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Budgies: A Guide To Caring for Your Parakeet (Complete Care Made Easy) Paperback – May 1, 2006

by Angela Davids (Author), Carolyn McKeone (Photographer)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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Budgies are the perfect pets for beginning bird owners. They’re cute, small, and easy to car for. This handy resource explains everything you need to know about these small birds with big personalities, including talking training tips! Budgies is filled with invaluable information on choosing, caring for, and keeping your feathered companion healthy, happy, and living longer. Some of the helpful information you’ll find inside includes tips on choosing the right pet, emergency first aid tips, fun activities and tricks, simple training tips, diet and nutrition, communicating with your pet, a helpful resource guide and much more . . .
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  1. Print length
    168 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Lumina Media
  4. Publication date
    May 1, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    193199370X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1931993708
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lumina Media (May 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 193199370X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1931993708
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Angela Davids

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Angela Davids is the creator of KeepEmCookin.com, an educational website and online support group for women who are experiencing a high-risk pregnancy. She spent a total of 21 weeks on bedrest during her two pregnancies. She was inspired to write "Stuck In Bed" to offer moms on bed rest hope and reassurance, along with tips about how they can still be fantastic moms, even when stuck in bed.

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Kerry Webb
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2008
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I bought this book when I purchased two baby budgies last year and found it very informative. Full of high quality pictures and tons of info, even the novice bird keeper couldn't go wrong with this one. Plenty of tips on diet, toys and cages as well as info on a suitable healthy diet for your little ones. A good purchase if your not one to do research on the net, highly recommended.
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Buyer123
5.0 out of 5 stars Great buy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2012
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Cheap, useful and a great read for my enthusiastic little brother.
Only thing I can fault is time it took to receive the purchase ... otherwise no issues at all.
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S Sparrow
2.0 out of 5 stars Highly Americanised
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2010
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I found this book highly complicates the care of what is essentially a low-maintenance pet. Now don't get me wrong, there is a lot of valuable information, but if I was a beginner, I would probably opt for a goldfish after reading this.

I bought this book after purchasing a new budgie (even though I have 17 years experience of caring for these pets!) and was feeling a bit lost after having to start the taming process all over again. What stands out most is just how Americanised this book is. The worst aspect is that every single budgie photographed in this book has its wings clipped (which seems to be the norm in the US, but not in Europe). And the author insinuates that anyone who doesn't butcher their bird's wings in this way is a bad owner and depriving their pet of an 'enriched' life and exercise (so flying isn't exercise??).

More: the author pretty much likens people who feed their budgies on a staple diet of seeds to a parent who feeds their kids on nothing but McDonald's. According to her we should be feeding them only on pelleted food, and seeds should be an occasional treat, otherwise our birds will be really unhealthy. What nonsense! My last three birds made it to 10, 11 and 13 years respectively and were all fed on seeds supplemented by fruit, vegetables and herbs, and all were happy and as healthy as such elderly birds could be (and all had their wings intact, too). Again, this is probably the norm in the US, but not in Europe. As an experienced budgie-owner, I can dismiss silliness like this, but someone who is completely new to birds would feel obliged to follow this advice or else feel like a bad owner.

It's also quite annoying how the author keeps referring to show budgies as 'English budgies' and all other budgies as 'American budgies'. A nitpick, I know, but it does start to grate after a bit. Budgies are Australian, okay?

So to sum up, yes it's a decent enough book in some areas, but I would recommend Georg A.Radtke's book  Step-by-step Book About Budgerigars (which is the book I received with my first budgie, aged 7, and is still the best budgie book I have read by far) or for an up-to-date book, Hildegard Niemann's  Budgerigars (Complete Pet Owner's Manual)  instead. They leave out all the waffle and nonsense, and provide good, sensible advice.
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J. R. Hendry
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2016
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A book!!
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Sammy
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2015
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Loads of info in here. Really helpful too.
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