Tag Archives: Cockatiel

HELP!!! is my cockatiel about to lay eggs?

HOW do i know if my cockatiels about to lay eggs like what r the symptoms??? also my bird keeps flying off her perch and goes under a table or the crib in the room and her mate follows her too. also sometimes i hear noises coming from the room their in and it sound almost like baby chicks and when i go there my female is making a noise like that and sometimes the mate too… also every time i go in there she goes crazy she jumps all over her cage and starts calling me obviously she wants something but what?? her food water toys everything is in there??? and they wont stop SCREAMING it is really getting annoying and they can get LOUD and sometimes they start screaming really loud and i run over there when they do and they both go crazy trying to show me what they want but what is that???? :( .

someone give me a really good explanation of the symptoms of when a bird is about to lay eggs and i dont have a nest box for them im trying to get them one but in the meantime what else can i give them to use and where should i put it for them??? thx so much!!!!!

Can i feed my bird gatorade?

Its a cockatiel.Can i feed it gatorade?
edit:Is there anything besides water that i can give to him?None of us drink water at dinner,maybe a little but we usually have a beverage or some sort.I was just wondering what i can use.

cockatiel rescue?

Hi i’m llooking for a cockatiel rescue. We took a hand feed out of a home because he was just in a cage by himself all day. We’d like to find a better home for him with other birds and someone who would play with him and let him out more. How do bird lovers deal with the fact that you can’t house break a bird?

how do i know if my cockatiel has mated?

ok,
so my cockatiel i have had for 2 years, she is extremely attatched to me and has never liked another bird(she lives with 3 other males). a bit over a month ago i bought a new cockatiel. everyday he sings the same tune with the same three notes over and over. after doing this he paired with one of my males. but my female one for the first time ever went into te nesting box. he followed her in and was making the tune while they were in there.

Will baby cockatiel starve or is he ok?

ok, so I have a momma and baby cockatiel. The baby is fully feathered, except for his head (looks like a vulture with yellow mohawk feathers on his head an orange cheeks!) anyhow, he walks around good and all, but the momma started laying infertile eggs (no mate) and I think she threw him out of the nest. I saw him eating a little bit, but I am scared he will die. I didn’t write down his hatch date, but I would say he is close to 2 months old, He was the only survivor of 5 and I would hate to see him die now. Do they eat less at that age? (he “gets out” of the box since yesterday but doesn’t know how to get back in, so I put him back)Since it seems he knows how to eat and I offer bread, seed and veggies, is that enough? Can he starve? Should I remove the infertile eggs to see if momma bird will tend to her baby again? What should I do?

Provide wet or dry oats to cockatiel parents? The mother still eating bird soil is it ok for baby too?

I just fed my cockatiel parents instand wet oatmeal cereal made by Quakers. Just mixed with hot water. Is this the correct way or should I give it dry and mix with their usual seed mix? As the mother still enjoys eating the soil I add some calcium mix powder with it. Will the babies be ok if the mother feeds them with the soil mix? When I try new food, must I remove the seed mix and soil to force them to eat the new food? What happens if they don’t eat enough to feed the chicks?

Are my Cockatiel birds really mating?

Ok, so I bought what I was told was a pair- but then a pet store told me the females have very light colored cheeks. My “female” has dark cheeks. Anyhow, the “boy” sings to her all day and sometimes he mounts her. He is on her for what seems like forever and she is chirping loudly the whole time. Then he gets off and she chases him all over the cage and tries to bite him. They “mate” about 4-5 times a day, if not more. Usually he is the one in the nesting box, not her. No eggs have been laid and my husband insists that they are 2 boys, but why would the bird let himself is one and (2) wouldn’t the one who is always pretending to be the girl eventually want to be on top? My husband says maybe he wants to, that’s why he chases the other one around the cage. What do you guys think?

By the way, the “girl” is all grey with orange cheeks- the “boy” has a yellow head, orange cheeks and a grey body.The girl does seem smaller, in body than the boy.