Name My Budgies - Observe Also Their Coolness.
<div class="IPBDescription">Here's where my description goes.</div> Last sunday I went out with my dad to a budgie sale in revesby, somewhere in.. nowhere. [Sydney, Australia]
A few highlights:
Everyone there is white. Every single person there was white, barring a few lebonese. It's crazy. [I'm white]
Birds can get really expensive for the rare varieties. This was a simple sale day, but at the auction a while ago there were a lot more high-priced ones. For example, $AUD1000 for a pair of seemingly normal budgies [but were probably good breeders and with good heritage]. Nevertheless, this sale still had a few interesting birds.
It's not exactly a budgie only sale day. There were a few hundred birds in a small community hall, from finches and 'wild' budgies [very very small, a little bigger than finches really], to cockatiels and rosellas and lorikeets, to peach-faced love birds and sulfur-crested cockatoos [I saw an adult one going for $350, which was interesting seeing as they are being killed out in the bush in certain areas. Can't trap them though], and a pair of galahs. Of course, there were masses of English budgerigars.
Two interesting, and most highly priced birds, were the two fiery lorikeets we saw. I don't know the proper name for the variation, I don't have any lorikeets, but I'll try and describe what they looked like. <a href='http://www.mannkal.org/photos/Lorikeet%20only.jpg' target='_blank'>Here's a picture of a normal lorikeet.</a> Imagine the whole lorikeet that had only the colours of the chest [red/yellow] but with black as well. It kind of reminded me of a phoenix. These two weren't the most beautiful birds, but the variation was obviously rare and they did look interesting. They were going for $5000 and $4500 each.
Now, onto my budgies. I've been trying to breed my budgies for a while, it wasn't going too well. We went on saturday to pick up some more - I already had an [Australian] male and two [English] female budgerigars. This wasn't working out too well. We wanted three more males and another female.
There's not much point saying how we went through all the budgies and looked at the ones that looked decent. A few tips to see if the budgie is good -
X> six even, round, solid black spots on the face [rare to find a good budgie with this, they've been bred out so much]. Some budgie variations don't have these [lutino's, etc].
X> Alert, active, loud, not huddling in a corner or on the ground.
X> Check it doesn't have any diseases. Scaly face, etc.
X> A large budgie, big chest, straight back.
That's all I can remember right now. But without further ado, onto my budgies!
I had to link the image because it's so large and would break the table. Bleh.
<a href='http://www.tomopdam.com/temp/7budgies_2.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.tomopdam.com/temp/7budgies_2.jpg</a>
Now, I need names for 4 of them. Refer to the numbers in the picture, going from left to right. I upped the contrast, lessened the brightness in the picture, so you could better see the budgies. It looks alright, I think.
1. [Captain] Oats. Bought on sunday. Male.
2. [Geel] Piet. Had from the very start, an Australian budgie, is a good pet, but I was forced to chuck him in with the other budgies by my family. I think he's happier. Male.
3. Bella [Blue]. Got a while after Piet, when I wanted to start breeding. Female.
4. No name. Bought on sunday. Male.
5. No name. Bought on sunday. Male.
6. No name. Bought on sunday. Female.
7. No name. Bought a while ago when Piet wasn't breeding with Bella, still didn't breed. Didn't bother naming then. Female.
I would give the specific variation the budgies are, but I'm not so great at that, and my dad isn't here for the weekend so I can't ask him. If anyone's interested, I'll ask him when he gets back on sunday night.
So yeah, I need names for 4, 5, 6, 7. They're breeding budgies so it isn't overly important what I call them, I thought you guys might like to have some input. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Edit: Forgot to mention genders.
A few highlights:
Everyone there is white. Every single person there was white, barring a few lebonese. It's crazy. [I'm white]
Birds can get really expensive for the rare varieties. This was a simple sale day, but at the auction a while ago there were a lot more high-priced ones. For example, $AUD1000 for a pair of seemingly normal budgies [but were probably good breeders and with good heritage]. Nevertheless, this sale still had a few interesting birds.
It's not exactly a budgie only sale day. There were a few hundred birds in a small community hall, from finches and 'wild' budgies [very very small, a little bigger than finches really], to cockatiels and rosellas and lorikeets, to peach-faced love birds and sulfur-crested cockatoos [I saw an adult one going for $350, which was interesting seeing as they are being killed out in the bush in certain areas. Can't trap them though], and a pair of galahs. Of course, there were masses of English budgerigars.
Two interesting, and most highly priced birds, were the two fiery lorikeets we saw. I don't know the proper name for the variation, I don't have any lorikeets, but I'll try and describe what they looked like. <a href='http://www.mannkal.org/photos/Lorikeet%20only.jpg' target='_blank'>Here's a picture of a normal lorikeet.</a> Imagine the whole lorikeet that had only the colours of the chest [red/yellow] but with black as well. It kind of reminded me of a phoenix. These two weren't the most beautiful birds, but the variation was obviously rare and they did look interesting. They were going for $5000 and $4500 each.
Now, onto my budgies. I've been trying to breed my budgies for a while, it wasn't going too well. We went on saturday to pick up some more - I already had an [Australian] male and two [English] female budgerigars. This wasn't working out too well. We wanted three more males and another female.
There's not much point saying how we went through all the budgies and looked at the ones that looked decent. A few tips to see if the budgie is good -
X> six even, round, solid black spots on the face [rare to find a good budgie with this, they've been bred out so much]. Some budgie variations don't have these [lutino's, etc].
X> Alert, active, loud, not huddling in a corner or on the ground.
X> Check it doesn't have any diseases. Scaly face, etc.
X> A large budgie, big chest, straight back.
That's all I can remember right now. But without further ado, onto my budgies!
I had to link the image because it's so large and would break the table. Bleh.
<a href='http://www.tomopdam.com/temp/7budgies_2.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.tomopdam.com/temp/7budgies_2.jpg</a>
Now, I need names for 4 of them. Refer to the numbers in the picture, going from left to right. I upped the contrast, lessened the brightness in the picture, so you could better see the budgies. It looks alright, I think.
1. [Captain] Oats. Bought on sunday. Male.
2. [Geel] Piet. Had from the very start, an Australian budgie, is a good pet, but I was forced to chuck him in with the other budgies by my family. I think he's happier. Male.
3. Bella [Blue]. Got a while after Piet, when I wanted to start breeding. Female.
4. No name. Bought on sunday. Male.
5. No name. Bought on sunday. Male.
6. No name. Bought on sunday. Female.
7. No name. Bought a while ago when Piet wasn't breeding with Bella, still didn't breed. Didn't bother naming then. Female.
I would give the specific variation the budgies are, but I'm not so great at that, and my dad isn't here for the weekend so I can't ask him. If anyone's interested, I'll ask him when he gets back on sunday night.
So yeah, I need names for 4, 5, 6, 7. They're breeding budgies so it isn't overly important what I call them, I thought you guys might like to have some input. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Edit: Forgot to mention genders.
Comments
I can't think of a good reason why, but I like it.
name one of them buller
5 - flayra
6 - sadie
7 - ?
Anybody can vote on the names. I could call them anything, really. Be as nerdy as you like.
I know the last ones a female but meh.
Just out of curiosity why do you breed budgies o_O
My parent's have had budgies on and off over the years and although I like 'em they can be noisy and annoying and thats just one or two....you have six.
I know the last ones a female but meh.
Just out of curiosity why do you breed budgies o_O
My parent's have had budgies on and off over the years and although I like 'em they can be noisy and annoying and thats just one or two....you have six. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
you forget they die alot
I like budgies. They have character, they're cute, they're active and entertaining [check out some of the acrobatics a pet budgie can get up to], you can teach them to talk and love you, and they're friendly.
Budgies are by nature, noisy, active, social creatures. Your parents had pet budgies. I have an aviary, and I plan to breed them. Consider it a hobby, with part friendship and part financial motivation [very very minimal consideration] as well.
And yes, it's harder to tame budgies in an aviary, and I'm not even going to bother with this bunch. However, I will be very physical with the chicks [when they're born] and tame them, as it's a lot easier that way, and rewarding too!
Edit: Edited to tone down the monetary suggestiveness. It's not about the money, and we'll be making a huge loss. It's not about the money <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
we have cats (cat) and rigth now we have had 3 generations.
first one we got by someone who was dead. Then she got 2 cats. The one left and the other have had kittens 2 times now.
I feel your loss for the budgies, though. My budgie of 3 years became sick and died 3 years ago. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Edit: We have a cat as well, cool fella. Just hangs around, goes outside during the day, at night comes inside. He's friendly and pretty cool. Naps a lot, but always up for a pat <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> Budgies are a lot easier to take care of in terms of commitment, management, costs, and housing. Our cat [Jet] is neutered... Thank god.