Sleeping Hours For Budgie
Jessica Rosenberg
been putting him to bed around sun down (or a bit later) and waking him up
twelve hours later. So he gets covered by 10pm and I'm up until 2 or 3am,
then I set my alarm to uncover him, and I get up a bit later. I always feel
a bit guilty making noise in my living room (where he lives) after his bed
time. I try to be quiet, turn the tv on low, turn off the sound of my
computer, keep most of the lights low, etc. But I feel like I'm also
missing out on a lot of time with my bird. Is it possible to slowly change
his sleep habits? Or is it strongly ingrained for him to go down with the
sun? If they sleep 12 hours or so per night then they aren't really
sleeping with the sun since we don't have 12 hours of darkness naturally.
Has anyone successfully altered their birds sleep habits?
Thanks,
Jessica R.
oldmolly
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Youdon,t need to cover him at sundown at all though. He could stay up until
say 9 pm (my birds bedtime) and wake up at 9am or earlier. In winter my
birds sleep earlier and wake later, and in summer they sleep later and wake
earlier. That is natural. Try the same with your bird.
At 9pm if I haven't turned off the lights my birds will start yelling "night
night" and won't stop till I go down and switch off.
ravelation
changed. Both my budgies begin their settling in ritual at around
8:20-8:30 and by 9:00, they're ready to be covered. We have them in the
living room with us and it hasn't affected them (that I can see) that we
have the tv and light on. I generally uncover them at 9:00 in the
morning too.
They take lots of little naps during the day to make up for any sleep
loss they might experience at night. At least that's what I see them do.
AAMOF, they're taking one right now! Shhhh.
Ravl
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I have found that not only bird have this clock. Luckily I have no shcedule
to my day and no curtains on my bedroom window. In summer I normally wake
anywhere between 5am - 8 am. In winter I am rarely awake before 9 am. As my
birds have a similar schedule I don,t feel guilty about the later winter
starts as they too are still asleep.Isn,t this called the circadian rythmn
or something.
Jessica Rosenberg
phrase. It would take all the guess work out! Maybe he could just blurt
out what foods he'd like too! (lol) I do notice him getting sleepy though,
his start to close more, slowly his head starts to turn, he's a cutey.
-Jessica
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David G Fisher
the same time every night (11pm) when they are tired. I turn lights out and
then cover them when I go to sleep. They want to get up 11-12 hours later.
Dave
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Jynx
> been putting him to bed around sun down (or a bit later) and waking him up
> twelve hours later. So he gets covered by 10pm and I'm up until 2 or 3am,
> then I set my alarm to uncover him, and I get up a bit later. I always
feel
> a bit guilty making noise in my living room (where he lives) after his bed
> time. I try to be quiet, turn the tv on low, turn off the sound of my
> computer, keep most of the lights low, etc.
> Thanks,
> Jessica R.
>
>
You could watch tv with the lights turned on while dancing to 70's disco
music 'til 4:00 a.m. with the bird not covered and the bird will do just
fine, so stop worrying about nothing.
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oldmolly
> I love that! Maybe you can get your birds to teach mine the nite-nite
> phrase. It would take all the guess work out! Maybe he could just blurt
> out what foods he'd like too! (lol) I do notice him getting sleepy
though,
> his start to close more, slowly his head starts to turn, he's a cutey.
>
> -Jessica
My parrots call out night night, including the quakers (crickle and crackle)
every time they see me going towards the stairs. My bfa will ask for his
favourite foods by name but that is only because I have taught him the name
of certain foods.It causes problems though when he is yelling for "nice
nana" (banana) and I don,t have any. He will not be pacified by abble
(apple) or cornycob (sweetcorn) if he wants banana.
Don Bruechert
schedule. We both pretty much go to bed together at around midnight - if
I'm going to be up later I do cover her around then. I get up between 630
and 7, and she usually stays covered until 730 while I shave, teeth, etc...
This is weekdays. Weekends bedtime is about the same, but I am rarely out
of bed before 9. I can't keep her covered much longer than that because she
removes the cover herself.
Every once in a while she starts "trumpeting" later at night, and then I
will wait till she stops and then go in and cover her. I don't know if she
calls out (after a long time) because I am in the other room, or if she's
ready for bed, but I put her to bed anyway (after she gives up and stops - I
don't want to come running when she does it because then she will do it all
the time).
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