Tri-State Budgerigar Society

03/15/2025

A reminder that we are having an in-person club meeting on Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 2 pm. We are inviting you to be a guest and we welcome anyone wishing to join our club as a new member.

Annual membership fee is only $20. We have monthly meetings and chat sessions mostly by Zoom, an annual picnic and December holiday gathering, a monthly newsletter and of course our annual show August 23, which is this year's big Grand National event.

Come out to meet some of our members and fellow breeders and learn about some of the different mutations that will be on display. Our member Amir Jacob will be doing a talk on the Easley Clearbody mutation, with one available from Mick McGowen. There will also hopefully be a video presentation about budgies, refreshments and time set for a bit of club business and just talking about budgies.

Hope to see some new faces!

Spotswood Reformed Church / Pixie Pre-School
429 Main Street (across from the US Post Office)
Spotswood, NJ 08884

Marcia Halbert
Pres. TSBS

03/06/2025

Tonight’s main Zoom “Cheep Talk” budgie topics at 7 pm EST:
What Can We do as Individuals to Grow the Hobby? What Can Clubs/Club Officers do to Grow the Hobby? What do you Want out of a Club?

Reply to receive the link if you would like to join the conversation on Thursday, March 6, 2025

Marcia Halbert is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: "Cheep Talk" Budgie Chat
Time: Mar 6, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

03/05/2025

Join us on March 16th for the Tri-State Budgerigar Society event!
🐦✨A day full of budgie fun, expert talks, and community bonding. Don't miss out!
📍[Spotswood reformed church 429
Main St. Spotswood, New Jersey 08884] ⏰[2:00PM]

02/21/2025

Many of us are guilty of shopping online for convenience through Amazon and Chewy for our birds, animals, reptiles and basically almost everything else including food, parts, books, clothes, health and beauty, home goods, foot wear and so on. We are all somewhat to blame when local shops go out of business and the area becomes blighted and jobs go away along with the knowledge of those business owners and employees regarding the products they were selling.

02/13/2025

Not sure this link to a mutations and colors video will work but if not, copy the link and try outside of Facebook.

Hello 8 Minutes Buddy!Different Color and Mutations of Budgerigar Budgies l Budgie Parakeet LovebirdsLike, Share and Subscribe ...

02/12/2025

Our club is always happy to have new members become a part of our club at any time or to have our existing members renew their memberships at the start of the year. Most of our meetings are on the third Sunday of the month at 2:00 pm EST and are usually conducted through Zoom. Participation can be possible from anywhere. Our open budgie related chat sessions are always by Zoom at 7:00 pm EST on the first Thursday of the month. We can all learn something or have our questions answered, share our successes or failures and have discussions regarding a common interest in budgerigars and their many mutations.

Marcia Halbert
Pres. TSBS

02/07/2025

Remember that a successful club has at least a few members that keep it all together, especially if that club hosts annual events. Be sure to thank the leaders and those that are always behind the scenes making it all happen. The work is ongoing and usually all volunteer, so be sure to show appreciation. Our club tries to pick at least one deserving member every year and publicly thank them with an award at our annual show. This was from our most recent show in August 0f 2024.

02/06/2025

Conversation Starter:
Is Importing Really Necessary or Worth the Cost? Do the Imports Successfully Breed and Really Justify the Expenses Involved?

Topic: "Cheep Talk" Budgie Chat
Time: Feb 6, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

12/31/2024

Happy new year everyone! May 2025 bring you wonderful things, like even more budgies!!! Our club will be having our monthly Thursday evening budgie chat by Zoom, at 7 pm EST on January 9, 2025, due to the holiday this week. If you are interested in talking about budgies, let us know and we will provide the link. Any topic relating to budgies is welcome for discussion.

12/29/2024

Smart bird!

12/04/2024

TAKING YOUR BIRD TO YOUR VETERINARIAN.

Unless you have an emergency situation, call and schedule your bird for the first appointment of the day in order to avoid potential contact with viral diseases from previous vet clients.

1. Make sure your avian veterinarian will allow you to be present in the exam room with your bird for all procedures. Note that birds taken into back rooms without owners can die of stress!

2. In preparation for the trip to the vet clinic, plan to place your bird in the travel kennel only at the last minute in order to reduce the time spent in the kennel which may cause stress to the bird.

3. Please note the band number and name of your bird for the vet records. Take along any important documents, such as weight charts and photos of questionable f***s.

4. If you have questions, write them down before you go and take along a note pad to write down the answers to your questions and to write down veterinary comments about your bird.

5. Once in the exam room, ask your immediate questions BEFORE the vet touches the bird so that the time handling the bird is not interrupted or extended by your questions.

6. When the vet is examining or handling the bird, do not talk to the vet as that distracts and lengthens the handling time which increases the bird’s stress.

7. If the vet is doing something that seems extremely contrary to the health of the bird, ask the vet to stop and to explain the procedure. This is YOUR bird.

8. After the exam and procedures are completed, ask any other questions. Request a report of the bird’s test results and condition be emailed to you for your files. Do keep these files on your bird.

9. NEVER LET AN AVIAN VET GIVE AN ECLECTUS PARROT A VITAMIN SHOT. Eclectus have died from vitamin shots administered by vets. Man made vitamin A is a serious problem for these parrots.

10. Do not have your eclectus parrot’s wings clipped UNLESS IT IS CRITICAL for the bird’s health. Wing clipping very often leads to feather chewing as the bird attempts to fix the cut feathers.
11. If you have a new bird, basic information about the bird’s health can be obtained by the CBC blood test and report. This blood test should be done early in the exam process.

12. When you have a SICK bird, it is critical that the following tests are done: CBC blood test, swab of throat and a separate swab of the cloaca and cultures grown in a lab from those two swabs.

13. Results of lab cultures will indicate bacterial growth and the appropriate medications will be determined from that information. It is not advisable to medicate a bird BEFORE swabs are taken.

14. With a bird acquired from an unknown or questionable source, it is important to quarantine the bird for 30 days and to have a veterinarian test the bird for PBFD and psittacosis.

15. IF A BIRD DIES, it is important that a necropsy be performed to determine the cause of death.

16. Place a dead bird, wrapped in paper towels, into an OPEN plastic bag, into the REFRIGERATOR and not into the freezer. The open bag allows the body to cool and tissues to be preserved.

17. Take the dead bird to the vet for a necropsy as soon as possible after the death so that tissues do not decay and prevent analysis of the cause of death.

18. Ask the vet to collect tissues for histopathology if the cause of death is not apparent. The vet will know where to send tissues and how to prepare tissues for histopathology.

19. Request a full report on the necropsy and the histopathology be sent via email or mail to you for your files and ask if the problem is a communicable disease.

20. IF the problem is a communicable disease and you have other birds, ask the veterinarian what you should do to protect those birds from the disease and follow the recommended procedures.