new parakeet

Hi:

We have had Toto a year he's a blue budgie.. he has never spoken but sure
has a lovely chirp. We added a girl friend to his life yesterday.
My 8 year old named her Tweety she's gorgeous and yellow.
She is calmer then he was [he was freaked for a few days] - not eating yet but she has chirped back when
he's spoken... anyway she is in his old cage how long does she have to be
there?
She isn't to close to him yet but they hear one another.

Thanks: PLEASE e-mail me -kelly.TakeThisOut@kellys-kloset.com

kelly

"Goose, Duck & Bird dogs" <goosedog RemoveThis @ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.04.14.15.56.28.411403@ameritech.net...
> Hi:
>
> We have had Toto a year he's a blue budgie.. he has never spoken but sure
> has a lovely chirp. We added a girl friend to his life yesterday.
> My 8 year old named her Tweety she's gorgeous and yellow.
> She is calmer then he was [he was freaked for a few days] - not eating yet
but she has chirped back when
> he's spoken... anyway she is in his old cage how long does she have to be
> there?
> She isn't to close to him yet but they hear one another.
>
> Thanks: PLEASE e-mail me -kelly RemoveThis @kellys-kloset.com
>
> kelly

If you think the bird is in quarrentine, think again. Keeping a bird in a
different room just doesn't cut it. It takes a lot of time and patience to
actually quarrentine a bird from the other birds in your home. Most people
are not set up to do it right and those that are need to be extremely
diligent in preventing "contamination" from occuring - that takes up time
and a lot of people just can't be bothered with the hassle. You may want to
keep the birds seperated until the new one takes a trip to the vet. After
that they may as well be in side by side cages until you are satisfied that
they won't kill each other and house them together.
Personally, I'd just put them together after the vet visit because the odds
of any serious battles between the two is practically non-existant.


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Steve