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So I now own a beutiful Lutino girl, named Google and she is my sweetpea. But I am thinking of adding another cutie to the flock. She has a HUGE cage...3 feet long by 2 wide by 3 tall. I really want a male. So the question is...can they live togeather?

Also although I am not planning on breeding...can you give me a website with color combos in breeding...like if you breed a lutino female to a green male...what do you get? What about a blue? A website with a chart would be helpful...but I couldn't find one on my own.
Thanks!
Oh and here she is...
She is 6 months old. And buffing (biteing) terriblely. I have to wear gloves...but we are working on it!

She is beautiful.

If you do get another I would suggest you house them seperately, at least for a few weeks if not forever.

Two may bond to each other and therefore not be as bonded to you or as tame. But in some cases, for example Carly has her male and female together and has had no problems.

Breeding Ringnecks even if they were once pets will not stay as tame as they once were. I see it every day, pets not handled daily regress and it takes a long time to work it back. Breeders cannot be handled daily as they require large amounts of privacy.

Good luck with your decision.

Lutino is sex linked so pretty much anything you breed the hen to would result in green or grey green birds unless the cock is split for lutino.

I second all Datsun's mom said.

If you house together, they will bond together but if your main goal is to breed, rather than a pet, that wouldnt matter as much to you.

Keep us posted as to their happiness, or lack thereof.

Personally, I wouldnt house birds together. I am here all day some days and I see the fights that take place. If I werent here, someone would lose an eye.

Try to get birds about the same age. My smallest girl kicks the snot out of her 2.5 yr old sister.

A. two irn shoudl not be housed together and only allow to be together with supervision. the hen is nastly ( jsut imagine psm ( 10000000) worse sorry ladies but it is the truth. there are few ways to get them to mate the best one i heard is lining the two cages next to each other for a while. find out when the mating season is in you area i think imran would know. and when you put them together make sure the female is progressive cut and male is fighted so he can get away.
ciao
scarlet

as Datsun said, I keep my male and female pet IRNs together and they are fine, but:

1) until your girl is behaving well and you and her are best friends, i wouldnt recommend it (in fact, I would wait until next years breeding season before trying to source a mate)

2) why exactly do you want another one? I would recommend doing some hard thinking and research first because its not a decision to make lightly. If you are considering breeding IRNs I would strongly recommend investing in a good sized avairy and getting breeder birds. They are easy to breed and very beautiful to have in a large flight avairy.

I got my male Rajah a mate because I have had him for 5 years and was starting to see signs of 'depression' if you like. he was having attachment issues with his cage, was very tempremental and acting totally out of character. Also Im about to embark on a new career and dont have the time to spend with him that i used to, and i know that this situation wont be improving any time soon. Because I'm not home with him all day every day I made the call to get another bird and see how they went. it was a risky decision. I sourced a hand raised baby female from a breeder who has her chicks DNA sexed. i had them housed seperately for a month or so and watched their interactions closely, and they are now housed together quite happily. Raj is 100% better and simply adores his mate, they are both fantastic pets and easy to handle and I am happy with the outcome. but I do believe that IF I didnt already have such a strong bond with Raj, and if i hadnt found such a young and already tame female it could have turned out differently.

The females are very bossy towards the male, but thats just how IRNs are. aggression is an issue that you have to be aware of, particuarly if you will be adding a young male to an already established female.

After reading your post under "I'm DONE--I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE" I strongly suggest you not get another bird. You need to work on Googles behaviour and training before you embark on the challenge of two IRNs.

man i love that avatar of yours datsun he look awesome as h*ll. specially the colors congrats. hope i can say this without hijacking the thread.
scarlet