Can i keep a macaw or cockatoo with my indian ringneck

[darrell]

Can i keep a macaw or cockatoo with my indian ringneck in a really big cage

[Donna]

Large birds should never be housed in the same cage with smaller birds. Very bad bad idea

Donna

[xo Missi]

Yikes!

What Donna said.

[Bird crazy]

Birds can be very territorial, Unless your talking very large like walk in aviary at a zoo and even then I'd be very careful. I don't think I've ever seen birds of that size variation housed together except once a large amazon in with a lot of quakers and it was a walk through aviary and the amazon was clipped and all the quakers were flighted.

Sue and Nila

[kimtoo]

Bad idea ....'bout as safe a housing a loepard with a house cat . I won't even put my macaw on the same stand as my irn's. Either of the large species you mention could kill your irn in one motion

[ringy necky]

i just wanted to be sure because my macaw and indian ringneck were raised together and when i let them out my macaw puts his wing around my irn

[Dani03]

Um...definatly a bad idea. They may be friends outside the cage but it gets different once they have to compete for food and odds are an IRN isn't going to be able to stand up to a macaw

Dani

[Bird crazy]

Just my personal experience, had a male eclectus and a quaker, they got along well cages right next to one another and the quaker would hang on the side of the ekkie's cage and they would "kiss" and feed each other through the bars, however one day the ekkie got mad and bit his beak and about crushed it. Vet told me that's how they kill each other in the wild. They'd been together in the same room, cages side by side, sharing play gym tops for years. If he had broken the beak the quaker wouldn't have been able to eat. I'd read to always supervise if your birds are out together. I believe it. Never leave them together unsupervised, so you can intervene before one of them gets hurt if they get to fighting and fussing.

Sue and Nila and ???

[Mikaela]

:shock: Yikes!

What Donna said.