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Michellev123
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Joined: 21 Jan 2005
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Hi everyone!
How everyone is ok, me are harley are good.
I am thinking of getting another baby to keep harley company.... however harbs is three and a half and has only ever seen casper our budgie who we lost when harley was around 18 months, although he never showed any aggression towards Casp he was never let out with him.
He was the only baby in his clutch and has therefore never been in contact with another birdie!
Do you think he will get on ok with a smaller bird.... was thinking a senegal or caique?
I dont want to get another one if they cant speand time together, and i dont wanna upset my baby.
Any advice please
Thanks
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PeCe
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Hi Michelle,
First of all, you never know if they will accept each other. Therefore even getting another amazon would not guarantee that they can be out of the cage or close to each other without problems. Most of the time they might ignore the other parrot, sometimes they might be aggressive to each other or of course it might work out flawless and you would have two parrots that can play and sit together.
If you give Harley and a possible new friend time to adjust to each other, time that might take up for more than a year, than I am sure they after some time they will learn and accept each other. But when they are aggressive to another, than that time for acceptance might even be more than five years.
So after this "warning" now the better part.
Two parrots can interact and react on the other, even without sitting or playing together. If you would be there to judge and interfere when there might be problems, then I would say go for it. Two parrots is more beautiful for you and as I said, the parrots can interact even when they are not together. That Harley is 3,5 and has not seen other parrots, might be a reason that it would take a little longer before he accepts another parrot. But when he is interested, it might work out from the start.
Personal I think I would go for another amazon. Often they accept another parrot from the same species better or easier than others. When choosing between a senegal and a caique, in your case I would go for a senegal.
The only reason for that decision is that a caique might be to playful or to active for Harley. Such an active and beautiful parrot might intimidate Harley and that would hinder the acceptance. Senegals are also playful birds, but in general less active than the caique. Both are parrots that would not be intimidated by Harley, so that might work. Most difficult is what Harley might do.
If you are prepared to let them out of the cage separately and give them time to adjust, then I surely would go for it. Maybe within a short time you can let them both out of the cages together and after some time more they can sit together on a playground, perch or with you. [/quote] |
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