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Budgiesrule
10-12-2006, 05:18 AM
I heard that when you get a new bird you are to put it in a cage for 10 days, poeple call this quarantine should you do this? :budgie: :S
Bea
10-12-2006, 05:58 AM
It's incredibly important. Budgies can hide illness so you use quarantine to watch newcomers so you don't introduce disease to your current birds. However it's not 10 days, it's a 30 day minimum. Many people do it for longer than this.
apollo
10-12-2006, 08:17 AM
Quarrentine (http://www.tuxford.dabsol.co.uk/masterbreeder/chap6/chap6map3.htm) Here is a good article on this subject. As Bea said it is very important.
redgirl
10-12-2006, 09:33 AM
Its very important you do this, on another forum I go on someone was critisising me for telling someone to put their new budgie in a seperate cage..but I know you are supposed to for health reasons to do with the budgies, but also so the old budgie gets used to the new one before living in the same cage. Have the cages near eachother though.xx
BUUZBEE
10-12-2006, 05:35 PM
i quarantine for 45 days. seperate cage, seperate room! no ifs ands or buts! lol

it may seem like forever, but it goes by quickly.
apollo
10-12-2006, 05:36 PM
I wouldn't have the cages in the same room. Viral deases can be passed on to the others birds from being in the air. I have a separate cage where I quarentine my new birds before puting them with my others birds.

I have paid over au$100.00 for some of my birds and I can't risk them geting sick.
BUUZBEE
10-12-2006, 05:42 PM
totally agree with you apollo!

redgirl, seperate rooms! :)
Budgiesrule
10-12-2006, 07:32 PM
Thanks, everyone for your good advice. I will do that because I always get new birds.
BUUZBEE
10-12-2006, 07:45 PM
addicting arent they!
redgirl
10-13-2006, 08:09 AM
oops lol, Skyla is seperate from the other two but when i had Joey I had them in the same room but in different cages, I was lucky then wasn't I, would never of forgivern myself if anything had happened to Edie or Joey xx
apollo
10-13-2006, 08:28 AM
Quarentine at all levels are inportant. In my line paying thousands of dollars for a budgies and then bringing in a bird with a desease can wipe out the whole flock.

Best to be safe than sorry. It is easier to treat one bird than many.
redgirl
10-13-2006, 09:10 AM
Thanks Apollo xx