- Oct 23, 2015
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- Parrots
- 1 YNA (Bingo R.I.P.)
1 OWA (Plumas R.I.P.)
1 RLA (Pacho R.I.P.)
2 GCA(Luna,Merlin) The Twins
1 Congo AG (Bella)
5 Cockatiels
My three Cockatiel babies are now 7 months old. How time flies (and so do they).
All gender is an assumption on my part based on behavior.
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Angel the lutino is the hardest to describe as far as personality. Of course she is beautiful. She plays with her toys and fly’s around the house when I let her out. She fly’s more gracefully than my other two babies. She is more cooperative when it comes to going back in the cage.
I guess I spend more time handling her and petting her because she is so pretty.
Mango the Pied baby would be nominated the class clown if she was in school.
She loves to play with her toys and hanging from them. Hanging upside-down from the edge of the wire shelves. Even hanging upside-down from the perches.
She use to like landing on everyone’s head when out of the cage but has stopped this habit. Mango is a most difficult bird to get back in the cage. I made the mistake of making a grab for her once out of frustration. Now she tends to run/fly away from my hand. I am trying to regain her trust but it’s a slow process.
Mango and Popeye have one thing in common. They both fly like there tail is on fire. They fly very well and never hit anything but it’s always flat out speed.
Popeye the youngest is perhaps the most surprising. He still looks mostly like a normal grey but some of his grey feathers look like charcoal a darker shade of grey.
His intelligence shines out through his incredible ability to imitate the song of his Daddy (what I call Cheeky’s song) and also the song of Lucky and Baby (my first two Cockatiels). I can’t wait for him to mature, I think he will be able to learn a good sized vocabulary.
My current cage setup is this and it seems to be working out.
1 girls dormitory (cage) with Sunny (the mom), Pinky (a lutino I bought at a yard sale), Mango, and Angel.
2 boy’s cages. Lucky and Baby my first two Cockatiels in 1 cage.
Cheeky and Popeye (father and Son) in the second boy’s cage.
All gender is an assumption on my part based on behavior.
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Angel the lutino is the hardest to describe as far as personality. Of course she is beautiful. She plays with her toys and fly’s around the house when I let her out. She fly’s more gracefully than my other two babies. She is more cooperative when it comes to going back in the cage.
I guess I spend more time handling her and petting her because she is so pretty.
Mango the Pied baby would be nominated the class clown if she was in school.
She loves to play with her toys and hanging from them. Hanging upside-down from the edge of the wire shelves. Even hanging upside-down from the perches.
She use to like landing on everyone’s head when out of the cage but has stopped this habit. Mango is a most difficult bird to get back in the cage. I made the mistake of making a grab for her once out of frustration. Now she tends to run/fly away from my hand. I am trying to regain her trust but it’s a slow process.
Mango and Popeye have one thing in common. They both fly like there tail is on fire. They fly very well and never hit anything but it’s always flat out speed.
Popeye the youngest is perhaps the most surprising. He still looks mostly like a normal grey but some of his grey feathers look like charcoal a darker shade of grey.
His intelligence shines out through his incredible ability to imitate the song of his Daddy (what I call Cheeky’s song) and also the song of Lucky and Baby (my first two Cockatiels). I can’t wait for him to mature, I think he will be able to learn a good sized vocabulary.
My current cage setup is this and it seems to be working out.
1 girls dormitory (cage) with Sunny (the mom), Pinky (a lutino I bought at a yard sale), Mango, and Angel.
2 boy’s cages. Lucky and Baby my first two Cockatiels in 1 cage.
Cheeky and Popeye (father and Son) in the second boy’s cage.
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) pied this and cinnamon that..all very pretty.
