NoahC
01-25-2013, 08:51 AM
I have some questions.
The first is two birds just recently got added to the family. A friends sister didn’t want them any more and just offered them to me… so I accepted.
Originally I have a lovebird, Gypsy, and had her for… perhaps 2 ½ years now.
Now, she’s gotten a little friendlier over time. Will jump on my finger if I have food, or hang out on my shoulder, but will still bite if I try to pick her p and attacks a hand in her cage, so I leave that be.
She’s also VERY brave around the cats, she’ll taunt them their laying down and swoop over their heads and get closer and closer. They don’t do anything, just ignore her so I let her.
My question is I see she’s a little… brave and I was wondering if I hold even allow her near the other new birds (both parakeets, sweet, hand trained and don’t bite) or if a fight will insue. I can already tell she’s curios. I had them on their cage the first day and she tried to land on it, but I didn’t let her not knowing. Also, when they were on my solder and then left she immediately fly to my head and I don’t know if that’s a claim of territory thing.
Also, if I should introduce them, should I wait a few weeks until the new birds are comfortable here? And should I let their cages be together. Right now their on different sides of the room but can still see each other.
A little extra info, she is female, laid eggs last year, and even though I clip her wings, she can still fly somehow a week later. Determined little bugger. I clipped her because she eats all my posters, but it didn’t work, so I let her fly.
The two parakeets are clipped, cant fly, and I don’t know anyone’s age.
The first is two birds just recently got added to the family. A friends sister didn’t want them any more and just offered them to me… so I accepted.
Originally I have a lovebird, Gypsy, and had her for… perhaps 2 ½ years now.
Now, she’s gotten a little friendlier over time. Will jump on my finger if I have food, or hang out on my shoulder, but will still bite if I try to pick her p and attacks a hand in her cage, so I leave that be.
She’s also VERY brave around the cats, she’ll taunt them their laying down and swoop over their heads and get closer and closer. They don’t do anything, just ignore her so I let her.
My question is I see she’s a little… brave and I was wondering if I hold even allow her near the other new birds (both parakeets, sweet, hand trained and don’t bite) or if a fight will insue. I can already tell she’s curios. I had them on their cage the first day and she tried to land on it, but I didn’t let her not knowing. Also, when they were on my solder and then left she immediately fly to my head and I don’t know if that’s a claim of territory thing.
Also, if I should introduce them, should I wait a few weeks until the new birds are comfortable here? And should I let their cages be together. Right now their on different sides of the room but can still see each other.
A little extra info, she is female, laid eggs last year, and even though I clip her wings, she can still fly somehow a week later. Determined little bugger. I clipped her because she eats all my posters, but it didn’t work, so I let her fly.
The two parakeets are clipped, cant fly, and I don’t know anyone’s age.