My dream job is raising baby birds! I love the babies so much and have so much fun raising them, even the round the clock feedings. But I get so attached to them that I would have a hard time placing them in homes and I can't just keep them all. Budgies can be breeding machines once they start. That's how I ended up with 6 more budgies than I really want.
Right now we're building a 12x18 "bird shed" about 20 feet from the house, fully insulated, with heat, AC, and hot and cold running water so I can house the 8 budgies that aren't tame along with all my bird supplies, gardening supplies, etc plus a refrigerator and a small sitting area. The four males and four females will each have 48x18x32 flight cages. Every morning I'll go out and give them fresh food and water and put on their favorite music.
I'm thinking about breeding Englush Budgies for show but only if I have a good plan for homing extra birds. English budgies make excellent pets because they're so calm and easy to tame but they're not readily available in the US. I wouldn't sell them to pet stores- I'd only home them with people I vet myself. Maybe next Spring. I'll have plenty of space to build an aviary. I'd like to have an indoor/outdoor aviary set up. However, I DON'T want to add more birds to the homeless bird population and for that reason alone I probably won't do it.
Itās so nice to see sheās happy while weāre away.
