Hi,
I have been reading some posts and I am trying to learn things. I have 2 peach-faced lovebirds. Got them a year ago, they were a few months old at the time, the small one grew a bit. I believe I have male and female, small male, large female.
The female used to be dominant and then the male fought back and became the dominant one. Now they are quite even, dominance seems to switch quite a lot. The male is much friendlier. He is naive when mating, stomping all over her back, the wrong way round sometimes.
They are very different in many ways, they have there own way of doing things. The male jumps upon my hand, the female is shy and will not, but is getting better. The female bites hard, the male is bites softer. I am trying to stroke him but he bites me, sometimes i get to touch him without a bite but not often.
They both stuff their tails with millet twigs. I got a nestbox but they won't go inside, my girlfriend is crazy about them having babies. I am worried it could be hard work.
By the way they are no problem at all, they seem happy, I let them fly out sometimes in my room. I trick them back with millet twigs on a stick, else they'd never go back. They sleep well. I feed them sunflower seeds, millet and various veg. I used to buy a lovebird mix but they would pick the best bits and leave lots of it. I read advocado is bad for them, any other veg or fruit bad? They like lettuce, celery, apple, fresh parsley stalks, fresh spinach, cucumber. I read they don't need grit, but the pet shop said they do. So they have always had grit apart from a couple of months at the start.
I have been reading some posts and I am trying to learn things. I have 2 peach-faced lovebirds. Got them a year ago, they were a few months old at the time, the small one grew a bit. I believe I have male and female, small male, large female.
The female used to be dominant and then the male fought back and became the dominant one. Now they are quite even, dominance seems to switch quite a lot. The male is much friendlier. He is naive when mating, stomping all over her back, the wrong way round sometimes.
They are very different in many ways, they have there own way of doing things. The male jumps upon my hand, the female is shy and will not, but is getting better. The female bites hard, the male is bites softer. I am trying to stroke him but he bites me, sometimes i get to touch him without a bite but not often.
They both stuff their tails with millet twigs. I got a nestbox but they won't go inside, my girlfriend is crazy about them having babies. I am worried it could be hard work.
By the way they are no problem at all, they seem happy, I let them fly out sometimes in my room. I trick them back with millet twigs on a stick, else they'd never go back. They sleep well. I feed them sunflower seeds, millet and various veg. I used to buy a lovebird mix but they would pick the best bits and leave lots of it. I read advocado is bad for them, any other veg or fruit bad? They like lettuce, celery, apple, fresh parsley stalks, fresh spinach, cucumber. I read they don't need grit, but the pet shop said they do. So they have always had grit apart from a couple of months at the start.
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