Conner and Nina

[TheDragonslayer]

Hi, my name is Martin, I have had birds in my life steady since 1994 when I got a job working for an aviary with 65 parrots. My boss had amazons, blue and gold macaws, scarlet macaws, hyacinth macaws, eclectus and galahs. I adopted a pair of cockatiels, a flock of budgies and a baby blue crowned conure. I still have blue crowned conure and he is going on 18 and one of the cockatiels and he is 21. I found a blue budgerigar in my yard about 2 years ago and a search on craigslist brought in 17 more and I have 13 of them remaining in an indoor aviary built into my front porch. I adopted a friends two female cockatiels and again a cl search netted me 6 more cockatiels from a woman moving to the east coast. The day after I got the 6 cockatiels, I found an aviary for free on cl and it gained me about 40 feet of 6 foot 1/2 inch by 1 inch aviary wire that I can repurpose into a larger aviary. That was six weeks ago. I answered another cl ad 9 days ago for a female patagonian conure that was not happy in her home, that she wanted more parrot interaction. My male blue crowned has only had budgie and cocktiel interaction since I got him and he even learned to say " tweet tweet, birdie" and do the wolf whistle from the male cockatiel. Nina the female patagonian is 12, the owners started bringing her by on the 12 of this August and she and my blue crowned, Conner, liked each other from the get go. Nina came by for a day visit every day till this Saturday when she stayed over for the night. Sunday the owners brought her inside cage and the rest of her toys and food. She is loud, but so is my blue crowned. Eventually I want all my birds outside in their own aviaries or a large enough enclosure for all the birds cages to share.

[laducockatiel]

Hi, my name is Martin, I have had birds in my life steady since 1994 when I got a job working for an aviary with 65 parrots. My boss had amazons, blue and gold macaws, scarlet macaws, hyacinth macaws, eclectus and galahs. I adopted a pair of cockatiels, a flock of budgies and a baby blue crowned conure. I still have blue crowned conure and he is going on 18 and one of the cockatiels and he is 21. I found a blue budgerigar in my yard about 2 years ago and a search on craigslist brought in 17 more and I have 13 of them remaining in an indoor aviary built into my front porch. I adopted a friends two female cockatiels and again a cl search netted me 6 more cockatiels from a woman moving to the east coast. The day after I got the 6 cockatiels, I found an aviary for free on cl and it gained me about 40 feet of 6 foot 1/2 inch by 1 inch aviary wire that I can repurpose into a larger aviary. That was six weeks ago. I answered another cl ad 9 days ago for a female patagonian conure that was not happy in her home, that she wanted more parrot interaction. My male blue crowned has only had budgie and cocktiel interaction since I got him and he even learned to say " tweet tweet, birdie" and do the wolf whistle from the male cockatiel. Nina the female patagonian is 12, the owners started bringing her by on the 12 of this August and she and my blue crowned, Conner, liked each other from the get go. Nina came by for a day visit every day till this Saturday when she stayed over for the night. Sunday the owners brought her inside cage and the rest of her toys and food. She is loud, but so is my blue crowned. Eventually I want all my birds outside in their own aviaries or a large enough enclosure for all the birds cages to share.

Welcome, wow that's a lot of birds

[Pajarita]

Outdoor aviaries are great but you need to be very careful of the construction and know a lot about health issues (they catch all kinds of stuff from the wild birds).

[TheDragonslayer]

Outdoor aviaries are great but you need to be very careful of the construction and know a lot about health issues (they catch all kinds of stuff from the wild birds).

My 21 year old cockatiel has always been outdoors, so has my 18 year old blue crowned conure, both are in flight cages with plywood for the roof and sheet plastic on the sides and back. I have plastic panels on the front that I roll down during the night or when it is cold. Both are healthy and have never been ill.

[Pajarita]

You have two single birds outside on their own?

[TheDragonslayer]

My conure came as a found bird in 1995 and my cockatiel I adopted with a mate in 94 and she died a year later. I had a lot of parakeets then and chickens, rabbits, turkey, dogs and cats. The conure and cockatiel have been in flight cages next to each other since 95 and I currently have chickens and rabbits and the chickens are loose during the day. Nina the patagonian that I just got looks forward to going out to visit with Conner the blue crowned in the morning, but I have plans in the works for an outdoor aviary. We have a metal shed in good condition on a concrete slab that can be made tight and secure. It is 10 by 14 with 6 foot walls and the sides can be removed and replaced with the 6 foot tall 1/2 inch by 1 inch aviary wire and a safety zone at the front entrance. It would be more than big enough to house Nina's large cage, Conners flight cage and Pretty bird, the 21 year old cockatiel. I have another 4 foot by 8 foot structure that I plan on repurposing for the 8 indoor cockatiels and take their 6 foot wide, 6 foot tall by 2 foot deep aviary and use it for my 13 budgies. That puts all my birds outside in one area.