Posted by admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 29-12-2009
Tags: animalrights, birds, budgie, lineolated, lovebird, lovebird budgie
which is easier to tame a lovebird or budgie?????? and how is it easier?
which bird is easier to tame and how and why is it easier cuz i have 5 parakeets who are kinda tamed but not all the way but i wanted to know if u put more or less effort to tame a lovebird???
Hi. Here’s a description of budgies and lovebirds.
budgies:
Budgerigars (Budgies) are probably one of the most underestimated pet birds, in terms of their personality and pet potential. Because they are common, inexpensive, and have been around for a long time, people tend to think of a Budgie as boring. Nothing can be further from the truth. Some of the coolest birds I have known have been Budgies. I grew up with a Budgie, who lived to be 13. At the time that was fairly remarkable, but nowadays with improved diet and veterinary care, Budgies commonly live into their teens.
They are full of energy, playful and clownish, with a bit of a mischievous side. They are easy for children to handle, if brought up around children who handle them regularly. Budgies’ beaks are small enough that they may pinch a bit when they bite, but you can basically ignore it. They are very personable, and the males make quite good talkers if purchased when they are young and worked with. I have also found that males don’t bite as hard as females, and so they may be a better choice for families with small children.
Budgies are easy to sex when they’re young, so picking out a male from a group of youngsters is less difficult than with other birds such as Cockatiels. When Budgies are very young, the cere (the skin around the nostrils) is a pale purple colour. At weaning age, which is about 5-6 weeks old, the males will begin to show patches of bluish colour on the cere and the females will have a more solid pink or beige tone to their ceres. At breeding age the female’s cere colour turns a darker brown.
Young Budgies (with the exception of some fancy coloured ones) have sideways bars on their forehead. Older Budgies have a clear white forehead. Try to get one as young as possible, but one that’s eating on its own.
There is a video (Parrots-Look Who’s Talking) that has been shown on PBS a number of times, and there is a Budgie on the video who says, with a British accent, “Hello Sir David Attenborough. I love you with all my honour and all my heart”. And he says it with a British accent, clear as a bell! Although Budgies can learn a large number of words, they are not very loud when they speak, so you have to be right next to them to hear it. As well, they tend to jabber, stringing sentences and words together, and are not as capable of making the connection between words and actions as some of the larger parrots are.
Lovebirds look like miniature parrots. They come in a variety of species and colour mutations, and are cheeky, active birds. One prevalent misconception about Lovebirds is that they should be kept in pairs. Lovebirds are no different than other Parrot family members, in that they will bond to each other and to some extent become wilder if there are two, but one will make a tamer pet.
Another misconception about Lovebirds is that they are good pets for children. Generally, this is not the case, although I have seen some gentle Lovebirds. Almost always, these sweet ones are males. The females are usually more dominant in a breeding situation, and therefore more aggressive as pets. Breeders who understand genetics can determine the sex of babies by their colour in some nests, depending on the colour of the parents. If there is more than one person in the house interested in handling the bird, I would recommend trying to obtain a male.
Lovebirds are not usually tame and would rather be in a breeding situation. I don’t think you will have a very tame lovebird unless it is just one and you get it very young and spend lots of time with it. Now that being said each bird is different! Budgies are usually very friendly and if you get it young you can get a very tame bird.
Another idea to consider is a rescue. This way you can get a TAME bird, sometimes you can get a cage or something if you pay a little more, you have a bird that’s through the adolescent years if you purchase an older one so you know it will likely stay that way and not change after puberty, and best of all you give a poor animal a home!!!
Let me know if you are interested and i can help you find a rescue in your area.
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