Zonore
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- Sep 26, 2015
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- Parrots
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GGC: Foofanny ~
BCC: Ellie ~
Parakeet: Bean ~
Starling: Zeki ~
Sparrow: Napoleon
Hello, spawn of Mimsy01 reporting in... I only registered because it appears we are going to have a female parakeet coming in VERY shortly... Possibly long before Mimsy is even capable of being awake yet. So I'd rather just deal on my own instead of having her be cranky all day.
We were aware that this bird may possibly be need in a home, and so we offered in the case of it not being able to get one; we had hoped our offer to take it in would have gone un-noticed after 3 weeks of no further information. Just THIS MORNING I was told they were going to be on their way TODAY!
Talk about forewarning.
Anyhow, since I don't have Mimsy awake currently and I don't want to cause any issues between birds... How will I need to quarantine these birds? I know you are supposed to keep them separate for something around 3 weeks, or maybe more.
The GCC, Foofanny, can fly but generally will not unless startled into doing so. However, the starling... Zeki can and does fly constantly. And I am fairly certain he's curious enough to throw caution away and get as close to the new bird as possible.
Are bars good enough for keeping a bird 'quarantined'? Or do I need to take it to a different room? I would imagine it is the latter, but if it isn't necessary I really don't want to do so. We have limited space as far as sending her to a different room. But I can definitely make do if that is indeed necessary.
Granted, she isn't coming from a totally terrible conditions it appears; not like petco. But still, we don't really know these people and there could be anything.
I just need advice without extensively of researching it as I normally would, because I don't have the time it appears. O.O
Tyvm in advance.
We were aware that this bird may possibly be need in a home, and so we offered in the case of it not being able to get one; we had hoped our offer to take it in would have gone un-noticed after 3 weeks of no further information. Just THIS MORNING I was told they were going to be on their way TODAY!
Talk about forewarning.
Anyhow, since I don't have Mimsy awake currently and I don't want to cause any issues between birds... How will I need to quarantine these birds? I know you are supposed to keep them separate for something around 3 weeks, or maybe more.
The GCC, Foofanny, can fly but generally will not unless startled into doing so. However, the starling... Zeki can and does fly constantly. And I am fairly certain he's curious enough to throw caution away and get as close to the new bird as possible.
Are bars good enough for keeping a bird 'quarantined'? Or do I need to take it to a different room? I would imagine it is the latter, but if it isn't necessary I really don't want to do so. We have limited space as far as sending her to a different room. But I can definitely make do if that is indeed necessary.
Granted, she isn't coming from a totally terrible conditions it appears; not like petco. But still, we don't really know these people and there could be anything.
I just need advice without extensively of researching it as I normally would, because I don't have the time it appears. O.O
Tyvm in advance.