Something happened because some pages got lost...
But, anyway, I just wanted to let you know that Andy GCC is now in the same cage with Codee GCC and they are doing GREAT!!! I was tired of waiting for the quarantine to end (I couldn't let him out all the time because he is parent-raised and never had any social interaction with people) so I took him to the vet last week along with a dog that needed an MRI and a cat that needed an XRay (and you do NOT want to know how much this bill came to!!) and, although I did not test for disease (see explanation below), he did get blood work and came back all good. I started by letting them out together and he was following her everywhere so, yesterday, I put them together and, two hours later, they were perching side by side and he was rubbing the top of his head on her cheek so she started preening him! SUCCESS!!!! I was so happy that, if I had not had a painful back, I would have danced for joy!
The reason why I did not wait for a longer quarantine is that:
1) he showed no sign whatsoever of disease: good appetite, good poop, no discharge from anywhere, no labored breathing, strong flight, plucked but good plumage in terms of feather integrity, etc
2) this is a juvenile that lived with the breeder all his short life so, if the breeder had had diseased birds, he would have gotten whatever it was and would not have made it. Babies never do. The ones that make it and remain asymptomatic carriers (which is the big danger when taking in a new bird) always contract the disease when already an adult (which he is not yet).