My Parakeet Care

This is a post about how I take care of my parakeets.

Food and Water

Parakeet seeds

     I feed my parakeets store bought seeds. I hope to get them a better diet. I'm going to try giving them vegetables more.
     I change their food and water every morning. Read the Cleaning section for more information.

Play
    
     The parakeets play together. They chirp and fly around in their cage. I'm hoping to start bonding and training them.

Bathing
    
     The parakeets have a bathtub attached to their cage. Sometimes I refill it and they play in it.

Cleaning
  
     I clean the parakeet's cage and things. There are things I do daily, like changing food, water, and newspapers, there's changing the water in their bathtub, and cleaning their cage.

Daily

Food cup

     I change the parakeet's food and water cup and change their newspapers. For the food cup, I empty it into the  trash and put new seeds in. For water, I empty it into the toilet and put new water in. For newspapers, I throw away the old ones and put new ones in the bottom.
     Then I wash my hands and vacuum the dirty tray we put underneath the whole cage.

Bath
     I change the parakeet's bathwater once in a while. It all evaporates. When I change it, they play in it for a while, then don't use it much. I guess maybe I should change it more often.
     To change it, I empty it into the toilet and refill it. It always drips everywhere on the way back to the cage.

Cage
     My mom helps me clean the big bottom of the cage and some perches and the cups every few months.
     We take off the bottom part and keep the parakeets in the top part on the floor.

Top taken off

     She cleans the food and water cups and the bathtub, I clean the big black part and perches and stuff.
     The water cup is extra gross. She rubs the stuff off. She cleans the bird poop off the cups.
     I clean off the bottom of the cage and the perches with bathwater. I use a brush to get the bird poop off.

Cleaning cage

Then we put the cage back together and  the parakeets have a clean cage!


That's how I take care of my parakeets!