Are other species able to be caged with Budgies?

[Livy]

Hello! I'm planning on purchasing another bird sometime in the next few months and am looking at Cockatiels/Parrotlet. I have a fairly big flight cage already and hopefully trying to avoid spending another $200 on another cage on top of the price of the new bird. So is it possible to cage them together? Or is the only way to buy a new cage? (Also I currently own one Budgie M )

 

[Cardinal]

Hi Livy

I do not know about Parrotlets but housing budgies and cockatiels together is not a good idea. The budgies will continually bully the cockatiels and may even bite their feet.

Cheers

Avin

 

[Noahs_Birds]

I definitely would not put a parrotlet with the budgie, but a cockatiel would go perfectly fine if the cage is big enough......size of the cage is the main factor

 

[Livy]

My current cage is 31" by 20-1/2" by 53" and called the Prevue Hendryx F040 cage. Its definitely big enough to house several birds in but im unsure because of the different species.

 

[Livy]

Yeah from doing more research on my end i've seen people saying that more.. Would it be damaging/cruel to buy my Budgie a smaller cage and put the Cockatiel inside the large one? Atm I feel bad even thinking of reducing Dee's cage size, but he's out of the cage 90% of the time anyway.

 

[noodles123]

Can you just buy the tiel a flight cage? I mean, you can get them for around $100 and a cheap cage that is too small is still likely going to set you back $45, so you may as well just spend the extra to make sure both birds have the space they need. Make sure you look for wide cages over tall ones-- you do want some vertical space for toys etc (and cage should be off the ground/on a stand) BUT, they fly side-to side, so that is just something to consider when shopping.

 

[Livy]

The options for other cages that are wide is pretty limited tbh, Canadian amazon sucks But I definitely will look into it thanks!

 

[noodles123]

The options for other cages that are wide is pretty limited tbh, Canadian amazon sucks But I definitely will look into it thanks!

I dunno about the bar-spacing on this (so whatever you do, make sure it is appropriate for the bird it holds)


but here is a cage--granted, it is $200, but Canadian dollars always seem high when you compare them to dollars and I don't understand how that all works as far as conversion, inflation etc.


https://www.amazon.ca/VIVOHOME-Wrou...1&keywords=Flight+Cage&qid=1615419594&sr=8-12