Fun With Fang & Jem: A Tale Of Two 'Tiels 💗💗

[GaleriaGila]

The Rb goes to his vet in a few days, to see heart/hematocrit/Enalapril results (see how I rattle that off as if I understand it). He's holding his own so far.
DO WE LOVE MODERN AVIAN MEDICINE OR WHAT???
YES!

 

[LaManuka]

Wow! That’s great that Fang continues to do so well! I saw the video of them dancing at the top
of this thread for the first time today and it’s so cute! But it sort of looks like some sort of birdie ritual too…

@Jcas, they do that synchronised dance thing a lot. They also sing their Pop Goes The Weasel/Banana Splits mashup in almost perfect tandem with each other too, it’s wild!!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

How do you give Fang his medicine?

$900 for a cockatiel? Wow! Maybe I should breed and raise them. It would help pay for the new aviary/Bird House I'm building on my property this Spring! Of course the problem is that I doubt I could part with any of the adorable babies and soon I'd be overrun with tiels along with my budgies!

 

[LaManuka]

How do you give Fang his medicine?

He takes it from a syringe to the beak. I thought he'd hate me for it but he's pretty good about it - probably helps that it's tutti frutti flavour

 

[kme3388]

How do you give Fang his medicine?

$900 for a cockatiel? Wow! Maybe I should breed and raise them. It would help pay for the new aviary/Bird House I'm building on my property this Spring! Of course the problem is that I doubt I could part with any of the adorable babies and soon I'd be overrun with tiels along with my budgies!

Don’t feel bad. I’m overran by 4 parrots, and no longer have a life because they feel like they are the only friends I need.

Yes, $900 for a cockatiel at a large chain pet store!!! The conures including green cheeks were over $1000. I had to pick up a big container of nutriberries, and was completely flabbergasted

 

[kme3388]

Awwwwwwwww thank you @kme3388, that's so sweet of you to say! But I've had Fang since he was a baby, so that's 12 going on 13 years now. Jem's the one who found his way to my back yard having escaped from elsewhere. We put the word out everywhere for weeks trying to find his family but to no avail, and I wasn't about to shunt him off to an animal shelter when I could give him a good home here, so we decided to keep him. Which Fang was not impressed about one little bit, I can tell you! But they get along much better now, I don't think they're what you'd call "besties", but they have a mutual enemy in Lovejoy so it's kind of an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation. Not that two cockatiels are any match for one feisty varied lorikeet but at least Fang and Jem have each other as allies in the ongoing war!!

I adore lovejoy He seems mischievous like 3 of my parrots. I like to read about others that have to also deal with mischievous parrots.