Spacey'sMom
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- Aug 24, 2022
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- 2 Budgies!
Hello all,
I've posted a time or two about our first budgie Teerie and after some debate and consideration we finally took the plunge and got our second budgie last weekend who we named Yvie. Yvie is... An entirely different bird lol. She(gender doesn't really matter outside of health concerns) is an incredibly active, social, and fluffy little thing.
Mission semi accomplished in getting her as Teerie seems to be much more engaged and interested in her surroundings. She's quickly learned how to effectively clean her beak from Yvie and has been Preening much more often.
My main concern/question is about Yvie's insatiable hunger. She is much bigger and is Heavier than Teerie. We have determined that Teerie was a young adult due to her behavior and size. The vets she has seen agreed she appears pretty young. Yvie is definitely an adult, I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough to guess how old. But compared to Teerie she is CONSTANTLY looking for food and eating. To the point of flying to the ground (I use the term fly loosely as whoever clipped her wings butchered them) and pecking at every speck and spot she sees.
Our floors are older wood and the upstairs is painted wood. I'm worried about her eating something dangerous for her.
We have been feeding them a home made chop with lentils, quinoa, carrots, apples, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and some herbs such at Parsley just to make some of the things in it. We also feed a pellet called Nutrisoft? (Don't have the bag anymore) we ground the pellets down with a seed mix, oatmeal, and freeze dried fruit. Probably about 80% pellet 10% seed and 10% Freeze dried fruit. I also feed something new and fun when I can this week I have alfalfa sprouts and ground fresh carrots with some coconut flakes mixed in. I take these wet ingredients and mix in the dry elements. Lots of variety for my Birbs So dubbed Birbie Girls by my husband who sang them the altered lyrics to Barbie Girl.
Even with food still in her bowl she keeps looking for more. When in their cage she constantly digs through the dry mix for more. When ai bring them out to their tree playground she will have lost of the wet and dry mix to dig through but she chooses to jump down ungracefully and peck at anything and everything she can find. Teerie eats then picks a place where she is content. Up to this point I have them out with me from about 9 until 7or 8 in the as I work from home. With her leaping down and getting in to things I had to put her back in her cage which makes me very sad :/. We have plans to build them a little playground that will be safer when I can't watch them like a hawk(mostly Yvie) but is this normal behavior? And how much should she be eating?
She will have more left in the bowl and still jumps down to poke around. Also yes I have gone through and trimmed all the loose ends. Teerie(green) never messed with them but Yvie(blue) I don't trust to leave it alone X.x
Thanks!
I've posted a time or two about our first budgie Teerie and after some debate and consideration we finally took the plunge and got our second budgie last weekend who we named Yvie. Yvie is... An entirely different bird lol. She(gender doesn't really matter outside of health concerns) is an incredibly active, social, and fluffy little thing.
Mission semi accomplished in getting her as Teerie seems to be much more engaged and interested in her surroundings. She's quickly learned how to effectively clean her beak from Yvie and has been Preening much more often.
My main concern/question is about Yvie's insatiable hunger. She is much bigger and is Heavier than Teerie. We have determined that Teerie was a young adult due to her behavior and size. The vets she has seen agreed she appears pretty young. Yvie is definitely an adult, I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough to guess how old. But compared to Teerie she is CONSTANTLY looking for food and eating. To the point of flying to the ground (I use the term fly loosely as whoever clipped her wings butchered them) and pecking at every speck and spot she sees.
Our floors are older wood and the upstairs is painted wood. I'm worried about her eating something dangerous for her.
We have been feeding them a home made chop with lentils, quinoa, carrots, apples, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and some herbs such at Parsley just to make some of the things in it. We also feed a pellet called Nutrisoft? (Don't have the bag anymore) we ground the pellets down with a seed mix, oatmeal, and freeze dried fruit. Probably about 80% pellet 10% seed and 10% Freeze dried fruit. I also feed something new and fun when I can this week I have alfalfa sprouts and ground fresh carrots with some coconut flakes mixed in. I take these wet ingredients and mix in the dry elements. Lots of variety for my Birbs So dubbed Birbie Girls by my husband who sang them the altered lyrics to Barbie Girl.
Even with food still in her bowl she keeps looking for more. When in their cage she constantly digs through the dry mix for more. When ai bring them out to their tree playground she will have lost of the wet and dry mix to dig through but she chooses to jump down ungracefully and peck at anything and everything she can find. Teerie eats then picks a place where she is content. Up to this point I have them out with me from about 9 until 7or 8 in the as I work from home. With her leaping down and getting in to things I had to put her back in her cage which makes me very sad :/. We have plans to build them a little playground that will be safer when I can't watch them like a hawk(mostly Yvie) but is this normal behavior? And how much should she be eating?
She will have more left in the bowl and still jumps down to poke around. Also yes I have gone through and trimmed all the loose ends. Teerie(green) never messed with them but Yvie(blue) I don't trust to leave it alone X.x
Thanks!