I have only ever had experience with male parrots, but few months ago I bought a 2 month old female cockatiel for my male cockatiel. My male cockatiel would try to interact with her sexually but because she is too young, she doesn’t return the same energy leaving him sexually frustrated. However, my female cockatiel […]
Hi, I have 2 cockatiel birds and I’m going to go somewhere for three days. I’m debating whether to leave there cage open or closed. If I leave it closed they get stressed and start screaming until I open there cage. Every morning they scream because they wanna come out there cage and fly. I […]
I have two cockteil male and female , they both are breeding and she laid a egg 2 days back . she didn’t enter the breeding box from beginning.she laid it on the floor and I took it an kept in the breeding box . Now I was asked not to open the cage anymore […]
When me and my dad are petting our cockatiel, sometimes it exhibits mating behaviour and makes sounds like this : https://youtu.be/QiUTG-hUA0Q We both do not pet it on the back or wings, we only pet the head and the upper neck. Sometime he even does this when not being petted, just by sitting on us. […]
I recently introduced an 8 month old male to a grown adult female (age unknown) who’s already a mom. Surprisingly after only 3 days they’ve grown fond of each other and I’ve witnessed them mating. I dont have a nest box and I can’t imagine where she’d lay her eggs considering there’s only perches and […]
Hi. I have a 20 year old cockatiel whose cage mate died of cancer about 6 years ago. He was losing his mind when the other bird did not come back from the vet. Got another bird from a breeder (initially thought was female, is male), did the whole quarantine and introduction thing. Everything seemed […]
Hi. Ive had my cockatiel for about 4 months now and ive spent so much time with him and even though you can tell he is bonded to me more than my partner,he is still scared and nervous of my hands. He will let me give him millet inside the cage, not outside, he will […]
Hello, i have a three year old cockatiel on harrisons super fine pellets, since this morning i haven’t seen her eat very much and her droopings are smaller, whenever she eats she would have a few pellets drink water and thats it, 10 minutes ago i offered her food and she was eating whilst bobbing […]
i have 3 birds, two female sisters and one male that’s is not related. recently one of the sisters mates with the male. i moved the other female to a different cage due to him pulling out her feathers. my question concerns the female and her mate. they had eggs but none of them hatched. […]
Dear lafeber I have a 5 months old cocktail which caught cold 2 months ago. 2 times he got seriously ill and needed emergency treatments such as dexamethasone intramuscular injections and couple of oral medications due to labor respiratory problems. And what my veterinarian said was that he got pleural effusion and forbid my son […]
I recently adopted a single cocktail bird, she not at all active and acts very weird. Eats less, some gets scary at food tray. So worried
Its okay if my cocktail parrot doesn’t have hair on its head?
My single female cockatiel has laid her second egg. Her cage is large and is in one space in the laundry. She has limited daylight hours, I have rearranged her cage and removed anything she could see as nesty materials. I can’t move her actual home, as it is too large to move. So, is […]
While I was eating my food in the kitchen my bird (cockatiel) was on the door wind blew and shut the door and my cockatiel lost 7 of his tail feathers I want to ask if something bad will happen and my question is will something bad happen?
My male cockatiel was sitting on the eggs and then as soon as he left the eggs 3 more eggs appeared and he seemed to be pushing away the female cockatiel’s eggs away. Why is this?
Hi! I’ve a question, so my cockatiels who are 3 years old and not related, finally bonded and started mating. Can I move to another house before they lay eggs?? Would they not get mad and decide to not lay any eggs and breed theme??
It’s my second batch of eggs and one hatched just recently, normally they sit on eggs but this time they are not even sitting on the eggs nor feeding, what should I do?
He is not able to fly today. I don’t know if he got injured when I tok him out of the cage. He was fighting to come out
Ihave a 1.5 female cockatiel and 1 year male. They are ok friends only i assume. Later my female layed eggs at the bottom of the cage today i add 4dummy eggs to the ones she layed . I don’t want her to lay more she is young . Since i added the other 4 […]
I have a male cockatiel for 3 years now and he have absolutely changed his behavior in the past week in way that I am in panic mode at this point. He had a mate when he was 2 and half and they produced 6 beautiful, healthy babies. Because I didn’t want them breeding anymore […]
Cage. Is that just as sufficient as the real sunlight?
How many times in a year do cockatiel breed and how long should I wait before breeding again? When is the best time to breed?
I have a 3 year old male cockatiel that was separated from a female after mating. They had 6 beautiful babies all of them very healthy. Recently he mate again with a different female. She laid 8 eggs (first time breeding) but both, male and female parents were absolutely careless with the eggs and the […]
Hello I have 4 cocktails, 2 males and 2 females. There is only one nest and they are laying eggs but throw them out of the nest. I have seen both males in the nest so im insure if the one throwing them out is the parents or the extra male. They are about a […]
My 3 month old albino cockatiel jumped in mango puree. And even after a bath the yellow won’t come off. What to do?
I have 2 cockatels, both hand feed, and i maked them mad… i grabdem, im sorry, and now when i aproach, one of them bites agrresivley, but dont hurt…. I want to apologise to both, but i dont know how…. today i will put a snack in their cage, so they will maybe be more […]
Hi, I have a pair of parrot from a long time I got them from my relatives but I don’t know what are thier species. I think they are cockatoo parrot, they are white in colour and they have a red spot on their cheeks. Before a week they laid 8 eggs but they doesn’t […]
My cockatiel died very suddenly.She was at the bottom of her cage she started to spread both of her wings.She normally does this when she her space so we gave her space and left her alone.A few moments later after we left her alone she started making sounds that sounded like yelps and then we […]
I recently got a cockatiel from another family member. And I have had him since last December… It did take him awhile to adjust . But he finally did… He was coming to me all the time… Now here recently it has changed. He is being stand offish from me. He loves his cage. He […]
I have 2 cockatiels, that i tink they are female and are handfeed. Q1: How i know their age, the person we bought them said that are babyes, but they look like aduts(have all the feathers) Q2:How i know their gender…. I supose that they are female… The older one is a full yellow, and […]
I haved 2 budgie, male and female, and the male died. I let the female out of the cage to play with my other two handfeed (the female budgie is not) female young cockatiels (they look adult, so i tink they are young adults). She is now good friends with the cockatiels, folowing them everywere. […]
My two cockatiels finally decided to like each other after a year and has now made it and my female is pregnant with eggs. Do I separate the birds in different cages now or do I leave them together until the eggs are laid? I don’t want them to keep mating and having eggs all […]
hey i have 2 cockatiels and recently one of them which is male is sitting in the food pot and protecting it from the other female and the male is also being very aggressive to the other why is this and how to stop this
I have to start feeding a day old cockatiel baby neglected by the parents. I was told he wouldn’t survive, it has been 4 days and he is eating like any other chick after leaving the nest, gaining weight, standing on his own and asking for food. My question is: Since he haven’t been fed […]
Hey. My cockteil got wound in her wings . I took her to the vet doctor. She gave some medicine for 3 days , after taking it she felt good but still she has 4-5 five blood feathers.. is it dangerous to leave Like that ?
My male Cocktail do some nesting Often. Is that something that makes do. No female in the picture
Our female cockatiel got sneaky and laid an egg in (of all places) a bottled water package. When we removed, she would just lay another. We let her lay 4 and replaced with porcelain eggs. What is the best method to remove those eggs? It’s been about a month and she is not abandoning.
Hello my name is Shreya Kumar. I have a boy cockatiel who is 10 years old. Unfortunately, he had an irritation on his left foot and starting biting it. We took him to the vet, however he had bit through to his veins, breaking all blood supply to his foot. We took him to another […]
i have two birds, a female cockatiel and a male budgie, who are living in the same cage. as an inexperienced bird owner i housed them together but am planning on separating them soon. my budgie is a very anxious bird though, and i am worried about how he would react. could getting another bird […]
I have a female cockteil. She had a wound in her left wing at the corner.I don’t know how that happened,I took her to the hospital and the doctor gave her syrup drops for the wound..after taking that she was active for the next two days ..but again today she isn’t active ..she is sleeping […]
I bought a new cockatiel 2 weeks ago. She’ll be around 7 months old .Her feathers are not grown properly and her tail feathers are clumsy and broken. Why is this and is there a cure ?
Hi, me and my partner we have Kikki (our cockatiel female) from February now. We have been lied from her previous owner who didn’t treat her properly and would do anything to have money and give her away, when we first saw her we felt love immediately for her and decided to make her become […]
I have a seven-month-old hand reared cockatiel. I have noticed that while he’s preening, especially his tail feathers, he ‘splits’ the feathers. Is this a simple case of a lack of experience in preening that he needs to learn over time and possibly due to him not having had the chance of watching other birds […]
Hello….my cockatiel has no feathers under one wing and can see skin…never had this problem before he’s around 17 years old, and his cage door is always left open even has his own chair…he can still fly ok and still his self
My mated cockatiel has laid five eggs on a paper towel on the bottom of the cage, they are fertile (candled them). She and mate sit on them, a nesting box. Do we need to put something to make a nest in the cage for when they hatch?
Our female cockatiel (has never laid an egg in 7 years) is sitting on the counter in between a mixer and a banana tree. She acts like she is sitting on an egg. There is no nesting material. She has no symptoms of being bound. She is eating just fine. She sleeps all night, on […]
How can the sex of a cockatiel be determined?
I have two pets . One male and one female,they both are of same age . I got my female bird first and then the male bird.,both are friendly with me ,recently male keeps attacking my female cockateil,but he goes back wherever she goes,they both are 2-2.5 years old.should I have to separate them .?
I have a 17 yr old single cockatiel who laid an egg a month ago for the first time. She just laid another one. Why does this happen? Should I be worried? Her behaviour has changed.
Why my cockatiel has tears in his eyes and is loosing feathers around his eyes
what does it mean if my cockatiel is wating a lot more and sleeping mire often
I have two female cockatiels that are both laying eggs. I thought I had a male and a female when one started laying eggs but now the other one is laying eggs too. The first one has been laying eggs for months. How do I get her to stop? I know it’s not good for. […]
my cockitiel is over weight seed stays in cage 24 hours so switching too these how many a day at twice a day so he loses weight but not starve.
We have one male and one female cockatiel, both are almost 3 years old. The are housed in the same cage. The male has bonded with the female but she has bonded with me! She shows him no affection, however they mate and but neither of them are interested in sitting on the egg. I […]
My new born baby cockatiels has cut by the side of its bottom leaf and it peaks wants to turn a little bit from where the injury is I think the mother got to aggressive when she was feeding, so I have pulled it and feeding on the opposite side to try and realize top […]
Our cockatiels just laid and hatched 4 eggs. It was not planned….too young. 12 month male, 17 month female. We had to build the box when the female tried to nest in our cuboard. Egg was laid the next day. One week from the first chick hatching and I looked in the nest (shredded paper). […]
So I have two cockatiels and I thought they were both male. However, the male I originally had started getting on top of the new ones back and the new bird has been lifting her tail and chirping when he is on the new bird. But the male bird doesn’t mate, just stands on the […]
Hi, I have male cockatiel and he want to have a female. He is in the breeding season. If I let him out he is attacking us. Now I left him in the cage. What can I do about his behavior? Kind regards.
My cocktail is almost 11 months he was hit by a ceiling fan but he wasn’t injuries the vet gave him antibiotic medication but he is not eating now, what should I feed him?
I adopted 2 cockateils from the humane society , they are male and female . Last week the female layer an egg on the bottom of the cage . I took it and put it in a shoe box with shredded paper towel and sat it in the xage bottom . She layed 3 more […]
