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Publish date: 09-12-2011 01:10:32 | Contact Name: joe patrick richter | Location: northern territory | 514 times displayed
Hello,
recently i took my rainbow lorikeet (or olive lorikeet with colour mutation ), over to a friends house, as they just got a lorikeet, which we hoped would become friends with ours.
It didnt go well, i sat mine on the cage, and they got into a fight, theres being roughly 4 months old and not of the same breed, but a lorikeet all the same, most likely a mutation of rainbow.
It was started technically by my lorikeet, because the other really enjoys nibbling everything it sees, and my bird doesnt like to be nibbled on the face, so my bird tried kicking the younger bird then eventually resorted to fighting which was lots of sqwarking and beak bashing. so for the time i separated them, keeping one another almost in view of another.
I am planning to find a mate for my lorikeet as i wish to start breeding them, however, this lead me to beleive that they may not all get along. How to i find out if they are right for one another?
will they get along straight away? or is this normal behaviour on either part (the younger lorikeet nibbling my one all over, or my one not liking being nibbled on the beak)
i have no idea what gender my one is, but i plan to find out soon.
what i was hoping to do was bring my lorikeet to the breeder, let him/her play with some of the others, see which ones he/she gets along with best, then grab some feathers and run a DNA test. although i do beleive that the breederhas the birds DNA tested and seperates the genders to avoid the birds pairing, as that would cause some trauma or depression when someone removes one bird form the pair. in which case ill just get my lorikeets gender and try to pair with the opposite sex.
would that work? just seeing if they immediately get along? or is fighting normal to establish dominance or something?
i was just very worried because younger lorikeets like my friends have very sharp pointed beaks, and form what i saw, when the young one responded to my lorikeet trying to ward him/her off, it looked like my friends lorikeet was going for the eyes, which is not something i would risk in trying to let them fight it out.
also, are there any places online to finding a way to pair lorikeets all ive seen so far are what to do with the pair, not how to establish a pair.
my email is joey.richter@hotmail.com
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recently i took my rainbow lorikeet (or olive lorikeet with colour mutation ), over to a friends house, as they just got a lorikeet, which we hoped would become friends with ours.
It didnt go well, i sat mine on the cage, and they got into a fight, theres being roughly 4 months old and not of the same breed, but a lorikeet all the same, most likely a mutation of rainbow.
It was started technically by my lorikeet, because the other really enjoys nibbling everything it sees, and my bird doesnt like to be nibbled on the face, so my bird tried kicking the younger bird then eventually resorted to fighting which was lots of sqwarking and beak bashing. so for the time i separated them, keeping one another almost in view of another.
I am planning to find a mate for my lorikeet as i wish to start breeding them, however, this lead me to beleive that they may not all get along. How to i find out if they are right for one another?
will they get along straight away? or is this normal behaviour on either part (the younger lorikeet nibbling my one all over, or my one not liking being nibbled on the beak)
i have no idea what gender my one is, but i plan to find out soon.
what i was hoping to do was bring my lorikeet to the breeder, let him/her play with some of the others, see which ones he/she gets along with best, then grab some feathers and run a DNA test. although i do beleive that the breederhas the birds DNA tested and seperates the genders to avoid the birds pairing, as that would cause some trauma or depression when someone removes one bird form the pair. in which case ill just get my lorikeets gender and try to pair with the opposite sex.
would that work? just seeing if they immediately get along? or is fighting normal to establish dominance or something?
i was just very worried because younger lorikeets like my friends have very sharp pointed beaks, and form what i saw, when the young one responded to my lorikeet trying to ward him/her off, it looked like my friends lorikeet was going for the eyes, which is not something i would risk in trying to let them fight it out.
also, are there any places online to finding a way to pair lorikeets all ive seen so far are what to do with the pair, not how to establish a pair.
my email is joey.richter@hotmail.com
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