Our Mission
To breed the best with the best to create the most amazing parakeets possible. "Unkeetable Quality"tm
Our Services
We sell Budgies (a type of parakeet), starter cages, and other basic necessities all birds need. All at amazing prices with even better service.
Our Desire
Our desire is to give you and your family a beautiful, healthy, loveable, trainable, enjoyable, pet parakeet.
Whats the Price of a Parakeet?
by Keely
What makes the price of a parakeet? I have read in the past that when parakeets (budgies) were first introduced to the US, each bird cost over $2,000 and that was back in the late 1800's, early 1900's, so two thousand dollars meant a lot more. Today, in most places, one can go to the closest pet shop, chain store, or mom and pop shop that carries birds and pick up the standard "American Parakeet" for a cool $15-$30. We adopt out our birds at Keely's Keets for an even $20, and always have. Unlike other breeders we don't charge for the pretty and fancier colors, or the males. All birds, all colors, all ages, $20.
I am occasionally asked to lower the price of our birds, and I always want to give and get a good deal, but I don't. So why not lower the price? For starters, it's not just about the money, it's about finding a good home for the birds. We handle and spend a lot of time with the birds. Each bird is leg banded with a registered and unique leg band for identification. The leg bands help with customs, travel, and if the bird is ever lost or stolen. The budgies are co-parent hand fed when they are babies to ensure the birds are socialized and familiar with humans. This process bonds the birds to people making them easy to train and even easier to bond with the parakeet.
Instead of colony breeding where one has a single cage for all the birds and they are allowed to mate with whomever, whenever; we employ what is known as cabinet breeding where we select each couple and mate them together in a separate cage away from the main flock. We track all the birds and keep records, so we know who is to related to each other. The chances of getting genetic defects are lowered. This style is a lot harder to do and takes more time, but is also more rewarding and beneficial. It allows us to monitor each clutch of budgies, to make sure every baby bird is growing right and getting the attention they need.
On top of our breeding practices and baby handling, we also provide a high quality and varied diet for the birds. We wean the babies to fruits and vegetables so they can eat good food for life. This is just part of why we ask $20 for each bird, but we also make sure that each of those twenty dollars goes a long way to making an awesome pet bird, a member of your family.
Bird Pictures!
by Keely
We have all the baby pictures from all our birds, adopted or not, in the Galleries page. If you have ever adopted a bird from us, look for the bird's band number in the gallery and see their baby pictures! If not, look around and enjoy!
The Colors page is still under works, until it's up check out the gallery to see some of our birds and their wonderful colors.
P.S. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Storage for Babies!
by Keely
We are now starting to hatch babies again, after our interum between new couples breeding and older couples coming out for a much desevered rest. It's very exciting to have more little ones to be banded, hatched, and hand fed but also a lot of work! The budgies are worth it though. We merged another breeder flight to the parents cage to give them mroe wiggle room, so they have five flights connected together with tunnels.
We were alss able to finish cleaning all the flight cages! It was a big undertaking and we barely got it done on time, but we did! We also added some more convenient storage to our bird room, a peg board on the wall and shelves in the closet, which add more storage that is eaiser and quicker to get to.
Squeaky Clean
by Keely
Today we cleaned out all the flight cages while we are low on birds for adoptions and inbetween sets of clutches. Tomorrow we are going to do the same with the breeder flights, so we will have all clean cages. It's a big undertaking, but anything for our little babies. It was kinda for fun to put up all the toys and perches back into the cages, but still tiring.
I have some very sad news, Kenny, our first parakeets, the little guy who flew into our window in 2003 and was pushing 9+ years of age passed away from natural causes this week. He has, however, left a long legacy with his children. Almost all our yellows and pieds are his kids, grand kids, great grand kids and great great grand kids. RIP Kenny.
Old Replacements
by Keely
Well I was unable to find any corrent updates to the pages that were lost, but we had some older versions I have put up in the mean time, I will manually update them and readd the colors page as soon as I can. The FAQ's page has also been reorganized.
two of our newest breeders have laid eggs and anouther one is starting to brood, so those babies will be before I know it.