Housing juveniles with adults other than parents

[Lisa]

Do you think it would be ok to house some zebra juveniles that are starting to come into color (and feeding themselves entirely) with some single adults that I have? I'm thinking since the juveniles don't yet have aggression in them, that maybe this would be a good time to get them used to the others.

Or do you think the adults would be very mean to them and take advantage of the situation to push them around?

The adults are 2 not so old adults to begin with (less than 1 yr), and 1 full adult (over 1 yr old).

I know some of you are saying, well, why don't you just try it ... but in order to set this up, I've got to rearrange & rehome lots of birds to new cages. So, if you guys think it's not worth trying, I will skip this and have to figure something else out.

[ac12]

As long as there is enough room in the cage, it should be OK;.

Juvs will be under stress as they molt. If the adults start picking on them, they will be under even more stress...not good.
But there is no way to tell what will happen w/o trying, as zebras are quite unpredictable.

One thing to watch out for is the total number of birds. They may pair up and the odd bird left out could become picked on. As siblings in their own cage, they are used to each other, so even with an odd number it usually works out.