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I love English Budgies, I had one for 14 years., and the vocabulary - amazing. so sweet, just a joy. Cora has good examples for her to learn and follow.
People sometimes put them down as being bred to look unnatural when compared to regular budgies, but it's not much different from breeding other birds for special colors like green cheeks and Indian Ringnecks, not to mention dogs. English budgies, especially the ones I have that are bred for showing, are so big, beautiful and sweet. I feel like I rescued mine from just being breeders and now they live a gifted life.
 
I think English budgies are aristocratic looking. Nice to hear that they have sweet temperaments.
 
People sometimes put them down as being bred to look unnatural when compared to regular budgies, but it's not much different from breeding other birds for special colors like green cheeks and Indian Ringnecks, not to mention dogs. English budgies, especially the ones I have that are bred for showing, are so big, beautiful and sweet. I feel like I rescued mine from just being breeders and now they live a gifted life.
I got mine from a show breeder he was actually too large I guess for show.
He was a beautiful healthy bird, had no health issues was very outgoing and boy could he talk. He made stories, long strings of words he knew lots of fun.
He trained really well, always recalled, loved being handled and his scritches. After him I could not ever have another., or I would have they
are lovely. I do see some that are a bit over the top and wonder about their
health. My parrotlets are a pair that were put together for breeding but
they never produced the breeder wanted them to be kept together so
sold them off. Thats how I got them. He said they are joined at the hip
they are.
 
Some show budgies are pretty silly looking and you wonder how they can see to fly or even get off the ground with their big bodies but they manage to see well enough. Kinda like sheep dogs. Big Fluffy definitely can't fly like the slim Americans. We call them fighter pilots and Fluffy is a bombardier.
 
When its time to let the budgies out every morning, my husbsnd says: "Release the hounds!" When the budgie fleet takes flight he yells "Pilots to bombardier! Pilots to Bombadier!" The twin fighters, Tiki and Baja, swoop, twist and turn, avoiding all obstacles in their way as Big Fluffy the Bombadier takes off slow and flies straight and low, dropping his poo load precisely on target! (Wherever he wants!)

I love to watch my budgies fly around the room as nature intended. It makes me so sad to know that so many budgies and other captive birds sit in cages waiting for their humans to let them out. Many humans seldom, rarely, or ever do. If someone can't or won't let their budgies fly free, at least give them avian companions and a cage that allows them to fly some. I've found that 48x18x24 inches is the minimum that allows some real fight for birds the size of budgies. Try finding a cage that size with the right bar spacing!
Larger parrots need much larger to fly. I sometimes wonder if captive parrots would pluck if they were not kept in cages they couldn't fly in. A bird not allowed to fly is unnatural. It seems like many larger captive parrots with untrimmed wing feathers can't fly because they missed the window of opportunity to learn when fledglings or their wings were clipped so often they lost the ability when they grew back. It's certainly more convenient for the humans and perhaps safer for the parrots but it seems so wrong on so many levels.
 
I feel sorry for you Canadians!
Everything is not bigger in Texas. Canada has skeeters that can carry off small children:eek:
Your'e right on that, sometimes when your quick enough to smash one it can look like a kill bill scene. 😲
 
I love Canadians and Canada more and more each day lately. I wanna be an American potitical refugee in Canada.
 
When its time to let the budgies out every morning, my husbsnd says: "Release the hounds!" When the budgie fleet takes flight he yells "Pilots to bombardier! Pilots to Bombadier!" The twin fighters, Tiki and Baja, swoop, twist and turn, avoiding all obstacles in their way as Big Fluffy the Bombadier takes off slow and flies straight and low, dropping his poo load precisely on target! (Wherever he wants!)

I love to watch my budgies fly around the room as nature intended. It makes me so sad to know that so many budgies and other captive birds sit in cages waiting for their humans to let them out. Many humans seldom, rarely, or ever do. If someone can't or won't let their budgies fly free, at least give them avian companions and a cage that allows them to fly some. I've found that 48x18x24 inches is the minimum that allows some real fight for birds the size of budgies. Try finding a cage that size with the right bar spacing!
Larger parrots need much larger to fly. I sometimes wonder if captive parrots would pluck if they were not kept in cages they couldn't fly in. A bird not allowed to fly is unnatural. It seems like many larger captive parrots with untrimmed wing feathers can't fly because they missed the window of opportunity to learn when fledglings or their wings were clipped so often they lost the ability when they grew back. It's certainly more convenient for the humans and perhaps safer for the parrots but it seems so wrong on so many levels.

My E. Budgie spent a lot of time out, was a lousy flyer low and slow like you describe mostly from me to the top of his cage. My Parrotlets I have to coax out of their cage/palace, they really love their house. It is five feet tall and 30 wide and 18 deep and is outfitted like a birdy disneyland. Bonnie will fly circles and then climb up and sit on top but OP does not.
 
Ollie spends most of his time hanging out at his cage, even with the doors open. He is free to fly around but is usually happy to be a perch potato (unless he's locked in for some brief but necessary reason, then he insists that he really really must be out and about). The minute I go to take a bath, he decides to land in the middle of the floor and send out a "rescue me" chirp, necessitating a mid-bath search and rescue operation.
 
The comment about out of cage time has me smiling. My previous and current CAG are not safe out of cage without near constant supervision. The only 'CAG resistant' area that I can imagine would be based on an isolation bubble. I keep a variety of chew, interactive, disassemble toys. At least one of each type. Except for hormones, Nameliss has shown no feather plucking. CAG #1 did pluck after I made a mistake based on limited parrot knowledge. It took nearly a year before he stopped. He'd start again with nothing I could pin down. Getting him to stop required a lot of effort, reading and evaluation based on living situation and parrot personality. It's hard to deal with a plucking. My heart goes out to the bird and owners.
 
I love Canadians and Canada more and more each day lately. I wanna be an American potitical refugee in Canada.
I saw on the news the other day, American visitors are wondering if we were still friendly , yes of course we are! as for living here we are taxed close to fifty percent...(.we are taxed then taxed again with almost every purchase.)
It's better to visit 🧳🙂
 
I'd rather pay the high taxes than what we're facing here at home. Canada has been our friend for so long, especially here Maine where so many people are from Canada and have family there, and so many small Maine businesses rely on Canadian tourists in the summer. We should treat our Canadian friends with the respect they deserve.
 

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