Ember-Tiel
Jogging around the block
Hi guys. I brought home a new cockatiel yesterday night, the breeders are pretty sure she is a female and is about 5 months old. She is a pied mutation and she has A lot of pretty feathers and seems to have good health in that sense. I’ve been worrying about her the whole day because she got scared from my conure yelling in another room that she bumped into the windows twice and bumped into them again about an hour later (not as hard as the first time though) Since then she spent a lot of time sleeping in her cage and I have not seen her eat as much as my other cockatiel does.
This morning she was singing and whistling and was preening and she was sitting on her food container eating a few of her seeds but wanted to play and whistle instead. After being energetic for the whole morning she has now been sleeping and resting in her cage. She is sleeping on her perch with her foot up and changes her position every so often so that she sleeps with her head in her feathers. I don’t know if she’s been eating enough but when I put my hand near her to try and offer some sun flower seeds she just ignores it. She drank water though and only a few seeds every single often but doesn't really sit down to eat a lot like my other birds do. I checked on her dropping they were mostly fine and looked normal but at one point it was more watery but still seems fine now.
My family thinks that She’s just sleeping more because she is still a baby and that she may be stressed from being in a new home which may be why she isnt too hungry but I’m still really worried. Is any of this true? What can I do to help her?
By the way we are feeding her seeds for now because she was on a seed diet from the previous owners. And the people we got them from breed other birds and cockatiels too and seemed pretty knowledge about the birds and said that none of them are sick.
This morning she was singing and whistling and was preening and she was sitting on her food container eating a few of her seeds but wanted to play and whistle instead. After being energetic for the whole morning she has now been sleeping and resting in her cage. She is sleeping on her perch with her foot up and changes her position every so often so that she sleeps with her head in her feathers. I don’t know if she’s been eating enough but when I put my hand near her to try and offer some sun flower seeds she just ignores it. She drank water though and only a few seeds every single often but doesn't really sit down to eat a lot like my other birds do. I checked on her dropping they were mostly fine and looked normal but at one point it was more watery but still seems fine now.
My family thinks that She’s just sleeping more because she is still a baby and that she may be stressed from being in a new home which may be why she isnt too hungry but I’m still really worried. Is any of this true? What can I do to help her?
By the way we are feeding her seeds for now because she was on a seed diet from the previous owners. And the people we got them from breed other birds and cockatiels too and seemed pretty knowledge about the birds and said that none of them are sick.
