How to Take Care of Baby Budgies

Budgies are known in America as parakeets. Hand-rearing baby budgies requires careful monitoring of the health of the birds and precise food temperatures. With proper handling, a budgie can live up to 12 years. Hand-reared budgies are more confident around humans, more likely to speak, and fairly tame. It's advisable to clip budgies' wings when they're ready to fly because they often escape or injure themselves otherwise.

Things You'll Need

  • Budgie feeding formula
  • Glass eyedropper
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Instructions

    • 1

      Feed the baby budgie every four hours. Mix the formula with warm water. Be sure that it's not too hot, or cold, because both can cause complications. Slightly warmer than room temperature should be fine. Use the glass eyedropper when the budgie starts to bob his head up and down, and feed until the crop is full. You don't have to feed them overnight.

    • 2

      Feed the budgie every three hours once it's about 2 weeks old, and then gradually increase the period between feedings. Delay the last feeding until late in the evening, so that your budgie doesn't have to go eight hours between feedings. Make sure that you throw away any leftover mix after you feed them, and keep your eyedropper clean by boiling it.

    • 3

      Increase the variety of food the budgies eat at about 4 weeks of age. They can eat small pieces of fruit, vegetables, hard boiled egg and small pellets.

    • 4

      Stop hand-feeding the budgie when they stop accepting food from you for a few days. Your budgie is now reared. If you gave it plenty of attention, and kept it separated from other budgies, he should be tame.

    • 5

      Cover your budgies' dwelling with a towel or a blanket at night. Keep their diet varied as adults. Take them to a veterinarian or research how to clip wings yourself, so that your budgies can't harm themselves or escape.