Young Bonded Conures Displaying Breeding Habits
Both of my green cheek conures are under a year old.. they’re about 9 months old, 2 weeks apart. We’ve only had them a month now. We introduced them and everything was good until they started displaying breeding habits. They have separate cages (for now) since we wanted to be sure that they would get along, but the cages are close to each other and they were getting lots of out of cage play times together. We separated them once it looked like they were trying to breed because obviously we do not want that. Especially not at their young age. Do I need to just keep them separated? Our normal vet has been out for over a month for emergencies and can’t see us for at least another week so we haven’t even had their dna test done to see if they are M or F yet. We live in a very remote area so he is our only bird friendly option. At the moment, we’re just keeping them separated and setting early bed times so the birds think that it’s winter instead of spring. Any advice? So far, all of our research is conflicting. I’m worried one of them is F and will end up forming eggs she’s too young for and will hurt or possibly kill her.