With over 500 to choose from, this is the best selection of colours available anywhere in Australia and they have all been hand tamed to sit on your hand and shoulder and to step up from finger to finger. They are all fully treated and certified and available at just $65 each with our unique guarantee that provides you with a replacement budgie if you are not delighted with your budgie within the first seven days. Your new budgie friend is awaiting its new home with you. Phone or text message Garry on 0412 993 334 to arrange a viewing.

Although problems with budgies are quite rare as budgies are remarkable birds who love human interaction, we sometimes hear from owners whose budgie has ‘issues’. Sometimes they report that their budgie is not tame, too quiet, too noisy, unsocial or biting, has no partner, shedding feathers, has suffered damage or a trauma or partner loss and so on. PLEASE do not give up on your budgie if this is the case, the cure is normally quite straight forward and just requires a little knowledge and intervention to rectify the issue.

In the case of a budgie being untamed, won’t sit on the hand, bites and generally can’t be let out of the cage, the problem is usually just a simple lack of knowledge on the part of the owner and at Just Budgies at Whispering Pines Aviary, we can take your budgie and for a small cost, we can hand train it so that you are able to let it out of the cage to enjoy life. This usually deals with any antisocial behaviour automatically as a happy budgie, is rarely an antisocial budgie.

Feather loss and general ‘quietness’ can be down to a number of things but depression and loneliness are at the top of the list for a bird that lives by itself. That can easily be rectified by introducing the existing bird to a new partner and that is something that we specialise in as we offer a full introduction service to find your lone budgie a lifelong partner. Sometimes, a lone budgie can just forget how to be a budgie and after all how would you feel after months or years by yourself in a room with no other humans? When introduced to another budgie, the change in the lone budgie is remarkable and often sensational, it’s also lovely to watch, especially when you see the bonding that forms between the birds!

Where trauma has been experienced as was the case with one of our customers Karly & Hannah who unfortunately suffered an oven fire in their home which their two baby budgies were traumatised by with smoke and the noise of fire alarms. The baby budgies just cowered in the bottom of their cage, too frightened to even be handled. We were able to take the babies and within a week, return the same two beautiful baby budgies to their owners who were who were so happy to be able to handle their budgies again.

Where the budgie is just antisocial in behavour, its lovely to watch a ‘problem’ budgie go through our socialisation programme and this is sometimes achieved by putting the antisocial bird into a confined space with 10-15 other budgies that we borrow from our aviary for a couple of hours. In the photo you can see the middle budgie that was antisocial through lonliness and after just two hours with a budgie ‘flock’, it had found its pecking order or position in the flock, made friends and within another two hours of hand taming, became a lovely pet along with its new friend. This made sure that the budgie never became antisocial again, simply because it was now happy.

You have a wide choice of where to obtain your new budgie family member, but you need to be careful! A mistake in the choice of where to buy can leave you with large vet bills and very bad memories!

Many breeders dispose of their unwanted, or substandard stock, into the pet market, and you should be very careful and fully aware that a cheap budgie from an unknown background, could well end up costing you a lot of money in expensive vet bills! So how can you avoid that situation?

Firstly, never buy a budgie without seeing the situation in which the budgie has been bred.

Read that line again – This is very important! Ask to inspect the aviary of the seller. Is it clean, protected from the elements, do the birds have good lighting and natural sunlight, clean food and water containers, good ventilation? Are the floors and walls and wire cages clean and look as if they are cleaned every day or so? If not – move on – look elsewhere for the sake of your budgies, you should not settle for second best when you do not need to.

Beware of pet shops who buy in low-quality babies that they can sell cheaply. Also beware of amateur breeders who have just bred a couple of budgies for fun in the back yard. They may well have cramped small cages where the birds cannot fly and will be offering you a complete lack of choice in colours and temperament. Don’t limit your choice, if the seller can’t offer you at least 50 babies for you to choose your perfect baby budgie from, move on – look elsewhere.

Make sure that you are 100% happy with the breeding setup and then ask to see the budgies parents. Are the birds in good health, in prime condition, living in a good size enclosure, look vibrant and happy? If not, although the babies may look very cute, you are probably NOT going to be very happy with the long-term issues and challenges you may have to face with the budgies you have chosen. There is no need to take risks, if you have doubts – move on – look elsewhere.

Make sure that the baby budgies you are looking at are hand tame (unless of course you are going to put them into an aviary and you are not going to handle them). Most people can’t provide the correct training to hand tame a budgie, and even if they manage it, it may take a very long time. If you are going to handle them and let them out in your home, make sure they will sit happily on your hand and shoulder and that they will ‘step up’ from one finger to another before you buy.

What is the point of buying a baby budgie that is not tame and that you may never be able to tame? The supplier should have done this for you and should be happy to help with advice on the budgie and the human bonding process. They should be happy to spend time with you, to show you how tame the budgies are and how you can take over the role of best friend.

At ‘Just Budgies’ at Whispering Pines Aviary, we recommend buying your budgies from a professional and well-educated place and not an amateur set up. ’Just Budgies’ will hand tame a bird for you that you have acquired elsewhere but the cost will be the same as buying one of our hand tame budgies and so buying a cheap budgie that is not hand tame, is not such a bargain is it! If you then factor in the treatments, wing feather trimming and other benefits that you get included with all Whispering Pines budgies, then what we charge, is quite a bargain.

Look at this another way, you think nothing of spending an extra $20-30 for a nice cage or toys for your baby budgies, so spend that little extra money to make sure you start off with a beautiful, quality, hand tame, healthy budgies. Does that make sense to you? It should do – its pretty well common sense really. Start off right, start off with quality beautiful budgies that your friends and family will be envious of. Budgies are one of the best small pets in the world, give them that respect and they will love you for years to come.

Ask if the budgies have been treated for mites, vitamin protection and wormed. If the answer is positive, then ask to see evidence of this, the supplier should be able to show you the treatments they use and also be willing to provide you with a certificate of treatment on request. Here at ‘Just Budgies’ at Whispering Pines Aviary, we use Avitrol Mite Prevention, Vetafarm Soluvite Vitamin D and Aristopet Avian Wormer as our basic treatments and are happy to provide you with a certificate on request. Talking about certificates, did you know that….

We can also provide a free budgie birth certificate detailing the hatch date and details of the parentage of your baby budgies. If the budgies are a gift for a child, we will also put the child’s name on the certificate showing their ownership of the budgies as a very special memory. At Just Budgies at Whispering Pines Aviary, we go that extra mile to make your purchase something special for you and your family.

This is just one of the reasons that so many people choose Just Budgies – we show we care with the things we do that we do not need to do! It’s called good old-fashioned customer service and no, it is not a thing of the past in our business.