Hello. I have a 3-4 month old cockatiel who loves singing. He says peekaboo and a bunch of whistle sounds and makes kisses. But he won’t sing in front of anyone or outside his cage. I’ve hand raised him from day 1. Why could this be?
Hello! I have only one female cockatiel. Few days ago my female cockatiel laid 2 eggs. I was waiting for the third egg, but did not get laid. There were no signs of egg being stuck. But then after 5 days she laid the third one. Does that mean it is a new clutch and […]
I’ve had my female cockatiel I think close to 10 years and I’ve never been able to tame her. If I try to go near her she completely freaks out. If she is in her cage she will flap about and fall off her perches and scream. If I just walk past her when she […]
So i have 3 birds 2 cocktiels and one colorful one i forgot the name… So my cocktiel Kiki laid an egg and the eggs “father” is my other cocktiel Riki, i saw they breed and i was like “no worries they will stop i guess” and this day my mom noticed my bird laid […]
we have a cockatiel pair. Pied female and Lutino Male. the are free in the house and not caged. They have laid the eggs for the first time. but now we don’t want them to lay eggs any further. how can we avoid that.
We have a relatively young, new cockatiel and after asking my parents to babysit overnight (put the bird in a new home for the day) I noticed that the bird has been screeching a lot more. The noise is very similar to a flocking call in sound, but it’s far louder and far more frequent […]
My bird must be thirty years old. For the past week he has been sleeping on the bottom of the cage. with ruffled feathers. He still comes up to eat. Does this mean he is on his way out? He seem extra tired. Not active today . He has no discharge at his beak and […]
I have 3 Cockatiels chicks 12 days old. We have just found the mother bird dead in the nesting box. The father cockatiel was in and out of the nest but now will not go back into the nesting box. what should I do?
My two cockatiels (one male and one female) have suddenly started obsessively shredding paper. I bought them a few months ago and both have relatively settled well (i.e. theyre properly eating, chirping/singing, flying around and coming back to their cage on their own). Since about a week now, ive noticed that the paper has bitten […]
I have had a male cockatiel for a little under one year now, he is finishing up his first molt. About 3 months ago, I got another cockatiel who is under a year old and I think is a female (still waiting for DNA testing). Sometimes, my boy will walk up to her with heart […]
I work and was thinking about getting another bird for company for Ozzie ..will this affect our friendship?? Ozzie is a hand raised cockatiel?? The other bird is not
Meri mada kokteil ke egg ko 25 din ho gaye hai lekin vo futa nahi hai or bacha nahi nikla hai
I have 2 adult cocktails been together 2 years one yellow female one grey female is ready keeps eating sand sheet very active whistles a lot head under wing at times crys for attention but male just not interested last year she laid 7 eggs but none hatched even though she sat on them she […]
I am thinking on going on a vacation but it will be about 4 weeks long. My mother and father will be home for a whole week before they travel as well and will be able to feed change water and take him out everyday. After that for the next 3 weeks I will have […]
I am hand-rearing a baby cockatiel. He was taken out of the nest early because his parents were biting off his claws. His one foot barely has any toes left. I would say he is between 4-5 weeks old. I have read so many articles and each one is different. When exactly should I start […]
hello! I just bought a baby cockatiel. He is now 2 months old, we want to raise him from a baby so he can get more used to us when he grows up. but, we still trying our best to searching for the best tips and tricks of taking care my baby.
Hello, my friend lost her 6 year old cockatiel yesterday so unexpectedly. she said the bird (I don’t know its gender) the thing started when she came back home from school and saw the bird has drunk or eaten nothing. she tried changing to food and also tried multivitamins on the bird but the bird […]
I have a 3.5yr old female cockatiel abd she has developed the problem of acute egg laying. Every 2nd month she layes 3 eggs one after the other. What should I do about it? She doesn’t like being in cage and even we have made her roam around free in the house. So whenever I […]
A male cockatiel is keep on plucking out the feathers from the neck side for his mate and his child now they both mate & child is looks like a bald what is the solution to stop and how to regrow the feather it been a months but it been blad
We have a pair of cockatiels with 3 week old babies. Their nesting box is in a safe spot on the floor under a bench. I’m wondering if it’s ok to move the whole nesting box with babies into their big cage so the whole family is in a better spot. I wouldn’t even touch […]
Can a cocktiel eat the parrot nutiberries If store out of cocktiel ones?
Hello 👋, so my cockatiel (Simmy, male, 1) is a good boy, he lives with 3 more cockatiels in one BIG cage, but 2 days ago he suddenly started to screeching like he was being ripped apart (in intervals of 20-30 minutes, sometimes less), he bites and hisses at me or attacks his friends if […]
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This hen has only raised 1 clutch successfully and does not have a bonded mate. However every Spring she lays a clutch of eggs in small spaces of the aviary. Should I put a nest box in or discourage her from laying. There are males in the cage.
I have two male cockatiels and over the course of a few months I have had them in seperate cages. A month later they are in the same cage and are doing fine but recently they have started to fight now and again. They’ve always seemed to be fine in each others presence but now […]
My almost 4 yr old male had started attacking me – over couple months time vet administered 3 injections of Luprone – he’s been great, but now suddenly attacking me again – help
Bonjour j ai laisser mes 2 calopsite en garde pour les vacances chez 1 amie qui elle aussi a 1 calospite et pendant se mois de vacances ma calospite en a profiter pour se reproduire avec l oiseau de mon amie elle a vu la reproduction se faire mais la je rentre et veut recupere […]
I have a 3 years’ old female cockatiel who has started to lay eggs and she has no mate. How to stop her from this? She has laid 2 eggs in 3 days? Shall I remove the egg whenever it’s laid? How to save her?
In this morning I woke up to the sound of them moving their wings like they usually so I decided to not look at them but when I noticed it took longer I looked and saw them fighting and trying to fly in front of the water spot. They started fighting a month after I […]
I’ve had my 8 month old female cockatiel for 3 weeks now and she doesn’t like hands and I really need help to learn how to get her to trust me and to be able to tame her and get her out of her cage. I also I am currently still in school so I […]
We recently inherited my late mother-in-law’s cockatiel. He is about 25 years old, at least that’s what we can tell from anecdotal stories and his band seems to agree. He seems rather lonely and we would like to get a companion cockatiel, but what would be best/safest for the current bird? His health appears good […]
I wanted to know how to handfeed baby cockatiels in a safe way and when am I supposed to do that. I want to so that the babies are familiar with me.
Hello! I’ve recently taken in an older cockatiel (estimated 28-29 years old) who’s struggling with some pin feathers on the top of his head and crest. He has very little issue with me being near/around his cage for maintenance or quality time, and takes treats from my hand no problem, but will not let me […]
Hello, my two cockatiels (around 2 years old) have been mating for the past 2 weeks, they are on a mixed seed and pellet diet with a salad mostly consisting of green leaf lettuce and spinach with a commercial egg food. They have a breeding box. Just today the female started hissing and fighting with […]
I recently rescued 2 cockatiel siblings 2 months ago. I have paperwork on her saying she will be 3 in October and was told the male was a sibling but I can’t know for sure. Within a few weeks of them being with me I noticed her pecking at her tail base and squaking in […]
My 16 year old cockateil started screaming when his cousin of 14 died. He has a feather mate of 17 years but screams continuously. I have tried talking, rewarding not screaming, ignoring even changing his cage. I don’t know what else to do. Am disabled and with him all the time.
I’m the 4th home for a 17 yr old cockatiel. He won’t let me touch him which an issue getting him into his traveling cage. He seems to like us. He preens a lot, comes to the side of the cage when I put my face up to it and squawks loudly if I leave […]
I have a cockatiel egg that has finally dipped down. What I mean by that is the aircell has turned on a tilt, and I can see the chicks shadow within the aircell. Now the problem is knowing when it will internally pip. If you know please let me know!
My cockatiel is 5 months old. My bird is very picky…He eats seeds and veggies, but very little , so I give him soft food instead of hand-feeding. He loves rice, pasta, and wheat bread but can birds eat them daily? Will it harm their health? And I give him very small amount.
My cocktail hatched 2 eggs an one is 4days old and other is one day old . The one day old died .. i think the parents does not feed him properly baby bird stomach is empty.. is possible for hand feeding for the 4days old?
Recently, my very young cockatiel has laid an egg. I think it’s because she has been near my 7 year old male cockatiel. I feel bad for her but my family thinks it’s normal and that it’s fine.
I have a 7 year old Male cockatiel. After a year or so, he was basically attached to me and attacked everyone other than me. Now that I think of it I feel like he thinks im his mate but I try to discourage this behavior when he try’s to mate with me. Recently, our […]
My beautiful white cockatiel has laid an egg and it’s fertile, about 2/3 days ago the baby was cheeping from inside the egg but yesterday the cheeping has stopped, has the baby died?
My cockatiel’s partner flew away without her a few days ago. She was so depressed, she refused to eat anything so we decided to get her a new partner. She had laid 4 eggs 2 months ago with her old partner but none of them hatched. Now she sits on her egg all day and […]
I have a twenty year old cockatiel and had the dumb brainstorm to get him a bigger new cage, not realizing that is the only cage he has ever known. I also made the mistake of getting rid of the old cage. He basically wants to silently sit on me all day. He is eating […]
I have a 5-month-old cockatiel. I am going out of the country for 7-8 days so i am thinking of leaving my cockatiel with my friend, who also has a 7-8-month-old cockatiel. Hers is a girl, mine is a boy. Will there be any problems if they live together?
Hello! I set up a nest box for my cockatiel pair, they have been mating for the past week, how will I know when she is getting ready to lay eggs? They are both in and out of the nest box all day. (I have a camera set up)
I have a 1 month old coctail bird he started flying around the house I don’t know what to do to gain his trust and to have a bond with him could you care to help me with this issue please
Hello i am a 15 year old caretaker for my cockatiels. They have a pretty big cage and have mated and laid eggs again, this time one of them hatched (And i am sure more will follow) and they have laid eggs last season as well but those did not hatch. My question is how […]
Hello my Cockatiel of 17yrs passed away after being 2 days with vomit and hardly eating. I did take him to the hospital they just told me to take him home and give him baytril. His blood results did showed CPK534 uric acid 17.7. The vet said he had kidney failure but I am just […]
My cockatiels have laid eggs-abandoned the first set- and now has laid a new one. But they get very possessive and attack when we go to change their food and water bowls, which also makes cleaning the cage a bit difficult
My 3 month old cockatiel is growing quickly he already learned to talk and whistle a bit but he is still eating formula. One think I noticed he doesn’t like patting him or touching him most of the time but lately he puts his head down for me to pat him and as soon as […]
I have a tame dominant yellow-cheek cockatiel female, and she is 1 years old and start to show signs of maturity, so we buy for her a white faced cocktail, his age is around 3 years, he is singing to the female and the female shows an interest and went closer tto him, but at […]
I have a male cockatiel , single , going through mating season . He suddenly became aggressive and would bite hard . Usual behavior would be a nibble on my finger but now due to mating season , he bites hard and doesn’t let go sometimes . I don’t take him out the cage that […]
Hello, I recently asked a question relevant to this. My female from the “pair” attacks her mate. She had laid an egg which is infertile. They don’t mate anymore and she had laid the egg in the nesting box. The male was very interested and willing to help at first, but now he’s just terrified […]
I got myself a Cockatiel. 2,5 months old when I got him. He is 4 months old right now. He was very loving and loved pets. He is tamed but he started to be overly aggressive towards me. Whenever I try to pet him or somehow interact with him he lunges forward and bites and […]
My cockatiel pair are about 7they always lay eggs but then leave them alone this time they have been sitting on them at the bottom of the cage , I really did not think they would hatch because none of the others did but did not want to distress them by removing, today I have […]
I have a cockatiel almost 2 months old. This is my first time taking care of one. she used to come to me when I have food and her poop is light green even though i was feeding her baby formula and her beak smells weird. I had gone away from home for a long […]
I have 2 year cocatial female. She’s lied four eggs now and she’s the only bird I have. I’m more really worried that something can happen to her. I don’t wanna lose her. Should I get a male? What should I do? And how can she lay eggs when they aren’t fertilized please help me?
My cockatiels is around 16 to 18 months. Recently I got a female for him but it seems the female is too young. Now he is on heat and she doesn’t respond to him. Since then my cockatiel’s behaviour is very aggressive and he is biting me. Not letting me come closer to him.
