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I am afraid a new bird may provoke anger from your caiques. My Zeek is 5 yrs. old. I got him after I had already owned a gcc for a couple years. The gcc was my buddy but did NOT like the caique. It took years before he would allow the caique to groom him. It makes me so happy to see them groom each other, now, as I think this is a healthy bird activity.
The caique accepted the conure because he was already here when he arrived as a baby. The caique tried EVERYTHING to woo the conure to groom him and finally won him over after years (I only let them together supervised).
Since then, I have had three birds in the house to birdsit. The first was a sun conure. It created ABSOLUTE CHAOS. It was terribly neglected and would cry mournfully while I cuddled it. My two birds would gang up and try to fly to her to attack her if I held her. They hated her with a passion. I had to take turns with all three of them while the remaining two would be terribly upset. (I refused to give her back and found her a new home).
The next bird was a pionus. The conure could care less as I never held the pionus, but the caique was on HIGH ALERT the minute he got up in the morning. He would let himself out of his night cage and march to the top of the stairs prancing and crying to get to the pionus. When I held him up to the pionus cage, he would try to get free to ATTACK. The poor pionus didnt know what to think of this little whippersnapper half his size trying to attack his cage.
The third bird was a friend's (CUTE AND SNUGGLY) gcc. My gcc was seriously depressed while I birdsat this little guy. He was SO snuggley and such a character that I couldnt help but fawn over him. He and the caique got along fabulously. I think because the gcc looked like his "brother."
It is so interesting observing birds' behavioral traits. Your caiques may very well be upset at the new Af. grey, especially if you snuggle it as a baby. On the other hand, they may be more lenient, as they have each other to focus on...ie you are not the sole object of their attention/affection.
Good luck!
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