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For those of you with a linnie flock...
I've had a wild hair for awhile now to just get 4-5 linnies and a nice double flight cage and have myself a little linnie flock. I was wondering how you went about it? Did you get them all at once? From the same breeder? Are they difficult to socialize with?
I don't know that this will ever happen... but these are the details that keep me up at night
I've had a wild hair for awhile now to just get 4-5 linnies and a nice double flight cage and have myself a little linnie flock. I was wondering how you went about it? Did you get them all at once? From the same breeder? Are they difficult to socialize with?
I don't know that this will ever happen... but these are the details that keep me up at night
Well, I met one in person and fell head over heels in love and found a breeder and she had five. We choose two because all our research told us we should have at least two and because we weren't going to have them around the bigger birds, we wanted two. We took them home and the next day, I could have sworn that one of them had died but I was just being an idiot of course, but I couldn't stand the idea of possibly losing one and only having one left so we contacted the breeder and wanted to get one more but found out that they don't tend to do well in threesomes, so we decided to get two more but couldn't choose two more and felt badly leaving just one behind, so we got all three! The initial five were raised together and did EVERYTHING together and were so cute! But I really wanted some blue ones, so we got two more. We got one big HUGE cage and added two more to the mix and they assimilated fairly well and then we added two more and they assimilated fairly well too. We lost one but then gained one who needed a home who probably grew up with our first five. He took about a week to find out he was living in Linnie heaven and is now just one of the gang. We added an older one who needed a home last May and she took a little longer to fit in but is now doing just fine. Then we just recently lost another one, so we are back down to nine but all are happy. They squabble sometimes and one of our original five over preens some of the others, but other than that, they are a complete joy. They don't like hands and are fully flighted and we're ok with that. They are very curious and come out and hang out with us but aren't overjoyed by being handled by us. They are very friendly in their own sense as long as we don't try to handle them. They like to sit on our heads, shoulders, arms, etc, on their terms and they like to eat our food. I really enjoy them and they live in our living room where we see them all the time. They can get loud when you get into larger numbers. I can't imagine life without them now.
