Separating the trio?

[LAK]

Initially, we planned to give two of our babies to my good friend. Once we started hand feeding, we felt like we couldn't part with any of them. As time goes on though, I think that perhaps it would be a selfish move. I am finding that it's getting more difficult to give each baby what I believe the right amount of attention is. My friend still would love to have two. I have decided to go with the original plan of just keeping one. I feel bad separating them because they are all really close to one another. In preparation, I'm starting to give the baby we are keeping tons of attention out of the cage and away from the other babies (though all three do get a lot of out of cage human time). Is it cruel to separate them? Will the one we keep wonder what happened and get upset? Am I just projecting human emotion onto the birds? And does it matter which ones we separate? They all pretty much seem to pair up on an equal basis. (Sometimes, one is off doing his own thing, but it doesn't appear that any one of them is on their own more often).

 

[MikeyTN]

Separating them at a young age is fine as they would look up to you to be their main companion. If you want to keep two so he can have a friend that would be fine as well.

 

[MarciaLove]

separating them while they are young is fine just be sure to spend extra time with the one you are keeping now.

 

[GaryBV]

I agree with both Mikey and Marcia - and it's an experience nearly every animal, bird, mammal, human, goes through with generally no harm.

 

[LAK]

Thanks. I better act fairly quickly then because I think they may be starting to see each other as their main companions, especially Bananas. He's very ornery and seems to be very protective of the other two (except for when he starts trouble with them)! Actually, it's almost like he stands guard over them. If the other two go in the little house they all sleep in, sometimes he just perches on top of it and looks around every which way. And he's always ready to ward off any "threat" to his avian kingdom. Whether it be a new toy or a human finger, he runs full force ahead with his mouth wide open ready to attack. He is now starting to act this way toward me - like he would rather have nothing to do with me sometimes. And he is beginning to bite - hard. He's perfectly delightful. We are trying to break him of the biting and attack habit though. The point is though that I think his behavior may be, at least in part, his way of asserting his growing independence.

 

[MikeyTN]

If that's the case it would be wise to separate them! They will do that at times being bonded to their siblings.

 

[LAK]

If that's the case it would be wise to separate them! They will do that at times being bonded to their siblings.

Should we separate them within days? We are going out of state to visit my family on 12/22. We're coming back on 12/26. We were just going to take them all with us (they're so young). But should we separate them for good before that? Is the sooner the better?

By the way, they are all flying now.