Caring for a budgerigar in an apartment

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Caring for a budgerigar in an apartmentDo you want to hear bird trills in your apartment, see cheerful and restless birds? Then get a budgerigar.

This quite good-natured creature will bring joy and fun into any environment and brighten your life. There is nothing difficult in leaving. This bird is quite suitable for apartment life.

The first step is to decide how many birds will live in your home. It is easier to train one chick to speak. But, he will demand close attention to himself, bored alone. A pair of same-sex birds will constantly sort things out, trying to take a leading position. A heterosexual couple will eventually form a family.

Caring for a budgerigar in an apartmentFirst, you need to purchase a cage. For a pair of parrots, an "apartment" 60 cm long and 40 cm wide will be enough. For one, you can do less. If you plan to transport a bird, you will need a portable cage with dimensions of 15 by 10 cm. The cage should have metal rods with a coating of nickel, zinc, chromium. Other metals can poison poultry.

The cage should contain: a perch, a pair of drinkers (for a pair of birds), a feeder, a bathing suit, a stone for grinding the beak and toys or a mirror for one parrot.

Feed... Ready mixes are ideal, but millet should prevail in them.

Perch... Sitting on it, the parrot grinds it off with its beak and claws. Therefore, you should periodically replace the old one with a new one.

Drinker... Plastic is preferable. It is disassembled and easier to clean.

Bathing suit... It is half filled with water, then the parrot will figure out how and why it is needed.

Sharpening the beak is the bird's life. The beak grows constantly and therefore the sharpening stones should be changed as they wear out. It is also an additional fertilizing with minerals.

Toys... Studying with them, the bird will delight the whole family.

Mirror will be able to entertain a lonely bird for a short time and will give a partner, albeit a silent one, for communication.

Before using for the first time, scald the cage with water. It is located in a bright and warm place. Birds cannot stand drafts and direct sunlight. It should be cleaned every day to avoid the appearance of parasites.

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Budgerigars tolerate captivity more easily if they are housed in a well-equipped, spacious metal cage. The parrot plucks the rods of a wooden cage with its hard beak and often gnaws at them.

The best shape for a cell is a cube. The smallest cage size for one parrot is 40x40x40 cm, and for two - 60x60x60 cm.The cage must have a retractable bottom,
on which clean river sand is poured, mixing mineral feed into it: pieces of chalk, shell rock.

The parrots should be fed with a mixture of unpeeled grains of millet, oats or oatmeal, lettuce seeds and small sunflower (add one part of oats to four parts of millet). In winter, the birds are given fish oil. Only two or three drops are added to dry seeds: the grains should not stick to each other. In addition to dry grain, birds should be fed a little with white bread dipped in milk, millet and oatmeal, adding salt and bone meal to them. Occasionally, birds should receive ant eggs and mealworms to avoid protein starvation.

At any time of the year, it is useful to have branches of trees in the cage: aspen, linden, willow or poplar. In summer, parrots will pluck leaves from them, and in winter they gnaw on the bark. It is imperative to feed the parrots with greens. In summer, hang bunches of unripe oats in a cage, feed them with lettuce, carrot tops, dandelion leaves, and alfalfa. In winter, give apple and carrot slices, cabbage and green onions. Parrots also need mineral feeding. It is best to crush the eggshells into a powder and steam the birds with one gram of the eggshell per day.

In order for budgies to breed in captivity, nesting houses are arranged for them in the spring.
You can make a house in the form of an oblong box measuring 25x15x15 cm, hang it on one of the long sides horizontally to the cage wall. The entrance to the house is a hole with a diameter of 4-5 cm. It is cut not in the center, but, for example, in the upper left corner so that most of the nest inside the house is shaded.

Houses of another type (their size is 22x17x17 cm) look like small birdhouses. All captive parrots lay their eggs right on the bottom of the house. Therefore, it is recommended to slightly hollow out the bottom and cover with coarse sawdust.

Usually, the size of a parrot's egg is 19x15.6 mm. The female lays eggs every other day. From the second egg, the female begins to hatch chicks. This takes 18-20 days. At this time, the female rarely leaves the nest; the male feeds her.

Budgerigar chicks are born blind and naked. After 5-6 days, they see clearly, then gradually fledge and fly out of the nest on the 35-45th day. Parents feed their chicks with their burps. Therefore, it is advisable to feed the parrots 3-4 times a day during the breeding season. At this crucial moment, birds especially need a variety of food. Chicks need proteins the most. They should be given mealworms, ant eggs, boiled meat. Sprinkle the food with crushed shells. Parrots, when they feed chicks, need extended daylight hours. With the onset of darkness, you need to turn on the electricity.

As soon as the chicks leave the nest, they are removed from their parents in a separate cage. The first time they need to be fed with special food. Two parts of dry biscuits are mixed with one part of ant eggs, this mixture is moistened with grated apple or carrot juice. Parrots should not be allowed to hatch chicks more than twice a year.


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