HI.

 

Are they any other people on here that keep pet budgies in an aviary in their garden?

 

I keep and breed budgies, Chinese Painted Quails and Gouldian Finches.

 

 I'm interested to chat with anyone who also keeps birds as a hobby, especially if you are located in Chiang Mai.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 20233 yr by jak2002003

You have a beautiful family.  Good for you, and the birds.

58 minutes ago, OneZero said:

You have a beautiful family.  Good for you, and the birds.

Thanks. ????

Sorry, but I have to ask.

Are these birds born and raised in hatcheries or are they trapped in the wild, then sold to collectors?

42 minutes ago, dddave said:

Sorry, but I have to ask.

Are these birds born and raised in hatcheries or are they trapped in the wild, then sold to collectors?

They are all totally domesticated birds. 

 

They have been bred for generations in captivity over hundreds of years and are much changed from their wild ancestors. 

 

Wild budgies, for example, are not available as pets...rightly so. 

 

Wild budgies are always light green and less than half the size of the domesticated ones. They are also very skittish and would not get tame or friendly to humans. 

 

The same goes for the finches and quails. 

 

It's like the yellow canary and white magicians doves. They are totally domesticated and don't exist in the wild..they have been bred for thousands of years in captivity....same as the chickens and geese on farms. 

 

They can't go back to the wild as they have lost most of their survival instincts through generations of captive breeding for size, colour mutations and tameness.

 

If they were set free they would flutter around aimlessly, not know how to find any food, and not be afraid of predators like cats and hawks.  They would only last a few days at most. 

 

It's like how a pet dog is no longer a wild wolf, and if someone released their dog into the wilderness it would not survive long, or the big fat white pet rabbits with floppy ears...they would just happy hop about getting picked off by foxes or birds of prey. 

 

I don't agree with having any wild animal as a pet.  

 

I also don't agree with keeping pet birds in small cages. They need room the fly and exercise to stay healthy and happy. 

 

Occasionally I have had some escape...and thankfully they always come back in a day or two and I just open the door and they go straight back inside. I have even had serval stray budgies turn up trying to get in with mine.  Again I open the door and they fly inside. 

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 20233 yr by jak2002003

22 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Occasionally I have had some escape...and thankfully they always come back in a day or two and I just open the door and they go straight back inside. I have even had serval stray budgies turn up trying to get in with mine.  Again I open the door and they fly inside. 

Thanks for your well considered reply and not taking my question as a hostile accusation.  Your birds are beautiful.

I remember reading a few years ago about a flock of Parakeets that nest around one of New York's busy airports. They are all escaped domestic birds or their descendants.  Not a great environment for a tropical species but they appear to be pretty tough and adaptable critters with definite New York attitude as anybody who has tried to trap them has discovered.

We live on the last floor of a condo in a relatively green area of the city, with a long balcony with many plants. We don't "keep" birds, but we have perhaps 20 nests or so, babies, large social groups. They are lovely to watch and listen to. We don't feed them.

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