Budgies: A Guide to Caring for Your Parakeet (CompanionHouse Books) How to Breed, Select, Care for, Feed, House, Train, and Maintain Happy, Well-Behaved Birds with Tips, Facts, and Helpful Resources

by Angela Davids

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

Reviews

[Em's Adventures]

Good but needs updating as a lot of things written in this book are not correct information by today's standards. Of course it's important to do more research and double check facts before buying a budgie anyway :)

[Asif Shaikh]

how to read? can someone help? I am not able to find

[Erin]

This is a good book for people starting out with their first budgie...... (sure helped me a lot).