ShLB4
02-21-2018, 07:57 PM
We are new to having lovebirds but have had a cockatiel and parakeets in the past. So... we bought two from a pet store, then two more from a home-breeder. Store purchased lovebirds are 1 peach face(Cher)..(not mature..has some black on it's beak, and a hybrid/ yellow,orange head/ albino?(Sonny) Wings clipped. The breeder birds are peach face adults, unclipped wings.(Apple and Phoenix.
The store bought came first. Then breeder purchached a week later. So the store birds were adjusting pretty well. The yellow is more tame, older(than Cher) and very inquisitive.
But..as soon as we bought the breeder birds, the problems started developing.
There is a lot of fighting and my peach face youngster is getting bullied the most.
My question is: should we separate the pairs? My husband is planning on building our own in-house aviary so they have plenty of space between the pairs. 3Lx4w×4h aprox. Deminitions
They have plenty of toys, of which I rotate often. Two food and two water dishes, millet and lots of perches and a ladder.
They all get plenty of out of cage time. We try to give them 10-12 hours of sleep... but they've started staying up late and getting up early despite quiet and darkness with the cage covered. Only the yellow is tame at the moment.
Breeder told us she hadn't handled her birds(the unclipped peach-face pair) since November dt a health issue. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Hope i made sense .
The store bought came first. Then breeder purchached a week later. So the store birds were adjusting pretty well. The yellow is more tame, older(than Cher) and very inquisitive.
But..as soon as we bought the breeder birds, the problems started developing.
There is a lot of fighting and my peach face youngster is getting bullied the most.
My question is: should we separate the pairs? My husband is planning on building our own in-house aviary so they have plenty of space between the pairs. 3Lx4w×4h aprox. Deminitions
They have plenty of toys, of which I rotate often. Two food and two water dishes, millet and lots of perches and a ladder.
They all get plenty of out of cage time. We try to give them 10-12 hours of sleep... but they've started staying up late and getting up early despite quiet and darkness with the cage covered. Only the yellow is tame at the moment.
Breeder told us she hadn't handled her birds(the unclipped peach-face pair) since November dt a health issue. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Hope i made sense .