Parakeet nest, what is natural material they use?

Question

I have a large cage. I have a wood bird house in the cage that my parakeets go into often. I want to put the natural nesting material into the cage so they can build a nest of their liking. However, I do have a nest that I have bought that they love to sit in. I just want to watch them build their own nest. Does anyone know the nature material that parakeets use???? Help me please. Thanks

Answer 1

If by parakeet, you mean a budgerigar, then you don't need to give them any nesting material. The wooden nesting boxes with a small indentation in the inside is all they need. My father has been breeding them for years, and never uses nesting materials, and has never needed to.

Answer 2

Budgies need no nesting material If they are other Parakeets I have always used Peat with great succes just put a couple of handfulls in the nest box and let them get on with it Lovebirds need twigs from which they remove the bark to make their nests.

Answer 3

I have a roomy outdoor aviary in which i breed several pairs of budgerigars ,in India we hang goblet shaped clay pots ,from hooks driven into the wall ,these are used as nests by the birds,who enter through the neck of the pot & use the concave base as the reseptacle to lay & hatch their eggs.
I have never in all these years of this hobby observed them carrying any nesting material into the nest pot.,they lay & breed with no problem at all,so i have convinced myself that budgerigars are not commited nest builders

Answer 4

PARAKEETS DONT NEED A NEST,JUST THE NESTING BOX. WHEN I 1ST GOT MY PARAKEET AND SHE HAD BABIES,I PUT CEDER IN THE BOX AND SHE JUST THREW IT OUT,BUT THAT WAS BEFORE I FOUND OUT SHE DIDNT NEED A NEST. SO,NO THEY DONT NEED A NEST

Answer 5

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Truth is, I've been a carpenter for almost 36 years, and I haven't found anything like this for less than 10's of thousands of dollars.

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