[Mothi]

I would say for about 6 months I had looked for a hand fed budgie. Only once I had seen it advertised for sale and not since then. (It was green and I wanted more of a blue or slate color.) I know there is no profit to be had for breeders to hand fed budgies like they might get with cockatiels and lovebirds, but I wanted a hand fed budgie. People have told me that a young parent raised one should be fine, but I am set on a hand fed budgie. Is there any way I can find a hand fed budgie? I am almost willing again to go through handfeeding a baby bird if it is not worth it for someone to hand fed it to sell, but again, the only places with breeding budgies are aviary breeders and it is too much of a bother for them to sell a baby. Any suggestions? Anyone know where I can find one in Southern CA?

How many here have hand fed budgie and how many parent raised budgie since they were young? How is their tameness? Anyone here owned both to comment the differences in attitude, training, talking, etc?