Conure and Two Budgies

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Hello! I recently (2 wks ago) bought a 6-month old Sun Conure (Sunny Mason), to go with two baby budgies (Jefferson and Calliope) which I purchased end of January. Prior to the budgies, I have never owned a bird before. If I had understood when I got the budgies, that they were actually tiny babies (only about a month old, at that time), I might not've started looking at other birds. However I did not, and so I did.

By the time I got my Sunny Mason, I had actually learned the budgies' ages, and had decided Not to get another bird. But then I came across this beautiful Sun Conure at Petco, and I kept coming back. Basically fell in love with this sweet little bird. Prayed and thought about it for a week or so, and concluded that IF I were to ever get a parrot, this was the one I would want.

So, I did. I bought Sunny Mason and brought him home. Then I started reading about Conures and got really anxious. I do work. Unfortunately, I'm not independently wealthy, nor a lottery winner, so I do have to go off to work full-time every day. I jI can't stay home with my parrot all day, no matter how much he might need it

Well we went to vet for a check-up. Vet said, he looks healthy. Also, vet said it's okay for me to work and have my Conure!

So I think we are getting along. Tiny Budgies Might be a tiny bit jealous of Conure. But they're young yet. I think they'll get over it.

I'm currently reading a book on clicker training, and looking forward with hopefulness to getting started on that.
 
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Attaching pictures of birdies.(or maybe not. think I did it wrong)
 
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Welcome to the forums!

Oh, if you can supply your birds atleast 3-4 hours of interaction/out-of-cage time, I thinks they'll be happy. If you're still worried about them, then try and get a bird sitter to interact with your birds when your at work.

I hope you'll find lots of great info here!:)
 

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So... you have 3 birds that can amuse each other when you are away at work (looking at each other, whistle etc.etc.) I could think of worse case scenarioos.
Add some TV and radio/podcasts/random music to the mix... and make sure they all get a lot of attention and out-of-the-cage time when you get home (and before you leave, if that is possible; their 12+ hours of sleep are more important imho)
 

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I also have 2 budgies and a conure (mine is a GCC) for similar reasons. Wasn't looking for a third bird, but met my GCC at a pet store and fell in love. Welcome!

I agree, you can work FT and still have a great relationship with your birds/ happy healthy birds if you are diligent about getting them out and playing with them regularly when you are home. Come home for lunch now and then if you can, too.
 

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Welcome to the forums! Happy to have you here.

I agree with ChristaNL, leaving a TV on or music may make the day go by a bit faster while you’re away. Lots of interesting toys will also help keep their beaks busy. Have fun.
 

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Thank you all for your helpful encouragement. When I leave, I turn on the radio to a classical station, and make sure they can all see each other. I doN't leave the TV on, after the budgies' had a PANIC over a blazing-fire-background that appeared on tv. (Fortunately, I was here, and was able to respond. But the budgies have since become quite picky & opinionated about tv shows, and I do Not leave it running if I'm not here to supervise... Or at least, to change the channel when my tiny green budgie, Miss Bossypants Jefferson, demands.)

I'm trying my best to make all my time with Sunny Mason, quality time. I load up his cage with his favorite toys when I leave. (I sneak them out again at night when he's sleeping in his hanging sleeping bag.)

He just figured out how to take seeds from my hand yesterday, so, we had fun with that. Right now Id say we're at a sort of pre-training level. Today, he discovered his chewable lump-thing and chewable perch, and turned into destructo-bird. The lump-thing is gone, and don't you know Sunny is chewing thru the perch at its cage-attachment-end? Silly bird.
 
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Sunny Loves to go for a scenic drive. (His cage is just able to fit in the front passenger seat of my car.) I specify scenic, because he gets annoyed if I return via high-traffic busy route.) He clings to the front passenger side of his cage and happily looks out the window. Occasionally gives opinions or wants to passenger-seat-drive.

And, he knows Where Starbucks is. On our third visit, I approached from a new direction, and just before the (new) entrance he hooted loudly to let me know we were there.

Also, he understands the drive thru process already. Today, the longest line yet, he squawked loudly each time BEFORE the cars moved. (Maybe he heard the engine of car-leaving-window? From OTHER side of building!)
 

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Welcome to the community! And congrats on your new flock!!!

****VERY IMPORTANT!!!***** I hate to be the party-pooper, but REMOVE THE "HANGING SLEEPING BAG" FROM YOUR SUN CONURE'S CAGE IMMEDIATELY AND DON'T PUT IT BACK IN EVER!!!*****

Unfortunately those things are not only dangerous to your bird's overall health and cause severe hormonal-aggression (ALL small, dark places do this, so that's reason enough that you cannot have anything like this inside of his cage), but they actually have killed thousands of pet parrots, about 50% of them being species of Conures! The 2 main manufacturers of them are in a class-action suit right now due to how many pet parrots they've killed in basically 3 different ways: #1 while the parrots are inside of them they are all prone to picking little tiny bits of material from them (you usually won't catch your bird doing this unless he really works at it, but he's doing it, I promise you), and they cannot at all digest the material...Over-time (usually a few months) the material builds-up throughout their GI-Tracts, and eventually causes a complete blockage inside of either their Crop, or most of the time in their upper Intestinal Tract...And their owners have absolutely no idea at all until they come home one day and find their birds lying dead at the bottom of their cages, or inside of the things...

#2 Way they kill them is due to their construction, they have threads throughout them (inside the material), and they eventually come loose or hang on the inside by a little strand, and of course once they find a loose thread, birds are going to chew on it/unravel it...And that loose thread very often gets wrapped around their necks while they're chewing them, and many, many owners have found their parrots hanging dead by their necks from a thread...#3 Way they often kill birds is by the same way involving a loose-thread, but they also often get them wrapped around their legs/feet and cannot get them off, and the more they frantically try to pull their leg/foot free, the tighter the thread gets, until it cuts-off the circulation to their leg, foot, or both, they swell-up and become extremely painful, and if no one is home to find them and help them or they do it at nighttime while everyone is a sleep, the birds will literally chew their legs/feet off, or try to, and they bleed to death.

And when I say that all 3 of these scenarios has happened "often", again, we're talking tens of thousands of peoples pet parrots/birds...And if it isn't bad enough that the manufacturers don't care enough to stop selling those things, one of their manufacturers starting printing "NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY CONURES" on the front of the package in a starburst, because SO MANY of the parrots who have been killed by them have been various species of Conures...But it happens every day to every species of bird/parrot, and we try our best to warn people, get them to remove them and throw them away, and then also spread the word...If you do a Google search for "Happy Hut killed my bird", one of the first few search results is from a website called "Conure World", and it's a mourning/bereavement page that is nothing but hundreds of people who have written out the story of how their pet parrots were killed by these things with the date that it happened, because we're all trying our best to get everyone to throw them out and stop buying them...

***Some people refuse to remove them from their cages because they think that their bird needs a place to sleep, which they don't at all, not other than a perch, and it's hard to understand how it's more important to provide a "bed" for their parrot who doesn't naturally sleep laying down on their backs anyway, than it is to keep them alive...As a new owner of 3 parrots in only a few months, I don't know how much you know about parrot/bird health and behavior, but you do not EVER want to put ANYTHING inside of any of your parrot's cages that creates any type of small, dark place that they can get inside of or underneath, nor should you EVER provide anything in the bottom of their cages that could be seen-as "nesting material", because both of these things trigger their sex-hormones, and since you haven't been through puberty with any of your 3 parrots yet you don't understand what happens to them during puberty and any other time their hormones rage, but it causes both physical and behavioral health issues...And there is no better way to cause their hormones to rush constantly and continually than by putting ANY TYPE of Bed, Tent, Bag, Hut, Hammock, OR ANY TYPE OF "BOX" IN-GENERAL inside of their cage...They don't need them, they'll be fine without them, and most of all they'll be ALIVE and healthy, and not be terribly physically aggressive with you, other people, or each other, which WILL happen after each of them goes through puberty (for a Sun Conure it's around 1 year-old, for the Budgies it can happen any time between 5 months old and 1 year-old, usually closer to 1 year-old, but because you have 2 of them, if they are of the opposite sex and sharing just one cage it can push them into puberty early). Also, no animal bedding, wood chips, corn-cob bedding, walnut-shell bedding, shredded paper, or even sheets of newspaper or any other type or paper in the bottom of their cages and ABOVE the grate; all cage-liners need to be UNDERNEATH the grate in their cages so they cannot get underneath them or shred them into nesting-material, which also triggers their sex-hormones...

I'm sorry to have to tell you to remove his little bed, but it just cannot be in there, obviously for a number of reasons, he'll be just fine sleeping on a perch, as will the Budgie (if they have anything inside of their cage you must remove it too, same thing)...And if either of your Budgies are females, hormones trigger Egg-Production in them, and every infertile egg that a female parrot makes and has to lay is detrimental to their health, and can result in Egg-Binding, malnutrition, nutritional-deficiencies, etc. (You won't be able to visually tell the gender of either of your Budgies until they go through puberty and the color of their Cere's stops changing, then you can sex them; as for your Sun Conure, you have to have them DNA-tested to know their gender, and it's a good idea so you know whether Eggs are going to be expected.
 

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Also, just making sure you are aware that you can no longer use any pots, pans, bakeware, cookware, George Foreman Grills, or any small appliances that contain any non-stick coatings made of the brand-name "Teflon", or that contain any Perflourinated-Compounds, such as PFOA, PTFE, etc....This unfortunately pretty-much instantly kills all birds in a matter of minutes if they breath-in any fumes at all from these Compounds off-gassing once they reach whatever temperature each one off-gasses at...And there is nothing at all you can do once they breath one of these fumes in, they just die. And putting them behind a closed-door away from the kitchen or where the appliance is being used, or even on another floor of your home behind a closed-door won't help, so you just cannot use any appliances, cookware, bakeware, etc. that isn't completely free of all of the Perflourinated-Compounds or Teflon. The pots and pans are usually the largest issues, because a good number of non-stick pots and pans have had non-stick coatings containing Teflon or other non-stick coatings that contain Perflourinated Compounds for decades and decades, and people often refuse to throw them out and get new ones, especially if they just bought a new set...But this isn't negotiable, these will kill your birds in a matter of minutes...Ceramic Non-Stick, Stainless-Steel, Cast-Iron, and Real-Copper pots and pans are all safe...
 

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