I bought a pair of green cheek conures

[Branc1993]

Bought a pair but curious about their bonding and mating. I know the male bounces his head when trying to mate with a female.

What is your experience with green cheek conure breeding? (Yellow sided)? What is their proper breeding season? Can they mate all year?

I've got a pair of cockatiels who mate a lot of times if I would let them, so I get them apart into two different cages but still beside each other.

Should I keep the conures separated or is it safe to let a female and male in the same cage all year round? Thank you.

 

[noodles123]

Just a few initial questions:
Have you had birds before?
Have you bred birds before?

 

[Branc1993]

Just a few initial questions:
Have you had birds before?
Have you bred birds before?

I have a pair of cockatiels in my room and yes I let them breed January 2018 and October 2018.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Echoing Noodles' concerns/questions...
Breeding is enormously complicated!
Heck, just keeping parrots healthy and happy is complicated!

 

[EllenD]

Yeah, I'm not getting involved unless there is a question about how to care for baby birds, otherwise this is just not a good situation...No offense to the OP at all, but collecting breeding-pairs of birds and allowing them to breed with no knowledge about it is not a good thing for the birds or for you...If you want a pet parrot that will bond closely with you, that's great, so get one bird...But if you're doing this so you can sell baby birds and make some cash, then this is not good...

 

[LordTriggs]

Breeding birds more than once a year is extremely unhealthy for them and dangerous, the toll it takes on a birds body is immense so no more breeding your tiels in january then october. Some birds 'can' as in physically are capable of breeding all year round but this can quickly kill them.

If you are looking to profit from breeding birds I'm afraid you're gonna be disappointed. If you want your birds to be healthy and happy you need to be spending a whole lot of $ on them. Good cages, food, toys, breeding equipment such as incubator hand-feeding formula, brooder, weaning cage for babies ETC ETC. Also be prepared if the parents kick the babies out the nest or try to kill them that you're gonna need to step in which if it's the first week or 2 you need to be feeding the babies every 2 hours, 24 hours a day so get ready for getting roughly an hour of sleep at a time tops. Also don't forget you need to suddenly become very friendly with your avian vet to keep checks going on the babies and parents, meaning your vet is probably going to end up with a nice new car courtesy of you. This is why breeding is more a hobby than a profitable business. You spend money on the privilege of breeding them, it's extremely rare people make any real money from breeding. you'll be lucky to "break even" when breeding birds

 

[itzjbean]

You've gotten good advice so far.

Breeding should only be attempted if you are PASSIONATE about birds! It's not about profit, because there is not much to make. Do you know the history of this pair? Are they even mature? (18-24 months old) Have you gotten them DNA or disease tested to ensure you are not spreading disease to potential offspring?

What is their diet? A breeding pair needs a good diet of variety to ensure they are in optimum health to produce the healthiest young.

Sounds like you have a lot of research to do still and you need to get to know your bids first before thinking of breeding them. Just because they can breed doesn't mean they should. No more than 2 clutches a year or it can be detrimental to the pair's health to have so many babies. Breeding should only be attempted if you know h9ow to save a chick should it need your assistance in an emergency situation, like if the parents abandon it, neglect or mutilate it.