Badger
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Hey guys and girls, if I was to get my lorie a cage mate, what would be the best species? Or does it depend on the birds personality as well?
Four years old, sex is unknown but I just call him male for nowDepends on the bird, sex, age, species and individuality unfortunately.
You would be best getting similar so another rainbow. However scalies can be good companions, but they do tend to get a bit of "small lorikeet syndrome" at least mine do.
The scalies gang up on Red and beat him up lol even though Red could easily kill one of them. I digress though.
How old is yours at the moment?
Awesome, cheers for the help. I was mainly thinking ahead in life if I cant really be there to hold him every day. In terms of if he cant get enough human attention to get bird attention. I was thinking same cage. Can birds still be friendly together if they dont live in the same cage?The problem with not knowing the sex is ending up with a bonded pair who mate ending up with babies on your hands. That's of course if you want to have them in a cage together.
At four years old your lorikeet is well established and it will be a lottery as to whether they will accept each other or your incumbent decides the other is an intruder and gets territorial which at worse can end up in one of them fatally wounded.
If you plan on housing them separately then you can look outside of the lorikeets and at lories or even other species.
What are your thoughts or intentions on housing?
Im just thinking ahead for if for some reason I cant have Lupe, whether it be where im living or some other situation. Cause my parents wouldnt hold him for two hours a day he'd need a friend, whether in the same cage or cages next to each other.Going by your other thread about how bonded he is to you. The odds are very low that will accept or even recognize another bird as an equal/friend.