Yellow cheek cockatiels

[Pokemaster]

Hello, anyone has any experience with this mutation? I'm hardly looking for a couple but i read that they have low parenting ability.. is it true? Could i solve this with nest heater or even if the eggs hatch then the parents wont feed the babies?

 

[LordTriggs]

never heard of yellow cheeks before, interesting little guys.

There aren't many breeders on here I think you're the only cockatiel breeder. The only person who currently breeds regularly I know of is Silversage but she breeds Ringnecks

 

[Pokemaster]

Ah ok, well i guess i'll do my tests. Today in a fair there were 4 yellow cheeks but i didn't like any of them.. i didn't buy any cos they were so under sized.. i'll have to search more

 

[SilverSage]

I work with cockatiels and GCCs As well

No I've never heard of any mutation effecting parenting ability. It could be one of those rumors that got started by an inexperienced breeder who had a line of yellow cheeks that happened to be bad parents and assumed the mutation caused it. I once had someone claim something similar about green cheeks; she said turquoises were meaner and yellow sides were louder of all the silly things. That just happened to be the personality traits of her specific lines and she assumed one caused the other.

And I would NEVER use a nest heater. It would compromise any parenting ability your birds DO have by messing with their natural instincts and body temps and that's assuming you don't cook the eggs! If you happen to get birds who just can't learn to parent please DONT BREED THEM because that sort of thing is often hereditary.


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[Pokemaster]

I remember reading somewhere that yellow cheeks are bad at sitting because the mutation started from a couple with poor sitting, so the problem went down to the first yellow cheeks and is still there in most of them.. really hope it's been exaggerated.
Also thanks for the advice about nest heaters, i'll try to use mine only as a box heater for when i hand feed.. it has a control to set the surfice's temperature from 0 to 50 C