Parakeets

Parakeets are amazing little birds. They make a great starter pet too. They can be trained to do tricks and have an excellent nack for mimicking. Parakeets come in a few different color variations from blue to green. These little birds are low maintenance. So long as you keep their food and water bowls clean by washing them daily. A weekly cage cleaning would suffice.

These birds aren’t well suited for distinct declines in temperature. So be sure to keep them in an environment with a relatively constant temperature with no drafts. Parakeets as with most other parrots are a bit on the messy side. They love to throw empty seed shells all over the place. One thing that has to be checked as often as possible is the food dish. Often times the dish seems to have seed and in reality its just seed shells. So the ‘keet could potentially be starving.

Pellets are a great idea for just about any bird. However, it can be a bit tricky to get your bird acquainted to eating pellets. One trick is to put ¼ pellets and ¾ seeds for the first couple of weeks and then slowly increase the pellets until there is nothing but pellets in the dish. Another great idea is to place pellets in the food dish throughout the day and at night a couple of hours before covering the ‘keet to go to sleep allow it to eat as much seed as it wants. The parakeet may play with the pellets at first for a few days to weeks but, eventually it will begin eating but, don’t forget during this time to substitute with seeds at night allowing it to eat as much as it wants, then replace the seeds back with pellets before covering the parakeet up.

My first pet bird was a green parakeet named Pete. He was a wonderful pet when I was about 11 years old. Pete would set on my shoulder for most of the day. Hanging out with me as I played in the house or outside. I really found that I enjoyed his company. Sometimes I would place him in a plastic airplane that I would pretend fly him around in. He was a great pet and a wonderful friend.

My Two Parakeets Brooke and Blue back in October 2009.

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