Cockatielier
Meeting neighbors
First time! White Bird is new to me since May, they said she was hatched July a year ago, and here it is October and she has made a nest in one of my baskets above the kitchen cabinets and has 4 eggs in there at the moment. She's a diligent and devoted mother, but I am so sad for her that those eggs are not going to hatch. Also, I'm worried that maybe she won't quit laying eggs, apparently that's a thing? I have visions of the basket filled with eggs... hopefully she will stop now with 4 because I'm worried about her sustenance if she keeps laying.
I have a male cockatiel just a few months older than her, but they have never gotten along, and so have never mated. They hiss at each other. She did the mating call to me and to my son (she loves him), and the male is in love with my daughter, so the two of them have just never seen each other as the same species. Ugh. They would be such a perfect couple. But no, her eggs are not fertilized, and they have separate cages, which she is not using now, because she's has made her home in my kitchen for now.
I have a male cockatiel just a few months older than her, but they have never gotten along, and so have never mated. They hiss at each other. She did the mating call to me and to my son (she loves him), and the male is in love with my daughter, so the two of them have just never seen each other as the same species. Ugh. They would be such a perfect couple. But no, her eggs are not fertilized, and they have separate cages, which she is not using now, because she's has made her home in my kitchen for now.