Budgerigar parakeets are not very pretentious; They feed with vegetarian food.
Feeding and caring for parakeets is extremely crucial for budgie lifespan.
The life span depends on breed, lineage, and health, being highly influenced by exercise
and diet.
Budgies generally live between five and eight years in the wild, but commonly make it to
somewhere between 10 and 15 in captivity.
One exceptional specimen clocked up over 29 years.
There are many factors that can affect the lifespan on a budgie.
Overweight and the lack of movement make their inner organs become too fatty, which leads
to failures of the bird's organs.
American budgies generally live longer that English budgies, and breeding budgies often
have shorter lives than those who never raise chicks.
The budgie diet you choose should be based on what they would naturally eat.
The closer to natural that you can get their diet, the better off they will be.
They will have less trouble absorbing nutrients and will be able to deal with the wastes more
efficiently than if they were trying to deal with something completely alien to their digestive
system.
Mass-produced dry seed parakeet food should constitute no more than about 20 percent of
your budgie's diet.
If offered dry seeds as a free-choice diet component, budgies and other parrots will
usually eat it to the exclusion of everything else offered.
In other words, don't put a dish of just dry seeds in your bird's cage and expect
them to eat their vegetables, too!
For optimal health, organic fruits and vegetables form a very important part of your budgie's
diet.
Vegetables are best fed raw.
For the biggest nutritional punch, focus mostly on dark green or yellow leafy vegetables should
be offered daily.
Try fruits and vegetables such as apples, pumpkin, grapes, carrot, parsley, broccoli,
mango, sweet potato, squash, and spinach.
Feed the fruits and vegetables to your budgie raw, because cooking takes away vital nutrients.
Provide a cuttlebone and a mineral block.
Cuttlebones and mineral blocks are necessities for your budgie.
They contain necessary minerals and nutrients that your bird might not be getting other
places.
The cuttlebone should be placed in the cage so the soft side faces the bird so he can
scrape off the bone.
Budgerigar parakeets need an average of 10-12 hours of sleep in the dark in a quiet environment.
If they sleep less, they become nervous.
If a budgerigar parakeet has night fears, flying through the cage hysterical, then uncover
the cage, turn the lights on, and talk to calm him/her down.
There are no differences between the lifespan of male and female budgerigar parakeets.
Budgerigar parakeet cages should be large enough to fit two parakeets in order to fly
from side to side of cage.
The budgie cage must be kept clean, neat and washed, and it needs to have several accessories
and toys.
They hate to be left alone, to be punished or hit, or to have unwashed cages or be kept
in tight spaces.
Put a little effort into amusing them and they will stay healthy and happy for years
to come.
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