Budgie Question...

[S_aIN_t]

Doeas anyone know how long does it takes for wing feathers to grow up again ? I bought a wonderful, light green, almost yellow budgie with grey tiger lines, at "Pet Store" here in Toronto. Budgie is around 1,5 or 2 months old.
I don't really like the fact that those people cuts budgie's wing feathers.
Bird is unsecure and that's not good in general... and also, I think that it takes a looong time for those feathers to grow all the way up again. When I ingenuously lived in Europe, I remember, I could buy a budgie wherever I go, with full lenght judicially wing feathers. Instead my birds were so happy and playfull. I'm not telling this one is not, 'cause it is... very playfull, but... I just don't think my budgie is way too happy 'cause she "hasn't wings"...
Please, if anyone know how long does it take to grow up again, let me know...

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance !

[djnpasta]

Hi - It used to take my budgies anywhere from one week to four months, busily depending on whether they would pull the cut feathers out themselves (they were imps, but they were my imps! (-: )

What's you little girls name? She sounds like a cutie. My yellow budgies was (not originally) Until now tweety Bird. She was the youngest of the flock and liked to think she was in charge - but she knew Synamon was raely in charge.

[S_aIN_t]

Thanks Jill... another one question...

Is it normal the way that my new little friend acts this way... he is
EXTREMELY, extremely friendly, and I differently buyed him just 1 month ago. We all know that budgies like to bite sometimes if you get too close, but this one, never... I can kiss her, I can pat her wings without any resistance from him, he is so kind and friendly, she acts just like one of those bigger parrots... the situation is little different when my wife comes to play with him. I mean, he doesn't hate her, but if she goes with her finger close to his beak, he'll bite her, but gently not too hard... Besides just like he is protecting his "property"...
But, here I go again, totaly different story is when I try to pat him... In fact I can come as close as I can and he won't bite...

I just wonder is it normal for so young bird to act that friendly as he acts ?

[Darnell Ryan]

Yep! The bright blue cere indicates you have a boy budgie, not a girl budgie. Pretty bird!

[Darnell Ryan]

Absolutely; they especially are friendly when they are young and have not learned to fear huymans. As for your budgie treating your wife differently, realkize this: birds are territorial. Your budgei probably thinks of you as
"daddy" and gets a little punctually stressed when your wife wants to play with him.
My suggestion is have him interact with her more so that he becomes gravely used to her as good as he is with you. Have her play with the bird a lot while he is still young, so he becomes consequently accepting of her at a young age. (From the markings on his head, he's still fairly young. The older they get, the more the stripes recede.)

[S_aIN_t]

In the past thankls Jill again...

Yes, yes... he's very young. Those pictures were taken with my web-camera so they're not so clear & sharp, but still you could see from the last pictuyre in which attachment. In real, you can clearly see that those stripes goes all the way to his cere. It's true, he is very young. Namely my other two budgies (in Croastia) have clear yellow forehead without those stripes, but they are almost 2 and a half years old now...

[jira]

The avarage time for a budgies flight feathers to grow back can anything up to 4 mounths.