Bonding or Breeding?
I have a new home with a beautiful new cage. I am a lucky budgie, I have a new mum that feeds me lots of goodies and she gives me plenty of toys to keep me happy. Mum those plastic perches do hurt my little feet, can I not have wooden ones please. I do know that willow and apple branches are good for my feet.
My mum stops to talk to me every time she passes my cage, thanks mum, and I do love socialising. I almost forgot mum can you leave the radio on when you go out, we budgies do like company.
Now I see a great big millet spray in mums fingers, will she eat it all, hang on I thinks it’s for me. “Step” my mum says as she wiggles this big millet spray, step, I will do somersaults for a great big spray.
Well here we are two weeks in the new home and mum wants to bond with me. Lot’s of eye contact happening now, plenty of winking and a little blinking. Is mum a budgie cos that’s what we do.
Now we are in a kiss kiss mode “give mum kisses” is all I get all day and the way she purses her lips tells me she wants to regurgitate, I knew it mum wants to bond a little more. Will we breed and have babies?
Now I am having a kiss, a wink and mum is now stroking my head, this is budgie bonding at its best, she wants to breed, and I knew it would happen.
But I have no nest what will I do, I know I can lay my eggs on this sharp horrid sandpaper on my cage floor.
I can here mum complaining about my big poos, why I don’t know, that’s what we do mum before we lay eggs.
Here we are me and my mum, that sounds silly,” my mum” when we are really a bonded couple who are going to have some little chicks.
Wow that hurt and I have more of those big white eggs to lay BUT why is she throwing my eggs away?
I hope she gets some advice cos one of us has got this bonding bit wrong.
Could you be bonding and bringing your budgie into breeding condition, I think you are.