To anyone who has both budgies and tiels how did you go about introducing them? Quarantine is over for Cookie on Monday so i'm looking for some tips. It would be really handy if they can all be out at the same time cause then they can all have more playtime but if they don't become friends i can easily keep putting aside separate play times.

gosh is it that time already I remember when I did quarantine it felt forever but when you are in doing it it goes fast .

 

I can't wait for pics!!!

 

I bet Booms or eterri could certainly help out in this area.

My budgies dont get along with the tiels they bully then. I darent leave them out unsupervised at all. These days they have mellowed slightly and keep away from each other but I still wouldnt trust them without me being there.

 

When Noo reached hormonal madness he used to attack ME whenever I went near Patty (he is in love with her, its not mutual) and became really quite nasty. He has gotten over that now but is still rather unaproachable when Patty is out.

 

Hopefully Cookie will get along with Blinks and Oz but keep a close eye on them as budgies are no way afraid of tiels.

my budgies and tiels all live together( except for rescues), and they all live happily, i introduce them on neautral grounds, i have even put new budgies and they are all great together. but the indoor aviary i have was new to everyone, i wouldnt dare put a new budgie in a cage that only tiels were living inand have for a long time, nor would i do it the other way around, everything needs to be neautral and new to start.

I am really glad yours get along. But I would never EVER recommend housing mixed species together especially indoors, even the biggest of indoor aviarys are way too small for mixed species. Definitely a no no.

Edited September 22, 200618 yr by Boomberry

well i was never sure and i was reading on here that its a huge NONO, but then when i went to get my birds from different breeders, they always had budgies with lovies or budgies and tiels and even lovies and tiels togeether, the first time i went i thought i was a little strange, but then i went to another breeder and they had budgies and tiels together.... so before i moved out here i took lucy my flightless tiel to the vet who is a highly recommand avian vet.... and she said as long as its all new and neautral there is no reason they cant live together, obviously i can not but as many birds in the aviary as it would comfortably fit but i have never had a problem with them, they have there own pecking order amongst all of them, sure theres bikering at times but i havent had a fight or a hurt bird, as well as i dont have a bird room so they live in the living room with us so we are able to always keep an eye, ear on them.

I could never forgive myself though if there was even one incident where I wasnt there and either species got injured due to a fight. A tiel can do some serious damage with its beak. I just think its all round better to keep species with their own kind. Better to be safe than sorry in my opinion!

hmm now you have me rethinking this, my only problem is most have lived this way now for 7 months wouldnt it do more damage to take way the order they have made?

Just my opinion, but if they are fine I would leave them alone. "If it aint broke, don't fix it."

Years ago, in ignorance, I actually had a conure and a budgie living together. They were in love. They preened eachother so gently. The budgie would actually sit on the conure's back to preen his head! I would never risk it now, knowing what I do, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. I guess I just got lucky.

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I agree there you know what you know now and the newer ones you can keep separate but if you have seen harmoney I would leave it that is my opinion too. But one thing I would watch is if you add more budgies or tiels to the mixture of this mixed aviary to make sure harmoney stay because sometimes adding just 1 more to a flock could be the trouble you weren't looking for .

I completely agree, we have made another aviary so now i have a mixed, one for new budgies amd one for new tiels and i apparently have some new lovies coming we are building a smaller one for them. I also have a sengal coming next week,(not really a rescue, just one a friend has and he has turned into a screamer because nobody is ever home). I will leave the 3 tiels and 5 budgies together....actually it'll be 3 budgies because i'll be pulling hutch and sally after a bit to breed in their own cage.

 

 

 

 

I agree there you know what you know now and the newer ones you can keep separate but if you have seen harmoney I would leave it that is my opinion too. But one thing I would watch is if you add more budgies or tiels to the mixture of this mixed aviary to make sure harmoney stay because sometimes adding just 1 more to a flock could be the trouble you weren't looking for .

Edited September 22, 200618 yr by candacelast