The purpose of this post is to warn fellow Puteh keepers from hearing what some reputable bird shops will advise you to keep canaries or finches or other song singing bird together with Puteh. I don’t know whether you guys/gals know about it but Puteh has this inbuilt art of copying which means, it will learn all the undesirable notes from the other species of singing bird and incorporate into its own buka melody program. Once learnt, is permanent. You may end up having one nice buka Puteh giving you a buka remix consisting of silut notes. And mind you, this silut is not one note or two but infested throughout the whole buka melody, making your bird sounding undesirable. To me, it is horrible. I did not know about this phenomenon until I was enlightened by someone close to me and realized that I was sort of misguided all these years and that I regretted that my actions indeed spoil several good birds that I acquired not mentioning the amount of money that was splurged into the hobby.
Coming back, years ago I received negative comments from previous owners “condemning” me that, “What did you do to the bird? Before I sell you, the buka still loud and the mix is minimal. Now all I can see is this bird act in a funny way, there is one such avenue that the bird pick up the “dirty” sound from other birds. So I am serving this warning to all my beloved Puteh Fans here. If you happen to have such a scenario, either you choose to keep Puteh and forgo your singing bird or keep the later and forgo the previous. If ever you guys may think that the above mentioned is on baseless ground, try it for all you want and don’t regret.
I want to highlight here is that Puteh has this special technique of learning new notes from birds and usually is those not so desirable notes. Imagine you have a bird, the buka is to you perfect, the so called mix is when the one set of notes roll over to the next. When you let a canary coexist with the Puteh, it will learn those undesirable notes from the canary and incorporate into its buka. Many of times, most bird keeper may think that the bird is sick or something and hence begin to administer medicine in the form of antibiotics for the bird. But the bird is perfectly fine. So in the end, the bird may die, the conclusion draw was that the bird die of illness, but the fact is that the owner is the one that “poison” the bird with medicine when the bird is alright. So I just want to re-enforce the idea that if the bird buka in a funny way, there is one such avenue that the bird pick up the “dirty” sound from other birds, rather than is sick.
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How about with conures?
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