The Budgie Nest Melksham

The Budgie Nest Melksham I'm truly obsessed with all things budgie! I love to support others to have happy, healthy feathered friends. I'm a responsible breeder. Chirpy, healthy chicks!

I breed small numbers, allowing me time to hand-tame, train & acclimatise them in my home.

07/09/2026

It's been an incredibly busy day and the editing takes ages so, sorry this reel is longer than usual as I just didn't have the time to find the highlights! 🙈

These are Raven and Flint's black face chicks. I adore these, they're intelligent, sweet natured and highly adept flyers. 🤗

They are all 8 weeks, this week and next. They're in the nursery cage and doing really well. 🤗🕊🐦

07/09/2026

A week ago, I asked you to help me name a very sleepy young chick who loved to sleep in the food bowl! 🤣 If you missed it here's a link:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18o3xH8NSv/

She's now an active little soul but she's still trying to fit in the bowl and definitely doesn't really want to share it! 🤭🥰

Thanks for all your fab name suggestions, I will keep them for future names, but as soon as I read the suggestion Dorma I knew that was the one! Funny and perfect. Thank you so much Island Beaks. 🥰

Dorma is a grey dominant pied exhibition and wow, what a beauty she's becoming. 😍😍😍

06/09/2026

As you know, I love surprises! This little one hatched today. 🐣 She's Violet and Mr Grey's 4th chick. How do I know she's a girl? Due to the amazing genetics of budgies! 🩵🐦

A female carrying the ino gene will always show the gene visually. Violet isn't a visual ino, therefore, Mr Grey is carrying the ino gene, I had no idea! 🎁🤣

Ino is a sex-linked recessive gene. The dad only needs to carry one hidden copy of the gene (known as being "split" for Ino). He passes his Z chromosome with the Ino gene to his daughter, and because she receives a W chromosome from her mother, she visually becomes an albino (provided she inherits the underlying blue-series gene). As mum is violet and dad is grey, this chick will be an albino rather than a lutino. A lutino is created from green series.

​To produce an ino male: The dad must pass down an Ino gene, and the mother must visually be an albino to pass down her second Ino gene.

And, I'm really sorry if that all sounds like a load of gobbledy g**k! It's the not the easiest to explain, it took me a long while of breeding to get my head around it! 🤣

This will be my first albino I've bred. I've bred a few lutinos, one of them, Vera, Violet's mum, but never an albino! 🤗

06/09/2026

If you've followed me for a while, you'll remember Rio and Vera. Vera is my beloved Stanley's daughter, she's a lutino but, to my surprise last year, I found out she is masking dominant pied (Violet, who you've all seen recently with her chicks, is Vera and Rio's daughter). Rio is an absolutely stunning golden face sky blue exhibition.

These two have been inseparable since the day they met, they had the most wonderful chicks last year and are 100% together for life. 🩵🫶🩵 To be honest, I'd love to pair Rio with one of my full exhibitions but I could never separate them, they'd be heart broken and probably wouldn't pair with another any way.

Now, this is a bit of an odd one. Vera has become incredibly terroritorial about the middle platform in the left hand cage and has been really quite aggressive with everyone coming in or coming near. Very unlike her, Rio backs her up, too! It's made life quite uncomfortable for the others. Mind you, it hasn't stopped them going in there! 🤣🙈🐦

Vera's been squatting in the corner for quite long periods but no eggs. I thought there might have been something wrong with her initially as she doesn't seem to be in breeding condition and Rio never leaves her side, but nope, when she wants to, she's full of life, flies around, is eating well and is absolutely a force to be reckoned with when others dare to come on to the platform! So, I think she's just desperate to have another family but feels threatened by the others. I don't blame her! 🐦🐦🐦

Time will tell, I put them in a breeding cage today. Look at Rio, he's like all his Christmases have come at once! 🤣 Vera, was straight in the nestbox so I'll watch intently ....

What do you think, chicks to come or does Vera just need a nice quiet space for a bit? 🤔

05/09/2026

These little ones get everywhere! 🤣

05/09/2026

Yesterday Raven and Flint's black face chicks moved into the nursery cage. I can't believe how fast time passes!

Flint is happy in the flock, back with Raven, and these little ones start their independent journies. 🤗🐦

04/09/2026

I always love to try new things, these are Pagima Green sprays, a wild grass. It was recommended to me by Deborah Green, thank you so much. 🤗

It's excellent for budgies—it is rich in fibre and nutrients, easy to digest, and acts as a healthy treat that keeps them entertained. 😀

There's a bit of preparation involved, you have to freeze it for 48 hours, defrost for 24 and then freeze again for 48 hrs before you can offer it to them. This ensures all bugs, insect eggs etc. are killed. I've just put mine in the freezer.
I'll let you know how I get on. 😊

04/09/2026

A little update this morning, Both Flavia and Morana have laid their first eggs for their second clutches. 🥚🥚

Violet and Mr Grey have three healthy little chicks so far and they're great parents. 💜

03/09/2026

Eeks, this little one is 5 weeks old and has literally just taken his first flight 🕊. I missed filming it 🙈 but he was very pleased to fly over to Lacey's swing. He's the first one to use it since she passed. He seems to like it. 🥰🐦

He's Flavia and Cecil's chick, a gorgeous yellow-face grey exhibition.

03/09/2026

Every time I walk in, the chicks go mad now, wanting to explore! The tiny blackface cracks me up, look how he jumps on me! Proper little characters, these! 🤗🥰🤣

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