Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!sce!warpdrive!stewartw
From: stewartw@warpdrive.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Another question regarding budgies
Message-ID: <7405@warpdrive.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 89 15:19:43 GMT
References: <8910291210.aa15790@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU> <2494@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <10827@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <10827@cbnews.ATT.COM> noonan@cbnews.ATT.COM (D. J. Noonan) writes:

>bet that your bird since she is a hen may not want to be handled in the manner
>your talking about.  I don't know if the same is true for all hook-billed
>birds.  These comments are based on my own experiences with our budgies
>(which we have over 150 of) and from discussions with other budgie and
>hookbilled breeders.

    I don't have budgies, but I had heard many times that females were
more aggressive than males ... this would confirm it.  Now, of the ones
that I know females are more aggressive in lovebirds and eclectus parrots.
Males are more aggressive in cockatiels (although you seldom see real
aggression).  Large non-dimorphic parrots, I have less information on.
Certainly during breeding season a male macaw becomes the aggressor, but
I don't really know what the situation would be with pets.

    Since you have 150 budgies, I would be really interested in knowing
what kind of a set up you have to manage so many birds.  I suspect others
might too.

  Stewart
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