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From: ian@dept.csci.unt.edu (Ian Parberry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR : So how well do parakeets and cockatiels mix?
Message-ID: <1990Jul23.210442.11281@dept.csci.unt.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 21:04:42 GMT
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Reply-To: ian@ntvax.UUCP (Ian Parberry)
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In response to the posting asking whether budgies and tiels mix:
in my experience, it depends on the individual budgie and the individual
tiel.  I've had tiels that get along just fine with budgies, and one
budgie-killer.  Proceed with reasonable caution.  Some postings have
pointed out that budgies can harass tiels, but I've never known a
budgie to kill a tiel.  Mind you, all of this was with Australian
stock not too far removed from the wild blood lines: I'm not sure
how well this applies to the US attenuated and in-bred stock.
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Ian Parberry  ian@dept.csci.unt.edu  Dept. of Computer Science,
Univ. of North Texas, P.O. Box 13886, Denton, TX 76203-3886
"Bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy"