If I go on vacation can I leave my budgie, if I give it extra food and water?

Question

I would have someone to stop by and restock and play with it, but not daily.

Answer 1

It will splash its water out of the dish and then dehydrate. It will crack open the seeds, eat the inside, then put the shell back in the dish until it cannot get to the seeds any more. A person you have in will see the "seeds" full in the dish and not fill it and the bird will starve. That is what happened to me when I tried it. So you would have to tell the person to blow into the dish to get rid of the shells before they can tell if there are any seeds left. With the water.... you'd have to provide a LOT of water but not in a way that the bird can drown itself. I had most of my birds die when I let someone take care of my birds. I told them, they assumed they understood, so did I but I didn't emphasize the _important_ weird things about taking care of them and so they died. Also, don't have a bag of wild bird food in your house or they will give that to you budgie. That is BAD because the seeds in wild bird food are way too big in size, and the wrong kinds anyway, for a budgie or especially finches to actually be able to eat, so they starve while surrounded with seeds they can't eat. Tragic.

Answer 2

Make sure you give clear instructions to whoevers looking after your pet. If at all possible, ask them to follow the same routine as yourself which I presume would mean feeding every day. Of course offer to return the favour, this is what we do when we go on holiday. Have a nice time :)

Answer 3

as lond as you have someone in at least every second day a budgie can die quickley without a lot of water and food

Answer 4

Depends on how long you'll be gone. The last time I had to leave my two cockatiels it was for a little under a week, and I left them with five dishes practically overflowing with food and five more with water. That was only because there was absolutely no one who would take care of them while we were gone, and it is the most I would consider "safe" for the birds; if you're going to be gone for a week or more you really do need someone to come in and make sure your bird has clean food and water, at least every three days. Even if you just happen to have a kind neighbor lady or a responsible teenager you know you can trust, all that needs to be done is scoop the hulls out of the food dish, maybe put some fresh food in, dump out and replace the old water, your bird can entertain itself for a while (especially if it has a mirror).

Answer 5

If you do leave them try and find a small water bottle for them plus bowl of water,  bottle is back up and you don't solely depend on the water bowl because you never used one before but if theirs no water the bird will be able so find it.

And a larger shallow bowl helps with enough for three days in case they don't come on time everyone means well but if its not theirs then they don't understand the concept of taking care of a bird.

Birds water bowl should be cleaned and disinfected every day because of bacteria and this is why l recommend water bottle too.