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Hi
Can anyone tell me please if an adult pair of plumheads can be safely housed with a group of retired cockatiels. I have a pair of plumheads that are 12 years of age and have never had any success with rearing their chicks so i thought i would retire them. I thought if i could put them with the cockies their pen would be free for me to get another pair of plumheads and try again. i know the cockies won't harm the plumheads but will the plumheads attack the cockies/
Does anyone know please
Thank you
Sheila

Hard to say really, give it a try if ya want. Just check them out periodically. If they are all flighted then things might be okay. If you do put them all together, do it in the early part of the day. I really do not know about the attitude of the Plumheads, I am thinking these are Conures? I know Cockatiels which sometimes adding in newbies can cause friction into any aviary. Now ideally, if you have a whole new territory that none of the pairs are use to, that might be better overall. How big is your area that you want to put these birds in together?

I have 13 cockies in a flight 8ft x 5ft with a shelter attached 8ft x 3ft. I shall have to put the plumheads in the pen and flight the cockies are already in. Twenty years ago i put 2 plumhead babies in with some cockies and they lived with them for 3 years with no problems but those cockies have all passed away now and the plumheads sold. I'm concerned that with the birds being adults things might be different.
Sheila

Plumheads belong in the Psittacula or "Ringneck Family".

I can't really say if I know how they'd get along, but being in an aviary you'd have a better chance of mixing species rather than being in a cage, where no one can get their own space.