Is budgerigar afraid of cold?

Budgerigar is native to Australia and was introduced to China in the early 1930s. It has a wide range of breeding, and many people love this kind of pet bird. Strictly speaking, budgerigar is not afraid of the cold. In general, the winter temperature can be kept at 5-10 degrees Celsius safely through the winter. Of course, what if the temperature is very low and the budgerigar is still afraid of the cold?

Is budgerigar afraid of the cold?

Budgerigars are indeed afraid of the cold, but budgerigars are relatively easy to raise and have relatively low environmental requirements, but their needs should not be ignored for this reason. They can live better in a suitable environment, so it is better to keep them indoors in winter, especially the birds. Birds are not cold-resistant as adults. It is recommended to cover them with cotton curtains below 5 degrees indoor at night to keep warm.

What if the budgerigar is afraid of cold?

1. When the outdoor temperature is very low, parents should transfer the budgerigar's birdcage from outdoor to indoor. If family conditions permit, you can prepare a large cardboard box for the pet bird, hang a 40-watt incandescent lamp in it, and use the heat emitted by the lamp to warm the bird.

2. During the winter of the budgerigar, parents should prepare more oil to ensure that the bird has enough diet, so that its body can hoard more fat to withstand the cold in winter. Oil foods prepared by parents can include perilla seeds, sesame seeds, sesame seeds, rapeseed, peanuts or melon seeds and so on.

3. To give the budgerigar a warm and comfortable environment, parents can also spread a layer of cotton wool in the birdcage or in a large cardboard box, and a thin quilt is wrapped around the cage to withstand the cold wind and low temperature in winter. So that budgerigar can safely survive the winter.

How to raise budgerigar best

1. The cage: a large square metal cage should be used. The size of the cage is 40 cm long, 35 cm wide and 35 cm high. The bottom of the cage is provided with a drawer-type sand table (dung board) to facilitate the cleaning of feces. The nest box of the budgerigar is a transverse nest. The size of the nest box is a small rectangular wooden box with a length of 25 cm, a width of 14 cm and a height of 14 cm. There is a partition in the middle, which is divided into inner and outer chambers. The outer chamber has a round hole leading to the outside, with a diameter of 6 cm. The outer room and the middle partition of the inner room have the same round hole, 4 cm in diameter, which is the gateway for birds to enter and exit. Clean drinking water should be changed every day, feces should be cleaned once a week, and attention should be paid not to parrots in strong light in summer.

2. Food: millet and barnyard weeds are the main fodder, and some sesame seeds or perilla seeds are also fed, but the dosage should not exceed 10%. In order to ensure the nutrition needed by birds, green vegetables (cabbage, rape) and inorganic salts (bone meal, oyster powder) should also be fed regularly. This kind of bird is resistant to roughage, and concentrate should not be fed too much, so as not to cause deposition and affect egg laying and reproduction. When feeding, pay attention to blowing off the chaff from the canister, wash the vegetables before feeding, disinfect (1/1000 potassium permanganate solution can be used), drain, and take out the rest on the same day. Pay attention to the hygiene in the cage and clean up the sand and feces frequently. Food and water cans should be scrubbed once or twice a day. Although budgerigar is not too afraid of the cold, but the temperature is too low will affect reproduction, so the winter indoor temperature should not be lower than 0 ℃.

3. Temperature: pay attention to keeping warm in winter, and the indoor temperature should not be lower than 16 ℃. The temperature is higher in summer, so ventilation should be strengthened when the temperature is more than 30 ℃. Budgerigars like to eat feed with shells, usually millet, barnyard grass, millet or egg millet, and should be fed with green vegetables, oyster powder or bone meal as regular feed (you can also put a whole piece of cuttlefish bone in the cage to peck). Budgerigar reaches sexual maturity at the age of 4 months, begins to estrus and mate, and can be used as a breeding bird to reproduce. Budgerigar can reproduce all the year round. Generally, each litter can lay 4-7 eggs, which are white and lay one egg every day or every other day. When laying the third egg, the female begins to sit and hatch, and the hatching period is 18 days.

4. Reproduction: budgerigar is easy to breed, but it is necessary to avoid hybridization and keep this breed pure. For the sake of the health of offspring, 1-2-year-old parent birds should be selected. Soon after male and female mating, the female began to lay eggs, and the next day an egg produced a total of 490 eggs. Female birds do not leave the nest after laying eggs until the end of hatching, during which time the males feed. The incubation period is about 18 days. The nestling of budgerigar is a late adult bird, which cannot live independently within 25 days of hatching and is fed by adult birds. The method of raising chicks by parent birds is that the males feed the females, and the females feed the chicks. After 28 days of growth, the chicks can eat by themselves and live on their own. Sexual maturity can be achieved at 5-6 months.