Ducklings and Cockatiels

[JJpuck]

I am planning on getting ducklings this summer. As you all know, for the first month of their life they will have to live in my room (my room being the most suitable place for them to live, the next best place being the bathroom). I have a cockatiel, named JJ (hence my username

) and she also lives in my room (even though she comes with me everywhere around the house). I was wondering if the ducklings would be affected by her presence (i.e. become agitated, nervous, anxious, etc.) Or if JJ would be negatively affected by them. Please let me know your input.
Thanks

 

[Amiga]

I have been thinking about this for a while. I have no experience with cockatiels . . . Ducks generally seem to get along with whoever is normal in their lives. I mean, often ducks raised with cats will be fine with cats, or with dogs, dogs. Ducklings often go through a phase where they are terrified of anything above them. So a cockatiel flying over their brooder might be a problem. Really hard to predict, seems to me.

 

[Going Quackers]

No, i have brooded my standard chickens, a set of calls and my original scovies in my dining room(which really isn't but that's the official name lol)

ANyways, in this room is a flight cage of budgies, one severe macaw and a pionus parrot. Nobody was traumatized.. and if anybody knows a thing about a macaw they are LOUD.

 

[loofa]

I found this old thread after my cockatiel just moved in with my ducklings. It's the cutest thing ever. Fawkes (cockatiel) never had any interest in the parakeets who used to live in the big cage - they were rescues, and I found a new home for them. I hoped that Fawkes would move into the big cage then, but she only wanted to sit on top of it, and sleep in her small cage. So when two little ducklings fell into my lap I put them in the big cage. Fawkes climbed down from the top to look at them through the bars, then made it known that she wanted to be INSIDE the cage with them. I put her on an upper perch. After awhile she climbed down to the floor (something she has never done in any cage) to say hello. The ducklings warily moved away from her, but all was peaceful. Now for the last three days she wants to spend her days in the duckling cage and then flies to her small cage to sleep.