This little one picked me! I had no intention of getting another bird. We already had a male Orange Winged Senegal. I went to the pet store to look for something for our 19 year old Siamese cat. I stopped to say "hello" to the birdies. That was that! Hubby could stop to meet her on his way home from work, so I stayed awhile to wait. She cost almost 3 times as much as we paid for our Senegal. Ouch! And she went home with us the next day, after we found a suitable cage for her. Her name is Sweet Pea. She loves my husband the most. She was about 5 months old when we got her, now about 14 months old.
She is sooo entertaining, she loves being upside down. No wonder they call them the clown birds. She has learned to whistle most of the theme to Andy Griffith. She mimmicks lots of household sounds, but doesn't talk much, except "what's up?" She mimicks the phone ringing and the Senegal answers it, "hello".
She is a little moody sometimes when we haven't spent enough time with her. (as of 2 and 4 months ago, we are dividing our time between 4 parrots).
Parrot fever? For the love of Parrots. We have it.
We bought a gram scale recently and I weigh all four birds in the morning before they eat, once a week. I have read that a weight fluxuation of more that ten percent is reason to keep a close eye on diet and/or health concerns.
I cook whole grains, brown rice, a huge variety of beans and quinoa for them. They prefer their meals to be cooked "al dente". Most of them love pesto on whole grain pasta. Each meal I add fresh veggies, fruit and very little seeds and nuts. I also add powdered vitamins to their all natural peanut or almond butter and then spread it on whole grain toast. I hide broccoli and spinach in their cheese omelets. They are offered supplemental pellets and non sugar whole grain cereal in between meals. Whew! whatta job all this is! But I love it!
I tried to put Sweet Pea with Barney (Senegal), but they did not want to get along. Too bad. Anyone have a suggestion on how I can help them to get along and maybe even live in the same cage?
Caiques are on of my favorite birds!!!!!! I love their personalities. But I do have to say that I can't see a caique getting along with a senegal, simply because of the energy difference. A caiques energy level is enough to drive a senegal crazy, but you never know and only time will tell. Just don't force it, let them figure out if they like each other.
Thank you for your input. You are right, I forgot (how could I!) about the Caiques energy level. Our Sengal is silly, but much more reserved.
We have a double stacked cage for our Baby Grey. She lives on top of the Senegal The CAG is only 5 months old. I had the "little" Senegal out this morning, and the baby Grey started regurgitating for him. Unfortunately, the Senegal tried to bite the Grey's tongue. Enough of that!
I have a gut feeling that our 11 yr. old BG Macaw and the baby Grey will be a lot more social with one another. They have had walk-by visits, but I am not sure when to go further with it. Ideas, suggestions? (BG is in mating season, so I will wait til it's over).
Great job on incorporating grains like brown rice,quiona and beans. A lot of people over look grains, and a scale too. I have two caiques. One black headed and a white belly. I love them to death. They are the most messy and high engery clowns i have ever met. One does not want to poop in his cage, he shoots out of the cage on the floor. It is exhausting cleaning up after that guy. They are rough too.
I have a YT Caique Rocky and he is a little delinquent rebel without a cause!!!! He is very funny, he thinks he ten sizes bigger than he actually is the way he struts around the floor walking past us like he is saying come and have a go if you think your hard enough!!! Cheeky monkey he is. He lived in the same cage as my YC amazon for a while but he started stressing my Mango amazon out cos he wouldnt leave him alone always wanting attention from him and chasing him round the cage non stop. Mango was stressed and so I bought a double side by side cage for them and they live happily close to each other but have their own space too. xxx
Like choccyb said, the side-by-side cages are a pretty good idea - as long as they can't reach each the through the bars. You don't want any missing toes
I think you could introduce the birds to each other slowly, over time, but i wouldn't put two birds of vastly different species together in the same cage together unless I was 100% positive that it would be OK.
Even if they were out of the cage together, I wouldn't leave them unattended unless they could easily get away from each other if they needed to.
Caiques love to play and be mischievous. Some people call them the natural clowns of the parrots! Be sure you can handle the high energy of one of these fellows if considering one as a pet. They are precocious and very sociable and love to roll and tumble with nearly any object that becomes an instant toy.Native to several countries in northern South America, the Black-Headed Caique is well-established in U.S.
Caiques are beautiful clowns!
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