This was an ordinary box of tissues until someone decided it was tasty...

"It wasn't me, I didn't do it!"

Here is all that is left...

Wow, that's destruction all right.

:oops:

Our male cockatiel caused alot of destruction in the 'ego' sense tonight when HE laid and egg!!

What can you say... maybe a household of females has rubbed off! I know my Hubby is gutted!

The name needs to be changed to Buddette

hes a she

brown cere

Guess bud was low on fibre

did he eat it or just tear it up?

mmm pinus radiata!

She probably didn't eat any of it. Psitticines just like to destroy things...it makes them real happy. :bounce:

:lol:

welcome to my world.

"sorry professor, the bird tore up my assignment - see I can prove it (*hands over a plastic bag filled with shredded assignment)".

I know his cere looks brown now but it used to be blue and considering how well he talks he is definitely male!

He doesn't eat the cardboard, just flings it about. You can't leave books lying around and there is not much cover left on the phone book :roll:

Some females can be good talkers. I used to have a couple that had vocabularies of around 200 words (as well as songs). However, the colour of the cere is determined by sex hormones (testosterone and oestrogen) so if it well and truly used to be cobalt blue but now is brown I would be concerned about significant hormone imbalace. Unfortunately this is often caused by testicular cancer. We used to remove diseased testicles in birds via laparascopic surgery. I am sure Brett at Massey would be a good source for a consult if you were so inclined.

Anyway, he is so cute, especially with all those pinfeathers on his head. :lol: I love budgies.

Here he is 2 years ago...

He is now 4 years old.

Must be related to our cat?

Must be related to our cat?

Related? My cat used to have alot of budgie in him too :lol: RIP

Another fa'a fafine

the colour of an adult budgies cere is related to the health of the bird

some males can brown off slightly if they are not in a breeding mood

going dark brown can indicate a hormone imbalance

Maybe he wants an overseas trip?

When the Sydney mardi gra (sp?)

He a good lookin fella. Just a bit confused. Not to worry---it is not infectious.

Budzilla?

I'm not sure whether I should be worried about him or not. He is acting the same as normal and eating well (budgie seed and other stuff not paper-related).

chewing is often a sign of wanting to breed

When I had show budgies years ago, we would bring them into breeding condition by blocking the hole to the nest boxes up with tea tree. I would use plumbing brackets and put the tea tree through them and screw them to the next box. It only took a couple of days and they were in and nesting whereas before you block the nest off, they simply were not interested

chewing is often a sign of wanting to breed

I think it's more a sign of being a parrot.