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So something has happened to my friend's birds and she can't figure out why. I can't find anything online about it and I was wondering if you guys could shed some light on this.
My friend's ring-neck parrot ate her cockatiel. They were living together for months and had gotten along fine until suddenly one ate the other. The cockatiel is an adult while the parrot was very very young, supposedly. Their cage is clean and they both had food.
My guess is that the ringneck hit puberty and snapped, getting territorial with the cockatiel and then killed it. I don't know the exact age of it however, nor its birthday. That's just a random shot in the dark though. I don't know much about birds.
Any ideas?
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holy shit
Now birds seem even more scary
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was it the right type of food? I don't know the nutritional needs of parrots but I've seen clips of cows eating birds and apparently they did that because they lacked calcium.
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>>2262803
behavioral issue of this kind is never going to be due to diet.
i would think it's a territory thing. Well, now you know you can never have another bird around that parrot...
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Damn did the ringneck actually eat it? Brutal. Not surprising though, you're not supposed to keep different species in the same cage. Not to mention ringnecks get very aggressive and test everything around them when they're young.
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>Keeping one larger species of parrot (esp one known for its aggression) with one smaller species of parrot
recipe for disaster. Parrots are omnivores. Your friend is a retard.
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>>2263340
Update.
Just informed her. Apparently she's not getting any more birds.
That's a relief.
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