synch
09-21-2006, 01:11 AM
Hi,
just a newbie to this board and came upon it surfing. my husband has 3 lovebirds (mango, kiwi, and nemo) in which i apparently adopted once we married. i consider them his "children" b/c he owned them before we lived together. he originally had mango and kiwi which were already a "couple". he eventually got nemo b/c he realized the 2 were too into each other to get close to him and wanted the 3rd one to be more close to him (haha!)honestly i wasn't too fond of them for a while(b/c of their piercing voices!). i was always a parakeet person since i grew up with them. however, i have grown to respect them more and appreciate them since we moved in together.
anyways, enough background. i've been curious to know these "odd" behaviors they demonstrate. the main one is the tossing of the "fresh" water bowl sometimes 2 times in a row!! it's the most frustrating thing for me and my husband to see and deal w/ and of course makes an immediate mess. what is the reasoning behind this? i also noticed how vicious these birds can get and have never seen this in other breeds at all so it was pretty scary to see. apparently the new bird which is nemo is the 3rd leg while the other 2 are true "lovebirds". after we found out or assumed nemo was a girl, we noticed that may be why she(or he?) always fights w/ our girl, kiwi.(nemo's also become a major brat and bites since she was picked on by the other 2 growing up) mango's the cool mellow male (and therefore, my favorite:rolleyes: ). a funny thing i tend to see is when the other two are "gettin' it on", nemo sometimes makes a fit and screams to throw them off, it's funny!:rofl: i think she gets pretty needy and lonely b/c they really don't show any affection to her as much as she appears to crave it from them, esp. our boy, mango. fortunately they all tolerate each other on the most part, but introducing nemo to them while she was still a baby was frightening. oh, another question is w/ the eggs. what is the proper thing to do when we see eggs that i assume aren't fertile? we hope they don't lay fertile eggs as we are all new to lovebirds. so all in all, we've had these birds for about 2 years and i've had to get used to their ugly piercing cries on weekend mornings. i'm so glad to have found this board and as you can see, i've held a lot of questions waiting to be answered. thank you and i apologize for the jumble i've written, i know it sounds very sporadic!>o
just a newbie to this board and came upon it surfing. my husband has 3 lovebirds (mango, kiwi, and nemo) in which i apparently adopted once we married. i consider them his "children" b/c he owned them before we lived together. he originally had mango and kiwi which were already a "couple". he eventually got nemo b/c he realized the 2 were too into each other to get close to him and wanted the 3rd one to be more close to him (haha!)honestly i wasn't too fond of them for a while(b/c of their piercing voices!). i was always a parakeet person since i grew up with them. however, i have grown to respect them more and appreciate them since we moved in together.
anyways, enough background. i've been curious to know these "odd" behaviors they demonstrate. the main one is the tossing of the "fresh" water bowl sometimes 2 times in a row!! it's the most frustrating thing for me and my husband to see and deal w/ and of course makes an immediate mess. what is the reasoning behind this? i also noticed how vicious these birds can get and have never seen this in other breeds at all so it was pretty scary to see. apparently the new bird which is nemo is the 3rd leg while the other 2 are true "lovebirds". after we found out or assumed nemo was a girl, we noticed that may be why she(or he?) always fights w/ our girl, kiwi.(nemo's also become a major brat and bites since she was picked on by the other 2 growing up) mango's the cool mellow male (and therefore, my favorite:rolleyes: ). a funny thing i tend to see is when the other two are "gettin' it on", nemo sometimes makes a fit and screams to throw them off, it's funny!:rofl: i think she gets pretty needy and lonely b/c they really don't show any affection to her as much as she appears to crave it from them, esp. our boy, mango. fortunately they all tolerate each other on the most part, but introducing nemo to them while she was still a baby was frightening. oh, another question is w/ the eggs. what is the proper thing to do when we see eggs that i assume aren't fertile? we hope they don't lay fertile eggs as we are all new to lovebirds. so all in all, we've had these birds for about 2 years and i've had to get used to their ugly piercing cries on weekend mornings. i'm so glad to have found this board and as you can see, i've held a lot of questions waiting to be answered. thank you and i apologize for the jumble i've written, i know it sounds very sporadic!>o