Hello All,

I finally took Cookie and Dora in from my friend. They are adjusting well and seem to really be coming out of their shells (pun intended ). So their story is that they were purchased together two years ago from a pet store. They lived with a women for the past two years and she decided that she just could not care for them anymore. So my friend took them in and quarantined them, but didn't have much time to spend with them being as she has many of her own birds. She took them in fully intending to find them a better home, she just wanted to take them off their previous owners hands so they didn't end up in a bad home or with a breeder or something. So, I saw them many times while at my friends house, and one day she asked me if I would like to take them. My friend has watched Darwin for me, my QP, and knew that I would be a perfect home. Plus, I have been looking for some company for Darwin during the day when I'm not home. Right now they are still being quarantined, and soon I will be taking them to the vet for the first time. Even though they are 2 years old, they are not hand tame and only eat seed...won't touch fruits and veggies! I'm gonna switch them to pellet soon and hopefully get them to try fresh foods, but in the meantime I'm just letting them settle down. They are the most adorable budgies ever. They preen each other and "talk" to each other all day. They have started to "talk" to me when I come to them, and this morning they called out when I was walking out the door, so they are definitely getting used to me. They also call to the sparrows out the window when they are at the feeder in the yard. I have posted some pics in my album on my page. Check them out! Just thought I would share with you all!

Shannon

Awww, I love budgies! They're so cheerful and interested in everything and their chirping and even their squawking is so cute.

Maybe you could start with wet lettuce to get them to try fresh foods. My budgie Bonnie took to lettuce immediately and just loves it, and I'm reasonably sure she'd never seen it before because she came from Petsmart and they didn't have any fresh foods in the "bin o' budgies" (to borrow a phrase from another site) where she was living. She tried some carrot last night but wasn't terribly fond of it and she won't eat potatoes (Clyde LOVES potatoes, fried, mashed, baked, he doesn't care). I'm trying to figure out what else she might be willing to try.

Congrats on adopting the budgies!

May I recommend that you don't convert them to pellets... Budgies are seed eaters and actually need the seed in their diet. Our budgies eat seed but we also have a small bowl of pellets in their cage for variety that they munch on periodically but the seed should always be available.

Like Siobhan said, they seem to like green leafy things to play with. Our love if we give him a big piece of wet romaine lettuce or a floret of broccoli.

Hopefully Darwin likes chatting away with them, that's one thing I love about the budgies, they keep Casey company when we're not home, we've dubbed them the living radio!

Good luck!

I actually have some kale at home now so I'll try that first. I did put a few peas in their bowl the other day and when I came back one of the peas had been moved and dropped on the floor (not eaten though ), but at least one of them was interested!



Thanks, I think I will definitely always have some seed for them. And they love the occasional millet spray, but I would still like them to eat pellet because I know it will hold a little higher nutritional value for them then seed alone...especially right now because they won't eat any fresh foods

i have 2 budgies too! i bought mine spontaneously one day and just fell in love with them. they used to be hand tamed but i let their wings grow in and then they no longer needed me to transport them to their playstand. i'm okay with that. in the beginning, their constant chatter drove me up a wall but now i don't even really hear it anymore. they always seem to be "talking" about something!