Hedwig and Hermione are my two keets. Hermione is semi tame, will step up if it's conveinant for him.

Hedwig I bought at a garage sale. A friend was going around all the local garage sales and a family didn't want to take their parakeet with them when they moved. I couldn't bear the thought of a family with demon spawn kids buying this beauty so I bought him.

I kept them in different rooms for a month and then moved the cages into the same room.

Hermione has free range of the living room, although he doesn't care to. He prefers to stay on top of his cage. Hedwig however, realized that he could escape the cage that he was in (small parrot cage). So now he's cageless so to speak.

I have one smaller cage (really small) but I feel bad putting either one in it. I did put the new keet inside Hermione's cage for a couple nights for protection until we clipped his wings.

I've had an agressive keet before that killed another and I can't go through that again.

How do Hermione and Hedwig act towards each other? When you had the aggressive budgie, was one or both a female? Generally the females tend to be more aggressive and two males should be able to at least tolerate each other in an open space where one has the chance to escape if he wants to.

I have two budgies, one American and one English. The English, Winston, is still fairly new to our home and new to everything (out of cage time, being around people, etc.). So there are times when my English budgie gets overwhelmed and doesn't always want to play, and when this happens he flies away from the other (more persistent) one. I do currently keep them caged separately because Winston does not like being in closed spaces with Jerry - he just needs to escape sometimes, and every time that they are both in the same cage Winston immediately flies out to get away from Jerry. If they prove that they both really want to live together, we'll let them of course. But they both seem to enjoy their alone time as well.

One of my cages does have a divider. I've thought about housing them in this cage together WITH the divider, but have not tried that just yet. But this cage was also fairly inexpensive for a larger budgie cage, I believe it was at Petco for $40.00 (in case you're on the lookout for a new cage with proper bar spacing):

They are both males and weirdos. If one's in the cage the other one has to be right beside the other, even if that means hanging on the side of the cage to be right next to it.

I'm just really paranoid about waking up and finding one of my birds at the bottom of the cage. Before it was two males and now again I have two males.

There is no preening each other, no playing with each other, but they'll tolerate sitting on the same perch albeit for a bit. I'm not trying to push them onto each other but it seems like when they are separated they want to be by each other.

I can't afford to buy another cage right now, so do you think it would be bad if I kept the new bird in Hermione's cage and threw a blanket over the top? That way Hermione can't stand on top of the cage. I do have a very small cage that I can set next to it and leave open so that he can go inside to sleep and out when he chooses.

My 2 budgies live together and fortunately they get along well. I can understand your fear of putting them together after your previous experience. It seems to me if they play together during the day and have out of cage time, putting one of them in the small cage just to sleep at night would be okay.
I don't know how long you have had the two of them but it took mine a couple of days before they started really interacting with each other.

From what I read so far. its the females that can get ficious..

there was a month or so difference between my two males and so far havent had a problem oh. they tolerated one anothe r at first.. now they sleep in same cage but then again have the whole living room to fly in during the day..... they preen one another. I do hafe new pictures will post when I can ....

good luck to you in what ever you decide............and I sure hope it works for you....

I agree with Nancy, that using the smaller cage as a sleep cage might be a good idea.

I also have 2 male Budgies.
Both male with one mature & the other a baby. They have been together for 3 months. They both have a cage & i'd say the cages are small. One is a round one that is a loner from my parents & Laker's cage is only 20wx20hx10d.

My 2 birds are flighted & are free all day in our room but also have access to 2 other rooms if they want to - however they prefer the room with the food & toys.

Our mature male needs more time alone [he may have lived alone longer than the 10 months we've had him & the 6 months or so he spent at the pound. Often he seeks out our company & hides from the baby. If tonight's a sample, he also needs to be in his own cage at night. The baby wants to be close all the time & can be a real pest & wont share anything, including Laker's attention. Rio chased Laker all around his cage tonight - when normally Laker likes to roost & sing & snack. After a few minutes we took them out of the cage & Laker was happy to go back in alone. Rio had been reluctant to leave Laker's cage & that's why we thought of trying it out. He finally went into his own after many turns around the room in adolescent attitude.

I am so sorry to hear of the time you had in the past.

Q: What are the sizes of your cages? Are they only used for sleeping? - it should be OK.

I think it is best to get them used to the cage at least so they are comfortable in emergencies, illness & trips to Vets etc.

Here are my bird's cages.

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They are ok sharing food now, no more fights even if they are dipping in the same bowl. All perches are exactly the same height. Oddly enough the older parakeet wants to be near the young one all the time. The young one doesn't want to share a thing or be close. The cage is open all day long, both will take a short flights but no more then ten feet away from the cage. At night I close it and separate them.

I just feel bad because I don't think either one is happy. Then again I'm still dealing with a sick lovebird so I can't say I've had much interaction with them the past couple of days.

Their cage looks to be the size of the cage in the right of the picture. Sorry, I don't know the specs nor do I have a tape measure unpacked yet.

I'd add a second food bowl. Sometimes dipping together causes tensions and one will keep the other away....