combining different types of birds!

mahcutelit · New member Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Location: glendale

Hi there again.
I live in an apartment but now Im going to move in a house. I was planning to make a flight cage in the backyard measuring 6 feet wide, 4 feet long, and 6 feet high. Im just wondering if I can put some cockatiels, parakeets, lovebirds and conures together(at least all of them are in pairs).
thanx.
jess

charmedagain · Moderator Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 2233 Location: uk

Hi, They can all live together but the only problem you may have is that lovebirds and parakeets are very aggressive towards other birds when breeding and will fight to the death.

Parakeets will also fight for a nest box off any of the other species of birds.
When they are not breeding everything should be fine.

I used ot have parakeets and cockatiels together until the keets killed some of my 2day old baby cockatiels, they chased the parents out of the nest killed the babies and took over the nest.

After that i used to remove the parakeets during breeding and placed them in breeding cages once they raised there babies they were all then placed back in the aviary.

Mike