Thinking of getting a baby.....

[TwilightsImprint]

next week end I'm going out to my breeders aviary and I'm going to take a look at her baby Yellow Sided Conures. I know I'm totally nuts since I just got Aros less than two months ago. However with the parakeets finding new homes (a story for another thread... but the punch line is they attacked eachother and I cant have four separate single bird cages and one large cage) I will have an empty cage big enough for a conure of some kind. I'm really excited and wondered if anyone could offer some helpful advice about raising baby (weened) conures, and what to expect.

 

[hsmoscout]

Well "yellow sided conures" are actually GCCs but are a color mutation. So, they will be just like a GCC. I still have no idea why some people think they are another species...

 

[Cynthia & Percy]

I do not know anything but wish you luck thanks for sharing

 

[Emmilyy]

AJ is right, YS's are just GCCs! I see people thinking they're a different species all the time!

Is Aros a baby? Just do the same thing you're doing with him for the YS.

By the way i LOVE LOVE LOVE YS GCC's! I'm not biased or anything, but they are GORGEOUS. please share pics when you bring the baby home! hehe

 

[TwilightsImprint]

I know that they are a mutation of the GCC. However to me every mutation even a color mutation has its behavioral differences. For instance. It is in my experience that Pearl Tiels are easier to tame for some reason; and pastel colored parakeets are more flighty than main stream split colored parakeets. And Aros is a butthead who wont even bite me while he has no problem biting my father... though that has nothing to do with mutation. though I sometimes wish it did.

 

[Emmilyy]

hmm.. i honestly don't think that different color mutations have different personalities.. but thats interesting.

 

[TwilightsImprint]

I may have just been running into the same kind of birds but working at a rescue my main job is to tame down the "untamable" small parrots. So maybe its just a coincidence but i like to think it isn't

 

[M.C Bird Rescue]

I may have just been running into the same kind of birds but working at a rescue my main job is to tame down the "untamable" small parrots. So maybe its just a coincidence but i like to think it isn't

Why not adopt from the rescue? I know sweet babies are great..even though you would have to pay ME to take one. But providing a home for a bird in need would be the first place I looked into. Just a suggestion.

I love the older birds. I know a hand raised baby is never the same, but the older birds in need seem to really pull at my heart strings.