Onyx
New member
- Dec 25, 2012
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- Parrots
- Turquoise, pineapple turquoise and pineapple green cheek conures, and a pair of red rump parakeets
I've been searching for grass parakeets for years and finally managed to find a pair of red rumps. I've been doing some reading and finding a lot of vague information that is often conflicting such as that they can be "aggressive" and are "delicate" and "don't make good pets, only aviary birds".
I also found cases where they were being kept in mixed flight cages with finches with no trouble, so I decided to try it out (they are in my living room and I work from home, so I can watch them pretty much 24/7). They are living in a 6 foot long, 2 feet tall flight cage in my living room with two bishop weavers, a pintail wydah, a gouldian finch and a canary. No problems at all with aggression between any of these birds, they get along fine except that the male red rump does not like the female to get too close to him. I feel kind of bad, I guess I must have ended up with the male of one pair and the female of another pair :c If I had known who was paired who who, I would have taken a bonded pair, but it's too late to do anything about that now.
In any case, I am trying to find out more information about these birds. What exactly does "delicate" mean? Why in the world would they be considered "not good pets", etc. I really really like these guys, though this particular pair came from an aviary and they are a bit wild for my living room. I have been thinking of breeding them (I'm experienced with breeding smaller parrots) so that I can keep the tame babies for myself and donate the parents to someone's aviary.
However, if I ended up selling any of the young, I want to know who they can realistically be sold to and have happy lives. I've seen them on youtube being kept in standard small parrot sized cages, but I keep reading that they need to be kept in huge flight cages, unlike other parrots of their size. Why is this? I've also read that you should not clip their wings because they can't climb like other parrots but mine climb like monkeys, so I'm really confused, ha ha.
Any info would be greatly appreciated!
I also found cases where they were being kept in mixed flight cages with finches with no trouble, so I decided to try it out (they are in my living room and I work from home, so I can watch them pretty much 24/7). They are living in a 6 foot long, 2 feet tall flight cage in my living room with two bishop weavers, a pintail wydah, a gouldian finch and a canary. No problems at all with aggression between any of these birds, they get along fine except that the male red rump does not like the female to get too close to him. I feel kind of bad, I guess I must have ended up with the male of one pair and the female of another pair :c If I had known who was paired who who, I would have taken a bonded pair, but it's too late to do anything about that now.
In any case, I am trying to find out more information about these birds. What exactly does "delicate" mean? Why in the world would they be considered "not good pets", etc. I really really like these guys, though this particular pair came from an aviary and they are a bit wild for my living room. I have been thinking of breeding them (I'm experienced with breeding smaller parrots) so that I can keep the tame babies for myself and donate the parents to someone's aviary.
However, if I ended up selling any of the young, I want to know who they can realistically be sold to and have happy lives. I've seen them on youtube being kept in standard small parrot sized cages, but I keep reading that they need to be kept in huge flight cages, unlike other parrots of their size. Why is this? I've also read that you should not clip their wings because they can't climb like other parrots but mine climb like monkeys, so I'm really confused, ha ha.
Any info would be greatly appreciated!