but I have peafowl, guineafowl, and chickens
Mangle Brunke
I know how you feel. Last time had budgies and I thought my cat would be okay with it but she started to scare the budgie to death so I took the budgie back to its original home...
Hidden Snowflake stupid hawks killed my chicken 😭
Mangle Brunke
I'm so sorry! Your chickens are in a better place now ^^
Hidden Snowflake yeah, she looked like top hat..... top hat disappeared
i asked for a pet rat but my mom said i should get a budgie instead. we're getting two so im trying to learn as much as i can before we buy anything!!
That is great that you are learning as much as possible before you bring home your budgie
giselles coffin why would u want a pet rat? There was a boy who died from his rat... also they are grosa
Uh, Rats are not "Gross" They make amazing pets, they're honestly much better than hamsters. Rats almost never bite you, they'll lick you, but almost never bite.
They're social and active animals, when I had mine, i had a pair, the first one (Chancy) was active, Rats are much more intelligent than any rodent you could even think of buying! They're playful and can easily build bonds with the people in their homes, and can even be taught tricks!
Even if that boy did die, I believe the story you're talking about is from a pet store. Although I'm sure not all--MOST Store-bought pets end up dying, or having some sort of disease, where do you think these pets come from? they come from major pet-mills that allow dead animals to just rot in cages with dozens of other live ones, spreading disease easily.
I got my two rats from a breeder, although Chancy had to be put down at age one due to tumors, Mew (My favorite second rat~!) manged to live nearly three years, before having to be put down, (I don't remember that reason, all I know is it made it hard to breath and eat, to the point that it was painful) Mew would've died on her own if she didn't have a bond with me, we discovered her illness one night when I wasn't there to watch them, she refused to eat for two days, but when I came back, she happily sat and ate with me.
giselles coffin lol same thing just happened😆
Saaaame. My mom didn't want me getting rats ;-;
I feel bad, my birdies aren't used to me yet and I've owned them for over 2 years............ I learned a lot from this video though!!! I'm gonna move them away from the window and clean their cage ASAP and I'm also gonna make a fun little bird bath for them to use and a cute little plate for some fruit. My family doesn't like pears but we have some so maybe I could give them some? I hope it's okay to give them that ^^
My parakeets LOVE pear
Barack Obama I have a budgie it's called jelly. It got use to me in a day so mine is a bit not shy maybe try to put you hand near the cage then put it inside the cage they will get used to that. And then move them around other rooms but first let it get use to you plz like and read this if you need to now
Just never give the seeds.
I've been researching and here's what I have seen so far: feed your bird bird seed, a cuddle bone is good for vitamins, a vitamin rock, WARNING DO NOT FEED YOUR BIRD THESE: avocado, Chocolate, coffee, alcohol and of course drugs. Always keep your bird happy and socialize with your bird cuz it keeps it stimulated and happy or get two budgies. Always and I mean ALWAYS keep your bird cage clean so your bird doesn't get sick also don't clean cage with household cleaning agents use bird cleaner witch you can get at a pet store, make sure you change the water everyday, this prevents bacterial infection from the water and don't crowd the bird cage with toys, and get a wide cage not a tall cage.
Please comment if you think I'm ready to get one 😁
Were moving (and i want to study birds when i grow up) out of our apartment and my mom and dad said were getting a parakeet and im so excited😄
This video is soo helpful! I even made notes I plan to get a budgie today and I want to do the best I can to take care of it
best of luck to you!
Gabbi Lazaro how's your budgie doing?
Hows ya budgie :D?
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Thanks for telling me information about parakeets( thanks for telling me information about parakeets thank you for teaching me a lot about parakeets
I asked my mom for a bird and she said "but you have 4 dogs a rat and a gecko." I said *" I WANT ALL THE PETS"*😂😂
Well, having four dogs, a rat, a gecko, AND a budgie is going to be a hell of a lot of work.
AttackOnEreri i have 2 dogs, 2 guinean pigs and 2 lizards... I WANT 2 budgies
U and your budgie look so cute together!😄
Whenever I open my cage, my budgies just fly around and go crazy!
Then your budgie is scared of you, try to bond with it.
Then you must be abusing your budgie.
When I open cage my bird still stay in cage xD
Thank you for telling me this befor i got a parakeet
I'm still a teenager, and my parents won't let me get a bird in their house, but I adore these babies and can't wait for the day I can adopt one! I plan to have a blue-white one just like the one you showed in the video, and I'd prolly adopt my first as a baby and just be surprised at what gender I get later on lol
I have 36 bugies at my home.but only 7 birds love me.feeding the baby birds is also bring joy for me
“it might fly around the cage and *injury* itself”
Getting myself a Budgie in a few days. Glad to find this video to help me get ready. :D
Really DO NOT give the budgie a mirror. It causes depression and psychosis in the budgie, since it thinks that the reflection is another bird, and tries to feed it, which it obviously can't.
Please, just get two budgies instead
Nice sunburst Platys in that fish tank in the background xD I keep fish, dogs, cats, and horses lol
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Oh yes!! I told my father that on my birthday i want a parrot too so yay
This sounds just like the article on wiki how
Squishy Reviewers At the end that gave credit to this video.
Thank you so much for this video.
Don't ever put a mirror in a budgie cage it can frustrate the budgie and can lead to plucking and even death
What the ... really?
Very true!
THey will become antisocial and stop eating, because all they want is the bird of his/her dreams, which is themselves
Female budgies are affected the most, they will overlay eggs and it will eventually lead to egg binding, where the egg gets softer and softer due to calcium deficiency, shells will become soft and will lead to getting stuck in a female, which leads to death!!
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Thanks, I’m planning on getting a budgie. I was sort of confused about having a mirror in the cage.
Mine gave me the attitude
Thank you for this I just got two today and this helped alittle to lern
I'm getting a bird tomorrow (Saturday, March 8)
Yay!!! :D
ps. I did a month full of research I think I'm ready
Best of luck with your new birdy!! 😊
Narrator: don't kiss your budgie
Person: **kisses budgie**
Wow, similar name. In India, it's known as Badrika.
This is literally taken directly from wikihow
finally someone who knows the truth
@@vitomassi2013 he already wrote it in his description!
@@simranmishra1137 i said that a year ago :/ bruh
@@vitomassi2013 oh I saw it that day
thank you so so much for your awesome advices.!! 💕💕💕💕
I have four love birds names
Cheng
Kong
Bruto
Harley
I love budgies. I have two budgies peanut and crackercrackerjack.
I got a huge cage and I got two parakeets and five toys in the cage and I change their food water and I change the bottom of their cage
Is that good?
Yes
Yes
I had a friendly bird that i raised as a new born but he flew away yesterday I'm thinking about getting a parakeet so i won't feel lonely i just hope they're as interactive as they seem in videos
Thank you so much! I was thinking about getting a budgie and now I know much more now
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Your budgie looks so similar to mine :) My budgie is called Lexy and he is very tame and adorable. I love budgies- they are wonderful pets.
IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS: The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seeds mixture" bought in pet shops or supermarkets, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it is not like that: indeed the health of the pets is at imminent and serious risk.
The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, parakeets, cockatiels, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seeds mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH BY FATTY LIVER HEPATITIS. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 6 years of age of the more than 14 that they can live.
It is discouraging that in a time like nowadays, in which food is studied in detail for other pets such as dogs and cats, pet birds are condemned to die painfully and prematurely in so many cases. You have to warn people so they can avoid it!
This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can not imagine that THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF that we provide to our birds, in which such a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the birds usually prefer to eat the fatty seeds, so that their REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to companion birds in general.
It is a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when its unexpected symptoms suddenly begin, they are imprecise, easily confused with other ailments, so the owners usually postpone the visit to the vet at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive and misleading disease, even to administer lipotropic and regenerative liver protectors in curative doses, just in case it is that and not a supposed blow). It's a process of slow and asymptomatic progression, but when their visible symptoms unexpectedly begin (acute phase) the disease accelerates.
SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE: First, emotional decay or progressive lack of interest, hard belly (in many specimens, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness more or less accentuated (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up his feathers or inclines more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks and even in a few days, forced breathing with an open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" or that has a "tumor" but it are twinges of pain of diseased liver), abundant greenish stools (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange somehow purple color of skin and beak, an exaggerated appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what seems to be getting better), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a heart infarct).
For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) veterinary action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seeds mixture (even if you give it fresh fruits and vegetables and let it exercise, for example by letting it out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and neither you nor your bird know. Also the breeding paste and its pigments and sunflower seeds can attack the liver if they are taken too much or for too long. Without liver protectors, it is almost certain that your bird will prematurely die and in many cases you will not be able to determine its real cause.
Hepatic lipidosis it's not only deadly by itself when the visible symptoms begin (sometimes even it does not warn at all until few moments before the death). Even before the acute phase it predisposes the bird to suffer infections, as it weakens the immune system. Furthermore, obese pet birds have an increased risk of many other diseases, including arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Obesity in birds it's not so apparent but it's more dangerous than in other animals like mammals.
For these reasons, in addition to administering to the birds lipotropic and detoxifying / regenerating hepatic protectors preventatively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds.
PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT: The time to act is NOW that your pet does not have yet the visible symptoms. It is necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE HEPATIC DEGENERATION. Fortunately it is easy to do it: You have to substitute the mixture of loose seeds for some pellets compound food of seeds and fruits / vegetables (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from eating mostly what it likes the most and, whatever the diet, it is ESSENTIAL to add every day to the drinking water or to the food a LIPOTROPIC LIVER PROTECTOR that includes the famous carnitine (which is also indicated for humans) and / or choline, betaine, methionine, threonine, lysine (and it is very convenient to supplement with a DETOXIFYING and REGENERATING LIVER PROTECTOR with thistle milk, boldo, artichoke extract). The liver protectors are amino acids, vitamins (of which they have a protective effect on the liver, such as vitamin C), fatty acids and essential oils that remove the fat from the liver, clean it, protect it and favor its recovery. They are cheap food supplements and it is essential to add them to your pet birds diet to conserve their liver. It is something that professionals as breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know.
Even, it are increasingly appearing in the market compound feed for pet birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. But the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fatty seeds... And their birds continue dying of hepatitis due to fatty liver in a large number of cases (probably, in most cases). Now we know that, as fatty liver disease develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more likely as the bird ages.
Some web pages that I have found about it (in Spanish). For example, this page echoes the wrong food situation in which these animals are too often: www.timbrado.com/malnutricion.shtml
And on this other page: www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n111110B/111004B.pdf it’s described that the clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could imagine and that in many cases they are not appreciated, progress in a silent way and when they are evident, veterinary action may (usually) arrive late.
To remark that, in general, practically any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it were a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. To do this, we must thoroughly investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that do not harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from veterinarians, breeders, etc. and administer the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird does not improve, it is necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. Finally, it is necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient veterinary experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it is convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it is better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered.
And that a limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated as soon as possible. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest possible fats (only birdseed, or birdseed with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia, fresh fruits and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately ... although nothing could foreshadow a fatal outcome. Acidcare also has protective properties of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflet do not cause damage and will surely save the life of your bird (if it is not too late).
Hopefully these comments will be useful to save your pet birds from an absurd death and to keep them with a basic wellness.
What would you consider a loose seed bird food wise? Thanks for the heads up though! I'm planning on getting a budgie myself and this was some life-saving advice!
@@Hallowiskindadead Thanks for your comment. Yes, this is indeed a life-saving advice that breeders and specialized vets know. I'm glad also for your future birbs as they will avoid the most common, yet unknown by the owners and most serious disease on pet birds: the FLD.
Instead of purchasing commercial, already mixed loose seeds mixtures, breeders normally make manually their own mixtures with several low-fat seeds, and with very little proportion to none of fatty seeds.
Some seeds birds eat:
LOW FAT SEEDS: - Birdseed. - Thistle. - Chia. - Foxtail millet (sold normally as branch). - Quinoa (sold separately) - Perilla. The great "invention" of fatty seeds is the white perilla. This one, unlike the other fatty seeds does not damage the liver nor the intestine. It can be supplied in winter for pet birds to better resist the winter low temperatures, but don't give too much because it makes our birds fat. It can replace rapeseed and flaxseed.
HIGH FAT SEEDS: - Hemp (very careful with this one as administered in excess causes liver damage). - Nabine (can damage the liver and create indigestion). - Niger seed. - Flaxseed. - Rapeseed.
But each time, more and more breeders, zoological, recovery parks and bird owners all around the world do use pellets of compound food, which already includes low-fat seeds, fruits and cereals. With compound food one avoids that the birds filter the seeds and eat only or mostly what they like the most (the fatty seeds). Moreover, some of these pellets already include liver protectors!
Normally the birds like quite a bit to eat pellets of food compound, although the switch from loose seeds mix to pellets food compound should be done gradually (as per the instructions of the respective brands). But, sometimes the bird does not get accustomed to eat pellets; If this is the case, don't insist on that the bird should eat the pellets at any cost, because the bird could die for starvation (the smaller the bird, the sooner it may die for this cause. A canary could die in just 1 or 2 days without food and/or water).
So, whatever the food, it's essential to include into their diet the specifically developed liver protectors for pet birds (both, lipotropic and detox/regenerating), by administering a few drops in the daily drinking water (as per the respective leaflets), to keep the birds with a basic wellness and their liver clean of fat and healthy.
That was a lil' to long but point taken! I can't imagine why people would ruin birds food
i'm so excited to get budgies this weekend, two males. they need to be about eight weeks old but there are no breeders in out area (England, warrington Cheshire). a garden centre about twenty minutes' drive away has a lively flock of birds but they aren't young enough :(
That text to speech makes me cry
THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH now I know how to take care of my bird Lilly
Syndra Hi 🙂 have you thought a out getting a friend for your budgie? It's usually best to keep them in pairs, otherwise they can get lonely
Rebecca no I have not but thank you for the idea
Syndra you're welcome! I hope you will think about it 😊 A male friend would probably be best, because 2 females often fight when caged together. if you do get a second, just make sure the cage is big enough for 2 👍🏼 at least 25 inches long is good.
My bird just passed away
I’m sorry for your loss. :(
aww :'(
i hope you feel better soon!!
Alen AxP I have a question can u take it outside if the bird is trained well?
No bad idea the bird may still fly away
Sorry to hear that, at least he/she is in the big forest in the sky
So little, yet so magnificent!
Ah! Thanks SO much for this video. Me and my bub Blueberry learned a lot from this(Mostly Me)! ☺️
I got two of these today sorry I can't spell the bugie but there names are pixie_girl dixie_boy and I now a bit but this really helped me
this helped me my bird is trained now and loves me thx
I just found out a friend is moving and can't take her parakeet with her. I have expressed an interest in taking her in whether short term or long term. So I thought I'd get a feel for them. I once took in a baby robin that must have fallen from the nest but had developed wings enough not to get injured. He was in my stairwell and I didn't know where he came from or if his mother was even still alive. But with some homemade bread pieces dipped in water with a (clean) set of tweezers *_and_* of course, a little TLC, I gained that little baby's trust pretty quickly. I'm hoping it will be as easy to break the ice with my friend's bird.
Great video. My budgies love your "budgie tv" :)
I plan on getting two parakeets for my birthday in two months, because I'm gonna be getting around $150 from my dad for my birthday and Christmas combined, so I think that might be enough. The cage I am interested in is about $80 and it is big enough for rats so I think it is big enough. I really want males but I don't want to breed them so there's a chance I will just get one but it'll be in my room and I'll constantly be talking, and it might help that I have singing frogs in my room lol
So maybe one of you bird owners out there can help me out... I'm a sophomore in high school, and I've been wanting a bird, specifically a budgie for a long time. I finally feel like I'm finally mature and responsible enough to care for one, but I'm still in school from 7:30 - 2:30 Monday - Friday for another 2 years, so he'll probably be alone in my room for almost 7 hours. Is that too much? Can they be kept alone for 7 hours straight, so long as they have food/water and enough toys and mental stimulation? Thanks for any replies!
CrimsonKnight // if they have food and water it should be fine as long as you clean the cage and play with it as soon as you get home
I would recommend a partner if your gonna be gone for 7 hours
That shouldn't be too bad, but do keep in mind that if you start working while you're in school, you will not be home as often to care for it.
I'm not a bird owner or something but I know that 7 hours is pretty long but if you get 3 birds it will be fine
This voiceover has the same energy as Zefrank
This is a great budgie care vid!! It help me convince my mum to get a budgie
7:16
That yellow bird tho 😂
thanks for making,super cute😘
Tysm I’m getting a budgie soon
I don't even have a bird
Pichu lol same but i getting one
I want one so bad UGAG, I’ve always liked birds I thought it was KOOL that they could fly when I was a kido 😂👌
Budgies are so cuuuute
Thank you for the advice! We just got 2 budgies and we already have 2 chinchillas a kitten and a dog, so we needed a cheap pet. It was a impulse buy and after I saw one of the budgies pluck one of her feathers I knew something was wrong. Thanks for all the advice!
ThatOneKawaiiPotato :3 How is she doing now? Chew toys can help prevent this, and is good for their beaks too 🙂
Rebecca they are doing better. We got them a bigger cage and more toys and perches, as well as another bird friend, so they are doing great now
ThatOneKawaiiPotato :3 okay that's good ☺️ also giving them at least 2 hrs a day out of the cage to fly and play
Rebecca yeah we give them about a hour a day to let them run around. We got them a playground so they just have loads of fun on that
Love the star of your videos. Hes a cutie
Please make a video about how to take care of a budgie if he/she have blood in her feather
can u really take a budgie in the shower
supercalifragilisticexpialidotious
i posted this comment
Only if they are up to it, and never hold them under water against their will, and make sure the water is warm not hot
Thanks for telling
I have a qeustion are naturel perches just wooden perches or pure wood perches
They could be both! You can buy wooden perches from the pet store and widdle them to have bumps and ridges or you can use a stick from outside
This video was so helpful! I just got 2 budgies but 1 of them keeps shivering
It a boy because the cere is blue and that means boy
AnimalLover 1079 yup and is wo cutie
XxWinterWolfxX actually its transgendered into a boy
And it's in heat
Guys THIS VIDEO IS PERFECT there is only one wrong thing. Budgies are really social animals and when you are traveling/away from home or just being busy with something budgies don't get lots of attention since they live in groups you should give it a bud, depends of the type/temper a conure or finch or another budgie should do.
What is the cage in the video called? And is it suitable for 2 parakeets? Anyone got a recommendation cage for 2 parakeets?
Dark Exile get a very large cage my old 2 budgies (passed away) used to stay in a macaws cage but is it was wider than the usual ones
I Just got my budgie...
He isn't moving and shy as HECK I sadly had to touch him to get him in my cage... please help!
Take it to the vet plz
i really want a bird but my mom said no 😭
olivia Aww I am so sorry :C
GamerSis I'm allergic to dogs and cats :/ so I got a budgie
Ask for something bigger like a cat or a dog then say budgie then she has a 36% more chance to say ges
My dad said no at first
Like laughed at my idea
Just show how responsible you can be and earn some money yourself and maybe they'll let you have it :)
I’ve always wanted a parakeet but I know my parents would never let me
My goodness thank you so much! That was so helpful!! :D
7:16 that bird looks so comfortable upside down like wtf man what u doin'
and what if ur bird is always outside? .o. im trying to learn more and more about parakeets
:D very cute video
come on don't make little cookie a bachelor..
come on get some females budgies also
It needs a lover.
I know u do love your cookie !!! BUT...
IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS: The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seed mixture" bought in pet shops or supermarkets, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it is not like that: in reality the health of the pets is at imminent and serious risk.
The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, parakeets, nymphs, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seed mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH by HEPATITIS FOR FATTY LIVER. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 6 years of age of the more than 14 that they can live.
It is discouraging that in a time like nowadays, in which food is studied in detail for other pets such as dogs and cats, pet birds are condemned to die painfully and prematurely in so many cases. You have to warn people so they can avoid it!
This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can not imagine that THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF that we provide to our birds, in which such a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the bird usually prefers to eat the fatty seeds, so that its REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to companion birds in general.
It is a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when the unexpected symptoms suddenly begin, they are imprecise, easily confused with other ailments, so the owners usually postpone the visit to the veterinarian at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive disease, even to administer lipotropic liver protectors and regenerators in curative doses, just in case it is that and not a supposed blow). It is a process of slow and asymptomatic development, but when their visible symptoms unexpectedly begin the disease accelerates.
SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER HEPATITIS: First, emotional decay or progressive lack of interest, hard belly (in many specimens, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness more or less accentuated (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up its feathers or inclines more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks and even in a few days, forced breathing with an open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" or which has a "tumor"), abundant greenish stools (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange somehow purple color of skin and beak, an exaggerated appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what seems to be getting better), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a heart infarct).
For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) veterinary action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seed mixture (even if you eat fresh fruits and vegetables and exercise, for example by letting them out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and does not know. Also the breeding paste and its pigments and sunflower seeds can attack the liver if they are taken too much or too long. Without liver protectors, it is almost certain that your bird will prematurely die and in many cases you will not be able to determine its real cause.
For this reason, in addition to administering lipotropic and detoxifying / regenerating hepatic birds preventatively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds.
The time to act is NOW that your pet does not have yet the visible symptoms. It is necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE HEPATIC DEGENERATION. Fortunately it is easy to do it: You have to substitute the mixture of loose seeds for some feed composed of seeds (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from eating mostly what it likes the most and, whatever the diet, it is ESSENTIAL to add every day to the drinking water or to the food a LIVER PROTECTOR, a lipotropic that includes the famous carnitine (which is also indicated for humans) and / or choline, lysine, betaine, methionine, threonine (and it is very convenient to supplement with another liver protector detoxifying and regenerating with milk thistle, boldo, artichoke extract). The liver protectors are amino acids, vitamins (of which they have a protective effect on the liver, such as vitamin C), fatty acids and essential oils that remove the fat from the liver, clean it, protect it and favor its recovery. They are cheap food supplements and it is essential to add them to your diet to conserve your liver. It is something that professionals as breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know.
Even, it are increasingly appearing in the market compound feed for companion birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. But the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fat seeds... And their birds continue dying of hepatitis due to fatty liver in a large number of cases (probably, in most cases). Now we know that, as fatty liver hepatitis develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more likely as the bird grows older.
Some web pages that I have found about it (in Spanish). For example, this page echoes the wrong food situation in which these animals are too often: www.timbrado.com/malnutricion.shtml And on this other page: www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n111110B/111004B.pdf it’s described that the clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could imagine and that in many cases they are not appreciated, passing on in a silent way and when they are evident, veterinary action can (usually) be delayed.
Emphasize that, in general, practically any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it were a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. To do this, we must thoroughly investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that do not harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from veterinarians, breeders, etc. and administer the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird does not improve, it is necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. Finally, it is necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient veterinary experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it is convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it is better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered.
And that a limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated as soon as possible. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest possible fats (only birdseed, or birdseed with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia, fresh fruits and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately ... although nothing could foreshadow a fatal outcome. Acidcare also has protective properties of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflet do not cause damage and will surely save the life of your bird (if it is not too late).
Thank you so much for sharing!
I love my little budgie and his name is Loki
Thanks, Siri
Thanks again
my budgies dont want to eat fruits😢
My budgie was the same. But she now eats fruits on her free will. I started by very finely chopped the fruit and mixing it in with the daily seed. Then go up from there
Veggies are more important than fruit
I needed this. I have had 2 budgies for a while. Didn't know how to bond properly and they haven't left the cage in a long time. I think I will try to approach them like this. I knew everything else about basic care, but my budgies are still not tamed and hopefully i can get them to trust me
My parakeets refuse to eat fruits and veggies, I have had them for 2 years, and they haven't had any
Aria Grace have you tried hand feeding them little chunks of things like banana or pear?
AriaGrace try cut them into little pieces and put them on the floor or something (if the floor is dirty then don't and you better put them on a piece of paper or something)
For me they didn’t eat any for the first few days but then as soon as I tried celery they started sniffing it and then chewed it down
AriaGrace Yull maybe try spinach?
Ameenah Hussaini celery isn't that good for them actually lol
My budgies name is cookie!!!!!!!!!!!
So cute! I have Siri, Segoe and Sunny :-).
Amelia Peterson mine are Sunny and Bella
My budgie name Loki
My budgie's name is FIDO!!!!!!!!!!
Aaww, mine are Citrus and Tidepool
Not sure why sunlight will kill your bird..what do budgies do in the wild. I have never seen a dead birds fall out of trees from 12 hours of sun light especially in Australia..where these birds are from..it's very hot and dry. And a cage placed out of doors or in an aviary.. should be done slowly..especially if it's been kept in air conditioning..these birds are very hardy..and should adapt just fine
im abat to get a bird on valentines day I'm so excited!