Housing amazon with another bird

[Ainon]

Anyone here who is housing (in the same cage) an amazon with another bird?
Is it the same species or is it another amazon speceis or maby another totally different parrot?
How does it work between the parrots and between you and the parrots?

I'm thinking of getting a friend for my RLA.

[Dayna]

Unless you plan to breed or having breeding behaviors I would be against it.

[cfulhage]

Not a good idea. First of all, if you are getting a new parrot, you need to quarantine. 30 days with the new bird in a completely different part of the house, and you change close and sanitize hands after handling the new bird. So you need a new cage for that anyways. Secondly, you have no idea if the 2 birds would ever get along. They may hate each other forever. Amazon's tend to be moody, so for that alone it's not a good idea.

[Ainon]

Well my amazon gets along very vell with other birds. I had an mealy amazon here when her owner was away and they got along well on the birdtree.
I'mthinking of getting him a friend since they are creatures who live in pairs and flock and obviously I can't be with him 24/7.

I'm interested in opinions from people with experiance of housing 2 birds together (atleast one of them an amazon)

[Monica]

My cherry head conure and first tiel live well together. They eat the same foods, and are normally found sleeping together at night, however with it being cold, Casey, the tiel, has been sleeping with the teddy bears up high! Okay, so not a prime example...

Charlie, the mitred, was living with a lilac crowned amazon before he came to live here. On top of that, he easily bossed this lilac crowned, another lilac crowned, and another amazon (yellow nape? blue front? hard to say) around with ease! The two became somewhat of a pair.

I know from somewhere else of a cherry head and a yellow nape amazon who live together in the same cage and practically do EVERYTHING together...



Can't say I have any first hand experience keeping a zon with other birds (since I don't own a zon) except with what I saw with Charlie and Icarus.... Icarus (the lilac crowned) wanted to follow Charlie around everywhere they went... and if separated they would do contact calls to one another until they were reunited. Since Charlie has come here, he doesn't have any buddies like Icarus, at least not yet.


Knowing how moody amazons can be however, I don't recomend getting Apple a friend unless you are fully prepaired to handle two birds who may never get along, could be EXTREMELY jealous of eachother, and must be kept in separate cages. However, who knows, even IF you got him a friend things could turn out differently too... It's hard to say without knowing the birds personalities, however it sounds like Apple would probably do fine with a friend, but you never can tell about another bird that you really haven't known well enough to make that sort of judgement upon the bird.

[Demeter]

I currently have two mealy's housed together, however, my situation is different because they are clutchmates. So they have spent their entire life together. That being said, the boys are now 8 months old, and even though they get along I may start housing them separately. The older one seems to sometimes get a little unpredictable and nippy as if he might be protecting his brother. There was one month when they were separate, one came home with us and the other was still at the store...and I can tell you in that months time both of their attitudes improved greatly around people. But now that they are back together we are starting to see them not as anxious to hang out with us.

I have an older mealy, who is pretty spoiled, and I can tell you right now that he wants NOTHING to do with the two brothers. Your amazon might be ok on a play area with another bird, but who knows how he will feel about another bird in his safe place, cage.

Personally, I am beginning to think that every bird needs their own little space. But if you have space for another cage, getting him a buddy to play and hang out with in their play areas would be ideal. I would just be careful when choosing species/sex to make sure you wont increase any aggression during breeding season, lord knows those zons dont need anymore excitement then what some can already have without any influence :)

These are only my opinions, and I am not an expert or anything, but I would only get another addition if you could also house another cage if necessary.

[Willow]

Ok, 4 months after the fact but I'm just making my way back. I have 5 AMazons and they are all housed together, they are cage free and flighted and they get along fine. :~)

[shf]

was sharing a cage with an umbrella cockatoo twice as large as sonny and they were getting along fine. It all depends on how the birds get along; you just have to introduce them cautiously and watch closely for a while.

[kensbuns]

Simply not a good idea! JMHO!!!

[shf]

the umbrella and yellow crown amazon being together in the same cage is not a good idea. I personally wouldn't do it. In fact I prefer birds caged alone although they say birds prefer to be social.
When I went to visit sonny for the first time the previous owner had them both in the same cage and I was wondering that it might not be a good idea. I don't recommend it either; I just wanted to let people know that they were put together by the previous owner when i went to buy sonny and they were doing fine together in the same cage.
I think birds should not have to live in a situation where there is an established pecking order because it is stressful for birds to have to live with an agressive or bullying type of bird.
But others have said that this is natural and that they know where they stand in the pecking order its when a bird challenges this order or doesn't know where they stand in the pecking order when their is a fight when first introducing two unfamiliar birds.
I surely wouldn't put my goffin with my amazon; they are almost the same size; I can clearly see that chinook the goffin is definitely agressive and looking for a fight.