A diet of only dry seeds is inadequate for budgerigars. Enriched seed mixtures or seed mixtures combined with healthy additions are best. Pellet diets specifically formulated for Budgies, such as Zupreem, Kaytee, Pretty Bird, Harrison's, Lafeber's and Hagen, are complete but should be mixed for variety.

To supply calcium, your Budgie should have a Cuttlebone in it's cage at all times and you can also add Crushed Egg Shells. Most avian veterinarians recommend that your budgie's diet be supplemented with foods such as greens, fruits, grains, legumes, vegetables(no avocado) and eggfood.

Your Budgie should have water readily available at all times.

Budgie droppings should be removed daily and the bottom of the Cage disinfected at least weekly.

Use Gravel Paper already cut to size and made especially for bird cages. This is the cleanest and easiest low maintenance way to go. It will absorb spilled water and droppings.

Once a month you'll want to disinfect the walls of the cage to protect your Budgie's health. The Water Dispenser and Feeder Bowl should be rinsed out daily and disinfected weekly. This helps protect against harmful bacteria. Cage Cleaners disinfect and dissolve hard dried-up droppings.

Trim your Budgie's nails and beak. Wing clipping is also recommended if you want to limit or eliminate the bird's flying abilities. If you do not feel comfortable trimming or clipping, an avian veterinarian or breeder will do it for a small fee.

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Budgerigars are small but are very active, energetic, and lively birds. The minimum size cage for one or two tame pet budgerigars is 18 inches long by 18 inches wide. However, larger cages and flights are always better for these little birds. An ideal cage is longer than higher (since birds fly horizontally like planes and not vertically like helicopters) and would be at least 30 inches long. The cage should not have bar spacing greater than 1/2 inch between bars. Budgerigars are not particularly destructive birds, and spacious cages, while not always easy to find, are usually not overly expensive.

Care should be taken when placing several female budgerigars together, as they can do serious harm to one another if they do not get along. It is easier and often more convenient to keep either along with each other without any problem. They are relatively easily tamed and bred.

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The Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus), (parakeet, shell parakeet, budgerigah, budgie, or common pet parakeet in US English) is a small parrot belonging to the tribe of the broad-tailed parrots (Platycercini); sometimes considered a subfamily (Platycercinae). It is the only species in the Australian genus Melopsittacus and sometimes isolated in a tribe of its own, the Melopsittacini, although it is probably quite closely related to Pezoporus and Neophema.[2] Though budgerigars are often, especially in American English, called Parakeets, this term refers to any of a number of small parrots with long flat tails. The budgerigar is found throughout the drier parts of Australia and has survived for the last five million years in the harsh inland conditions of that continent.

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