by Wolf » Sat Nov 07, 2015 10:18 pm
I am not trying to tell you whether you should rehome Rio or not. My comment about your attitude towards your birds stretches back to the very first post you made until the present and is my opinion at this time and is not meant to interfere but to try to help both you and your birds, but as I have no way to explain this better to you I would rather it be a point that we just don't agree on for now.
I asked what was making it so difficult to keep two Cockatiels safe from one Lovebird to try and figure out what is going on to try to help if I can. It is hard to rehome a bird that you care about, but it is even harder for the bird than it is for us. If this can be changed for the better without the rehoming then I would like to help bring this about, if not then you should do what you think is best regardless of what I or anyone else has to say about it and you are the only one that can make that choice. You should also know that regardless of how I feel about it, I will support your decision.
It is not uncommon for me to have Kookooloo(CAG), Kiki(Senegal), and Keeta(Parrotlet) all on me at the same time and although Keeta has Rajah as her mate she and the other two are bonded with me and they do not want to share me with the others. This means that I do have to be very careful and watchful of each of them to keep them from attacking one another. It is not easy but I manage to keep them all safe. I do have to send one of them flying about the room to accomplish this sometimes but they just fly off and circle right back to me. I also some times only let one or two of them out at the same time so I alternate their time out with me as well as which ones are out together part of the time. Sometimes I can have one of them on me and one on each side of me with my body between them just to keep the peace between them. This last is the easiest for me as I don't have to spend as much time distracting them from each other. I currently have it worked out so that most of the time I can have Kookooloo and Kiki or Kiki and Keeta out together with me without very much time spent distracting them. Keeta and Kookooloo out together is the hardest combination to distract. It was very difficult in the beginning to keep an eye on all of them and to know when I was going to have to distract one of them but it does get easier with time and practice. It would be much easier if they would all come out of their cages and each play on their own play areas but, no, they all want to be on me regardless of there already being another bird on me.
I don't know if this will help you in any way with your birds or any of your attempts to get them to co exist in the confines of your room or not but it is offered in the hopes that there is something there that you can use. I think that next to being very watchful of them, their level of trust in me is the primary factor in this working for us.