bug_n_flock
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- Jan 2, 2018
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- B&G Macaw, Galah, 5 cockatiels, 50 billion and a half budgies. We breed and do rescue. Too many to list each individual's name and age etc, but they are each individuals and loved dearly.
Today we are welcoming home 2 young female cockatiels. A 9 month old whiteface pearl and a 10 month old normal grey. In the photos I was sent, the grey has a "clear" patch on her nape... split to pied. We originally bought Rin and Boomer as a "breeding pair" but a few months after we brought them home Rin shed his pearls and showed himself to be a young male.
These girls are hand tame and friendly, not clipped, eating seeds and zupreem pellets. So we are getting 2 new pet cockatiels whom we will hopefully eventually be able to pair up with Rin and Boomer. Ideally we will pair the grey with Boomer, who is pied split to pearl. Rin we would pair with the whiteface pearl. Of course, the birds themselves will have opinions on the matter.
Boomer still hates us with a firey passion, Rin however is a friendly funny boy. He was parent raised so should hopefully know what to do with a female, but is friendly so during the non breeding season hopefully will continue being a friendly little guy. The ladies would hopefully remain friendly during the non breeding season. During the breeding season they obviously be busy with their families.
We plan to breed the same way we do the budgies: pets first, breeders second. We do not breed constantly or anything like that. Heck, we bred 1 clutch this year of budgies and that was not intentional. We will most likely do as we do with the budgies as pertains to the hand fed/parent raised issue: parent raised, but socialized with people extensively. With the budgies it works delightfully well to produce friendly healthy birds who know that they are birds.
Anyway before this post gets too long I'll sush up. I'm just so excited! The timing is not what we would find ideal, since we have only had the Pigeon for 2 weeks yesterday. We have been looking for female tiels for about a year now tho and they are not so easy to find around here. So we are having to juggle quarantine again. We have Pidge in our bedroom, we will either put these two tiels on the other side of the bedroom, or we will put them in the bedroom closet for quarantine. That is where we held quarantine when we took in 2 dozen birds from that evil man a year and a half ago or so.
These girls are hand tame and friendly, not clipped, eating seeds and zupreem pellets. So we are getting 2 new pet cockatiels whom we will hopefully eventually be able to pair up with Rin and Boomer. Ideally we will pair the grey with Boomer, who is pied split to pearl. Rin we would pair with the whiteface pearl. Of course, the birds themselves will have opinions on the matter.
Boomer still hates us with a firey passion, Rin however is a friendly funny boy. He was parent raised so should hopefully know what to do with a female, but is friendly so during the non breeding season hopefully will continue being a friendly little guy. The ladies would hopefully remain friendly during the non breeding season. During the breeding season they obviously be busy with their families.
We plan to breed the same way we do the budgies: pets first, breeders second. We do not breed constantly or anything like that. Heck, we bred 1 clutch this year of budgies and that was not intentional. We will most likely do as we do with the budgies as pertains to the hand fed/parent raised issue: parent raised, but socialized with people extensively. With the budgies it works delightfully well to produce friendly healthy birds who know that they are birds.
Anyway before this post gets too long I'll sush up. I'm just so excited! The timing is not what we would find ideal, since we have only had the Pigeon for 2 weeks yesterday. We have been looking for female tiels for about a year now tho and they are not so easy to find around here. So we are having to juggle quarantine again. We have Pidge in our bedroom, we will either put these two tiels on the other side of the bedroom, or we will put them in the bedroom closet for quarantine. That is where we held quarantine when we took in 2 dozen birds from that evil man a year and a half ago or so.
so cool. They are munching away at a millet spray I gave them. So very cute. Very happy to have them! Now we must think of names for them.
