this is a really bad photo cuz my budgies freak out when my phone is near them. it’s one ladder like perch at the top, two grape branch perches on the left and right that are lower. three bowls. and then toys and at every perch. plus two swings on the top right
I mentioned this in another post but I’ll say it again, these birds are not technically mine. they’re my parents who bought them despite not having the knowledge, or space to take care of them properly. So I’ve been left to train and take care of them.
they are in one cage together and it’s impossible to get them out of the cage because as said they don’t have a separate special room for themselves and instead my parents plopped the cage in the living room and the living room is in no way bird safe for free flying. I wanna be able to target train them and just get them more comfortable with staying in my hand (mostly because my parents keep telling me to leave the cage door open and let them fly around freely which I refuse to do until they’re trained).
My biggest issue is the supposedly male budgie (Lily) is often the only one interacting or pushing away my female budgie (buttercup) from my hand or millet. Both are comfortable sitting in my hand eating their normal diet and millet and do know how to step up and fly to my finger but again Lily is very pushy and I often have to rest on another perch or like guide him away when training Buttercup.
tldr; I have two budgies, they can’t leave the cage and one is extremely pushy with the other making it hard to train the other.
Before I start, I’m technically not the owner of these bird. I’m a teenager who's parents decided to buy birds on a whim so my younger siblings would stop asking for a pet. I told my parents before hand to first set up a cage or not get them at all because birds are not beginner pets and we don’t have the space.
With that being said, they still did. I’ve done my research to help them adjust, with quality pellets and perches on the way.
My problem is I have no idea if the cage I have is big enough (and yes I know they shouldn’t be on the floor) But I was wondering if my top priority should be a bigger cage. I can’t get the exact measurements of the current cage without spooking the budgies but it’s around 30-ish inches tall and 26 inches long