Budgie Parakeet, The Best Pet Reptile?

Well hello, I have fantastic news, dinosaurs did not go extinct, well most of them did, but one lineage survived and that is birds, and because dinosaurs, including birds, are most closely related to crocodiles than crocodiles with lizards and snakes, it is impossible to form a clade called

reptile

s that includes both crocodiles and lizards without including birds, the same is not the case with mammals, by the way, you can make a clade of

reptile

s with turtles , crocodiles, lizards and snakes not including mammals, but not birds, birds must be included because they are right in the middle and this amazing little dinosaur is a

parakeet

that is actually a small parrot.

Budgies are one of the most common and affordable dinosaur pets on the planet, in fact, they are the third most common pet. all of them after dogs and cats and it makes a lot of sense that they are beautiful, nice, affordable and widely available, like I said these are just little parrots and the reality is that parrots are amazing, in many cases parrots are unreasonable because they are big. They are potentially dangerous and cost a fortune, plus they live forever this little parrot is like the perfect parrot because it's small, yet, wonderfully beautiful, unreasonably cheap, they live a long time so it's not like a chameleon or a rat or something So. that you know you're going to have to learn to cry but it doesn't live long enough that one day you'll have to pass it on to your grandchildren it's still a ridiculously smart bird they can learn to talk they love you So if you want a bird I mean this is an amazing bird and it is very underrated, but do they make good pets?

Birds generally are not, at least they are not easy pets, so the

budgie

is an exception and the

budgie

is the

best

pet reptile. So that you can help you find out, we are going to analyze the budgie budgie based on our five categories, which are manageability, resistance to care, availability and initial costs when it comes to manageability, we give the budgie a score of four out of five Parakeets are highly social birds that roam the Australian outback in flocks that can number in the hundreds of thousands. They don't like to be alone. If you have a single budgie, he will want to be with you all the time, just make sure to socialize him. well, from a young age, so you are not afraid that they are birds, they are endotherms, they convert most of their food into heat, this means that they eat a lot and defecate a lot, their feces are not large, since they are not large and tend to be relatively dry for bird droppings as they are a very drought tolerant parrot that said when your budgie poops remember many said there would be days like this there would be days like this yes Clinton said yes. they have little claws that they will use to grab on and you will feel them but they won't do much damage, they might bite and with their little seed crushing beaks it won't feel good so socialize them again while they are young females. to have a more powerful bite, they usually only bite to communicate their displeasure with what you are doing and do not bite as hard as they can, generally, if well socialized, your little budgie will be your

best

friend, in fact, they may not want to leave you alone, be careful when they are outside as they may get hurt.

The mirrors create false rooms protected by force fields. Baths are exciting little ponds for an inland bird, often completely dry, to explore and make sure they don't. Get out of the house, they fly. You know you could clip their wing feathers or perform surgeries that eliminate their ability to fly, but that seems a little like cutting off your racehorse's legs if you ask me if you want a pet that can. If you don't fly, I would recommend the rest of the reptiles, honestly, if you want something with a

parakeet

personality that can't fly, get an emerald tree skink, but trimming the feathers is something you can do without harming your bird, as long as When you do it. correctly to limit its flight ability temporarily in case you need to take it to a giant reptile room with 20-foot ceilings and perching beams.

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Consider checking out our patreon when it comes to care, we give the budgie a score of three out of five. I'm coming. To give you a quick overview of the basics of budgie care, but I'm going to ask Russ from Aquarimax Pets, who actually owns this budgie, to walk us through a day in the life of a budgie keeper. . The enclosure you will need is Honestly, I would recommend a cage large enough for the bird to fly in. If you want a parakeet that will never fly again, you should consider an emerald tree skink. This cage should have many toys for your bird to play with. can interact, you should also have plenty of different sized perches, provide bone for calcium and lava stone to trim the beak as well as chewable perches to help with the beak and nails, this will allow you to avoid having to trim them or have them cut back, which can be stressful for everyone involved when it comes to food, these guys should have seeds as their basic diet, but not their only diet, and we should mention that they are going to pick the kernels out of the seeds and then throw the holes. back into the container so that they appear to have enough food even when their food has been stripped of its nutritional essence.

I mentioned that your basic diet should consist of seeds, but that shouldn't be all, supplement your diet with some fruits and vegetables. Plus, it will be really beneficial for your budgie. Be sure to provide water. They are more drought tolerant than most birds, but still need water. If you have multiple individuals then they don't need as much attention but they should be in your presence for several hours a day with at least an hour a day of direct interaction, if they don't get enough attention they will let you know by yelling and that is better than the way an iguana will let you know, but that's still not how you would say it's nice, if you had to leave them for more than a couple of days, you'd need someone to come take care of them.

Budgies, like most endotherms, are a lifestyle species and here is Russ to guide you through that lifestyle when you budgie. he wakes up, he usually wakes up when everyone else is waking up, you know, he wakes up with the light in the room, etc., and he's usually interested in getting out as soon as possible, he wants to get out of his cage, he wants to interact, He wants to sit on your shoulder and while you're doing your morning activities he'll probably want to jump into the scene. One thing he loves is the towel rack. You love jumping on the towel rack and making funny faces at it because you can. looks at his reflection, so it's a morning ritual he likes to participate in.

He often tries to order some breakfast but you have to limit the human food he gets to make sure he has a balanced diet but a little green leafy vegetables and some fruit is fine. He likes things like that. I told him to stay with you much of the day, so he spends an inordinate amount of time on a shoulder like this. You can see that it feels like home. there and when we pass each other in the house, he jumps from shoulder to shoulder. He is very sociable with everyone in the house. He belongs to my daughter, but he is friends with everyone and really enjoys shoulder jumping. on my shoulder most of the time we keep him flying so he also flies from person to person and while I'm on a zoom call to work he often sits on my shoulder and tries to get my attention.

He does this in a variety of ways and has learned to produce certain sounds to interact with us, one sound means I want what you have and we have learned to recognize that another sound means I am hungry and some sounds he seems to associate with what he sees around him. Around him, for example, if he sees running water, he will make a very convincing dripping water sound, so he spends the day looking for things he can imitate. He loves to imitate the cat. He makes a very convincing meow. He can imitate the cat. the rocking chair and the kitchen cabinet exactly as well as many human words.

What I like the most that he says and he does it quite loud and clear is "excuse me, excuse me," and sometimes he does it when people pass him by or even when he hears a loud noise, he says "excuse me" and it's kind of fascinating, so that living with a budgie takes a lot of work because you have to make sure that he's having all that time interacting with people and he'll let you know like Clint did mention it very vocally and sometimes it takes a little time to figure out exactly what he wants, but.

He makes it very clear that he wants it and then it's up to you to figure out what it is, so it's fun, it's rewarding, there's nothing like having a budgie sitting on your shoulder and talking to you and then watching it fall asleep contentedly. It is very rewarding. I have had many parakeets throughout my life and although we have not done much training with them, they cannot, they are very intelligent and can be trained. We had a parakeet a few years ago and using positive reinforcement they trained it. I trained to say certain words based on certain verbal cues, so I asked him what his name was and he would do it. would respond with your name and perform certain acrobatic routines on command and such, so doing something like that that can occupy your considerable intellect every day may also be a good idea, so every morning it is important to make sure that you At a minimum, remove the seed holes from the food dish because as mentioned, they will look like seeds when they are just holes on top, so you can take it to a trash can and remove the holes with a blower and the heavier seeds will stay there and you can put them back and if there aren't enough you can replenish the seeds.

Make sure the water in the container is clean. They will often foul the water by dropping holes for seeds or pooping on things like that, so you need to wash the water dish and then replace the paper in the bottom of the cage as well and then there are other maintenance tasks. Baths are a common thing that they don't need every day, but quite often I want a bath. What we normally do is put a small plastic food storage container in the bottom of the sink, place the sink over a very small splash of warm water and he will jump and dance in the water and put the drops under his feathers and fluff them up.

And it's not just super cute, it's an important part of their hygiene routine, so it's important, plus interacting with a budgie will take up a lot of your time. Parakeets are flock animals, and as flock animals, they need an intense amount of interaction in the wild. They interact with each other the entire time they are awake, so your budgie will need to do something similar with a budgie that lives with another budgie or a group of other budgies that they won't have to rely on contact with. you too, but if you have a lone budgie then you are the flock and you need to make sure you spend quality time with the bird and there are two types of interaction, one is just hanging out where you don't.

You must necessarily focus your attention on the parakeet as if at this moment the parakeet was on my shoulder and that need is being satisfied. He feels like we're together, we're hanging out and it's okay. He hears me making noise. It's probably going to start. talking, you know, and I'm comfortable with that, I could be doing homework or I could be washing dishes, you know, a variety of types of things I could be doing, as long as the bird is there, he'll feel it, but the bird will too. I want very direct one-on-one contact and that could take the form of speaking directly to the budget many times.

Oh, sorry, he's asleep. I didn't realize he was asleep. Dude, he loves this. He loves to sit. in front of my face and watches me speak and this helps him learn to speak. He seems to pay attention whether he's watching how I move or just listening very carefully. He likes to sit right in front of my mouth and listen. I talk and he feels like he is getting personal attention when I do that and another thing he qualifies is training like I said. I have trained budgies with positive reinforcement and that is a very rewarding direct one-on-one activity.

For them too, you need to make sure you balance those several hours of meeting time and at least one hour a day of direct interaction, which can actually be better if broken up into small sections. You take 10minutes here. 10 minutes there and spread it out throughout the day and that tends to help keep them from getting bored. Thanks Russ, if you don't already subscribe to his channel, aquarimaxpets, go ahead and do it, what are you doing now talking about flying? things, father's day okay, it's approaching us very, very quickly and it can be very difficult to find the right thing for dad and if you ask me, the perfect kind of gift is something really cool that you really want but couldn't hardly justify the purchase for yourself and who thinks about buying a really cool wallet, well Ridge Wallet thinks about buying a really cool wallet and they have designed a really cool wallet and I think it's definitely worth checking out because it has a ton of cool features.

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Variety of perch sizes to avoid buzzing, but above all be careful of accidents. Ceiling fans. Open ovens. Open toilets. If there is something that could kill a little bird, they will probably find it. As for availability, we give the parakeet a score of 5 out of 5. As I said before, these are one of the most common pets in the world. They are in almost every pet store, not only are they available in every pet store, but there are also a large number of breeders. Parakeets are very easy to breed in captivity, which is why you find them everywhere in the world and it is probably the best place.

If you are looking for a pet parakeet, go directly to a breeder if you buy one from a pet store. One thing you will notice is that in adults the top of the head is just a solid color. They don't have the barrier that you see further back on their head, if they have that barrier all the way to the beak it's probably a younger bird and if you get a younger bird like that there's a much better chance you'll get it. Be able to socialize it properly when it comes to startup costs. We give the parakeet a score of three out of five.

Budgies are incredibly cheap to buy, especially for a captive-bred bird. Honestly, it's shocking that they can be so cheap. I almost wonder if budgies are a loss leader like the five dollar chickens at Costco. They sell you a 20-year-old bird that needs a few hundred dollars in supplies right away and will continue to need supplies for the next decade or two. Toys in the enclosure sit in food and water bowls. They will add up and of course you will need to replace all your non-stick cooking supplies and that is why overall we give the budgie a score of 3.6 out of five.

Listen birds are a lifestyle, this lifestyle is not as extreme as what you need. a peregrine falcon or an owl, but it is still a lifestyle. This is a 20 bird that will require several hours of your time every day for a decade or more. This might be the best rating we will give a bird, but again, if the lifestyle of a bird owner is not what you want then a parakeet is not for you if what you want is an amazing little parrot that is beautiful , harmless, pleasant and affordable, then the budgie is probably the best one out there if you want all that, but you can't commit to spending a few hours a day on it, you don't care if it can't fly, check out this video on Aquarimax we just filmed about the kinks of the emerald trees and as always, please like and subscribe and we will wait.

See you very soon and try not to scare this bird. Yes, that is the goal. I feel like that's your way with almost all birds. Yeah, you're like: Well, the birds are nervous. Now this is not a super nervous bird. Birds are nervous people, it's as if they are so flashy that their only way to survive is to be constantly on guard and ready to use their superhuman ability to fly. You could trim their wing feathers to perform. Are you serious? Is this really happening? No? Again, I'm pretty sure this happened a few weeks ago, birds anyway, it was a lot of fun, so it was worth it, it was worth it, I'm really glad we looked into that anyway, yeah, five minutes later , okay, and they tend to be relatively dry for baby birds. the day I'm sorry, okay, start over, okay, just leave it at just shake your face and then talk to me, subscribe to this channel, this is absolutely what I would recommend if you were a little pirate.