Rehoming Parakeets

[shyanashay]

Hello. I have two budgies that desperately need a new home. I already have eight parakeets and two cockatiels, I can’t have more parakeets at the moment. They’re very sweet birds.
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They’re two and three months old.

Minho is a 3 month old male double factor spangle, or creamino. He’s a bit larger than other parakeets, but not as large as an English budgie. He’s very confident and sweet.

Newt is a 2 month old female lutino. She’s a drama queen, and she’s very, very playful. She’s very sweet.

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I am in Ohio, and I’m not asking for money. Just wanting to find a good home for these loving birds.

Thank you.

 

[Owlet]

Apologies, I don't mean to overstep but you did just post a thread about breeding your budgies, wouldn't that be a step in the wrong direction if you're already at your limit with budgies.. ?

 

[ParrotGenie]

Apologies, I don't mean to overstep but you did just post a thread about breeding your budgies, wouldn't that be a step in the wrong direction if you're already at your limit with budgies.. ?

You beat me to it.

 

[shyanashay]

Apologies, I don't mean to overstep but you did just post a thread about breeding your budgies, wouldn't that be a step in the wrong direction if you're already at your limit with budgies.. ?

The first time it was fine, I was in the midst of separating the male and the female, and when I turned around they were breeding. I tried waving my hand around but they wouldn’t stop. I couldn’t just throw the eggs away.

 

[ChristaNL]

Actually: of course you can throw eggs out (or boil them).
An egg is just a container of nourishment for a possible chick, that is at that point just a few cells or maybe nothing (unfertilised egg) - it is not a living being!

It what we do with chickeneggs all the time.
(On purpose even)


back to your question:
wow, those are some cutelooking ones, I hope you find them a good place.

 

[EllenD]

You can always stop them from breeding, and at any time/moment you can stop them from breeding...All you have to do is separate them, or as Christa already said you need to boil each egg as it's laid for 20 minutes, let it cool down, and then put it back in with the mother and let her lay on the entire clutch of boiled eggs until she realizes they aren't going to hatch, gets bored, and leaves them. Then throw them out.

There are literally MILLIONS of Budgies who need homes in the US, and tons of them are just released into the wild here every single day...They only cost $20-$30 a piece or less at pet shops, and the thing is that it seems like you might be "Community Breeding" them, which is not only unhealthy but it's going to lead to in-breeding eventually, if not already. And if you give away two Budgies that are related, or sell two Budgies that are related, and happen to also be of the opposite sex, people will inbreed them over and over and over and over again...So the most humane thing to do is to do everything you can to discourage them from breeding if you have no more room for more Budgies (also better for the health of your females), and if you can't get them to stop, which is rare since you can just separate them by sex if boiling the eggs and putting them back in for the mother doesn't work, and if that still doesn't stop them then you just boil the eggs so they don't hatch. It's better for the overall health and well-being of your own Budgies, and much better for them as a species overall...

I'm not trying to be critical of you, but trying to get the point across that the US needs NO MORE BUDGIES in it at all, especially with the multiple mass-breeding operations who breed thousands of them every month to sell to the big pet shops like Petco and Petsmart. I'd bet (I don't know for sure, just an educated guess), that AT LEAST HALF of all Budgies that are sold in the US to people from Petco, Petsmart, Petland, etc., and then all the thousands of small, private pet and bird shops, are either let go outside into the wild of the US (regardless of the state and the weather/seasons), killed purposely or starved to death, die of Egg-Binding from being continuously bred or some other illness/infection because no one is willing to spend money to take them to an Avian Vet, or re-homed/sold over and over and over and over again on places like Craigslist...And most of them unfortunately just sit inside a cage all day long, every day, 24/7, 365, never being allowed out of the cage and never being given a bit of attention at all, many without a single toy in the cage...And those are the better Budgie homes where they are actually given fresh food and water every day and get their cages cleaned-out at least once a month or so...And I'm not at all exaggerating...unfortunately.

 

[Allee]

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