Help with bonding

[RohanL]

Hi I have a friend who has a sun conure female about 9 months old handraised that he's had for some time now, yesterday he got another female who is 4 months old handraised. He heard that's it extremely difficult to have two sun conures as pets because they will bond with eachother, more so than other species and not want to have much to do with the owner. He has 3 quakers as well. I was just wondering if anyone had any information on this?.
Thankyou in advance

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I have budgies that I've handraised and they stay bonded to us even though they have integrated into our flock of 10 that fly free all day in our living room, five of which are parent raised birds. They fly over and greet us when we come in and love to hang out with us. I know budgies aren't conures but budgies are very skiittish, social flock birds and one would expect a budgie to be drawn more to other budgies than to people but I haven't seen that to be true. I do think it's much harder to take a parent raised budgie and get it to bond with people if you have other budgies but I've been successful at that, too, with one of my my parent raised budgies. He's just as friendly to us as the handraised ones are, bit that may be because he's made best friends with one of the handaised ones.

 

[AprilRobin]

This is a common misconception. Our two Cockatiels are still bonded to us. We have one female Sun Conure who is friends with our Cockatiels, but is still bonded to us. Although we only have one Conure, I have met or seen multiple owners with at least two, and there is still a bond. Some examples from YouTube are BirdNerdSophie, SharynZoo, and FlyingFids - all of them have two or more Conures.

We also have Budgies and our experience has been a lot like what DonnaBudgie described. Most of them are still interested in sitting on our hands, looking at us, chirping and bobbing their heads at us, etc. (Only one, Aspen, is somewhat distant...but she is Basil's lady friend, so we accept that we are providing a home for a bird who Basil likes. And she is starting to take food from my hands more often.)

I think there are benefits to having at least two birds. If one tries something new, such as accepting a treat from you, they can set an example for the other(s). This happened with our Cockatiels. Pepper tried most things first, such as stepping onto our hands. Kona would eventually do it after watching Pepper several times.

Also, the bird will have a companion whenever humans are not home!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I love the fact that my budgies have budgie friends because I can't possibly give them one on one attention all day. I work 5 days a week in the evenings. They are happy and well adjusted having budgie friends plus their favorite people who love them and take care of them. I believe they know that.