How common is it for budgies to be hand fed instead of parent raised? One of the local petstores by me (disgusting store....grrr it makes me mad) has a pen full of cockatiels and budgies and the budgies are obviously not handfed but I know some places do (I I just don't know if its a rare thing though). After having a parent raised budgie for a while and the two of you bond, do thye act the same as a hand fed baby would?

I have been wondering this for a long time and never thought to ask you budgie goers

Parent raised budgies do act the same as hand raised once the bond is formed. Hand raised can seem slightly tamer but not much, compared to a socialized baby. The parents do the hard work of feeding and you just play with the baby everyday while it is in the nest box. I mostly allow the parents to raise and we just play as there is not the marked extra tameness that comes from handraising bigger parrots.