Green Cheek Conure

24 May 2011, 17:58

Of the larger conure group, the Nanday’s are the loudest, followed by the Sun, with the Jenday being quietest. All 3 are considerably louder than the Pyrrhura group. That’s why you see so many suns offered for rehoming.

I would say that my male Jenday is probably twice as loud as the Green cheeks.

25 May 2011, 11:41

I've never owned the Nandays or Jandays, but my suns are easily the loudest birds in my aviaries. They standout by a mile over the other conures. 1 pair is OK but I think if I had more I'd have issues. A single bird inside would be bearable, but if it had behavioural issues it would be unbearable.

25 May 2011, 11:44

thehammer wrote:I’m waiting for the Crimson-bellies to drop in price, sadly just like with the Nyassa, Fischer and Masked lovebirds they are already being crossed with Green cheeks by stupid breeders.

That's why your better off biting the bullet and buying a pair or two now. Atm, it's still easy to find dedicated breeders who concentrate on them and don't cross them because of their value. But once their price drops and they are seen everywhere finding a 'pure' pair will be much harder.

25 May 2011, 13:37

such a shame hey. Some people will breed any bloody thing to anything

25 May 2011, 13:40

Yeah, and there really is no need for it as there are plenty around. I even saw some for sale at orange this year.

On the today show this morning they were showing some liger cubs (cross between lion and tiger). Apparently they were rejected by their mother so they are being foster reared by a dog. I don't know how they came about but it is totally not needed to save the species??

25 May 2011, 13:59

agreed. Hey bleed my black masks are sitting

im pretty happy hey hasnt taken them long. I put in alot of banksia and stuff and threy chewed it all up a dragged the leaves a stuff up into the nest box a few weeks ago. i had already put nesting material in but they built it up more. Im stokked bit of fun a something different. Also the parrot finches are happy as and nests are built and there going in a out so who knows. Kinda dont want erm to breed now but seems they cant be stopped at present.

I herd about yours a hope you go ok...hope fully mine go well a i can keep us both sorted if need be.

25 May 2011, 15:49

Had a laugh last Friday when visiting another parrot breeders set ( huge ) all the aussie parrots were up front of the property and way way way down the back where the Sun Conures .

Made it half way down and then turned back , I'm hearing impaired and the bloody noise coming from them was too much.
Seems to be a competition to see who can make the loudest most annoying noise . I believe Quakers are the same .

Here at home the noisiest birds are the gkids pair of Budgies , they never shut up from sun up till sun down .

25 May 2011, 18:15

bleeding green wrote:I've never owned the Nandays or Jandays, but my suns are easily the loudest birds in my aviaries. They standout by a mile over the other conures. 1 pair is OK but I think if I had more I'd have issues. A single bird inside would be bearable, but if it had behavioural issues it would be unbearable.

My female is a lot quieter than the male, if he was like her you wouldn’t even know they were here

bleeding green wrote:
That's why your better off biting the bullet and buying a pair or two now. Atm, it's still easy to find dedicated breeders who concentrate on them and don't cross them because of their value. But once their price drops and they are seen everywhere finding a 'pure' pair will be much harder.

I understand the reasoning; however I do not really want to put $3400 into 2 pairs of conures. If I was going to outlay that amount of money on parrots it wouldn’t be on the Crimson-bellies.

27 May 2011, 14:56

thehammer wrote: I understand the reasoning; however I do not really want to put $3400 into 2 pairs of conures. If I was going to outlay that amount of money on parrots it wouldn’t be on the Crimson-bellies.

Yeah, I guess it depends on what you really want to focus on. Nice birds, and quiet too.

Benson, that's great about the black masks. From memory you have a blue and a normal?? Mine are going Ok with mixed results. I would have been better off trying to get them to hold off till spring, when it's easier for me (more daylight) to not feel so rushed to feed them the extras they need/want when they have young, plus to do ringing and monitoring etc. I have a few young fledged, a couple of pairs on their second nest and a few young in the boxes.
The frustrating part with parrots is that they take sooo long in the nests. Finches are way better in this department.
Anyway if you have a successful season I'd be happy to swap a couple if you'd like to build up your collection. Are you going to ring yours? Contact me if your interested in joining the club. I'm not an ative member, but I enjoy reading the news letter and buy my rings through them.

27 May 2011, 16:17

bleeding green wrote:
Yeah, I guess it depends on what you really want to focus on. Nice birds, and quiet too.

The bigger problem for me is that I would never be spending a lot of money on birds – seen too many people loose expensive birds.

When a bird drops to $300 a pair it’s not so bad, however having a lot of money invested in a single or pair of birds is not for me.

I don’t mind if others have expensive birds it seems that they can better afford the risk.