cockatiel

Hello! Me again. LOL I adopted Boo, a six-year-old female cockatiel Sunday. She's settled in well. The last night, I noticed her doing some what I thought was amazingly cute behavior - chatting, almost sounding like she was trying to form words. She was kinda lowering her head down. I'm like "oh...

Hello all! I just lost my cockatiel Mateo a few weeks ago. He was 20 and a half. We think he passed due to kidney failure, but didn't put the pieces together until after he was gone. I had taken him to the vet on a Wednesday after about a day or so of symptoms, and he passed about five hours...

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...

Is there anything I'm able to do with Mickey while he's adjusting to his new home environment? Do I just do what I did when initially bringing him home, or should I just leave him in his cage with the blinds half up and down for a few days, slowly adjusting them until he's comfortable with them...

Recently I've moved in with my grandmother and aunt who live together. I've settled into the room where my aunt keeps plants, which is great (if you discount not having any space for my stuff) because it may be a little more enriching for Mickey. My issue with them, however, arises from three...

So I'm currently unable to stay in my house. Mickey is fine and is fed and watered daily, but I am unable to be in the same house as him for the time being (this could change in the future but it isn't likely). I'd like to move him into the same house as me, but there's a wood stove that serves...

HELP! So my cockatiel is 8 months old, he’s gotten a recent vet checkup and everything was okay they said , his blood looks good and appearance . His droppings are regular, he’s eating , pretending , flying okay and balancing normally. But I’ve recently noticed black spot on his feather as well...

I've recently bought some plastic perches for my tiel'. Turn's out the perches had small stickers with their price on them. My tiel' of course had to chew them and now he has a bit stuck dangerously near one of his notrils. I would of course just gently pluck it off, but the problem is that he...

Me and Mickey were making great progress about half a month ago before I took him to the vet. I was able to stick my hand in his cage to change his food and clean his perches, I could stand and walk around the room without him running away at the first sight of movement, and he would chatter...

So last week I took Mickey to the vet, and one of the things that the Doctor said to do was to get him out of the cage, forcefully if I have to, and set him in a corner of my room with me so he can get used to me. Does this kind of thing work and will it ruin the bond I have with Mickey? He does...

So today I was on a phone call with my best friend and I was taking a break from doing a bit of PS work, and I decided I wanted to give Mickey :tiel5: some millet for funsies. I'd been practicing giving him millet for some time, and he finally took it from me. What I didn't expect was that...

Mickey's :tiel5: got his first vet appointment in about a week. I'd like to get him used to moving between his travel cage and his regular cage, but he doesn't leave his cage or step up. Any ideas on how I can start training him to get into the travel cage? I thought about moving his food into...

Can I use an egg incubator to warm up my birbs after a bath? Thanks for your advice! :)

Meet Coco! She is a sweet and beautiful 1 and a half year old pearl cockatiel. She needs a home that will provide her with lots of love and attention. She is not too bright but she is loving and sweet. She loves to sit on shoulders and she is target trained to touch a stick. She is harness...

Not sure if this is considered holistic lol but I was wondering if anyone’s used this for their birds? My birds hate baths so every time I get them to bathe I wanna make the most of it, would this help their feather health? Or does it not do anything

I just tried to give Mickey some millet through the cage and expected him to not take any from it at all and back away from the sprig. The opposite happened!! He ATE several sprouts of millet! I was so happy even after he stepped nervously away from the sprig (I think my shaking with...

So earlier today the new perches finally came in and while they were initially smaller than I would've liked them to be, they're nonetheless satisfactory for my wee boy. He's currently sleeping on one in a spot that he's been sitting at for the past few days since he's been in his cage and I...

Hello! So excited i found this forum. I am still relatively new to birds. I brought home my first cockatiel (Kevin Yellow pictured below) and immediately became obsessed and within months bought him a friend (Tina Grey Cockatiel Pictured below) My bird home did not feel complete and my husband...

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...