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What could my cockatiel need?

I have 2 cockatiels and they are a bonded pair. They had babies and all of them hatched and are doing great. It’s been about a week and a half since they hatched. The parents are great at raising them and have raised babies before (they were given to me since the owner of them got babies from them and didn’t want to keep the adults anymore)
They are not friendly birds and especially not since they had the babies. They will however screech to me if they need or want something. Example – if I don’t give them fresh water right away and sleep in or whatever, they let me know about it. Or if they are wanting some millet, they will screech until I give them some more. I change their food and water daily, made sure everything is clean, cleaned the nest box and put fresh paper towels down so the babies are kept clean, and for some reason the adults are screeching and carrying on all day today. They have been really quiet since they laid the eggs and today has been the first day I heard them really acting crazy. I’ve been keeping the curtains closed and only letting some light come in because they haven’t been so active…i know when I keep the curtain open before they laid eggs the female would screech and be active the whole time. I’ve done everything and they are both running about screeching. The male is usually the quiet one except for his pretty whistles and he does the cat call. I walk back into the room and they start running around back and forth on the bottom of the cage attacking their cuttle bone (they knock it down and only eat it on the bottom of the cage for some reason). There is plenty left and its clean…i dont know what they could want , but all this screeching I’m surprised the babies aren’t scared lol. Anyone have any ideas? Or is this just normal?
blank, i read somewhere to make sure to take the shells out and clean every other day in the nest box so bacteria doesn’t build up. I haven’t cleaned every other day in there, but I do check every day to make sure it’s not filthy. This has not been the first time I cleaned inside. But I had to, because they had went poo all over the place and the paper towels were wet and nasty. Birds really do use the bathroom ALOT! lol!

why did my cockatiels eat their chicks?

my cocktails (male and female) lay ed off 4 eggs like 4 weeks ago. they were very protective with the eggs all time. when the first egg hatched they took care of the chick very well, they were feeding it and protecting it every time i wanted to see it. Then they threw out an egg from the nesting box, ok so i thought they figured it out it was death already. So the next days when I tried to see the chick and if a cocktail was out of the nesting box he would go into it quickly they were very protective. Today when I got home i went to see if the other 2 eggs were hatching, but I didn’t hear the chick any more so I saw the nesting box empty and the cocktails were out in the cage and didn’t care any more about me looking at their eggs they were both eating, they never did that only one could go out and then return to take care of the eggs. So I saw the the nesting box and i couldn’t see the chick so i opened the cage and the nesting box. Nothing was there only an egg, so I search the chick everywhere, until I saw it, it was death and incomplete in the nesting box, and now i dont know what to do with the pair of cocktails, they ate and killed their chick, threw an eeg out and left another one there by itself. I don’t like them any more how come they do that. now they don’t care about the egg either. Please someone help me!!!!! i need help from someone that knows about birds. why they did that? they are like screaming like never before help!!!

Great food for Cockatiels?

I feed my cockatiel actual ‘bird food’ but i’d like to feed her other things like fruits of veggies. I know that greens are especially good but i’d like to try other things. (she doesn’t like lettuce or celery) I’m scared to give her something that might poison her! (some tree bark do poison birds)

If a Cockatiel doesn’t sit on its egg for a day, is the egg no longer fertilized?

My Cockatiels have been mating for months. (I do have a male and a female.) My family and I tried to stop them from mating at first, then they laid an egg. (They’re pretty old birds so they only laid one.) My roommate wasn’t thinking and threw that egg in the trash. She replaced the egg with a white marble. A couple of weeks later they laid another egg. My roommate decided to put it in this nesting box we gave them, then the Cockatiels didn’t go in the box. So the next day we took out the egg and the birds are all over it. Is the egg still fertilized? (Sorry for the long story!

What is the gender of my cockatiels?

I have two cockatiels and i think they r male and female but im not positive….
My “Male” Is ether a pearled or pied. His back has pearls all over but his chest has pied markings. He looks like a male, really long and slender. Narrow hips and bright coloring. But his tail and his behavior is what confuses me. His tail has no vi sable horizontal lines but u can feel them when u stroke the feathers. But they r vi sable around his vent. He is super quiet and barley makes a sound. When he does its just 1 short whistle or soft squeaking sounds.
My other one is what i think is a female. She is a pied, i know that for sure. She has vi sable horizontal line on a few of her tail feathers but u cant feel thm and they rnt on her vent. She really does look like a female. Wide hips, shorter, a bit more “chubby” looking, her crest is shorter, her colors r dull and there is barley any yellow on her face. But once again her behavior confuses me. She is SUPER loud! and she runs back and forth on my longer perch all the time, and as she does so she is whistling.
I’ve been hearing a mating call, but when i go in my room to c who is doing it, it all goes quiet. i set up a nest box because if they had mated i didn’t want them to lay eggs on the floor of the cage. My “female” was the one that was chewing on the door and entering first. And today i saw my “male” chewing a little bit and then entering for a moment. Then about 10 minutes later my “male” went over to me “female” and stuck his tail up in the air. His butt got all fluffy but my other bird just tried to preen his tail…. Now, i know who’s been whistling the mating song. Its my “female”!!!!
So ya, im really confused. Can any one help me?
Ya they r really confusing, lol. What i meant about u can feel them is that there r actuall indents in the feather. I didnt know if that meant any thing. lol.
A lady in my chirch says that they r both male….she own birds but none if them r cockatiels so I don’t think she would know for sure…

What is the gender of my cockatiels?

I have two cockatiels and i think they r male and female but im not positive….
My “Male” Is ether a pearled or pied. His back has pearls all over but his chest has pied markings. He looks like a male, really long and slender. Narrow hips and bright coloring. But his tail and his behavior is what confuses me. His tail has no vi sable horizontal lines but u can feel them when u stroke the feathers. But they r vi sable around his vent. He is super quiet and barley makes a sound. When he does its just 1 short whistle or soft squeaking sounds.
My other one is what i think is a female. She is a pied, i know that for sure. She has vi sable horizontal line on a few of her tail feathers but u cant feel thm and they rnt on her vent. She really does look like a female. Wide hips, shorter, a bit more “chubby” looking, her crest is shorter, her colors r dull and there is barley any yellow on her face. But once again her behavior confuses me. She is SUPER loud! and she runs back and forth on my longer perch all the time, and as she does so she is whistling.
I’ve been hearing a mating call, but when i go in my room to c who is doing it, it all goes quiet. i set up a nest box because if they had mated i didn’t want them to lay eggs on the floor of the cage. My “female” was the one that was chewing on the door and entering first. And today i saw my “male” chewing a little bit and then entering for a moment. Then about 10 minutes later my “male” went over to me “female” and stuck his tail up in the air. His butt got all fluffy but my other bird just tried to preen his tail…. Now, i know who’s been whistling the mating song. Its my “female”!!!!
So ya, im really confused. Can any one help me?
Ya they r really confusing, lol. What i meant about u can feel them is that there r actuall indents in the feather. I didnt know if that meant any thing. lol.
A lady in my chirch says that they r both male….she own birds but none if them r cockatiels so I don’t think she would know for sure…

How do i know if my cockatiels are going to have chicks?

So i have two cockatiels and they’ve been acting a little strange. I keep hearing a mating call but when i go in to see, its quiet! I have a nest box set up for them just in case. The nest box is chewed on and a bird has entered, but the one entering and chewing is my “female”
i have no idea if i have and male and female or female and female or male and male! One is pied for sure but the other im not so sure on. He/she looks like a pearled but has no pearls on its belly. My pied has horizontal stripes (visible) on its tail but there is no notch in the feather. The other has notches but no visible horizontal stripes.
I’ve read up on breeding cockatiels and i know what to do if they do have chicks. But there is so much controversy on how to tell if they are going to have chicks and to tell which is for sure a male and which is for sure a female.
I know about the DNA testing to find the sex of a bird, but i cant afford that with the depression and all…
Please help me!