Do you breed? What do you feed? What are your thoughts on solos versus pairs?
Bumping this because I know there are some bird people on the board. I believe @Broomstick is one and @FloatyGimpy is another, but I could very well be wrong.
I don’t have birds myself, but I enjoy hearing about them 
Budgie care is going to be very similar to parrotlets. I feed my crew a good quality seed and pellet mix. I don’t go for pellet only diets - how boring. Lots of treats like hard boiled eggs, fresh veggies and millet sprigs.
One alone will be more interested in you but if you can’t give them hours of attention every day, more than one is best. Buy the largest cage you can afford.
Lol I figured “high quality” was a given 
I was more looking to compare notes with others’ opinions and experiences.
It’s difficult to find parrotlet-specific mixes or pellets, but I try to stick to those because parrotlets are native to Peru while budgies come from Australia. Lately they’ve been getting sprouted seeds and lots of fruits and vegs. And some steam cooked egg with eggshell powder (I bought a pulverizer) because one of my pairs is laying. Fingers crossed for seconds pair but the hen isn’t quite a year so I’m not laying any bets.
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I don’t have any advice specific to parolets and @FloatyGimpy covered the basics.
Thanks! Not looking for advice, just looking to share notes, trade war stories. Debunk wives’ tales, that kind of thing. I
My wife and I have 4 green-cheeked conures. We initially started with the two birds, but they bred and now we have two more. We’ve been taking away the eggs that have been laid since then because we don’t have the patience to hand-raise any more birds.
I think the rule of thumb is that it’s easier to build up a relationship with a single bird, and that’s been our experience, too. We had individual cockatiels before the conures and they both were very affectionate to my wife and me. The conures seem to get along okay with us, but they prefer each other’s company over being with us.
Generally they’re good-natured, but yesterday my favorite of the four birds bit into my earlobe as I was putting some seed ball treats in their cage. That was DEFINITELY not pleasant! Had to dab some peroxide on the punctures and use a styptic pencil to stop the bleeding from that impromptu ear piercing.
Yeah parrotlets are about the limit of my bite tolerance. I love hand rearing though, and I’m very impatient for my two pairs to give our with the Bali g mouths to feed.
Since I’m just a single person now I’m actually OK with the two cockatiels keeping each other company. They’re both very well socialized and like to interact with humans, too - perhaps the two of them both being boys has something to do with that, rather than a mated pair.
That leaves the green-cheek conure the odd man out (yes, he’s a boy, too) and by the time I get home he is very needy - he gets along with the cockatiels, too, but isn’t as attached as I assume he would be to another green cheek.
I remember that when we first started looking at parrots, I was feeding some kind of macaw through the bars of its cage at a pet store. It took the first couple of peanuts from me - no problem. On the last one that I held out to it, it must have gotten annoyed with me and almost casually got ahold of my of the first joint on my index finger and began to clamp down on it – hard. I remember thinking “Man, this can go really badly.” and “Why did I do this with my dominant hand?”. Luckily, he let go almost immediately, almost like a warning that I should back off. I obliged…
Wow I missed THAT edit window. *to give out with the gaping mouths to feed
Yeah I see people online with a hyacinth macaw on on their shoulder and I’m like one door slam and it can literally remove your entire jaw bone from your skull without exerting itself 
Yeah, the hyacinth macaw, the bird that evolved to eat Brazil nuts and can peel them as easily as we peel an orange. I think I read something somewhere that the have the strongest bite among parrots, which is saying something!
I think most macaws can handle Brazil nuts. I think hyacinths are coconut crackers.
Heh. I did the same thing myself:
Geez, no kidding! When I see people handling those birds I’m both envious of them and afraid that they might get maimed if the bird flips out for whatever reason.
I guess I’m kind of torn as a bird owner in that I love the companionship of having the birds around, but deep down I know they would be better off if they had been left undisturbed in their natural habitat. We had gotten our conures from PetSmart after our last cockatiel died, and we were driven by that loss. When we saw those two birds in that lucite display case looking so miserable we knew that we couldn’t just let them sit there like that. So, we got two baby birds to spoil and the next week two more birds were perched in that bright, sterile lucite display at PetSmart. If we ever lose these birds I don’t think I can repeat that cycle again. Next time we’ll adopt an abandoned bird from one of the rescue places.