How to introduce new budgie to OG budgie?

Put the two cages near one another for several days.
My guess is that Athena is going to climb all over Poseidon's cage when she is having her out-of-cage time as she will be quite eager to meet him.
You will have to see how Poseidon reacts to her. He may be interested or he may be a bit afraid.

You may need to take Athena into a different room to work on her taming as she will be more interested in her new budgie friend than anything else.

Have you been working with Poseidon on stepping up?

After that, please be sure to introduce the budgies in neutral territory.
Sometimes having two or three supervised meetings prior to moving them into one cage is advisable. Before introducing a budgie into another budgie's cage, the cage should be completely rearranged (perches, toys, food and water dishes) in order to help prevent any potential territorial issues.
Introducing Two Budgies

How large is the cage in which you are planning to house the two when the time comes? Length, Width and Height.
Please make sure you have 2 food dishes, 2 water dishes and 2 swings in the cage so they will each have their own.

As you have a mixed gender pair, you are going to need to do everything necessary to prevent breeding.

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Rearranging their cage frequently will help tremendously.
Please be sure you never put a nest box or anything that could be used as a nesting site in their cage.
When they come into condition, you need to limit the light they get to 8 hours a day and limit the amount of protein in their diet.

Ok thank you so much!! I plan on getting an aviary within the next few weeks, the dimensions are L31.25x W21 x H53.75

I will be sure to move her to different location while doing training. She usually isn’t very responsive though, her attention span is very short. Usually two or three minutes is all she’ll do it for.

No I haven’t been doing that with Poseidon. I have just been placing my hand on the outside of his cage as he is very timid. If I even place my hand in his cage he freaks out and flies around it.

I will also make sure to rearrange the cages and be very careful during their first few meetings. I am also concerned about breeding so no happy huts or anything like that will be in the cage.

As for the 8 hours of light, they are in my bedroom. Will a blackout cage cover be sufficient? Does it have to be silent and dark or just dark?

Thank you so much again! 💚💛

Sure!!

Here is my little girl Athena💙:



She likes to play fetch with this shredding ball, except I do the fetching after she tosses it off the cage haha 😂

And this is my baby boy Poseidon💚:

He’s a little scaredy cat of the phone so this is the only photo I have.

FaeryBee said:

Athena and Poseidon are adorable!! Thank you for sharing their pictures with us.

I recommend you remove the wooden dowel perches in the cage and replace them with natural wooden perches of varying diameters to help prevent pressure sores.
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The information in this link will give examples of better options for perches:
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Yes! Most definitely I will once he is moved in and out of quarantine. I have five perches in Athenas cage, one of them being a wooden platform.

I just didn’t want to switch out the perches for him yet because he is so so skittish. I don’t want to scare him more than he already is. He freaks out even while changing his food and water, I think a perch change at the moment would be too much. But I have them already and next week when he moves in I will also be rearranging his cage. Hopefully 🤞🏻 it’s not too much for him. This is my Athenas cage set up, his will be similar (and yes I know size is too small ☹ she is out all day though) but I am getting an aviary within next week or so. Planning on using this as the neutral territory once they are introduced and then it will become their permanent home.

Hello again! So they have been interacting quite a bit today! I am still new to budgies and reading behavior. They hang out with each other, her on his cage, and chirp together.

However, the foot nipping is still continuing. How long is is this to be expected? Should I allow it to continue or get her away when it begins. I know it’s a territorial thing but I am worried about injuries.

Also she is trying to get at his food, she can’t though since she is outside the cage. They are on different diets at the moment. We finally weened her off seeds a few days ago, she has pellets only now (after morning chop) His bowl has pellets mixed with seeds. Could it be because she sees and wants the seeds or is it a territorial thing?

Just now as I was writing this, I heard two loud squawks. Both birds flew quite rapidly away from each other, her back to her cage and he flew around his. I wasn’t looking because I was typing this. 😫

She is now back on his cage and they are chirping. Is this all normal for first day introduction?


Update: Found out what the loud squawk was. He flew around his cage to her quickly and I think it startled her so she flew away. Is that aggressive on his part towards her?

Sorry I have so many questions I just want to make sure I’m doing this right and learn more about what’s going on between the two of them.