Hello all.. i'm new here :)

[kjjl]

Hello everyone!

I found this site through a link from another site about tiels it looks like a great place to be

I live in Sydney and have a 5 mth old platino tiel named Monty. I'm still not sure whether he is male or not..but we are hoping he is.. he is a delight to me and hubby, we love him to death..and he sure has accepted us as his "flock", to a point of being annoyingly attached to us, but we love him to bits

i also have an olive budgie named Olly, but he lives with my parents about an hour away from here, since we moved out of their house and he didn't adjust very well, we left him there and he loves it.

I am thinking of getting monty a bigger cage and using his cage now for some lovebirds, i've never had anything but tiels and budgies before, so i'm not sure about them at all. Also we're living in an apartment block of 4, so are they noisy?

I hope to get to know you all..i love talking about my babies and asking questions hehe

Talk Soon

- Jo and Monty

[pollyparrot]

hello great to have you here look foward to meeting you in chat
seeya
vicki

[billspets]

hello Jo and Monty
and welcome we are looking foward to seeing some pics of Monty and olly
peachfaces can be noisy
hopefully we will see you in chat some time
regards
bill

[AussieBirds]

A huge AussieBirds welcome to our forum, you have come to the right place to talk about your feathered babies and ask questions by all means ask all the questions you want.

John

[fischer]

Hi and welcome to the forum Jo ;D ;D
Any questions you have, don't hesitate to ask
Bill is right , I think lovebirds may be a bit noisy for living in units.

Cheers Tony

[kjjl]

thanks for the welcomes all ;D...

i'm open for suggestions for a different type of bird..lovies r just cute..i don't know a lot about them at all though

i'm not really wanting to get budgies though..i haven't had the best luck with them..they always end up bitey and bitchy...so want something new..and not too loud..but be a people bird...we love to have our pets around us all the time

where does everyone "hang out" most around here?

[billspets]

hello jo
depends on what size of bird you are after and how many
if you are after a single pair and you have a decent size cage then i would recommend the princess parrots
or if you wish to stay with the budgie size bird then the bourks ,turks or scarlets they are all good natured and dont make very much noise
hope this helps
regards
bill

[hillcresttiels]

Hi if Monty is definately a Platino then he will be male as only males will have the Platino gene! ;D Also by 5 mths he would be singing away the cock's song and strutting his stuff as males do if he is quiet and petite with just a squawk every now and then it will be a hen! cheers Frank

[SunConure]

Hi Jo and Monty welcome to the site i'm tara i live in victoria australia i own 1 male and female australian cinnamon orangefaced lovebirds for breeding they can be noisy but i find there sqauwks quite carming. I also own 1 cinnamon lutino hen cockatiel and 1 yellow pied male cockatiel hand reared but will be used for breeding also.

[AussieBirds]

kjjl said:

thanks for the welcomes all ;D...


where does everyone "hang out" most around here?

I'm also in Sydney in the southern suburbs, we have a very active chat room here at AussieBirds and I'm sure you would be made most welcome just go to the section marked Chat Room and follow the instructions. We look forward to seeing you there.

John

[chickabee]

Hi Jo and a big welcome from me too ;D looking forward to lots of chats with you

I'm located in Wollongong, I have coakatiels and at the moment I have 9 pet ones indoors yes you should hear the racket that this lot makes.....but I love everyone of them ;D

[kjjl]

I'm in the north of Sydney i tried to get into the chat earlier but i was at work and it was being silly, so i thought i better not do it right then hehe

hmmm i'm thinking more and more that monty is a hen i really wanted a male..but i love him tonnes either way

ooh princess parrots would be lovely..but i'm afraid i think we would have to be in a house somewhere before that...i'm always worried the neighbours will hear monty screaming out to us