Description

Alexandrine Parakeet for sale

Baby Alexandrine Parakeet for Sale

Alexandrine Parakeet for sale. The Alexandrine Parakeets have a large head and bill, a sleek body, and a long tapered tail. The male has 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.

Taxonomy & General Information: Read the comprehensive historical and ecological profile on the Alexandrine parakeet Wikipedia Page.

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 Parakeets (regardless of age, gender, or subspecies) all have a maroon (reddish-brown) patch at the top of their wing coverts (often referred to as a’shoulder’ patch). The shoulder patch is visible in parakeets during their first feathering before they leave their nests. Red with yellow ends on the lower and upper mandibles. The irises of adults are yellowish-white, with light grey periorbital bands. The legs are grey, except in P. e. siamensis (Laos’ or Siamese subspecies), which has yellowish-grey legs.

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 the 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 parakeets 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, the Alexandrine is a lovable, intelligent parrot that can live more than 30 years if cared for properly.

Alexandrine parakeets’ diet should consist of a pelleted base 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 it 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.

Maintaining an Alexandrine Parakeet

The basic cage care comprises cleaning the water and food dishes on a daily basis. All perches and soiled toys should be washed weekly, and the floor should be cleaned every other week. An aviary should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected once a year, and any items that need to be replaced, such as old dishes, toys, and perches, should be replaced.

Temperament of Alexandrine Parakeets

Tame, hand-fed 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.

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.

Breeding

Alexandrine parakeets breed from November to April in their native range. They usually nest in tree hollows, but sometimes use tree holes excavated by themselves or cracks in buildings. Females lay 2 to 4 white, blunt oval-shaped eggs, measuring 27 to 34 mm. The average incubation period is 24 days. The chicks fledge at about 7 weeks of age and are dependent on their parents until 3 to 4 months of age.

Exercise

Alexandrine parakeets are very active birds. They need plenty of exercise to maintain their physical and emotional health. A large flight cage is preferable for these birds. They need space to be able to move around without damaging their long, beautiful tail feathers.
These birds require a minimum of 3 to 4 hours a day to stretch, play, and exercise outside of their cage.