Parakeet Questions & Answers

Ok, I have a a 10 gallon fish tank and a parakeet bird cage above just recently I have plants growing in my tank can bird food harm my fish? What do you suggests I should do?

i know some one had a simalar question, to mine but if the cockatiel is introduced as a baby to adult parakeets would they get along? i am hand feeding a cockateil baby and it will be a matter of weeks before it is weened. i have layed it in the bottom of the parakeets cage and they just look at it but dont do any thing to it.

My mom believes that it is dangerous for a caged bird like a Cockatiel or Parakeet to be in a room where there are lit scented candles or incense because of the respiratory effects it might have on the bird and I say that having a bird in a well-ventilated room (one with an open floor plan or that has windows), that's ok and perfectly safe. Who's right?

ok my mom got this ledger with the money i got from my grades and she says we can spend it anyway we want but i dont shes going to be happy with the decition i want to get another bird i already have finches(and a cat) but i want to move to a bigger bird (keeping my finches) i feed and water my animals clean their cages and take care of them but when ever i mention it she says "it will just be another thing to take care of" but i still want to make her happy and want the bird and what bird should i get not to big or expencive (dove..canary..)and no budgies(parakeets) srry

My indian ringneck parakeet is showing no progress. I have been training him for 4 months and he still will NOT step on my finger while inside his cage. So here is EXACTLY WHAT HE DOES WHEN I STICK MY HAND IN THE CAGE!!. 1. When i first walk up to the cage he gets on to the side of the cage and runs to the back. 2. when i put my hand in the cage he flops around. 3. When i put millet in the cage he will come to it and i slowly move the millet out of the cage and thats the only way i can get him out. 4. when i get him out of the cage i bring him into the dining room away from his cage. I stick my finger up to him and he will step up of of his T-stand and then i set him back down and give him a treat. I repeat several times and after about 15 mins i bring him back to the cage. If i leave the cage door open and move away from the cage he will hop out on the door and get on the top of the cage. And then i go over there and get him. How can i get him to hop on my finger to get him out?? So what do i do about it. I cant just keep having to chase him around in his cage to get him out. What do i do?

My Hen Parakeet died this evening and her mate is distressed. No similar birds are sold in my area. Is there any other breed that will mix comfortably in the cage with a Parakeet? All we have near us is Pets at Home and Acorn Pets.

Just today, I went to my bird cage, and saw my bird falling on it's side. I took it out, and all of a sudden it tried to fly a way. Then it stretched out its wing, and screamed and died. I know it wasn't because of food or water. Thanks

how long can a parakeet live with the proper diet while in a cage his whole life and never coming out, by the way his cage is 3ft wide and 4ft high

I have just gotten a parakeet yesterday almost 15 hours and have left her alone with the cage partily covered for almost the same amout of time. Just a few minutes ago I tryed to get her used to my hand by using mashed up banana instead of seeds. but she keeps avoiding my hand and flying around her cage even though I am holding my hand still and talking calmly to her. what am I doing wrong?

Before I buy any, I will be sure to look at care sheets and make sure it's the right pet for me, but I also would like advice from people who own parakeets. I was thinking about getting four. What size cage would I need? What about for just two parakeets? Do males get along with males? Females with females? Males and Females? How is there noise level? What's the minimum amount of time they should be let out of their cage to play? How often would I need to clip their wings? Are there any reasons why I wouldn't want a parakeet? Anything else I should know about owning a parakeet? Thanks in advance!

Im getting 2 parakeets. They are cute birds. But when i do get them do they need lots of toys or will 1 just do the trick. Also do they need a nest or will they make one if i put twigs in their cage. I need to know before i get the cage and parakeets.

I have had my parakeets for two years now and I feel bad. They miss out on alot of stuff because they can't come out of their cage. I want to let them out and play with them but when I stick my hand in the always fly away! I tried everything that i can think of... holding treats, standing with my finger still for a whole hour, and the closest I've ever come was stroking one on the back one time!

I hade 5 birds in 1 cage and they all died within the first few days and I called the pet store and they said they birds either had a virus or our air is bad so my dad is calling a health center to come and check out our air What do you all think happened and do you have any other ideas PLZ help i am worried and clueless!!! you will get 10 points

i bought a parakeet about 2 1/2 months ago, hes doing pretty good, he is eating a drinking and he goes on my finger but I'm not there with him too often and i red that after they get used to you then you should get another bird for them to have a friend all the time. My cage sizes are: 13in. wide, 18in. tall, 15in, long. Is it big enough to keep 2 parakeets in, at least for about a month before i buy a bigger one, and i have a male bird, what gender bird should i get? Thanks

how do parakeets sleep in a cage do i have to buy my 2 paras a special bed thing?!? asnwer please!

a male and a female and they said the female might be ready to lay an egg do i need to put male in a diffrent cage or should i just leave him with the female i just dont want the male to stress out the female and she kill the eggs!

she/he makes this when i put it back in the cage. i'm in the process of taming. it sounds kind of like the crunch noises when it eats except i know it doesn't have anything in its mouth.

I think she is sick. She was fine today but later I went to give them fresh water and she was trying to walk on the bottom on the cage. She looks drunk. ok now she is just laying there breathing really hard and letting me touch her. She opens her eyes when I touch her and tries to move but she can't. Someone PLease Help Me

Ok. So if I get one Parakeet, how do I entertain it so its not bored? Also, what is the minimum cage size for one Parakeet, where it can still have toys and the like? I WANT AS MANY ANSWERS AS POSSIBLE THANKS! xoxo-Molly

i have a roomy cage, toys (not cluttered) i have a mirror, a little hemp rope, a bell with beads, and another one. also i have a cuttlebone, 2 perches, and a ladder with the rungs covered in sandpaper. ive been researching for a few weeks now, and i want to get into the bird field. i already have 2 freshwater fishtanks and a big hermit crab cage, all in my room! i also have the cage at chest level, i was told that thas the right hight. a cover for the cage, and everything. am i missing anything? i want this bird to be happy. im only getting one because i'll be able to spend a lot of time with it. i might get another when school rolls around. any tips. i know that i have to leave it alone for the first few days, only go in to give fresh food and water, and build trust. i want to name it stella, like the name? thanks!

In September of 07 we purchased 2 (one-year-old) Parakeets as a b-day gift for my 13yo daughter (dreams of being a Vet.). TODAY, we are the happy parents of 2 budgie parents and six eggs laid between 7/7-17/08. She (Kiwi) is nesting happily and her mate (Octavious) is helping so much. They seem to be doing fine but my question is......Are we supposed to help in any way? The cage we have is 26x14x22...Will this be sufficient space for the family? We will be seeking advice from the vet at PetSmart where we bought the birds and we are currently researching on the net.... but any advice from experienced keet breeders will be accepted with gratitude. Thank you.

My parakeet just escaped out of our house! He landed on our roof which is really high off the ground and wouldn't come when we took his cage out and called him. He just took off from the roof and into the woods I'm really scared! Please help me if you know any ways to help him find his way back to our house immediately! It is getting dark and will be pitch back in an hour. I couldn't have followed him, I would have had to go through some people's backyards and he was up in the sky with some other birds so we didn't know which one he was.

Can you get just one parakeet instead of 2, and will it still be happy? Also, what is the minimum size for a cage for one Parakeet?

ok so heres the deal my parakeet isnt finger trained yet so im trying to train him but when i put pressure on his chest he grabs the bars on the side of the cage to keep his balance any way to get him to stop doing this if he doesnt he may never be tame.

Well, just yesterday I got a new male parakeet. He's probably only a few months old. I put him in the cage with my old parakeet (which I've had for about a year) and she starts fights with him sometimes. He is afraid to eat or play with her toys because he knows he might get pecked. I have 2 weeks to take him back. Should I return him and just leave her in a cage by herself or do you think the fighting will eventually stop? They don't fight constantly or very viciously but they do fight. Will they warm up to each other or will it always be like this?

ok so my mom said yes, i got rid of my parakeets todey because she said its one or the other but she said i cannot get them til x-mas(december 25) which is 156 days and she keeps saying instead of rat she says a rat as in one and also she says they are staying in the garage in a cage but i dont know what to say to her because i finally got her to budge what can i do dear corn, did you not get the whole point that everything that occured was because of my mom?

i live in the north shore and i dont know of any good bird shops do you have any good websites where they sell bird cages? Also, i really would appreciate some good parakeet care tips. And one more thing, i have no idea how to train my birds because they are extremely untame. Any help please??

I bought a pet paraket 2 months ago. Before it was only mildly scared of me, it would allow me to take it out of its cage and handle it a bit. Now that its "flight feathers" grew back, it wants nothing to do with me, it starts flipping out when i stick my hand in the cage to change food and water dish let alone to handle it. When i finnaly managed to get it out, it flew around like crazy and flew straight into a window. I'm afraid to let it out again for the fear of it hurting itself. How do i get it to be calmer around me?

And I love it. But it is scared to death of me. It hasn't moved from the spot it has been in for the past couple of hours. I am worried that it wont eat or drink or anything. It doesn't seem happy. I am hoping that this is normal for a bird that is in a new place. I have a little sheet on the back of the cage that looked like it made it a little happier. Any advice is appreciated. I want it to feel at home.

Ive had my two keets for about 6 months now and they still arnt very tame. now that its summer i have more time on my hands to spend with them. I came up with a plan to try to tame them faster. Each morning when they are hungry i hand feed them a healthy treat thing and i hold it just out of their reach to encourage them to come to me to get it. Then i feed them a tablespoon of reagular pellet food from my hand. Whatever they dont eat i put in a food cup. I repeat this in the evening. Is this too cruel? i read that parakeets need at least two tablespoons of food a day. so i figured by hand feeding them i can tame them. I talk to them alot when they are eating too and i slowly bring them out of the cage when they are perched in my hand eating. Is this too cruel? not leaving food in their cage 24/7? Will my taming technique work?

i have two parakkets one of them is a girl and she used to be the only one and we were getting along pretty good you know i could get her out of the cage on my finger on my head it was all going good. Then we got another parakeet he is a boy and they got along pretty good accept she would start to go after him whenever i put my hand in the cage. Then i could only get her to come out of the cage on my finger and then she would go back to the cage. Then she would only get on my finger and hop right back off. So i went to a website and it told me to perch train it like hold the perch up to its chest and bring it out of the cage. So i tried it and she will only put one foot on the perch, put it down, go after the male and then try to bite me

Im planning on getting Two zebra finches once i get my parakeets new cage.

y is that my cage is not that big

How do you get a parakeet to come out of his cage. I want to play with him and he will not come out. He will not come out by showing him food. What do I do? ~Sarah~ this is serious SOMEONE ANSWER ALREADY!!! srry!!!!

My Parakeet is a boy and I have had him for about 6 months now. He never wants to come out of his cage. I have to grab him to just get him out. He is a little independent guy. How can I get him to come out? And he doesn't come out when I show him food. ~Sarah~X0xo0xo0

I bought 4 parakeets from petsmart 3 weeks ago and they are wild. Whenever I try to take them out of the cage they bite me really hard & fly all over the cage. How can I try to tame them?

i live in a house with my girlfriend and our 4 birds. 2 cockatiels and 2 parakeets. yet i seem to feel like its the birds house and i just live in it. they fly all over the house going and shitting wherever they please. i have brand new couches that are stained with little white spots, you cant sit on one couch because it is covered by a sheet so the birds can look out the window? this is all fine and normal according to my girlfriend... i hate it. i like the birds alot, it was my idea to get them, along with cages for them to live in. i dont mind them being out a little bit but not roaming the entire house like they do. the other day i was making lunch and sat my bread on the countertop, right in a little pile of fresh bird poo. normal? acceptable? i think not. Am i being a jerk by putting my foot down? we have a baby on the way and i dont want her crawling around, picking up bird shit on her lip and playing in it or eating it. am i out of line here or what??? thanks.

I recently found a clinic and everything, and is ready to go, but my mom told me that she isnt going to spend her time on an animal.....DDx I really want to help my bird, but I'm not old enough to drive yet or do I have someone who could drop me off. I can try walking there, but the problem is, i dont have the money to pay for the exam and treatment...she seemed fine yesturday when the bleeding occurred because a feather had gotten pulled by accident when she was flying around with the other parakeet in the cage...the bleeding was only minor and i had separated them both after looking at her wing.....Today morning i went to check on her, and noticed blood covered half her wing and some drops were stained all over the perches...she is still bleeding and i'm not sure what to do. I'm scared to handle her myself, because i'm scared i might hurt her..does anyone have any ideas i can do? DDx at least an idea on how to stop the bleeding a bit....i really don't want her to bleed to death Dx...

Ever since my brother bought our parakeets (one's a male, and the other's a female) a mirror for their cage, all they've been doing is fighting over which one of them gets to sit directly in front of it and stare at their reflection. I know that if you have one parakeet you're supposed to buy them a mirror so they don't feel as lonely, but when there's two is it possible that the mirror only gives them one more thing to fight for dominance over? They're not pecking eachother or having epic battles... it's more of high pitched angry screaming all day until it gets too dark in the room at night for them to see themselves in the mirror. I'm considering removing the mirror... or buying two! lol What do you think?

hi. My pet parakeet is sick and I need totals him to the vet. I need to get him into a smaller travel cage for the vet, but he isn't very tame and I dont want to hurt him. How do I go about this? I tried holding up the little cage to his cage with both doors open and a treat inside but it didnt work. Also, I dont want him to escape and fly into a mirror or window. Help!!! well it wasn't that hard because his left leg wasn't working and he's not completely untamed. He fell so I picked him up and put him in. Unfortunately he had a tumor and had to be euthanized. I'm so upset.

My little brother has two pet parakeets that he has had for a few years. Well, he doesnt take proper care of them so I have to in order to keep them living. I change their seed, water, cage etc. but I honestly dont know if they need anything else, different seed, do their toenails need clipped? They are really long & curling under, is that normal? Is regular seed for parakeets ok? Should they be eating something else? Any info on these birds will be helpful, thanks!

my parakeet has been puffing up and sitting at the bottom of his cage what do I do? He is only 6 months old, and was removed from petco with over 70 other parakeets, could it be he is lonely?

Alrighty, I need your advice and help. I am planning to buy a hand raised, hand fed, very very young budgie. I have done all the research I can online, and I am still looking for more! How many parakeets should I buy? I want to tame and train and bond very well with a budgie(s), but I'm afraid he/she will be alone while I am at school. I go to high school, and the new school year's gonna start soon, so i'll leave at around 7:30 and be home around 3:00-4:00. And is it possible to tame and train and bond with 2 budgies equally? Oh, and can you give me all the details in breeding, caring, taming, training, loving, cage sizes, toys and what games they like, and ANYTHING that you can tell me about them. Please, I'd love for all you to share your parakeet knowledge with me! Thanks a bunch! <3

i have 2 parakeets they are both in 1 cage they layed eggs and everything started going peacefull for months but the boy parakeet started killing the girl parakeet for some reason i dont kno why the girl parakeet started bleeding so we had to seprate them please tell me whats going on the boy parakeet wants to kill her

We have a cockatiel and I was wondering if we could bring him along with us in the car when we go visit my moms friend on the weekends. His cage his too big to fit in the car but we have this old parakeet cage that we could bring with us and keep him in there for the weekend. Would this be okay? Or would he get too stressed?

my dad went in my room and opened the blinds when we walked out they started chirping like CRAZY non-stop so we went in there an i put my finger in the cage to see if they would hop up and they tried getting away from me they would watever they could to stay away i thought they were spooked but when my dad came in he closed the blinds and they stopped chirping and would tolerate my finger being in the cage why did they do tht? something to do with the light from outside?

my parakeet has layed her eggs and i was wondering of i should leave the guy in the cage with her or seperate them cuz ive heard people saying they should seperate them.and also wat envirement should i put the cage in.cuz its in my living room

i have 2 parakeets, and they love each other so whenever i try to hold one they just fly back to the cage. i only like one of them because the other parakeet hates people and when i try to touch her or anything she squaks like crazy and runs sooooo i have no idea what to do?

ok one of my parakeets leg got injured their is no bleeding it could climb around the cage very well but when it trys to get on the stick it gets on it but has a hard time keeping balance one of its legs are clamed on the stick like it should but the other one is weeken, it could move it, and opened out what should i do ??? i do nt want to take it to the vet is their anything i can dot to make it feel better the parakeet keeps climbing and climbing untill it gets on the stick help me i am worried will this heal ?????? what can i do to help

My baby parakeet is now 4 weeks old and i plan on training it but to train it I must take it away and put it in its own cage. However i'm not sure when i should take it out!