The Pleasure in Breeding Budgerigars

Having decided to breed budgerigars it is time to decide on which way is best for you. Some people colony breed by just hanging a number of nest boxes in a flight full of budgerigars. This can be quite a successful way to breed them. It can increase your stock if that is what you want. It does mean however that although you know which hen is the mother of certain chicks, you do not know which cock bird has fathered them. A hen may have been tread by a number of cock birds while flying in the flight. As she finds a nest box and finds a mate the eggs she lays will most likely have be fertilized by another cock bird . Unless there is a striking resemblance to the cock bird she is with and even this is not 100% proof, then you will never know which cock bird is the father. If you want to be certain of the parentage the it is best to breed birds , one pair to one cage.