8 tips for successful budgie BREEDING 🐣

hello every-birdie!
- 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 buddies who raised 10 #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 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
- 60x40 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: https://youtu.be/N2i9kJmDpzw
✨ apple cider vinegar:https://youtu.be/uDIqP0vOW8Q
✨ 13 tips to get your budgie to eat fruits and vegetables: https://youtu.be/ZhkmBa9yICo
✨ sprouted seeds: https://youtu.be/QSOyZqaaS94
✨ soft egg food: https://youtu.be/hN2bzUebsNw

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?
- https://youtu.be/rNXZIk3o2sk

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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