Posted March 31, 201411 yr hi i have a young femail 8 weeks and are geting 2 more young in 6 weeks can you put 2 young femails together with a young male 6 weeks age gab diffrents
April 1, 201411 yr You could put them together BUT remember to quarantine your new birds away from your older birds, for a few weeks, to see they aren't carrying any disease that could be passed on to your other birds. No nest box's in with them at this stage.
April 3, 201411 yr Long term, it would not be a good idea to house three budgies together. You can get away with it while they are babies, but when they reach adolescence and their hormones kick in, two females will fight over the only available male. Likewise, two males would fight over a single female. I agree with Robyn about the quarantine and the no nest. Since you have plenty of time to prepare, you could consider getting a quarantine cage that is large enough to be a permanent home, and then if you ever run into problems down the road, you will have two cages for separating out any budgie that fights with the others. I have always found that keeping budgies in even numbers is best, because they each need to have a bosom buddy. And in small flocks, such as 8 or fewer, balancing out the genders is important. In huge flocks, they have more options, and it seems that boys will buddy up together if they don't find hens of their own. But if you just have three, and one of them is a well tamed pet, that one could be housed alone, as long as you provided it the companionship it needs yourself.
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