6 Ringnecks in a Large avairy. What should I do?
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:00 am
Hello everyone, I've currently got 6 ringnecks living in a large avairy (plenty of room for them to fly, lots of hiding spaces etc) where they've been living for the past year or so. We started out with 2, then bought another breeding pair locally and adopted two more that were frequently hanging around the outside of the cage. I live on a bushland property on the outer edges of melbourne, Australia so we thought it was best to capture these two that obviously were attracted to their fellow ringnecks. At the time, they were young and have since developed the ring around there neck, leaving 5 males and only 1 female in the cage. Something I'm not too happy about.
A heirachy has been established whereby the youngest two (the ones we adopted) have been pushed to the bottom and when I feed the birds (other than seeds) they are always last to eat. I do however, make sure they get some.
As i've said, I'm not particularly happy with this and I think the birds would be better off seperated. However, given the sex's of the birds, seperating them would leave 2 or more males in the same avairy. Would this lead to fighting and continued dominance of the older and bigger birds?
I think my only option is to sell the two we adopted, buy another avairy and place the breeding pair in it and purchase another 2 females to even out numbers.
also, the birds are still healthy, energetic and noisy however some of them appear to have (small!) disruptions to their feathers, possibly caused by the heat of the australian summer? or maybe due to a little bir of fighting in the cage?
Just after some feedback really, anything would be useful.
Thank you
A heirachy has been established whereby the youngest two (the ones we adopted) have been pushed to the bottom and when I feed the birds (other than seeds) they are always last to eat. I do however, make sure they get some.
As i've said, I'm not particularly happy with this and I think the birds would be better off seperated. However, given the sex's of the birds, seperating them would leave 2 or more males in the same avairy. Would this lead to fighting and continued dominance of the older and bigger birds?
I think my only option is to sell the two we adopted, buy another avairy and place the breeding pair in it and purchase another 2 females to even out numbers.
also, the birds are still healthy, energetic and noisy however some of them appear to have (small!) disruptions to their feathers, possibly caused by the heat of the australian summer? or maybe due to a little bir of fighting in the cage?
Just after some feedback really, anything would be useful.
Thank you