ringnecks and princess parrots together

tucker · Post by **tucker** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:17 am

I have a question concerning my ringnecks and princess parrots.
I have a pair of blue princess parrots in the same aviary as the ringnecks. The ringnecks have 5 eggs in the nest. All the birds are quite happy together. The ringnecks have claimed their end of the aviary, whereas the princesses prefer the other end. However, they all are happy to mingle and there is never any squabbling. There is plenty of room in the aviary and there are a good choice of nest boxes and logs.
I was told today that the ringnecks may kill the princess babies, can anyone tell me if this is correct? ?
If so, I will need to re-house the princesses. They wont start to breed for another month, although the boy is starting to feed the hen just in the last 2 days.
I am totally new to breeding and any advice would be appreciated.

Fah · Post by **Fah** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:41 am

Unfortunately almost anything can happen with several breeding pairs, even of the same species in larger aviaries.

Though I will admit, a friend tackled this problem very well. They had feeding stations, hidden from sight from the other one, each feeding station close to the respective homes (not closer than 1m though).

Having seperate feed stations, and providing the exact same feed types and keeping them out of visual sight, wont stop them feeding at each others bays, however, it stops the "omg, your eating the food that i need to feed my own young".

He has a pair of sun conures, one pair of IRN and two cockateil pairs in the one large aviary with much success.

You need... luck. You may have a pair that gets along well, and given no reason to hurt the other pairs young, they wont... you may have a pair that just will not tolerate another pair trying to rear more young in the area...