Housing Your Birds

Post photos of your birds' housing here, whether it be an indoor cage or outdoor aviary.

Please say how many birds live in the cage and what sort they are

Red

We have two budgies, Ramba and Kanji.

They live in a large indoor cage which is actually a Jenny Rat Cage, so it's a great size for them! We've packed it out with toys and they seem to really like it

Here's the cage:



And where they roost at night!



I hope to have them tame enough so that they can fly free for a couple hours a day, too. But for the moment I'm letting them settle in and get used to my hands in the cage

Red

They got more toys for their cage today, and now I think it's pleasantly full

Right side view:



Left side view:



Oh, and I bought a really cute toy today for £1.99, which I thought was really cheap! It's one of those hammer games, the birds can move the hammer side to side and lift it up and down too! Too cute! I really hope they use it at some point





Red

Cleaned the budgies' cage today, wasn't half as bad as I expected. Because the rat cage doesn't have a pull out bottom I was expecting it to take about 30 mins...only took about 5! Lifted out the paper, swept up and replaced, it was really easy!



And the budgies did quite well too!



Red

An updated pic of the budgies' cage...I'm struggling to find wooden perches anywhere other than P@H where they're extortionately expensive

You can buy dowelling at the hardware store in what lengths you need. Just make a note of the diameter. Cut the notches or shape to fit into the cage.

Oh that is such a good idea! I saw perches that were essentially what you just described, but they were never the right length for our cage - making our own would be easy and cheap too!

My nana was over yesterday and she adores our budgies so she was saying hello to them (and making Kasper insanely jealous! ) and she commented how if they got any more toys they wouldn't be able to move around in there hahaha!

I thought of a cool toy idea today. I wripped a page out of a terrible book I just read and clipped it to the cage with a bullclip. They love shredding newspaper so I thought they'd approve!



And this is the back wall where most the perches are, with plenty of toys



And the corner they hide in when scary mummy meddles with their cage

Red I ave probably sai d this before but it iss so colourful! You can tell you love your animals they look to have so many different things.

We like to try and keep them as active and interested as possible...we do swap toys and perches around a lot, but it's hard to rotate toys as all of a sudden one of them will become fixated with a toy that has been in there for weeks, they're funny little things

Also, Kanji looks such a mess at the moment!! He's still going through his moult and his face looks very shabby as he grows his new feathers in, bless him!

Something like that is what I want but I only have about £30...it doesn't have to be like massive but I just want to give him more room and big enough to get another budgie too We have a cage like this at the moment it has two food things, a water thing, three plastic perches and a mirror. Snoop looks pretty lonely and bored in there

Okay I'm not allowed to post links for 7 days but if you look up the inter zoo mini bird cage it's like that what we've got, so I want something bigger than that

Okay, yeah that's sort of similar to what I kept my first budgie Blayne in, but his was square shaped! I posted in your introduction thread, this is a cheap cage that looks almost exactly like what you are after!

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/birds/bird_cages_and_accessories/parakeet_cages/cages/261925

As for getting a second bird, I'm sure Snoop will enjoy the company, but the new bird will need to be quarantined for a significant amount of time before you put them in together. Just so that any illnesses the birds have will have time to pass or come to light. You also need to work out the sex of your budgie, as females budgies don't like to live together

The easiest way to tell the sex of a budgie is to look at the budgies cere (that is the coloured bit above the beak!). If you know the age of the budgie, you can use that to guess / work out the sex

I dunno how old Snoop is Is the sere the coloured bit with the nostrils? That's kinda pink...so does that mean he's a she???? Haha I don't mind at all. And how long does quarantine? And could I put the new budgie in Snoops old cage for however long it lasts?

Yep, the cere is right above the beak. Okay, if Snoop is young the black bars on his forehead will go right down to his beak. If the black bars stop high up on his head and there's a big gap to his beak, he is an adult. Also, if you can see the colour of Snoop's iris that means he's an adult...if all his eye is black, he's young!

Young males have pinky purple ceres, young females have blue ones (seems weird to us heh), whereas mature females have brown ceres and adult males have blue ones!

A small cage is perfect for a quarantine cage. They need to be kept in different rooms, I believe, for 30 days. If after that both birds seem healthy you can start introducing them. You might want to put the cages side by side for a few days first, so they can get used to each other before being flung in together! Also, on the off-chance, you should remember that there's a small chance the two won't get along, so you might need to keep two budgies in separate cages!

These pics might help

http://adorablebudgies.co.uk/Budgerigar-Articles.php