Budgies

Author: Angela Davids
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1935484974
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
A budgie, as the common parakeet is typically called, is the subject of this Complete Care Made Easy pet guide that presents new and experienced bird keepers with insight into every aspect of selecting, caring for, and maintaining well-behaved happy pet birds. Angela Davids has written an ideal introductory pet guide, with chapters on the characteristics of the irresistible budgie, the history of budgies in the wild, selection of a healthy, typical pet bird, housing and care, feeding, training, and health care. The selection chapter offers potential owners excellent advice about selection of the color and sex, suitability of the delicate budgie with families, children, and other pets. In the chapter on housing and care, the author discusses selection of the right cage, placement of the cage, and the purchase of toys, cups, perches, and more. A bird’s diet is critical to its ongoing health, and the chapter devoted to feeding the budgie gives the reader all the info he or she needs about choosing the best diet, different types of seeds, greens, fruits, veggies, grit, as well as human foods to avoid. The chapter “Training Time” addresses finger training, towel training, perch training, and offers an easy-to-follow primer on teaching a budgie to talk. The final two chapters of the book will be useful for bird fanciers interested in learning more about the breeding and the basic color variations and genetics of this perfect beginner’s bird. The book concludes with an appendix of bird societies, a glossary of terms, and a complete index.

Parakeets And Budgies – Raising, Feeding, And Hand-Training Your Keet

Author: Lisa Shea
Publisher: Lisa Shea
ISBN: 1312794267
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
I have owned parakeets (also called budgies or keets) since I was a tiny toddler. I have photos of my pregnant-with-me-mom's parakeet (named Gandalf), so she owned parakeets even before I was born. Sometimes I've had four parakeets, sometimes just one, but in one way or another parakeets manage to wiggle their fluffy ways into my heart. This book is a compilation of my years of experience, not only with my own parakeets, but also with helping the tens of thousands of parakeet-loving visitors who come to my parakeet forum. Between the group of us we've probably experienced everything there is that could happen to a keet, good or bad. There is information on choosing a parakeet, feeding a parakeet, and full step by step instructions on hand training your parakeet. You can learn about parakeet activities, parakeet toys, and parakeet socialization. While the web is of course an awesome resource, often there are times that it's simply easier to read an organized, sequential set of instructions on an e-reader. Also, it seems that web access goes down during emergency situations! Having an ebook version of those "what to do" instructions available on your e-reader has saved many a keet owner. Think of it as part of your emergency care kit for your beloved pet. If you have any questions, always feel free to email me! I'm happy to lend a hand with keets. Enjoy!

Budgerigar

Author: Sarah Harris
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760873810
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Budgies, budgies, budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed budgerigars are Australia's gift to the bird world. They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They grasp simple grammar, can count to six and have memories that belie their size. They've been coveted by royals and been companions to the great and famous as well as grannies in suburban kitchens around the world. They've been painted by masters, rendered in the finest porcelain and graced fashionable hats and earrings of the highest order. Their image has been used to sell whisky, stamps and laundry detergent and everything in between. Surprising, charming and occasionally alarming, Budgerigar is the book that at last opens the cage door on the incredible story of the little bird that grew.

Flight of the Budgerigar

Author: Penny Olsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642279606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The Budgerigar is arguably Australia's best-known bird. At the same time, it is so ubiquitous that not everyone knows that it is Australian. Nor do many realise that the multicoloured bird that comes to mind--not to mention today's super-sized, extravagantly coiffed show budgie--is as different from the free-living original as a chihuahua from a wolf. Far from the cosy domestic lives our pet budgies live today, the native budgerigar has lived millennia of boom-bust cycles in the arid inland of Australia. Life was often short; if they were not fodder for predators, they starved or had to struggle their way to districts closer to the coast. For the Warlpiri and their Arrernte neighbours around Alice Springs, the Budgerigar (in its ancestral form) was a totem animal, featuring in art, ceremonies, songlines and legends. Since 1840, when ornithologist John Gould took living specimens to London, this little parrot has been on a remarkable journey. The Budgerigar was Australia's first mass export; its story includes British queens and nobles, Japanese princes and Hollywood stars. It has won the hearts of British spies and world leaders, including Churchill, Stalin and Kennedy. Taking the reader from the Dreamtime to the colonial live bird trade, the competitive culture of the showroom and today's thriving wild flocks, Flight of the Budgerigar is the authoritative history of the Budgerigar, written by respected ornithologist Dr Penny Olsen, and lavishly illustrated in full colour.

Successfully tame budgies within a few weeks

Author: Thorsten Hawk
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3754937952
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Successfully tame budgies within a few weeks. How does clicker training birds with budgerigars work? A step-by-step guide for budgies taming and parakeet training. You've never had a budgie before and are wondering: How to tame budgies? How long does it take to tame a budgie? How can you tame a budgie? How does the Clicker Training work? What do the sounds of budgies reveal? Differences in age or gender? These and many more questions are answered for you in this guide. This is how taming and gaining the trust of budgies should work. You can have a lot of fun with these wonderful birds. But please do not keep them on their own!

Budgies

Author: Clive Harper
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9781869556938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
This book of animal facts focuses purely on budgies. The text touches on budgies' feeding and breeding habits and also explains the differences between pet budgies and wild budgies.

Games and House Design for Parakeets

Author: Hildegard Niemann
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9781438002071
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
The key to keeping happy, healthy birds is offering a variety of activities to promote mental and physical fitness. Niemann gives you simple instructions for transforming a cage or aviary into a comfortable home, and do-it-yourself toys and fun activities to banish your bird's boredom.

Beautiful Birds

Author: Alvin Silverstein
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780761325130
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Looks at the birds most commonly owned as pets, including canaries, chickens, and pigeons, and offers advice on their care, feeding, and breeding.

Parakeets For Dummies

Author: Nikki Moustaki
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470121629
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
Create a "home tweet home" for this colorful, lively bird This plain-English guide helps readers find the right parakeet and offers expert advice on feathering his nest, from setting up the cage and selecting foods to keeping messes at bay. Readers will discover how to groom a parakeet, recognize the symptoms of illness, and keep a parakeet safe from other pets. They will also see how to teach a parakeet to talk, understand parakeet behavior, and find an avian veterinarian.

The Talking Budgie (Australian Shell Parrakeet)

Author: Marie Murray
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473355834
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
This delightful book contains a comprehensive guide to the care and management of budgies as pets. Complete with a number of heart-warming and interesting photographs of budgies, 'The Talking Budgie' is a great book for budgie enthusiasts both prospective and existing, and contains all the information necessary for the proper management of these beloved birds. The chapters of this book include: 'The Budgie as a Pet', 'Choosing your Budgie', 'Taming', 'Training', 'Teaching to Talk', 'Cages', 'Diseases', 'Breeding Cages', 'Aviaries', 'Cleanliness', 'Nest Boxes', 'Feeding', 'Bathing', 'Breeding', 'Color Breeding', and 'Salesman'. This text has been elected for modern republication due to its timeless educational value, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction on aviculture.