Your lovebird sounds adorable.  I would love to have one if we didn't 
already have a zoo.  Do they grow out of the chewing stage?  My cockatiels 
haven't.  In the den, and other places that they can get to, we have plastic 
tubing on all of the electrical cords.  Plus, in the bathroom,  I've had to 
remove some silk plants because the birds keep triming them.  They love to 
chew paper. and anything else that they know we don't want destroyed.  We 
keep a squirt gun in the rooms they normally go in to discourage them being 
bad.  They will mind when I tell them no, but when they think we're not 
looking they'll go for it again.  The squirt gun prompts them to leave what 
they're into, at least for awhile.  They are quite sneaky.
    I thought that I had read that you could not keep parakets or parrots in 
a cage with cockatiels, because they're too agressive (especially the 
parakets), and can physically harm the tiels?  Have you read anything about 
this?
    Yes, we have thought about building our own avairy, and my husband is 
pretty good with things like that.  But the problem is getting the right mesh 
and things that would look nice and neat enough for the living room 
(hopefully eventually family room).  Plus, we have to be careful what it is 
made of so they can't chew it to shreds.  Plus, we want it to be large so 
they can spend most to the day in it.  Belive me we have looked at all of the 
lumber yards and hardware stores, trying to find something that would work.  
We thought about having one made out of rod iron, but it would be so heavy it 
would be hard to deal with and hard to move around for cleaning, plus very 
expensive.  They're aren't many places that you can buy a nice looking, 
large, avairy.  In fact Corner's Unlimited was about the only company that we 
found that had anything nice.  I'm sure that there are other companies out 
there, but can't find them.  We also want something that has small service 
doors, so if we have someone birdsit, they won't have to worry about them 
getting out and having to chase them.  If you know of any other companies 
that might have something nice, I'd love to know.  The one that we are 
ordering at this point is going to cost us about $900.
My husband just had to have a new mother board, plus one of his hard drives 
went out, and we charged them, so we want to get them paid for before we get 
the avairy.  Plus, we just got a new garage door six months same as cash.  
    Meanwhile, we have got all of the birds to sleep in one big cage at 
night.  They seem to do real well, and it saves a lot of cleaning.  The cage 
would be too small for them to be in all day, but since they just sleep in 
it, there's plenty of room.  Although the finches have not gone in their 
nesting/sleeping boxes since we combined cages.  But, we also haven't had any 
eggs for awhile, thank goodness.
   Well, I need to go do a bit of housecleaning before my husband gets home 
from work.  Bye for now.
                                          Trace
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