Kestrel
Strolling the yard
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Hello everyone,
Okay before I get started I want to say up front that I don't need judgements here, I just need some advice for the best way to go about some things. I'm bringing my baby cockatiel home tomorrow. He/she 9 weeks old and I am getting mixed information on whether or not he is actually weaned. One person told me he's eating pellets the other said he isn't. Everyone agrees he is earing millet spray. The breeder said she's still feeding him formulaa couple times a day but that "he's not really eating it" and that is "why he's so messy". Every time I try to ask questions to get a clearer picture I get mixed answers and I also get the impression that my questions only serve to irritate them and the answers are never consistent anyway. All of the other babies have been taken home already, he is the last one there. I do not need anyone telling me I should have gone with a different breeder. I did my research, she had only glowing reviews and all of her birds I have ever seen have always been healthy. I'm upset how things are going but I could not have known things were going to go this way until now, they just are. And I am attached to the bird now so I'm not going to just walk away.
I'm not comfortable leaving the bird there any longer either because he is filthy. His feathers are caked in formula, they have been getting worse and worse over the last few weeks. I keep being told they will bathe him and they don't. Finally they did bathe him today because I said I would do it myself while I was there but the stuff wouldn't come out. Also she started man handling the bird trying to get rub the stuff out of his feathers before it was even soft enough to come out and I kind of freaked just told her nevermind that I would deal with it on my own. So we dried him up with a blow dryer on warm and long story short he's still a mess.
I feel the best thing at this point is just to bring him home so I can take my time and clean him up without totally stressing him out and gauge how he's eating.
So I don't know if I really have a specific question, just looking for some advice from people more experienced than me on
1. Going about feeding a probably semi weaned 9 week old baby cockatiel.
And 2. Bathing a really really dirty baby cockatiel, how to clean him up safely. My idea was to soak him a bit to soften up the formula then use a soft paint brush to try and brush out the formula to clean the feathers?
I have called my vet too and am waiting on a call back.
All advice is welcome! Thank you in advance.
Okay before I get started I want to say up front that I don't need judgements here, I just need some advice for the best way to go about some things. I'm bringing my baby cockatiel home tomorrow. He/she 9 weeks old and I am getting mixed information on whether or not he is actually weaned. One person told me he's eating pellets the other said he isn't. Everyone agrees he is earing millet spray. The breeder said she's still feeding him formulaa couple times a day but that "he's not really eating it" and that is "why he's so messy". Every time I try to ask questions to get a clearer picture I get mixed answers and I also get the impression that my questions only serve to irritate them and the answers are never consistent anyway. All of the other babies have been taken home already, he is the last one there. I do not need anyone telling me I should have gone with a different breeder. I did my research, she had only glowing reviews and all of her birds I have ever seen have always been healthy. I'm upset how things are going but I could not have known things were going to go this way until now, they just are. And I am attached to the bird now so I'm not going to just walk away.
I'm not comfortable leaving the bird there any longer either because he is filthy. His feathers are caked in formula, they have been getting worse and worse over the last few weeks. I keep being told they will bathe him and they don't. Finally they did bathe him today because I said I would do it myself while I was there but the stuff wouldn't come out. Also she started man handling the bird trying to get rub the stuff out of his feathers before it was even soft enough to come out and I kind of freaked just told her nevermind that I would deal with it on my own. So we dried him up with a blow dryer on warm and long story short he's still a mess.
I feel the best thing at this point is just to bring him home so I can take my time and clean him up without totally stressing him out and gauge how he's eating.
So I don't know if I really have a specific question, just looking for some advice from people more experienced than me on
1. Going about feeding a probably semi weaned 9 week old baby cockatiel.
And 2. Bathing a really really dirty baby cockatiel, how to clean him up safely. My idea was to soak him a bit to soften up the formula then use a soft paint brush to try and brush out the formula to clean the feathers?
I have called my vet too and am waiting on a call back.
All advice is welcome! Thank you in advance.
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