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I am getting my cockatiel baby this week and wanted to know how and when I should introduce him to my recently weaned Finsch's conure. They will be in seperate cages, but I would like for them to be friends if possible so that they can have some shared playtime on their playgym. 
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K&T Dad... Welcome to the forums and congrats on your soon to be Tiel Whisper! Just a little advice on having your conure & Tiel being play buddies. First of all Tiels are very passive and are much smaller than a conure. If your conure got aggressive your Tiel could be killed or hurt badly. It is very possible that they can get along for short periods of out of cage play time. I would just monitor them very closely
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| Allow them to share out of cage time together, supervised, and put their cages near eachother, but not right next to eachother, so that they can get used to eachothers presence.... K&T Dad is right though... a conure could do serious damage to a cockatiel.... But then, who am I to say?? LOL! 
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K&T Dad... Yeah, ya just never know Great pic Monica
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1. Lineolated Parakeet(Chile) 1. Bourke's Parakeet(Aussie)
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I suggest doing what Monica said keep their cages near one another for quite some time, maybe months so that they can get to know one another and then let them share supervised out of cage time. My conure really likes most feathered souls in world and eventually welcomes them to play time after she is used to them. But tiels are so timid that I would let their relationship build little by little.
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Thanks for all the advice! I ended up not getting the baby I had booked from a breeder, taking in a rescued baby instead. The poor dear had been bought by a lady who had no idea of how to handrear, and the petshop she purchased it from didn't advise her either. A riding buddy of mine went to her house for dinner and found the little tyke shivering on the bottom of a cage with a greencheek tormenting it. Apparently the lady had tried to feed it Pronutro ( a human cereal ) and when it failed to eat it, she just left it. When my friend told her it would certainly die she told her to take him. As luck would have it I went to my friend Claire's house the next day to drop off some horse rugs and saw the little thing in a box. His one foot was bleeding, apparently the conure had taken off half of one toe and a nail on another toe. Claire asked if I could see if he could be saved, but I was a bit concerned as he hadn't had anything to eat for 3 days! He looked so pathetic and scared, so I took him. I brought him home, disinfected his wounds, bought a cage and food and prayed. Luckily he is quite a little fighter and I had no problems with syringe feeding him. I have never in my life seen a bird gulp down food the way he's been doing. He makes the funniest little growling sounds when he sees his syringe and bowl, so we have named him Petrie (he sounds and looks like a pterodactyl according to my 3 year old) I was really looking forward to getting my other cockatiel, but I think little Petrie needed me more. The other cockatiel comes from a reputable breeder and will find a loving home, Petrie wasn't as lucky.
In view of his previous experience with other birds, should I keep his cage away from Max's for the moment?
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It would be best to keep them separated for quite a while.... I'd worry most about the home the poor chick came out of for the woman to not know any better on how to care for the chick.. I wish you the best of luck with Petrie! And I know what you mean about the "growling" noises! Just their way of begging for food!
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