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trees like apple or plum tree or other non-poisonous woods. This is to wear down the parakeet’s claws properly which otherwise tend to grow until the bird gets problems walking and climbing. Therefore, always pay close attention to the length of your bird’s claws, and trim them, if necessary. Lineolated Parakeets love to hide, even in the daytime. They look for caves, clefts, holes or they get a sleeping house or box. To avoid them going broody you should provide them with sleeping houses without ground floors, but with one or two perches to sit on. In addition to ropes, swings and ladders there’s still some space for a few toys in the aviary. For a good illumination use a full spectrum lamp that imitates sunlight this produces an environment in real colour. For the ground wood shavings and granulates will work perfectly. Depending on the size of the parakeet flock you may have to provide a bigger aviary, made of wood or metal, indoor or outdoor, the bigger the better. But, also keeping your Linnies in a separate bird room is possible. It’s delightful to watch a harmonic couple of Lineolated Parakeets grooming day in, day out, caring for one another, doing everything together or just hang around for hours. Multiply this by 2, or 4, or even 6. In their native habitat Lineolated Parakeets also live together in small or bigger


groups, search for food together and spend the night side by side in their sleeping tree. The group represents variety and protection, too. Nobody is alone. Single birds live together with couples, young with old, widows with adolescents. If young birds have the chance to grow up in a group like that it’s not only the parents that educate and – if necessary – to rebuke them. This process of socialization is very important for little birds. There is no fixed rule when a Linnie flock develops such a group dynamic because it depends on the birds’ age, gender ratio, individual characters, level of socialization and also the state of health. Over the past years it showed that a group number of at least six individuals can work as a guidance level. Although Lineolated Parakeets are really peaceful and friendly fellows there are sometimes arguments within a group, especially during the breeding season. The easiest way to solve that kind of conflict is to provide the flock with enough space to keep the squabblers out of each others way. It goes without saying that the volume/ sound of the parakeet group rises with its size. Several Linnies just have to talk more and louder to understand everyone and everything than a single couple. Especially during their daily ‘5 minutes’ in the morning and the late afternoon a flock of Lineolated Parakeets may be


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