Am I the only cockatiel owner on mylot?
By MrsAdvice
@MrsAdvice (623)
United States
7 responses
@monie2boys (176)
• United States
16 Jan 07
I have a girl! Her name is Sydney. She can't talk, but she can whistle "when the saints come marching in". When did your bird start talking? Did you do anything special to teach him? I had a parakeet who who talk and he learned from sitting right by the tv speaker and repeating what he heard.
@MrsAdvice (623)
• United States
2 Feb 07
Female's don't usually talk, if you want a talker get a male about 4 months old. He could talk when I got him but he has picked up a lot more since I've had him. If they whistle a lot, they don't usually talk either. If you want talkers you discourage whistling. I say stuff to Bubbers (came with name) a lot and then when I say it shorter, he will add what I usually say to the end of what I said. Lately I have been saying, "I love you, I love you too." Someday I will just say, "I love you" and he will say, "I love you too" lol.
@MrsAdvice (623)
• United States
19 Dec 06
I always like to name my pets names that go together too. I'm surprised you did not name them Alpha and Omega. I hope you get more cockatiels, they are such fun. My male talks!!!!
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@katprice (805)
• United States
28 Dec 06
We used to raise cockatiels when we lived on the west coast. They were fun to have around and pretty smart birds. My mom trained them to whistle the "Bridge Over the River Kwai" tune. Once we put the addition on our house, I plan on getting birds and definitely an aquarium full of fish.
@sublime_lover02 (142)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I am a Cockatiel owner and breeder in sunny California!
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@lisagayle (393)
• United States
26 Feb 07
my daughter and i have a mating pair of cockatiels, they were given to us about a mont ago by a friend of my dads, she was moving into a much smaller house and did not have the room for them, so we inhereted them, the wierd thing about it is that now they are laying eggs and they will not keep them in the nesting box, they drag them in and out, they are incubating them though, have you ever had this happen? if so what do you do about this situation?
@gemini52981 (158)
• Canada
16 Feb 07
I"m a cockatiel owner. I hav ethree cockatiels. One is a male and lives with my mom. I hand fed him, and he has a pretty big vocabulary. I also have two female cockatiels at home with me. One is a white face pied, the other is a lutino. SHe has only one eye, becaue of an accident that happened when she was a baby, before I adopted her. Wuzo is my lutino. SHe is the most amazing flyer, with only one eye she is the best flyer out of all my birds. Never over judges her distance, never bumps into anything, and has really good speed. Pearl is my white face. I got her at the local animal shelter. She is very skittish but is coming around. She lets me put her bakc in her cage after playtime, and i can give her head scritches when she's inside her cage. She is coming around pretty well, but i've only had her since nOvember. How long have you had cockatiels? how many do you have?
@MrsAdvice (623)
• United States
16 Feb 07
I have two. I've had Bubbers around a year now and Figgy for just a few months. Bubbers is pied with some pearling on the underside of his tail. Figgy is pearled so I added "Pearl" to her name so I call her Figgy Pearl and I say, "Figgy Pearl is such a pretty girl" to her a lot but she just looks disgusted and runs away to the other side of the cage. She is not friendly. If we let her fly until she is exhausted we can usually get her to sit on our finger until she gets up enough strength to fly off again. The only way we can pet her is if she is on our finger, too exhausted to fly away and even then she tries to hiss at you and stop you from petting her but once you get started she lets you until you stop and then when you try to do it again she hisses again. She is not warming up to me much, she is a bit friendlier with my husband, he can at least put his face up to her when she is in the cage and speak to her without her running away. Bubbers is my lover dover, he is so friendly and lovable. If my husband is holding him and I speak to him he comes right over. He loves my daughter even more, he screams loudly when she enters the room or comes home from school. Both birds know what, "Be quiet" means when we are trying to hear a television show and they scream so we can't hear it, I hold up a spray bottle and say, "Be Quiet" and if they squawk they get squirted so they have learned to shut up when they see me with the bottle in hand saying, "Be quiet". LOL.
