Alexandrine Parakeet for sale

Alexandrine Parakeets have a large head and bill, a sleek body, and a long tapered tail, They look like Indian Ringneck parrots for sale. The male has a general green plumage with some grayish-blue on the cheeks and a dark purple-red patch on the wing. There is a faint black stripe from the cere to the eye, a black stripe across the lower cheek, and a wide rose-pink collar. The inner tail feathers are bluish-green with light yellow-white tips and a yellow underside. The beak is a deep red with a paler tip. Their average lifespan is 40 years.
The female is lighter than the male. Females don’t have the rose-pink collar or the black stripe across the cheek patches, and they have shorter central tail feathers. These birds grow to a length of 23″ (58 cm). Alexandrine Parakeet for sale

Care and feeding Alexandrine Parakeet

Alexandrines, like most parrots, are chewing machines and need lots of softwood toys to keep them happy. Add on a few rope toys and a couple of indestructible acrylic toys, and Alexandrine is ready to play. Puzzle toys that hide nuts or dried fruit can be especially entertaining for an Alexandrine parakeet, which is always ready for a challenge.

Alexandrine parrots for sale will generally live peacefully with others of their kind but might be aggressive toward other birds. The Alexandrine parakeet’s beak is powerful and large, so keep smaller birds out of your pet’s reach. If you have a “cousin” bird, like an Indian ring-necked parakeet, you can let the birds play, but you should not let the two species breed. All in all, Alexandrine is a lovable, intelligent parrot that can live more than 30 years if cared for properly.

Alexandrine parakeets’ diet should consist of a pellet-based diet, as well as fruits and vegetables. Check out Lafeber’s Premium Daily Diet pellets, Nutri-Berries, and Avi-Cakes. The shape, textures, and ingredients encourage increased food interaction, which results in nutritious foraging that’s healthy for birds.

Bird Food
Foods available for Parakeets include formulated diets, either pelleted or extruded, seed mixes, and Parakeet mixes which offer a mixture of both pelleted food and seeds. There are pros and cons to feeding only a formulated diet as well as feeding only a seed diet.

Formulated Diet
A formulated diet provides a good nutritional base so does not require the addition of vitamins, however, it does not contain the phytonutrients (antioxidant pigments) that are found in vegetables, fruits, grains, and seeds.
Also, parakeets can become bored with it due to the lack of variety.

Fruits and Vegetables
Some of the supplemental fruits include apples, grapes, bananas, pears, cherries, mangoes, oranges, papaya, melons, peaches, and berries. Many garden vegetables that are good include spinach, watercress, field lettuce, poppy, chickweed, dandelions, carrots, corn on the cob, peas, zucchini, green peppers, endive, and sweet potatoes.

Proteins
Additional proteins can be offered on rare occasions and definitely when your parakeets are brooding. Some proteins are cottage cheese, hard-boiled eggs, peanuts, monkey chow, and even dog food.

Water
Give your parakeet fresh drinking water every day. You can also add soluble vitamins and minerals to the water.

Bird Baths
Different species prefer different kinds of baths and some do not want a bath at all. The personal hygiene of your parakeet – for those species that like it – can include a bath or shower two or three times a week to help keep its plumage in good shape.  Use either a handheld shower sprayer or a hose with a fine spray head.

Maintenance

The basic cage care includes daily cleaning of the water and food dishes. Weekly you should wash all the perches and dirty toys, and the floor should be washed about every other week. A total hosing down and disinfecting of an aviary should be done yearly, replacing anything that needs to be freshened, such as old dishes, toys, and perches.

Temperament of Alexandrine Parakeets

Tame, handfed Alexandrine Parakeet for sale can make loving and affectionate pets, although they tend to become “one-person” birds. They strongly bond to a favorite family member while shunning others within the household. Buy parrot online

Like other Asiatic parakeets, many Alexandrine parakeets go through a hormonal, aggressive bluffing phase during adolescence (age 4 months to 1 year), which can be difficult for less seasoned bird owners to handle. This period can last from two weeks to two years, depending on the bird.