Do lovebirds and budgies get along?

[Karys]

Of course they would each have their own cage, and only play time out together.

how much louder are lovies?

Anyone has lovies and budgies?
Pics?

[mary313]

I dont have budgies, but I have lovebirds. They can tend to be bullies! Wouldn't leave them alone together unsupervised thats for sure!

[2keetsandalovie]

I have both keets and lovies and I would never leave them unsupervised. Lovies love to bite their feet and tend to be bullies (like Mary mentioned above) Most of the times they leave one another alone but then the other times i have to break up a squabble with a squirt of water! My keets have even been bitten on their feets b/c they were just hanging on the lovies cage. :(

Some lovies can be loud but then it depends on the birds temperment. They always pick the times that I am on the phone to make a lot of noise--4 lovies and 2 keets! LOL!

This is an old pic of the three birds together (9/08)...since then i've added two more lovies.

[SuzyCupcake13]

My lovie bullies my jenday conure. Just make sure they're always supervised.

[Jally]

I have lovies and budgies. Recently, we lost one of our budgies to a freak accident. We think he was attacked by our fairly new lovie. He had his top beak ripped off and even with vet care, meds, handfeedings etc... he still didn't make it. We will forever feel guilty and we will forever miss him :o(

So, needless to say, I wouldn't keep budgies and lovies together. With supervision, strict supervision yes. But, nothing less. It only takes an instant :o( The memory of walking in and seeing all that blood and my poor Binky will forever haunt me.

[2keetsandalovie]

Oh Jally...that sounds awful. And yes it only takes a second for something to happen. You have to know your birds but always keep them under supervision. My keets somehow know that the lovies can be bullies and tend to fly away if things get too close.

[shosh]

So sorry to hear about your budgie!!!
I also have 2 budgies and 4 lovies...2 ring-eye and 2 peachfaced.
The peachies are the bullies....my bluemasked adores them and tries to play with them but they'll have none of it....my fischer minds her own business. The budgies do seem to know to keep one step ahead of the lovies but recently one has become more curious. I did have a budgie with what looked like a lovie nip on his foot a few months back so, no matter what, there are no guarantees...
They share the same room and space but really do keep to themselves....

[birdlover912]

I have Apple-Jack (AJ), a peach face/masked lovebird, and 4 budgies. I have never had them out at the same time because accidents happen. AJ can be aggressive/overly excited/territorial around other birds. To me, it just isn't worth the risk to have them interact.

[jpineda]

I agree with everyone here, but I'll add that I would never put a female lovebird with any other bird that she isn't strongly bonded to. And even that's not a guarantee she won't be aggressive toward her cagemate.

[shosh]

When I added Bindi to Bam-Bam's life after Pebbles died ( lymphoma at 1 1/2 years old), I didn't realize, at the time, that Bam-bam was a girl.so I did end up mixing girl/girl...of course, at the time I didn't know Bindi was a girl either. I just wanted them to be friends!
It took about a month total for Bam-Bam to accept Bindi...we started off in separate cages for about 2 weeks but when I tried putting them together, Bam-Bam was quite the bully and Bindi was on the bottom perch too much and Bam=Bam took a nice piece out of her beak, too. So they got separated again but what REALLY worked was moving Bam-Bam OUT of the original cage into a new one and letting Bindi have that cage....got rid of the territoriality issue right away and made it easier to help them along.

Now I know I've got two girls and they are totally, madly and deeply crazy about each other.....it's quite ridiculous. I have a bonded pair of female lovebirds who act as if sex is the only thing worth doing...hmm....thought that was a guy thing!!!