Perches should never be positioned above food or water dishes so as to avoide contamination from droppings. The best feeding containers are made of hard plastic, which are easy to keep clean. The cage should have a slide-out tray in the bottom to make cleaning easy. The floor should be covered with a sand sheet, or sheets of newspaper. Never used paper with coloured newsprint as it is often toxic.
Budgerigars are very greagrious and enjoy the company of humans.
For this reason a family or rumpus room is an ideal location for the cage. Avoid kitchen areas as cooking fumes from overheated nonstick cookware is toxic. Budgerigars require a constant room temperature. Rapid and extreme changes of temperature must be avoided as these can be fatal. Your budgerigar's cage should be placed in a draught free area.