Hi all, I have been on this forum for a long time as just a guest but now I have a membership 
I have 5 lovies all bought together from a pet shop. I do not know their genders and probably should get them DNA'd sometime. They were bought basically feral , and I have not had luck taming them. Every time I come into the room they all scatter to the corner. A good few months after being here they have settled a little but still are very fearful of humans and hands, even after changing their food and water thousands of times, tips on taming them is greatly appreciated. There are two black masked, Squawk and Screech, Squawk is a pretty vocal birdie, and Screech is more of a timid fella. And three Fischer, Mango, Sky and Melon. Sky is a pretty quiet beauty, she has a really neat blue on her tail feathers. Melon is a glutton for sure, always hogging his pellets and seeds, not so much greens! He and Sky seem to be really good friends, I wonder if a pair? But again don't know the genders. Mango, last but definitely not least , is kind of the star of the show. The loudest little thing always makes my ears bleed and has to be loudest when someone's on the phone! Pretty anti social compared to the others, the most likely to be sitting on her own instead of in the cute little line up they all do. Very destructive, always the first to start destroying a toy. Very naughty, likes to gently peck the others while they're eating and seems to enjoy getting chased, like her own little aggressive game of tag!
They are on half cockatiel seeds and half Vetafarm small parrot essentials, which they are still being trained to eat, was thinking to switch them to all pellets but they seem to enjoy breaking open the sunflower seeds so not sure atm. I give them a wide range of greens which they have recently been good eating. All around a year old. They have a med-large cage or it was considered that when I bought it, they're getting a massive cage upgrade when I can afford it.
2 Budgies also store bought. Blizzard is a very neat blue/grey/silver with a yellow face, M and 5 y/o , not much luck taming him but he does eat from my hands occasionally. Sunny is a bright lime green with a bright yellow face, M and about 3 . Not that good taming him either, although he is more trusting than Blizzard, a lot more likely to eat from my hand. Both housed together, they're the best of mates and feed each other, act just like a pair. They are in a very large cage with 3 canaries and 3 zebra finches, which they don't annoy them a lot and there's space for them to get away from each other. They aren't the best with diet.. they have a diet of 1/3 finch seed 1/3 budgie seed and 1/3 Vetafarm Finch and Budgie crumbles. Occasional treat of millet spray (shared with all the others) and some egg and biscuit food which they love to eat. They are seed gluttons and refuse the pellets. Also refuse greens. Look overweight to me. They have vitamin drops in their water occasionally. Advice appreciated with their diet .
3 store bought canaries. Sunshine is the original, he is a male although not the best singer, bright typical canary yellow, very beautiful, around 3 y/o. He was on his own in a small cage for a while but got a major upgrade recently. There's the two canary siblings, I think cage reared, quite tame for canaries. Dusk is a male, beautiful singer, has black tipped wings and a deep orange colour. Pepper is gender unknown, I'd like help with this. She HAS sung but does it VERY rarely and it was , not in a mean way but pretty bad, compared to Dusk and Sunshine. She's got a spot of black between her wings and is a paler colour than Dusk. They're both less than one y/o. They all get along, yes there are some minor fights but not many. They are all very good with their greens, about 40% of their diet is greens. Same other 60% feed as budgies.
3 Zebra finches. All 4 y/o males. Very cute and active little fellas. Chirpy is a pretty active, bold one. Singer is a vocal finch and Joey is kind of just there if that makes sense, always pampered and preened by Chirpy. Good with greens but not as much as canaries. Same other diet as budgies. REALLY love their egg and biscuit food. I love them to bits (like all my fur and feather babies) and it's so sweet how they sleep in the seed dishes although messy ahah.
Most recently 3 Diamond doves. Got them all as babies from the pet store. Sprinkles (F) is a pretty grumpy little lady, and has done a cage escape while I was changing water once! Pain to catch as well but she's okay, unrelated to the other doves. Star (M) has really beautiful plumage and is the vocal one of the group, but pretty quiet in personality, doesn't really care when being yelled at by his brother (Spark) . Spark (M) is the largest one and the first in the pecking order, apart from Sprinkles who keeps him in his place, and is also quite vocal, very brave fella.
That's all of em, any advice appreciated and thanks for reading
I have 5 lovies all bought together from a pet shop. I do not know their genders and probably should get them DNA'd sometime. They were bought basically feral , and I have not had luck taming them. Every time I come into the room they all scatter to the corner. A good few months after being here they have settled a little but still are very fearful of humans and hands, even after changing their food and water thousands of times, tips on taming them is greatly appreciated. There are two black masked, Squawk and Screech, Squawk is a pretty vocal birdie, and Screech is more of a timid fella. And three Fischer, Mango, Sky and Melon. Sky is a pretty quiet beauty, she has a really neat blue on her tail feathers. Melon is a glutton for sure, always hogging his pellets and seeds, not so much greens! He and Sky seem to be really good friends, I wonder if a pair? But again don't know the genders. Mango, last but definitely not least , is kind of the star of the show. The loudest little thing always makes my ears bleed and has to be loudest when someone's on the phone! Pretty anti social compared to the others, the most likely to be sitting on her own instead of in the cute little line up they all do. Very destructive, always the first to start destroying a toy. Very naughty, likes to gently peck the others while they're eating and seems to enjoy getting chased, like her own little aggressive game of tag!
They are on half cockatiel seeds and half Vetafarm small parrot essentials, which they are still being trained to eat, was thinking to switch them to all pellets but they seem to enjoy breaking open the sunflower seeds so not sure atm. I give them a wide range of greens which they have recently been good eating. All around a year old. They have a med-large cage or it was considered that when I bought it, they're getting a massive cage upgrade when I can afford it.
2 Budgies also store bought. Blizzard is a very neat blue/grey/silver with a yellow face, M and 5 y/o , not much luck taming him but he does eat from my hands occasionally. Sunny is a bright lime green with a bright yellow face, M and about 3 . Not that good taming him either, although he is more trusting than Blizzard, a lot more likely to eat from my hand. Both housed together, they're the best of mates and feed each other, act just like a pair. They are in a very large cage with 3 canaries and 3 zebra finches, which they don't annoy them a lot and there's space for them to get away from each other. They aren't the best with diet.. they have a diet of 1/3 finch seed 1/3 budgie seed and 1/3 Vetafarm Finch and Budgie crumbles. Occasional treat of millet spray (shared with all the others) and some egg and biscuit food which they love to eat. They are seed gluttons and refuse the pellets. Also refuse greens. Look overweight to me. They have vitamin drops in their water occasionally. Advice appreciated with their diet
.3 store bought canaries. Sunshine is the original, he is a male although not the best singer, bright typical canary yellow, very beautiful, around 3 y/o. He was on his own in a small cage for a while but got a major upgrade recently. There's the two canary siblings, I think cage reared, quite tame for canaries. Dusk is a male, beautiful singer, has black tipped wings and a deep orange colour. Pepper is gender unknown, I'd like help with this. She HAS sung but does it VERY rarely and it was , not in a mean way but pretty bad, compared to Dusk and Sunshine. She's got a spot of black between her wings and is a paler colour than Dusk. They're both less than one y/o. They all get along, yes there are some minor fights but not many. They are all very good with their greens, about 40% of their diet is greens. Same other 60% feed as budgies.
3 Zebra finches. All 4 y/o males. Very cute and active little fellas. Chirpy is a pretty active, bold one. Singer is a vocal finch and Joey is kind of just there if that makes sense, always pampered and preened by Chirpy. Good with greens but not as much as canaries. Same other diet as budgies. REALLY love their egg and biscuit food. I love them to bits (like all my fur and feather babies) and it's so sweet how they sleep in the seed dishes although messy ahah.
Most recently 3 Diamond doves. Got them all as babies from the pet store. Sprinkles (F) is a pretty grumpy little lady, and has done a cage escape while I was changing water once! Pain to catch as well but she's okay, unrelated to the other doves. Star (M) has really beautiful plumage and is the vocal one of the group, but pretty quiet in personality, doesn't really care when being yelled at by his brother (Spark) . Spark (M) is the largest one and the first in the pecking order, apart from Sprinkles who keeps him in his place, and is also quite vocal, very brave fella.
That's all of em, any advice appreciated and thanks for reading
Welcome! I, too, would love to see pictures, especially of the budgies, canaries & Fischer's lovebirds.
I've been watching them closely and they do definitely prefer seeds over pellets but if all the seed is gone they are happy to eat the pellets.
