How Do You Pick A Baby Budgerigar (Parakeet)?
Budgerigars (Parakeets)make delightful and entertaining pets. Their comical antics are sure to keep your kids laughing on a daily basis. If you are considering buying one of these delightful little birds to join your family, you should try to buy a baby. Some pet store owners will tell you that all their birds are young when in fact they may actually have several adult birds for sale mixed in with the babies. Breeders sell their adults to the stores when they are replacing stocks and some store owners are not as honest and forthcoming as others, or may be simply misinformed. Babies make the best pets if you wish to finger train it and bring it out of it’s cage. Babies are easier to tame and train than adults are so it is important to know how to tell if your parakeet is a baby. Look at the sides of the top mandible of the budgies beak; Very young, just weaned baby parakeets will show some dark color on their beaks. Typically this is brownish and up near the cere looking like the beak i
