Your dream bird?

[GlassOnion]

Yep, it's this breeder who invented the 'Sun Cheek Conure'.

Quite pretty actually, pictures in the link.
http://www.feathert.com/suncheek.html

[patdbunny]

Red factor sun conure.

[birdlover101]

A suncheek Green cheeked conure is a triple mutation, its a cinnamon, yellow sided, dilute. All three mutation colors are visible at the same time resulting in a beautiful suncheek. this is the closest to what a Lutino green cheek would look the day one is bred.

[laducockatiel]

I would love a hahns macaw! They are so cool, they are smaller than their larger cousins but they have the same antics as a normal macaw. They look so cool too. I might start looking into buying one next year.

[OneBirdAtATime]

i want a peach-faced lovebird which i might ask my parents to consider.

[liz]

My daughter has 2 I call them Tweetle Dee & Tweetle Dumb. They are identical in appearance but have different personalities. I don't know what they are. They are bonded but not mated. Those two little ones are such fun. We don't handle them or train them but when they are out and get tire I can pick them up. They won't let my daughter and she gets upset about that.

I guess I have to swop out some of their toys. They are starting to play with the food dishes.

[Mum2rory]

My dream bird is Liz's Rambo, good thing I live in Australia and not America or there might be a case of bird-napping. Sorry Liz, but he sounds like a real character and he is leading Myrtle astray by the sounds of it. He sounds like a cheeky 5yo human child. I love hearing about him.

My dream species of bird is: a blue quaker (a quieter/no screamer if I could)

Would really love a Rainbow Lorikeet but dont think I am upto the extra workload involved in cleaning and diet. I already have 3 large birdcages and 2 rabbit hutches to clean (at least once a week plus daily vaccums around bird cages) so dont know if I could fit a daily full cage/wall/floor clean in for a rainbow lory. We will see.

[liz]

I thank you and Rambo thanks you.

If I ever have time to sit down and think it out I will send some pictures of the little pedestrian ham. Yes it is like having a 5 year old human child and a 2 year old. What an adventure.

I used to clean 3 tiel cages until it hit me that they are flockers is why they complain when I took a cage to another room. One day I had them all out at once. When they went back to cage they were all cramed in the same one. I used Rambo's old cage (he didn't stay in it anyway) and put them together. They sleep and preen each other in mated pairs but the rest of the time they are mixed up in the flock.

The last time I cleaned I did a scrub down of the sunroom. I let tiels and lovebirds out at the same time. The lovebirds went straight to the tiels. You guessed it. When they went to cage the lovebirds were in with the tiels. The cage is big enough for 8 but too big for the lovebirds. They could go in and out the bars of the parrot cage. Rachel's cats would have loved that.

My dogs and cats sleep together at night. Have you tried your tiel and budgie together. It would save the cleaning of a cage and feeding in 2 cages.

Rambo and Myrtle have their dry food and water in their "storage" cages but fresh foods and dry treats are served on their play patio. They share from the same dishes.

[Mum2rory]

Liz, the 2 budgies gang up on tiel, the gcc goes the 2 budgies and the tiel so they all have to have their own cages at this stage. I am hoping that one day ALL my birds will be friends or at least tolerate each other. Poor tiel is at the bottom of the pecking order.

[liz]

Poor little tiel. They are such sweet babies.
Budgies can be little gangsters.
I would get another tiel if it was me but that doesn't help you with the cleaning problem.
What kind of cages do you have?
I don't use the wire thing in the bottom of the cages. That just causes more work and they rarely go to the bottom.
I put alfalfa straw in the cages about 2 inches thick.When I first put it in they all go to the bottom to forage looking for seed. Once it has been pooped on they go back up. It makes cleaning faster. Poop dries imediatly. Once a day I scoop the dry poop off the top in straw clumps and only have to empty and clean once a week. I arrange the perches so they can't sit on one and poop on the other. I have 3 feeding tiers in the cage. The top is water and is the largest. The second is fresh foods and the third is dry food and seeds. While perched at one they can't poop on the other. The dry food and seed are in the bottom one to control seed bounce. It hits the alfalfa and just stays there. I have two of everything so I can put a fresh container in everyday and just throw the other in the dishwasher.
I know I do things different but it works for me.