Pippa!
Walking the driveway
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Hello everyone! So I have a couple questions about my cannery. First I need to tell the story of how I acquired him. My mom and I visited a local pet store and saw 2 parakeets and this cannery in a very dirty cage. We inquired about the birds and found out that they had just been dropped off at the pet store, right before we walked in, by a man who was going to let the birds go in the parking lot if the store didn’t take them. We really liked the look of the parakeets and of course we would take the cannery since he was in the same cage. Side note the parakeets were very young about 4 months old. So we ended up buying all three birds for only 30 dollars. We quarantined the birds in a separate cage, for three weeks, from my other birds, a cockatiel and a parakeet. They seemed perfectly healthy so we moved the birds in a large cage together. Since then we have had no problems between the birds. I am aware that canneries and finches should not be kept with parrots. I did try to move Perry cannery out of the large cage once when they were bullying him a bit. But he was very depressed when I did this. So I keep him in the same cage with all my 4 parakeets and cockatiel. He is definitely lowest in the pecking order and doesn’t really have a special cage mate besides a mirror he loves. He has never been seriously injured by they other birds beside a few good pecks. I feed him the same as my other birds(parakeet seed, cockatiel seed, veggies, and crushed pellets). I also feed him a leaf of baby spinach every day because he really loves baby spinach. I believe he is a Spanish Timbrado cannery but I am not positive. He definitely does not sing like a Spanish Timbrado. He acts very much like a parakeet. He definitely has no idea he’s a cannery. He makes little peeping noises and tries to imitate his cage mates. My questions are as follows: Is it possible to sex a cannery? Should I be feeding something different to him? Should I get him a cage mate like a lonely finch? Is there anything special I should know about canneries(I honestly know nothing about them)? Does he look alright to everyone? I’m so sorry for making this so long and for asking so many questions. Thank you all in advance.
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