Budgies are keen to reproduce themselves therefore if given the right amount of care it should be quite easy, to start with before breeding i advise you to read further information about it. Choosing the right pair for breeding is very important but before pairing them you should think why you want to breed them for colours, a hobby or for showing. Once decided on why you are breeding them it is time to choose your birds, when choosing the birds have a look around for healthy birds which are the right colour for you, i also advise you to buy from a experienced breeder or a trusted pet store.
Once you have your pair of birds you will need to house them, their cage should be big enough for two birds, cages built for breeding can be brought from pet stores, you should equip the cage with food, water, and level perches (2) a nest box should not be offered until the birds have settled into their environment. After a week or so a nest box can be given to the birds inside the nest box must be an alcove for eggs to be laid. After a while the pair will mate then shortly after that the hen will lay the first egg, then from then every other day she will lay one egg, the clutch will consist of around 4-8 eggs once they are all laid the hen will start to sit, the eggs should hatch about 18 days into incubation they should hatch every other day (please remember not all the eggs will hatch) once the eggs have hatched she will be fed by the cock bird, you need to play no part in the rearing of the chicks and it is best that you don’t interfere but of course it is all right to look into the nest box.As a breeder i keep a lot of birds and find it neccessary to ring my birds, this should be done when the chicks are between five and ten days old, the ring should be placed over the first three toes and the fourth should be pulled through with a blunt match stick. The chicks will grow quickly in the next four weeks they will develop feathers and start to be a lot more brave than they were, once the chicks are around 2.5 weeks old it is ok to handle them, if you would like them to be tame when they are older, once they are four weeks old they will leave the nest and have the skill to fly once they are out of the nest the cock bird will feed the chicks until they learn to feed themselves (this is around 6 weeks old) once they are 6 weeks old and have learnt to feed themselves you can then separate them from their parents.
(do not be alarmed if the hen bird starts to lay another clutch of eggs before the last chick has left the nest, she most likely will do this but do not let her raise more than 3 clutches in a row, if she does lay a fourth simply remove the eggs.
It is not common for anything to go wrong, however it can and occasionally one of the parents will attack the chicks, when this happens remove the culprate parent, and foster any surving chicks to other nests.
