They both love the shower. But immediately Rex goes hard dancing and singing while Alice sings to him. After a while they’ll switch and she does the same.

Miss my boy but i have to be in college 🥺

Hey cockatiel owners, thought I’d come on here to ask for some advice regarding my hormonal cockatiel!! My little guy Pumpkin is almost 2 (will be on the 30th of October) and is currently dealing with some pretty severe hormonal issues, mainly giving me a lot of attitude and attacking me. He is convinced my bed is his ‘nest’ and will become violent if I lay down or try to go near it when I let him out of his cage. Does anyone have advice as to how to deescalate the situation and make him understand my bed is not his nest? I do know ensuring he has good sleep and darkness is important, I have been making sure he’s getting 13 hours of darkness, but it’s gotten to the point where keeping him out of his cage is just not an option due to his aggression. I love the little guy and I know it’ll pass with time, as it is breeding season for them here in Australia, but I just want to help him through it and make sure he is going through this period as smoothly as possible.

Rn my queen baby angel Petunia is going through a big molt (shes 6 months old) lots and lots of pin feathers on her neck and head. the problem is she’s a single bird (im working on getting another but moneys been tight) so she’s going through her first big molt alone. she’s grumpy, xtra clingy, tired, eating slightly less, always want scritch but pissed when i scritch from the pin feathers. So far I’m treating it like my period so i got her some nice BSB food, new millet, new cuttlefish bones, and new toys to hopefully try to help. what else can i do to help her? background: she eats a mix of chop, pellets, only 10% seed + fresh fruits and veggies, she gets 12 hrs of sleep every night, fresh food and water everyday, she lives in a 3x5’ resort full of toys, etc she’s spoiled and if i could take out all her pin feathers so she didn’t have to, i would lol. also, how long will this last?

It’s the middle of the night and my dad just came to my room saying my mom put some sort of chemical in the oven that isn’t meant to be used while people are at home. The whole house smells like it caught on fire as soon as I opened my door. I immediately ran out because my bird is near the kitchen and I carted him into another room with my dad and cracked open the window. He’s alive and isn’t showing any weird behavior but I’m freaking out!!! I can’t keep him in my room because of my allergies, so he’s in my brother’s old room that is farthest from the kitchen. I want to go back and check on him but I’m worried about the fumes getting in.

This is my first ever Cockatiel. Almost 7 weeks old. I don’t know their gender. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

My cockatiel has been acting weird the last 2 days he is eating drinking water, but he is weak always sleeping even in the day and when he trys to fly he plummets staight to the ground i really dont know what to do. Please help me 🙏

My lil Chicken 🐥

My boyfriend and I bought small to medium sized pumpkins the other day to carve/paint this week and anytime my boyfriend walks near the pumpkins with our cockatiel she freaks OUT. She’ll either panic fly or hiss a lot. Is this a normal thing or just a silly quirk for our bird?

Huckleberry Fin is 4 months old and been with me for over a month. This is the first time they have ever came this close on their own. They are not interested in hands ever being near them. Huckleberry Fin is my personal feather puppy but I take them to school to hang out in my library. They get in their book bag with a net but they started getting out into the cage independently. Oddly, I have one dog that they have bonded too and Huckleberry Fin goes to the side of the cage anytime Blue comes near. Any advice or just keep being patient? —-Also my dogs are never in the room when Huckleberry Fin is out. —-

—-yes, I said feather puppy because my husband said no birds—

So I have a few things I’d like to ask,

First - How on earth can anyone have a cockatiel on their shoulder and stand outside, my bird would fly away in an instant and never return, and I’ve seen other people’s cockatiels do the same, how would I even BEGIN training her to not fly away, any time my dad opens the back door to go for a smoke or anything it stresses me out immensely.

Second - Why does my bird seem untrainable altogether? She is so different to every other cockatiel I’ve seen in the sense that she is basically just a wild bird, she is unreceptive to me trying to get her to play with toys, there are no commands or anything that I can say that mean anything to her, she lives her own life and I’m just a part of it. She is SUPER loving and loves being on people in fact she is on either me or my dad 24/7, she loves neck scratches but every other attempt at touching her she freaks out at.

Third - Why is the only noise she makes screaming? The only noise that comes out of her beak is a loud high pitched scream and she does it whenever she’s not on somebody or when she’s locked in her cage, she sometimes does little rit rits when she’s eating or something but that’s not often.

Fourth and Last - How can I train her to fly to me when I call for her or anything?

Side note; She doesn’t hate her cage like she’ll go in there to eat whenever she’s hungry and she can come and go as she pleases but when it’s time to put her to bed if she’s on my finger and i try to put her in there she will never go in, she will get half inside and then bite the cage and crawl out, the only way I can get her in is by two hand grabbing and moving her in.

I don’t know why, but ever since we got him, his bottom mandible kind of drooped down. He eats and drinks normaly, though. Nothing else is wrong with him. He is about a year old now.

We adopted a baby cockatiel a month and a half ago.

We found a lost cockatiel the other day (who has since been returned to the owner) and even though him and my baby were in separate rooms they were whistling to each other and seemed so happy.

This made me think that the constant company and relationship another cockatiel could give him isn't something I could. I am with him out of the cage most of the time but I am out 2-3 days a week for work, one of which is almost the whole day.

This isn't my first bird or cockatiel but would be the first time I'd have 2 of the same indoor species, I have multiple large cages and am okay with the possibility that they may never be housed together.

I guess my main concern is that I love spending hours together with him and as selfish as it is, I would be pretty sad if we lost that connection because the birds favored each other. I guess my ideal situation would be that they would both be more bonded to me but have each other for company also.

I would intend to get another male as I don't want to risk breeding.

Would appreciate others opinions and thoughts on if it's a good idea to get a second tiel and their experiences with 2 tiels.