Shadow
Regular Member
From day 1 of taking on my Gran's Budgie (followed by a 2nd one ... Happy & Chatty), I accepted and expected to always have to cage the budgies and Ollie Cockatiel separately. However, over the last couple of months, I've been wondering if they might accept being caged together, in a suitably sized cage of course. I know the advice is absolutely not, but over the past few weeks I've started to wonder if there are any success stories out there.
They are all let out together every day for a good few hours, and what I have noticed them doing over the past couple of months is going back into the same cage when they are ready to go in. I then have to remove the interloper(s) and put them in their own cage. When they are out, they all tend to perch together and although there is some bickering sometimes (usually the budgies between each other), on the whole they seem to all get along and are quite happy being together.
This has got me thinking about possibly housing them all together ... it would be in the Rainforest Guyana (largest I could find with 1cm bar spacing), but before I do, I was wondering if there is anyone at all out there that has successfully housed budgies & cockatiels together.
Thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated please
They are all let out together every day for a good few hours, and what I have noticed them doing over the past couple of months is going back into the same cage when they are ready to go in. I then have to remove the interloper(s) and put them in their own cage. When they are out, they all tend to perch together and although there is some bickering sometimes (usually the budgies between each other), on the whole they seem to all get along and are quite happy being together.
This has got me thinking about possibly housing them all together ... it would be in the Rainforest Guyana (largest I could find with 1cm bar spacing), but before I do, I was wondering if there is anyone at all out there that has successfully housed budgies & cockatiels together.
Thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated please