I want my birds to get along....should I buy 2 boys or 2 girls or one of each gender?
It is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to predict
whether 2 birds will get along. Each bird has its own personality
and whether you have male and male together or hen and hen together
will not determine whether they will get along.
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These 2 girls shared a cage
and were pets.
One of these birds, I later bought from her and she
became our Millie. When they were together in the same
cage, the owner thought that Millie was a boy. Millie is
the mother of many of our Crimson babies. This is the
case of 2 girls getting along wonderfully.
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These are also 2 girls who shared a cage for a few years at our home. Both were pets when my daughters were little. This is another case of 2 girls getting along wonderfully.
The Blue Head used to live in the same cage with a Maximillian Pionus (girl). Recently on Arizonabirdtalk, Jan made this comment:
Hi Sally,
We have two
greys, two months apart in age. They are
both girls and they love each other. Maybe
we are just lucky, but they play, and go
from each others cage, back and forth, and
share everything. They do have their own
cage, and when I am not around, they are
separated, and at night they sleep in their
own cage. They enjoy each other soooooooooo
much, but have not lost the bond with me.
They are both mama's girls :) I would
recommend the same sex, and it takes time
for them to reach this point. Just my
opinion. I think that it takes allot of
time, paying attention to both, and not
showing favoritism.
Jan
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I have
also made mistakes with my breeding pairs that have convinced that
same gender of birds can get along as well as pair. Here are
examples:
I also had
2 male Yellow Sided Green cheeks who lived together for a year. It
was a mistake on my part. This time it was me who thought I had a
girl and a boy. With this pair, I had just felt the pelvic bones
thinking I could sex them that way. When there were no babies, I
dna'd sexed them and had 2 boys together. These 2 boys got along
wonderfully.
I made
this mistake again. I had 2 Blue Headed Pionus together (Rico and
Jaycie) for years and thought I had a male and a female. I even had
them sexed. (sometimes sexing results are not accurate as was the
case with Rico). I sold them to a lady back in Cedar Rapids. She had
cameras in her nest box and said they both were acting like hens in
posture. They were friendly to each other, but they were not a pair.
She sexed them and you can imagine my surprise and embarrassment
when I found out I had sold her 2 girls. I thought they were boy and
girl. I now knew why I had never had babies.
In other
words, I know birds that have gotten along so well, that I thought
they were a pair. You can not tell or predict if they will get along
based on gender. Does this help or confuse the matter more?
Read an article on whether I recommend if you buy 2 babies or one??
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