Baby tiel hatching way ahead of schedule!

[MikeyTN]

Here's baby #1 from one of my pairs hatched in 11 days while baby #2 started pipping and will hatch out on Wednesday at 11 days as well. This beats all my old records of the earliest hatching at 14 days.

 

[Terry57]

Oh, that is without a doubt the cutest thing I have ever seen! Such an adorable little ball of fluff

 

[MikeyTN]

It caught me by surprise when he started pipping few days ago.....I don't usually check until closer to hatching time but I started checking while I was spraying the eggs. The usual hatch time is around 19-21 days. Most of the babies always hatched out around 17-18 days for me.

 

[lisascannell]

Awww....I must have it!!
It's so fluffy and tiny

 

[MikeyTN]

He's one of my second generation baby! I raised the daddy myself and the momma is one that nobody is interested in cause she was attacked and she don't have most of her crown feathers or head feathers. So I took her in and she wanted to be a momma badly and no boys liked her. Until I put her with Peaches who took her as his mate. They're wonderful parents together.

 

[lisascannell]

Oh all cockatiels are cute even without feathers! I want baby cockatiels so bad but all my tiels are so tame I don't think they'd make good parents. Seeing your babies though brings back memories of my hand raising days with rocky. I loved it

 

[Terry57]

Michael, that is the sweetest story about the parents Bless her heart, so happy she found a mate!

 

[MikeyTN]

Oh all cockatiels are cute even without feathers! I want baby cockatiels so bad but all my tiels are so tame I don't think they'd make good parents. Seeing your babies though brings back memories of my hand raising days with rocky. I loved it

Both parents are friendly, I hanfed the daddy myself several years ago.

 

[lisascannell]

That's true! I have a bonded pair drummer and summer. Have seen them mating on the perch but I'm not ready to give them a nesting box - yet. You're so lucky to have all those cute babies!

 

[MikeyTN]

I didn't want to get back into it at first but they were persistent laying on the bottom of the aviary near the food dishes. It became problematic cause they like to be near the food dishes so no one gets to eat without the parents attacking them. Then right before they were ready to hatch, because of the attacking they do, they broke the eggs killing the babies within. So I broke down and got them a nest box. Then we took in more birds that was given to me, the food prices kept going up up up. So this just covers part of their food cost.

 

[lisascannell]

Was that just recently you thought about giving up the breeding?

 

[MikeyTN]

No I actually quit back in 2001 and then doing just a few pairs at a time in 2011 until now. I was just told by my partner yesterday that I need to find the babies home as I just did $600 food and product purchase for the animals not long ago. And our weekly grocery to buy their fresh food as we buy them twice a week to keep everything fresh. We do not pre-made them to freeze as everything is made fresh and fed fresh. And I order water filters as we go through filter water for all, I'm drinking tap....lol

 

[lisascannell]

Do you breed Macaws as well? If I lived in America I'd buy some of your babies
When I first got Rocky, my husband was admitted to hospital seriously ill. He almost didn't make it. Rocky was my first pet bird and hand feeding him was a distraction for me and made the time more bearable. Since then I'm now obssesed with tiels and have 5 of them!! I look back at photos of Rocky when he was a baby and pics on here, that's why I want to breed them one day I will never allow Rocky to breed though.

 

[crimson]

congrats Mikey- that is the best isn't it?

 

[labell]

OMG that baby is adorable it looks like an Easter marshmallow peep!

It is a hefty investment at first but we purchased a Berkey water filter, they are attractive, come in different sizes to meet your needs and truly make the best water I have ever drank! The black filters can last up to 10 yrs and the white ones 1 to 2 yrs depending on use. I did a lot of research and these rocketed to the top in customer reviews! There is a test a guy did on you tube putting ditch water through it and it came out crystal clear. They are impressive, I now use that water for everything, for humans, parrots both drinking and misting and the dogs now get their water filtered too!

 

[MikeyTN]

No Lisa I don't do anything but tiels now days but only at a minimum. Can not do so many like I used to.

 

[MikeyTN]

congrats Mikey- that is the best isn't it?

Beth,

What's the earliest hatch time frame for you???

 

[MikeyTN]

Iabell,

My dogs and cats all get filtered water as my girl got kidney stone on Christmas day the year before. So after that I put everyone on filtered water. I didn't sleep all night laying by my girl in the living room constantly putting her outside. She was not feeling good. I called the vet as soon as they open the next day at 7am. So I rushed Alexis to the vet and Rocco the other husky decided he wanted to explore the house since he gets upset if Alexis isn't around. He went to my computer room and had diarrhea on my rug and step in it and track it through the house. So after coming home from the vet I'm washing rugs and disinfect the floors through out the whole house on my hands and knees. I was super mad since I had no sleep the night before and then deal with that mess after getting home. My partner came home and said well the floor is clean and laughed. I was even more ticked after that cause I spent 4 hours cleaning by that time....lol.....anyway Alexis is on prescription diet and drinking filtered water.

 

[HisAngel]

Oh goodness thats cute <3 Little fluffer.

 

[Nakiska]

(((Doing the little girlie gasp squeal)))) ... followed up with the old "valley girl talk" UH! NOOO .... WAYYYY!!! LOLOL!!

If that isn't the cutest thing I've ever seen! Soooo ADORABLE!!!

I honestly never knew tiels weren't hatched totally naked like pictures of newly hatched parrots I've seen.

How the heck do you even pick up sucha little gem?? I'd be terrified of breaking it!

CONGRATULATIONS!! And keep us updated with progress photos...Please..((batting my eyelashes and giving you the innocent sweet smile))

Toni