Budgie Basics

28/05/2024

NOT LONG NOW!!

Remember it'sTayside BS 2 year young Bird Show Saturday the 1st of June telephone entries will be taken on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th of May contact Jason Julien on 07525070528 or on email [email protected].

ALSO ON THE DAY,we will be having a bird auction, Sales Birds and equipment sale along with many prizes on the day to the lucky winners.

Jason is looking forward to taking your entries,your chance to get a bit of Show prep done prior to the start of the open Shows at the end of June

05/10/2023

Another donation ..this one from Alan Grief for best Budgie!
Thankyou!

03/10/2023

29/09/2023

These spectacles and case have been left at The Dome Doncaster from the Club Show weekend, if they are yours give me message.

26/09/2023

19/09/2023

The family partnership of F, C and J McGovern are household names within the budgerigar fancy.
Twice winners of The Best in Show award at The Budgerigar Society World Show, numerous winners of major specials at the club show and regular recipients of the most CC’s at the club show.

Have you ever wondered how exactly they work together to breed a modern exhibition budgerigar? How after over 40 years in the hobby they have remained at the pinnacle of the fancy and still challenging for top awards?

Well, this years seminar at The club show will give you all the answers you need.
Frank, Carol and Joe will be this years guest speakers. With their brand new, never before seen talk “A Family Way of Breeding and Exhibiting the Modern Budgerigar.”

In addition to access to the seminar, tickets will also give you access to the judging of the major awards and access to the show between 5 and 6pm on the Saturday.

To book your place please contact Jason, the society administrator on 01828 633030

17/09/2023

Free to enter Adults and Children!

Bird Art Competition

We will have prints for you to colour in and we will provide pencils and crayons to do so!

Lots and lots of prizes to be won!

Come along and see some of the Uk's top birds and be inspired!

08/09/2023

05/09/2023

URGENT MESSAGE FOR ANYONE WANTING TO PHONE ENTRIES for the MBA open show TONIGHT!!

Unfortunately Vodafone have an outage so please use this phone number instead.

02476402371.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
If you can't get through tonight Alan and Bruce will except late entries from 6.30pm- 8pm tomorrow night.

You can also email your entries [email protected]

05/08/2023

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23/07/2022

We just wrote a new article going over different food options for your budgie.

Check it out and let us know if we should add anything else your budgies like.

The best food for budgies is a combination of seed, fruit, vegetables and more. It’s important to feed your budgie the proper diet from an early age. Budgies are omnivores. They will eat both seeds and vegetables as well as pellets fish and egg. Find out what the best combination of foods for budg...

22/06/2021

What do you use in your nest boxes? Did we leave anything off the list?
Share your ideas in the comments.

What are the best nest box bedding materials Choosing the right nest box bedding material to put in your budgies nesting boxes is more important than you might think. It will create the ideal environment for your mother hen and chicks. And there are many different options for nesting box bedding mat...

27/05/2020

During these financially unstable times I’ve found myself pennie pinching a bit more, without doubt my biggest expense with regards to the birds is their French red millet, as part of their daily essentials I’d also give a spray of millet to each breeding cage and also a half spray in the box with the hens, now although one would never want to scrimp on a nutritional necessity we all know that the birds will devoure the millet spray pretty much prior to all other foods, with the exception of perhaps their soaked seed. To that end I decided to continue to give the half a millet spray in the nest boxes but to beef up their soaked seed in a less expensive fashion. Therefore I’ve started adding sweet corn to their soaked seed, this is really cheap when purchased frozen and added to a bowl with hot kettle water is ready in less than a minute in addition to this I’ve started adding the stripped seed from the red millet to the soaked seed mix, this means in essence I have cut down on the overeating of this rather expensive produce but it’s still in their diet, my rough calculations should mean I’m saving more than 60-70%. In addition to this as my birds take this soaked seed mix without exception it’s very easy to administer any additional additives. In addition to this I’ve also started to strip the sprays and sprout these too, this is a tad more of harder seed to sprout but well worth it when you see the chicks crops full of this, quite clearly a favourite of nursing parents.

27/05/2020

Part three of three:
Cheap Toys;
This is just a bit of old drift wood I found on the beach, to ensure it was safe for my birds I firstly let it soak in clean hot water for 24hours then thoroughly rinsed before a further soak in Vanodine and hot water for 24 hours before allowing to dry and then placing in the oven for 2 hours to ensure all bacteria that may potentially be harmful to your birds was dead. Once ready I just hung from the roof of the aviary for my birds again another cheap stimulating toy to ensure your birds don’t get bored. As you can see from this video this young hen is particularly interested in the wood and is attempting to create a nest hole, further stimulating your flock in to breeding condition for the future season.

27/05/2020

Part two of three:
Cheap toys; this colourful magic ball is a kids play toy I purchased from eBay, to make it safe I’ve cable tied it in the open position, as well as the toy it’s self being fun you can also hang treats for your birds within the toy as you can see I have done here for additional fun for your birds.

27/05/2020

PART ONE OF THREE:
Cheap Toys;

Keeping your Budgies stimulated, especially the youngsters goes a long way to having a happy stud. However, some toys can be rather expensive, but this need not be the case, I use lots of things that are cheap and easy to find and usually only require a little bit of ingenuity to mate them in to a safe cheap alternative toy for your aviary.
In this video all I’ve used is old milk carton tops and cable ties, additionally the white rings are from my feeders also made in to a fun mobile to keep the Budgies amused, as some birds like to perch in a similar position within the aviary you can try moving them on a regular basis so that all your flock enjoy the benefits of these cheap toys.
Please see parts 2/3 for more cheap ideas on how to stimulate your birds without braking the bank.

09/04/2020

Dry egg food mix supplemented.

04/04/2020