Sorin

I am to fly soon across the U.S as I am moving. My 19 budgies are coming with me of course and I cant find any notice on flight websites that say I can bring more than one small bird in the cabin with me? I am able to purchase 2 carriers, and my birds do get along. Selling them is out of the question and not the question I am asking so don't bother telling me to do so.

Is it possible to fly with them in the cabin? It would only be about 6 hours roughly for the entire flight. They would be about 8 weeks to 5.5 years old when they're coming with me. I know some flights say they must be 8/10 weeks old but Budgies mature at about 4-6 months and they eat on their own at about 5-6 weeks old.

If I can't, would they survive in the luggage carrier? Have any of you done so with a flock of birds? Cabin or Luggage area? Or are there any flights that you know of I can try? No including AmericanAirlines, Delta, United, and U.S airways because I've looked at those.

I need this answered within the week, thank you.

I have just re-introduced the baby and her father back with the mother. Originally I had put the baby and father in a nursery cage for about 2 weeks. I did put the mother in once but after seeing her harass the baby, I took her out and put her back into the larger cage. The baby can now eat on her own so i've put her and the father back with the mother - and again she's harassing her baby, chasing her around. I've removed the baby and let her sit ontop of the cage with the play gym and a cup of mashed veggies and seed - but this can't go on forever.

I'm sure the mother just feels threatened, considering this "unknown female" is taking her mate away, so i'll let them have their private time for a bit but I need advice because I need them all to be together. There's enough space for all of them, enough perches, enough food bowls - how do I get the mother from harassing her baby?

This isn't my focus, it's just a silly inquiry because i'm curious. I have a male cobalt budgie and a female white recessive pied with a blue belly. I have 6 healthy babies and 3 of which have started getting feathers which seem to be blueish grey but on two of them I see a starting patch of green just above the cere, which is odd. So what possible mutations could they have?

My one pair of budgies laid 7 eggs, all fertile. 5 hatched and are big and healthy. The 6th hatched and died a day later for not being fed and the 7th has just hatched. I want to hand feed this baby because otherwise it will die. I have formula and a set schedule for how I should feed them, how much, etc.

Do not tell me to leave up to the parents, answer the question or leave. The other chicks overcrowd the baby and the parents are too busy feeding them and not the hatchling. I only want to feed him until he's big enough not to ignore.

What I'm asking is how much I should mix and give to the hatchling for the first 3 days, then 5, how diluted it should be - etc. I have no money to buy special foods like safe oatmeal and what not. I have honey but that's it. I have exact kaytee formula and 2 syringes, one with a fine tip and the other with a large tip.

I need this answered in the next 10-12 hours. Please.

I know it's early in the game, I just want to know what I can do to help or make it easier on her. My budgie is 4 weeks and 2 days old, she's with her dad in a nursery cage and her mom's in another cage below her. She can jump, somewhat fly (though she falls), climbs, and tries to chew on seeds. She hasn't touched her food though and I have specifically mashed it with greens and a weaning food, plus regular seed, romaine, carrot, and celery and millet. She still whines to her father for food but he ignores her. Instead of following him she goes to the bottom of the cage to either sit at the corner and rest, (she's resting a lot), or chew on fallen sees but doesn't break them.

She's semi-tame, I can hold and pet her and take her out with little to no fuss and I did call a vet and she said that at a month to five weeks she can eat on her own. I just want to know what I can do to make it easier or maybe something i've missed that's crucial for her? She hasn't lost any weight so far either so i'm not worried about her starving, unless she doesn't eat herself and father won't feed her.

My baby budgie is now 18 days old. I want them hand tame but I would have to feed them right? I have a bag of baby formula but only one bag. We're short on money so I can't feed them like i'd want to. It screeches at me now - started when it was 17 days old - and it really just doesn't like me at all. I see them everyday and pet them softly but it just really doesn't like me.

What can I do so that the baby is more comfortable with me? Without feeding it all the time. I have some formula but not enough as i'd like. Any alternatives?

Okay, I have about a week to figure this out and I have no money.

In one of my boxes (2 in total) the pair has produced 8 eggs, 2 of which are fertile (male started late). I have already asked another question but I don't see it being answered anytime soon and i'm impatient. I'm not playing with these babies lives.

I have seen too many posts and people, even experienced breeders, say yes to pine, no to pine, yes to paper, no to paper - and whatever else. I need straight answers. I don't care what worked for you. That's fantastic, but maybe it didn't work for someone else. I'm not going to guess with these babies, I am not going to just experiment or hope that "maybe" it'll work.

I'm a first time breeder. This was not expected, they just decided to have babies in their food dish. the box has no concave. The eggs are in a solid round food dish. The box is huge also, cockatiel sized. I got it by mistake, I know better now. Now when these babies quite possibly hatch in a week (anything could happen) they need bedding. There's nothing to help support them. Just a solid not nearly rough enough floor with only a few of mommy's plucked feathers.

So. I have this bag of PETSPICK pine shavings, kiln dried. Is this safe or not. Is shredded office paper safe. Is shredded paper towel safe. Is a blanket or a towel or anything safe. I will not be the death of my babies' babies because of a mistake. Please. I need to be 1000% sure.

This is my first time asking on yahoo! answers so excuse me. But I have 2 pairs of budgies. One has already started and they have 2 fertile eggs out of the 8 in total (she did lay 9) my second pair is in another cage. It's the usual white breeding cages? I didn't have another so I got a few from someone. It's the only "flight" like cage I have for them. I put in a seed mixture of a veggie type, and a natural based with sunflower seeds etc, fresh water, mineral block, cuttlebone, millet, and a block of soft wood because the female loves to chew.

The box is on the outside of the cage with a small concave in the center. I've put some nesting material inside (the straw stuff from petco) but I went and got pine shavings. It's kiln dried. It's the pine shavings from "petspick". My first question is that are these pine shavings okay? I've looked around and I saw a lot of "okays", but then I find someone who's experienced and she says no? not even paper? I'm confused.

I heard it's also okay to go the natural route, just the concave and the hen plucks her own feathers as bedding. But I just want to know because in the first pairs box (the one with 2 fertile eggs) there is no concave. while they're in egg form they're in this round food dish. So when they get old enough i'm going to have to put something down, but I don't know what. Or maybe at all?

My second question is that the 2nd pair who have not mated or laid any eggs - the female has started checking the box out for days now. Maybe 4-5. I've also noticed a "circular" shape being formed with the straw. She likes going inside, she likes chewing the circular opening of the box, she likes chewing the cage, preening her mate, being "top dog", going in and out of the box etc. She is in breeding condition but display no real want to mate or even lay an egg. I just want to know if this is normal behavior for a female budgie -going- to lay eggs?

I'm not selling the babies and i'm not forcing them into this. The 1st pair actually laid 3 eggs in a food dish before I could get supplies (all were infertile because the male wasn't interested until halfway into her laying eggs and he found more interest in the purple tent, which I removed eventually which is why there's only 2 fertile eggs) and I had to move the other couple who was also showing signs of being in condition. This female has always wanted it since we got her. She's almost constantly in condition but she is very picky and will only do things her way and when the time strikes her lmao.

At first she would monopolize the side of the cage that faced the 1st pairs breeding box. She was fascinated. She only stopped once she realized she had her own box.

The first pair are roughly 2 years old. The 2nd is a 2.5-ish year old female and a 4 some year old male. I know 4 years is pushing it, but i've kept them all very healthy and this would be the first and only time he'd breed due to his age, if they breed.

I want responses by people who really know what their doing (aka first hand experience if possible), because I'm a first timer and I don't want to screw anything up anymore than I might have already, please and thank you.