taming cockatiel

heey i got my cockatiel a month ago and he is still so scared of me and won't come out of his cage nor eat from my hand he is 9 months old male. he whistles back and sings so well i really wanna become his friend and start a nice relationship with him is it hard to tame him since he is a...

Hello, I want to introduce myself and my birds as well as my struggles, maybe I get useful info here as my experience is one super tame cockatiel long time ago when I was young. Last year a friend told me about a yellow male cockatiel named Kiki that nobody wants and lives in poor condition...

Hi! i've never joined any forums so i'm sorry if i made any mistakes while making this thread :depressed: i just needed some advices and this forum helped me many times before 5 months ago i got my first bird, an untamed male cockatiel named Jojo! yesterday while i was training him (in his...

Hi there, new member here and newbie at keeping birds. I got my new cockatiel Walter the other day, I've given him about 3 days to settle in his new home, I've been reading on how to tame him to come onto my finger/hand however he only seems to step up on the cuttlefish bone which is in his...

Hi Everyone I just bought a parent fed cockatiel and I'm trying to tame him. He's a little scared of me and I can't get close but I'm reading and speaking to him through the cage. Often he's okay and justs sits and listens... sometimes his eyes even flutter and he closes them like its...

Hi Everyone, A cockatiel started coming to my feeder about couple months ago. After a couple weeks I put a cage out with millet and he walked right in. N I had no luck finding his owners so I took him to a avian vet. The vet said he was probably a breeder bird or aviary bird because he was so...