Where do i put the bird cages?
1 Cockatiel in the corner right now.
2 Parakeets on a table in the middle of the room.
is this good?
Do not place them in the same cage, as another person suggested, unless you take the proper precautions.
You should place the birds, in their existing cages, close enough for the birds to see each other, but not close enough for them to bite each other through the bars. Leave them like this for about a week or so, as you watch their reaction to each other.
Then you can give them some supervised socialization time out of their cages.
When you let them out, let them all out at the same time. If you let one out and not the others, the one will fly over and get on the other cage and can have its toes bitten off by the occupant of that cage.
Only let them out if they all have their wings clipped; otherwise, they could start chasing each other all over the house and one of them could smack into something flying in a panic, or could be chased to exhaustion.
Be ready to separate them and get them back into their cages in a hurry if they start really fighting, but don’t panic if they just beak at each other – birds do establish a pecking order.
Don’t be surprised if the parakeets are the dominant birds – I had one that used to love to torture my cockatiels, grabbing the feathers in their crest and yanking on them. You have to discourage that type of behavior immediately. I always had to give that parakeet his free flight time in a different room, alone, as he would pick on any other bird I had.
You could end up with three birds that all get along fine, you could end up with one cockatiel and one parakeet that get along fine and one parakeet that is outcast, you could end up with the two parakeets ignoring the cockatiel and vice versa, or you could end up with all three fighting with each other. Each flock has its own dynamics.
If they all get along reasonably well, you could put them in a NEW, very large, cage together. Remember, if you place them in either the cage you have the parakeets in right now, OR the cage you have the cockatiel in right now, it could start another round of fighting, as the bird(s) who are accustomed to having “ownership” of the cage fight off the new intruder(s).
If you get a new cage for all three, it must be big enough for all three birds to have their own space when they get tired of hanging around with their cagemates. And it needs to have the bars properly spaced so no one tries to escape and gets their heads stuck. (People often forget about the bar spacing when they get a larger cage – amy larger cages are designed for larger birds, and the bar spacing would allow injury or escape of smaller birds).
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