A Pair Of Budgies And A Male Princess Parrot

[zena]

Hi all,
I have put my pair of budgies (Violet DF violet cock and grey hen with a supposed tumor- found out it was non-cancerous!) in the aviary with my princess pair and two female red rumps. I didn't want to put them with the doves and canaries because I didn't trust them not to attack them. But I think if my canaries can flock attack a bossy-nest ruiner red rump they could probably hold out against budgies but i don't want to loose any birds (I don't have that red rump anymore)... My princess parrot (male)- I know he's just curious- decided he wanted a closer look at the budgies, they didn't exactly like that and he ended up chasing first the male then female budgies around the cage- the male budgie didn't 'appreciate' having his mate chased... they get on well though- male princess doing his eye and crest thing to the male budgie instead of his mate... I have a question about my hen budgies 'tumor'. Since she's been in the aviary her tumor- or whatever it is- has gotten smaller. If it's not a tumor, what else could it be?

[avinet]

May 29, 2013 12:57:44 GMT 10 zena said:

.......... male princess doing his eye and crest thing to the male budgie instead of his mate... I have a question about my hen budgies 'tumor'. Since she's been in the aviary her tumor- or whatever it is- has gotten smaller. If it's not a tumor, what else could it be?

A male Princess will do his chatting up routine to anything when he is in the mood, even himself in a mirror. A video I took in my old shop of a princess chatting up an embarrassed young cockatiel , before Ernie, my Grey, decided enough is enough, is at

Budgies are very prone to tumours - both cancerous and benign. Most benign tumours are lipoma fatty tumours - basically just a lump of fat. A rough way of differentiating cancer and fatty tumours is that cancer tumours are generally hard and an grow quickly while fatty lipoma tumours are soft and grow slowly. Also cancer tumours are "fixed" - they don't really move if you try to push them around while fatty tumours tend to be easy to move.

Most lipomas come, as you would expect, from a high fat diet in a cage bound budgie - a seed only diet in an environment that doesn't allow flight. If your budgie is receiving a better diet, and especially by being in an aviary, she is able to fly around and work off that fat by exercise, so the tumour reduces in size.

When we had our shop we would often get given older budgies that had lipoma tumours - I would bring them home and put them into a good sized flight with other birds, and in most cases their fatty tumour would reduce in size or disappear.

cheers,

Mike

[zena]

The other cage she was in she could fly around in- her mate was with her and we never had any problems with him. Maybe she couldn't be bothered flying because she could just climb everywhere- where as now she has to fly to get to the seed and vetetables as well as her newly favourite perches... They both seem happier now. The male was courting her (Or trying to) today- he's gone a very dark purple (He's double factor violet and I think double factor cobalt as well? I don't know if it can happen but i can't upload photos as he turns out dark blue)