Nightfright x's six!

[ILoveTiels]

first of all, i wanna say everyone is ok. I checked all wings, feet and tail feathers. nothing bleeding, broken or otherwise injured.

just curious, how do you deal with these?

i just got upstairs neighbors today and for some stupid reason, they are moving in NOW, which is 10:35 pm... Well, im pretty sure thats what scared them. Since i now have neighbors, would it be better to leave a dim light on vs covering them totally? since everyone is moulting right now (and my lungs can tell!!) i know blood feathers are coming soon. I dont want anyone to get hurt. I know how to deal with broken blood feathers now, i would just rather not let it come to that.

btw, cutest thing ever, they are all singing all pretty right now and think its time to play! especially thorn... He's gotta be part caique or something, cuz i have never seen a tiel do this! he's always very "ACTIVE" with his toys. jumping on them and making them swing around. his fave perch is the swing one.

 

[Laurul Feather Cat]

Night light and partial covering work best for my cockatiels. When the tiels night fright, the CAG responds and then everyone reacts.

Moving in at night? Perhaps that is the only time they have to do it?

 

[mrstweet]

I've found that not covering my tiel has put her night frights to 0. Thankfully, she's the only one, and I think knowing she's around other birds makes her feel safe. I hope they're all okay. Mickaboo recently had a cockatiel that had a really bad night fright at his new home (he was adopted). Not sure if it was a seizure or other event but he died shortly after.

 

[kitsunebandit]

I'm glad everybody is okay!

I'd use a nice little night light, I have one in my bird room

 

[Anne & Gang]

glad all are ok..hope your upstairs tenants are not going to be the noisy type....I cover all the birds on three sides only and have a night light.

 

[ILoveTiels]

Ok. I will have to get them a night light.

 

[Daisy's Mom]

Amanda, I'm soo glad everyone is ok.. They can be soo scary for our littles.. Daisy had her first night fright about 2 months ago.. It turns out that we had sleet storm and with the wind it was banging the sleet against the window.. When I got to her, my little girl was thrashing herself around, hissing, obviously very frightened by the whole ordeal.. Thats awesome that your getting a nite light.. I always had a night-lite by her cage but now I only partially cover her cage so this way she can peek out if she wants to..

 

[Jeddy]

Poor babies. How dare those new neighbors interupt their beauty sleep! I have a night light in Bodie's room. Why do people have to move in so late?

 

[Gen120]

I'm so glad to hear your cockatiels are Ok! Mine have had night frights in the past too and I have 6 tiels as well. I have a night light in the birdroom, plus I don't cover their cages and I also have an air purifier running in the birdroom and that makes a "white noise" in the birdroom and that seems to keep them calmer and not nearly as many night frights now as they used to have. They used to have them constantly and now they have them maybe 1 or 2 times every few months.