Recent content by BirdLadyToo

This is my new baby boy I am keeping for myself...I'm awful on names... .

I can't remember if yml put their logo on their bands or not. There used to also be a band identification web site or two out there. People have let them go. It might stand for New York State? I sell a small minority to a bird store. Sometimes they have my bands and sometimes not. Maybe I...

The place you bought him from should of provided you with the DNA certificate. Is he banded? All of my results via avian biotech are available for at least a year I believe....online. Any surgical sexing I have done are tattooed and although those don't come with an individual cert I do make...

H That is the first thing I do too....heat! When you bird is 'off' the first thing they do is loose the ability to keep their body temp. up. That will throw them in to shock. Also she is right about the bird, yesterday. If you know your bird you can usually tell if something no matter how minor...

I just wanted to say that cockatiel babies are probably one of the hardest to feed and one of the easiest to kill. They will beg for food. Sometimes non stop. They are extremely easy to aspirate for a novice hand feeder. Since they beg so much for food it's also very easy to stretch their crop...

If you want to keep your cockatiel as a pet I would recommend having the new one in its own cage. Cockatiels can sometimes be an exception but almost all parrots will bond to the other bird and not you. That doesn't mean you can't let them out to play together, just house them separately.