Let's Talk About Conures..................

[kahncss]

I love conures! They were my favorite birds when I use to be a breeder. I especially loved the Blue Crown. They are such happy birds. I've owned several kinds of conures over the years. I still have one little Peach Front, but I'm just not up to the noise of them anymore, in spite of their beauty.


Djuna,

Your birds are beautiful! I have a small collection too and miss my Grey terribly. They have to be the most intelligent birds ever.

[TechGromit]

Originally Posted by DecisionYear

What's your favorite type of conure and why?

Mine is Green Cheek Conure, because Green Cheek Conures are:

1) Quiet. They make less noise than even a single budgie.

Me and my wife have a Sun Conure, and it's anything but quite. When she sees me outside thru the window, I can hear her scream at the street, 175 feet away with the windows closed.

Originally Posted by DecisionYear

2) Beautiful, especially the Yellow sided Green Cheek Conure. It has dark green, blue, yellow, red, orange, and more.

Our Sun conure is very pretty. Orange head, also red, yellow, and green. I call her our little devil sometimes, since she's so demanding and LOUD.

Originally Posted by DecisionYear

3) I love the naked ring around its eyes, looking just like a macaw or Amazon.

4) BIG parrot personality. They lie on their backs, hold food with their feet, hang upside down, and most importantly very playful like a PUPPY.

Ours has quite a personality as well. She's very inquisitive. Recently she figured out how to undo the zipper on my jackets, she'll disengage the zipper at the bottom and rip it apart for the bottom up. She also chews at the zipper teeth for good measure. She ruined at least one jacket were I can't force the zipper down any more. She also enjoys burrowing under covers and making strange sounds.

Originally Posted by DecisionYear

5) EASY size. Because they're so small, they eat less, poop less, and thus less mess than larger birds.

Our bird has learned to "hold it" it very rare she poops when we have her out of the cage, sometime for several hours.

Originally Posted by DecisionYear

6) LOVES human attention and very cuddly.

Same with ours, but it does get to be a pain when she screams when were elsewhere in the house. She tends not to eat her food unless were in the room with her. She can make kissing sounds and moves her head forward for every kiss, but she hasn't learned to say anything yet. She does mumble sometimes, but it's nothing we can make out what she's trying to say.

Originally Posted by DecisionYear

7) Low cost and available everywhere.

I wouldn't say that. First Sun Conure cost us $400 and she wasn't adjusting from her flock mentality very well, she was very aggressive. So we returned her and took a credit. We purchased a Sun Conure from Petsmart for $600, since she was around people all the time she was very friendly, and she adjusted well to our house. Now she's aggressive towards strangers she bit my father-in-law and cut his finger because he foolishly walked up to the cage and stuck his finger in when he came over to the house.