8 tips for successful budgie BREEDING ????

8 tips for successful budgie BREEDING ????

– I have put all the basic information about #budgie #breeding that you need to keep in mind. ???? I mean, I’m not a budgie breeder but I can gladly help with this as I experienced it with Benji and Shakira – my two budgies who raised their #chicks.

0:00 – start
0:24 – intro
0:41 – 1. budgie breeding cage set up
2:27 – 2. choosing a perfect budgie pair
2:50 – adult female budgies
3:00 – adult male budgies
3:13 – budgie too young for breeding
3:25 – how to know if budgies love each other
3:54 – 3. budgie breeding diet
6:45 – soft egg food for budgies
7:42 – calcium for budgies
8:03 – budgie’s calcium deficiency
8:35 – 4. budgie breeding nest box
10:12 – 5. installing a budgie nest box
11:46 – 6. budgie mating ????
12:17 – 7. pregnancy in budgie
14:14 – budgie egg hatching ????
14:29 – budgie growth stages ????
17:13 – 8. weaning budgie babies
21:02 – end

like I’ve said, you need some basic stuff to breed budgies.

let’s start with *the cage*
– needs to be wide
– 60×40 cm of the size at least
– needs 3 perches
– feeders and water bottles

the second important thing is a *budgie couple*, to breed them, you need male and female, and both need to be at least 11 months old and love each other. preening, kissing, feeding, and courting to each other is a great sign that they fell in love ????

now goes a *pre-breeding* and *breeding diet*… with healthy food you will force your birds to mate because in the wild when there’s plenty of food, especially in summer, that means that the breeding season will start! ???? offer sprouted seeds, vegetables, fruits, soft food, seeds, cuttlefish bones, mineral block, organic apple cider vinegar, water drops ????

this is a link for some other useful videos:
list of budgie food:
apple cider vinegar:
13 tips to get your budgie to eat fruits and vegetables:
sprouted seeds:
soft egg food:

then, I mentioned a *nest box* that needs to be big and made of wood, with concave inside, a door that you can open or close, I recommend the size of 25x18x18 cm and with 5 cm of the hole (entrance), here is how you can attach the nest 10:12 ???? Place a concave dish inside the nesting box to prevent splayed legs

now what you need to observe is a sign of *pregnant budgie*, after they have mated you will notice swollen abdomen, excessive eating, spending more time inside the best box and other sounds that you can see here 12:17 ????

after she lays an egg, in that period you’re going to give more water, calcium food, and vegetables, then after 18,19,20, or 21 days of *incubating* – the first chick will hatch.

what if the eggs don’t hatch?
– that means that they are not fertile or the chick died in the embryo state probably because the eggs were not incubated properly, a female was laying on them with wet feathers maybe, or it got broken somewhere… you can throw the eggs and try after a year

note: female budgie can lay eggs even without a male but they’re going to be infertile ????

how to stop budgie from laying more eggs?
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they can be bred only twice a year, too much breeding is exhausting and it’s going to kill both of the parents

when is the best time for breeding?
– I would choose rainy and warm months such as July – August – September – October

what to feed a budgie with chicks?
– keep giving them vegetables, seeds, a few fruits, and of course egg food ????

… for 30 days, they’re going to be fully feathered and then they start coming out of the nest. now it’s time to start the *weaning period* 17:13

I hope I helped a little bit…for more questions you can search YouTube as it has so many experienced people and budgie breeders ????

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