Now Jeri is correct in saying that headless parakeets are usually dead, but please be aware that they aren't NECESSARILY dead. I understand that there have been some decapitated chickens that lived for months or years that way, so long as they were fed down the top of their esophagus. So the headless parakeets may not be a lot less expensive to feed, as you still have to feed them, but then again you can feed them the cheap stuff and they're hardly going to complain about it are they, now?