bronek

Thanks all for your advice. I’ll try to post few photos when I get home (I am away for few days). KAZ comments are spot on. The most of fights are happening just before the rest and about the perch. I asked wife to rearrange the perches and hopefully it will help. Bronek

I have a problem and I need advice/help from experienced members. This is my story. I live in block of apartments and about 4 years ago when I was walking at common area I found small injured white/grey budgie (it flew into brick wall and had some blood on her cere and head) . I didn’t know what to do but I took it home, put it in the shoe box and ran to the local shop to buy some budgie food. I left some seeds and water in the box and didn’t know what more I could do. Even I was complete birds ignorant it was obvious to me it was a very young bird. The bird was not moving much and haven’t touch food or water until the following day. But it was still really frighten and hardly moved out of its corner in the box. I with my wife really didn’t know what else to do with it and initially we tried to find its owner and hanged in neighbourhood notices about our finding. However, after 3 days when nobody contacted us and beautiful thing recovered and started to eat and drink we fall in love with it. My wife urged me to remove all notices we put around, the same day she bought a very nice large cage on ebay and that’s how we started our love journey with these small but smart and beautiful birds. I am semi retied and at the time when we found Malutka (we later found, it was girl and we named it Malutka which means “a little one” in Polish) I had only small consulting jobs, thus during the day I spent most of my time in my office together with Malutka. Over 2 years we developed a very strong bond, she was very tame and she was bringing me a lot of joy. 2 years ago my consulting job became much bigger and I had to go frequently oversees for long periods of times (2-3 months each trip). Because my wife still works we decided to get second bird so Malutka has company when I was away. We purchased a beautiful young boy from one of the members of this forum. Malutka initially wasn’t very happy with Lolek addition to her cage but after couple months they bond together although I think I am still her mate from her point of viewJ. 3 months after Lolek arrival one day my wife on the way to work on a small lawn in front of our building came across 3 butcher birds attacking white faced cockatiel. If she came 10-20 seconds later it would most likely got killed. It was lying on the ground, hopelessly defenceless. My wife chased butchers birds away and brought poor cockatiel home. So, almost 2 years ago “our flock” grew to 3 birds. Kukus (cockatiel) is in separate cage. We tried to find his owner without success. He was somebody bird because he was very tame. He is very smart, talks and does a lot of “funny” things. He has really nice personality and we love him dearly as well. 3 months ago our neighbour friend found almost dead budgie on the way to work again almost at the front of our apartment and you guessed it....she gave it to us as she knew we are “crazy” about our birds and she couldn’t look after it (she lives alone and she is frequently away for long periods of time). Of course we looked after it. She was initially in a very bad shape but my wife really took care of it and she recovered really well. She blossomed into a very nice blue budgie (girl). We took it to Vet , done all health tests, and after quarantine we introduced it to the other budgies cage (the cage is very big and there is enough space for dozen birds). And this is my problem. Malutka and Bajka (both girls) don’t get along. They’re getting into fights all the time. Malutka was once badly bit on the head, fortunately without consequences. I was initially hoping that they will somehow get used to each other but it is getting worse and they are together more than 2 months already. I have to be around if they are together in one cage. For the night we have to put Bajka to separate small (travelling) cage. I have noticed that Malutka changed a lot since Bajka arrival; she appears to be very sad, keeps herself in the darkest corner of the cage, doesn’t sing or play much. If I open cage she always leaves and doesn’t want to go back. I have no spare space in my office to put any additional cage. I need advice/help from you: 1. Is there any hope that they will get along ever ? And if yes what I need to do? 2. If I cannot have them together is there any experienced owner who would take Bajka from me? She is very healthy, beautiful female budgie. I am reluctant to give her away and I would like to give her only to either experienced owner or somebody who has perhaps one boy budgie and would like to have a second for its company (that would be ideal) Any advice/help appreciated. Bronek