putting them in different rooms would probably be the best solution, but if your house is open-concept like mine, where it's a pain to keep things in seperate rooms, you could just keep them as far as possible, and alternate out times.
He’s pretty neutral about her. Like he won’t attack her if they’re out together but is agitated by her following him. And he gets PISSED when she goes to his cage.
We’ve only had him less than 3 weeks altogether. It’s just the only major change and she’s quite interested in him. He was in a separate room for a couple days, then across the room, and now their cages are next to each other but not touching. The face-to-face was last Tuesday and she laid the egg Sunday.
The original plan was to house them together if the got along. However, due to this and the fact that she is overall far more interested I’d accepted they’d continue to be caged separately. I won’t be working at home forever though, and I don’t know if they’ll be enough company for each other if they are in separate cages. I’ve really grown to love him, but I want to do what’s best for both of them.
I’m worried they won’t be enough company for each other when my partner and I have to leave post-Corona. And would it be okay to let them be face-to-face outside of hormone season? I’d really rather not go through this again lol
Yes, exactly what I do @Kiwi's Mom (you remembered right!) - no paper on their tray, even though they could not reach it through their grate - the grate sits up over the tray approximately 1/2 inch.
It was for MY benefit that I didn't put paper in the bottom of the cage, because to me it seems WAY simpler to just scrape the poop off the tray about every four days, rather than to collect the paper, line the tray, then have to wad up the paper carefully and dispose of it.
I have never had an egg laying budgie, (or an egg-laying anything), but I have this FEELING (with no experience to back it up) that the egg four days after your Cockatiel came was nothing more than a coincidence. But I'll have to defer to those with experience on that subject!
From the "Grate or no grate?" thread
VERY good! My memory is not even as long as the proverbial pinky finger anymore!From the "Grate or no grate?" thread
Probably not the real title, but it's the best I could come up with
My parents are always commenting on how "They could never remmmeber that!" and "You have an amazing memory to remember such small details!"VERY good! My memory is not even as long as the proverbial pinky finger anymore!
