cockatiel advice

Long story short - our sweet cockatiel laid an egg with no shell, and we took her to the vet. (Symptoms: Lethargy, wings drooping, yellow poop and blood in poop). I was told by the vet she has an infection and we are giving her Baytril for 10 days. I mixed it with 1 pint of water, and it is in...

Hi all, Looking to buy a new cage for my cockatiel and trying to decide between a 31"x20"x37" flight cage or a 38"x18"x21" 'breeder' cage (I would remove the divider). The first one gives a lot more space overall because of the vertical height, and it feels silly to be paying an extra $30 for...

Greetings everyone! So my birbs are going through their molting and everyone's fine and dandy except for JoJo worrying me a tad. He's 4 yrs by now, and has developed a habit of plucking his faulty down feathers. He's around me most of the time so I notice the plucked bits being either small...

Hello friends :) I wanted to share some of the behaviours that my new addition has exhibited over the past week. Firstly, I believe these are expected of a young cockatiel but I just want to see if others agree with the sentiment. Toast is a DNA-confirmed female. I bought her from a breeder. I...

Hello all, Our feathered friend, a 25 year old cockatiel, had been vomiting some dry seeds while eating lately. We went to an avian vet last week who initially prescribed 7 days of Ronivet-S (6% ronidazole) to mix in water after test results came back positive for trichamoniasis. It seems like...

Good morning all :) For context, my partner will be commencing a full time job shortly which means we both will be occupied 8 or more hours of the day. Both our jobs will be away from home. I have a 1 year old female cockatiel who (as we all can gather) is very attached and highly affectionate...

So I've been serving the boys (JoJo and Neil) for years now and they're full adults. Recently I stumbled upon this 2mo cockatiel who apparently has a disability in a leg. I've been feeling plenty for the baby and since my Neil was also adopted, I'm not foreign to the adoption process. Could make...

Hello! Hopefully I'm putting this in the right place. I posted this on the cockatiel reddit for ideas because its baffling me but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what this behavior with his tongue he's doing in the clip might mean? I'm struggling to figure out if this is a quirk of...

This is my baby cockatiel, he’s about 8 weeks old and he has a bald spot on his crop that’s concerning to me, and i think it looks a bit irritated but im not sure. I’m new to birds and can’t help but feel anxious about every little thing :( i plan on taking him to the vet in a few days, but i'm...

Hi there! I got my new cockatiel at the very beginning of this month. For reference he turned two months on January 5th so he's almost three months old. The rate at which he poops has gone down in the few weeks I've had him and a bit suddenly. He doesn't sport any signs of illness so I was...

So I've been trying to play with Mickey for the past few days now, but he's acting nervous like he's regressed. I think this is somewhat normal, but the difference with this is that I'm currently sitting in front of his cage with the door open, and there's a faint nasty smell coming from the...

So I'm sitting here in bed, Mickey's sitting in his cage as per usual. He's singing a lot more now, but I'm not able to tell if it's because he's feeling territorial or if he's happy. He doesn't move around much, and as a matter of fact tends to go between three places in the cage, to the front...

Hello everyone! It’s been many many years since I last posted and I’m in dire need of your advice. I’ve had my Hank since November of 2023. He is a rescued juvenile cockatiel (his exact age is unknown but roughly 2 years now). When I bought him home, he was a timid little dude, super friendly...

Hello, I’ve notice that my cockatiel yoshi will randomly flattens his back and leans forward and makes squeaky sounds..I don’t pet his back as I knew prior to adopting him that it would resemble mating in birds. I’ve looked up why he may do this and some results say that females do it when...

I have his cage next to my desk, he always sits like this and looks at me like this sometimes. His crest is raised I believe to the highest it will go, he's puffed up, and he'll either click or grind his beak at me. I'm fairly certain it's grinding, which I have read as being both good and bad...

The bird I adopted this past week, Mickey :tiel5: , has recently moved into his newer and bigger cage. Just a few minutes ago I was sitting next to him doing schoolwork and he was puffed up, which is typically a good thing from my understanding. Then he started moving around the cage and...

I have a few questions about raising cockatiel babies. First off, these are babies to first time parents. There are 3 little hatchling 1. 8 day old 1. 7 day old and the other a 5 day old. The 5 day old looks smaller than usual and I'm a little worried it'll be treated as a runt and not get a lot...

Mickey :tiel5: , my new little bird friend, has been here officially for one week! No problems to report unless it's some mistakes I or others have made handling him (me letting him out of his cage on day two YIKES, a relative trying to get him to dance blasting country music), he's very good...

I've got 2 male cockatiels both of which the vet has determined wouldn't be any older than 1 years old, they also don't have any illnesses or injuries and are perfectly healthy. I've had them for a little over 5 months which I'd think should've been enough time for them to get accustomed to...

I have a young cockatiel (about 7 months) and it is not a consistent thing, but sometimes his poop hangs onto his cloaca like a string. It isn't consistent like I said, and only happens every once in a while. It doesn't seem to affect him, it doesn't seem to bother him, and when I took him to...