Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 11:54:03 GMT 10
Hi everyone! So, I joined the forums a while back. I haven't been too active, but I'll try to check them once in a while.
As I probably had explained already in my introduction I love australian parrots. I own six budgies and a bourke parakeet. (Will be getting a mate for him soon). My budgies live in a outdoor aviary with an indoor room to sleep during the night. My bourke lives with me but he spends almost the entire day in the aviary with the budgies. (They get along quite well)
In a few months I'm moving to a new home, and It has a HUGE outdoor garage I will be turning in an aviary, probably 10 - 15 meters long, around 5 meters tall and probably 3 meters deep. I would love to have mixed species there, although my internest is not breeding, I'd love if I could get my handfed and companion parrots to share the aviary with the budgies during the day. My companion parrots sleep at home, or spend more time inteacting with people inside.
The thing is I really want a large parrot, but not all of them are suitable to share space with smaller species. So after I did a lot of research in different species, I've found King Parrots will suit my home and enviorment quite well. I've read every forum post, website, article I've found about this specie. So far I think I'm good knowing the basics about feeding and caring, but I haven't found too many comments about people keeping them as pets.
I've read they're quite social. I know they don't like to be petted, but they seem to like to interact with humans, they seem to be really smart, since I've seen a few videos of them doing tricks and the such, they also seem to be good at imitating...
Now, if there is any kings owner here, could you share your experiences with me? I'd love to hear ANYTHING about your parrot, even small details. What was the most funny moment you've shared with it? The worse? How does your parrot take fresh foods? Do he/she likes to be regulary around you? How does he/she behaves around strangers? And other animals in the household? (i.e. Dogs, cats, other parrots).
Thank you for reading!
As I probably had explained already in my introduction I love australian parrots. I own six budgies and a bourke parakeet. (Will be getting a mate for him soon). My budgies live in a outdoor aviary with an indoor room to sleep during the night. My bourke lives with me but he spends almost the entire day in the aviary with the budgies. (They get along quite well)
In a few months I'm moving to a new home, and It has a HUGE outdoor garage I will be turning in an aviary, probably 10 - 15 meters long, around 5 meters tall and probably 3 meters deep. I would love to have mixed species there, although my internest is not breeding, I'd love if I could get my handfed and companion parrots to share the aviary with the budgies during the day. My companion parrots sleep at home, or spend more time inteacting with people inside.
The thing is I really want a large parrot, but not all of them are suitable to share space with smaller species. So after I did a lot of research in different species, I've found King Parrots will suit my home and enviorment quite well. I've read every forum post, website, article I've found about this specie. So far I think I'm good knowing the basics about feeding and caring, but I haven't found too many comments about people keeping them as pets.
I've read they're quite social. I know they don't like to be petted, but they seem to like to interact with humans, they seem to be really smart, since I've seen a few videos of them doing tricks and the such, they also seem to be good at imitating...
Now, if there is any kings owner here, could you share your experiences with me? I'd love to hear ANYTHING about your parrot, even small details. What was the most funny moment you've shared with it? The worse? How does your parrot take fresh foods? Do he/she likes to be regulary around you? How does he/she behaves around strangers? And other animals in the household? (i.e. Dogs, cats, other parrots).
Thank you for reading!