green cheeked conure

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jusdeb
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Jay this is what mine got today ( it varies ) a salad of orange , apple , celery , corn , capsicum , carrot and broccoli, sprouted seeds + a large chines cabbage leaf + a piece of madiera cake this is on top of the bowl of pellets and the bowl of dried fruit and nut AND they eat it all .

In all honesty I had a verbal to get another pair but when I thought of what they ate every day I changed my mind , they eat the same amount of food as my mixed aviary with Kaks , Quarrions, Bourkes and Diamonds and beleive me the Kaks are good on the fang too.

Up to you Haydn and though the answers have been a bit negative it is only to fore warn you as to what they are like to own.

And having said that I wouldn't swap my pair for quids , they are funny buggers ( wont mention that the boy just tried to bite me through the wire ) :D
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:shock: and again I reiterate, with a slight edit, I would leave them to the professional, rural and WEALTHY!!!! that's got to cost a fortune in vege.
I will admit all conures are real jesters. they are one of the few creatures that have ever made me laugh until I cry, which no human could ver do to me.
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The best Conure to start with, quiet, free breeding, even on a basic diet of seed plus the occasional green food you can expect atleast one nest per year. Make less noise than a cage of budgies. Just feel sorry for the poor bugger that paid $4000 for a pair back in '98 (more than I paid for my car at the time), only to sell young in '99 & get $500 a bird :evil: .
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They did lose value extraordinarily fast .
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its ok jay i know what you are trying to say, i know that they are expensive but i am willy to go the distence for any bird of interest, anyway i am only getting one for now until room is avaliable cause i own i did have 10 cockatiels but 1 got away :( 5 budgies but i passand 2 eastern rosellas
and does anyone know the reporduction period for rosellas cause they say they breed between argust-january in the wild but they say in captiverty they say from march or april-argust or september and i want to cheeck if this is true
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I'm just sayin take it slow :) if you feel prepared it's the best time to act :)
I'm glad to see you're keen, we need blokes like you and your brother!
RE rosellas, I'll scan and PM you some pages out of my book, A guide to Rosellas :)
sorry to hear about your cockatiel :( my cinnamon king quail cock just got way too. I can hearhim calling a few houses down but I can't see him :cry:
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thanks jay i dont want anymore birds i have too many as it is and it dosent count haydns or mums i hope u find him
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thanks shanny, I heard him this morning, so the search will continue...
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resuce party :D
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hay jay and deb i am not going to get the conure as from what i find out about them is going to be difficult so i am going to leave the conure till i get some exp anyway i have only breed once and that was with my tiels and i dont want to be rushing to the hospital every time a conures mouth lathes on to my finger, so i am going to focus on the birds i have so far plus a new pair of eastern rosellas might be on there way to me as i might go and get them instead of a conure cause there bite is like a band-aid wound. i have been a rosella fan since i was a baby since 92

how do rosellas show love or how do i get them to wanting to breed

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