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Topic Started: Oct 10 2010, 07:00 PM (1,813 Views)
newton heath
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My wife and I have been looking into every type of parrot available and have decided that we will start off with a baby parrotlet.
At the moment we are looking into cages and hope to make a purchase next week either 1,2,or 3.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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kevinp
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Hi and welcome to the forum, If I was looking for a new cage I would go either for a large budgie cage or this type of cage

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This is the type I have and found them to be the right size for one or two parrotlets, it may look big but they tend to use all their cage on theior climbing expeditions and when they are playing hard.
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newton heath
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Cage bought the size is 60cm wide 45cm deep 91cm high.with the stand total is 150cm high.

Next step toys and birds. blue2 nod2
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Welcome to the forum Newton! Lots of toys is a must! :)
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Yes they do love their toys! I think my pancake is in love with his se-saw swing!!!
I would recomend 2 though, 3 in a cage may be too much and as they say 2 is company... 3's a crowd! lol!
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i agree lots and lots of toys :)
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One in a cage two in a cage but never three there will be fighting and one or more will be hurt, I would recommend one if you want to interact with them if you dont then two will be fine by themselves either sex pairs are fine unless you want to breed. I havee had pairs of males together with out much problem never had two girls together though.
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newton heath
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Thanks for the replies.

I agree its got to be 2 at the most, might give breeding a go in 6 months or so.

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definetely only 1 or 2 in a cage, i made that mistake when i first got my parrotlets i got scooby and then got sky and when i went back to the shop she had another dark blue parrotlet in so i asked the person who owned the shop if all 3 would be ok and she said yes ,so i bought smurf, all 3 got on ok for a while and then sky and scooby started to attack smurf ,so i had to seperate them. it is shame that not many pet shops know much about parrotlets :(
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Hey your from south wales too!!! There is a petshop in newport that do parrotlets, Ive only ever seen blues or greens there though, and sometime they are for sale in Zoahs ark (neath)
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Hi Newton! welcome to the forum! I hope you find your babies soon! :)

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Hello and welcome....
I go to Neath often... had my
boy p-let from Zoahs Ark....found them and
there birds very healthy....
Most of their Parrotlets are breed in Swansea...
Mine has turned out the best P-let I have... very sweet
nature and never has biten at all

Id highly recommend them...
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Checked with Zoar none in stock told they would come back but nothing heard.

Just arrived back from Newport 2 Babys hand reared bought about 11 weeks I was told , 1 female green pied and 1 male blue beaks still a bit pinky.

No names yet I just hope that they get on, fingers crossed. nod2 blue1 2.gif
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In newport? Ive not been to that one.
Any good?? what else did they sell. Bird wise?
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Good variety of birds, including large parrots down to finches with food cages toys etc.

I only concentrated on the parrotlets. The owners are on holiday until next tuesday their web site is
http://parrothouse.zoomshare.com mobile for Sue is 07834872749 from next week.

I was served by Alan who gave me a lot of helpful information.

Hope that help.
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