Baby Olive (a.k.a. Baby C) is still making baby dinosaur sounds when eating her beloved cooked grains 🥹😁
Baby cockatiels can keep making this sound for a while after weaning, but they eventually grow out of it. I find it cute and funny so I would love if they kept doing it though 😁
Speaking of food, many breeders wean their babies on seed because it's the easiest and cheapest route. What happens next is you buy a cockatiel, a species who are notoriously picky towards food, and the bird is already addicted to the worst possible diet. Getting them to transition to healthy food will be difficult and time-consuming. Our babies are weaned on pellets and cooked grain mix - you are already set up for success because your bird knows that's their primary diet and they know seed is for treats only. Whoever you buy your bird from - ALWAYS ask what they were weaned on, because it will matter a lot after you bring your bird home.
Seed only diet will kill your bird rather quickly. Ideal weight of your cockatiel should be between 80-90 grams. DO NOT listen to those who say that normal weight of a tamed cockatiel can be up to 130 grams - just because it is common, does NOT mean it's normal. It's a result of insufficient exercise and/or a diet too high in calories and fat. We recommend checking your cockatiel's weight at least once a month and adjust their diet accordingly.
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As always, I'm happy to see that our babies get along very well with other birds, whether cockatiels or budgies or green cheek conures 😊 More often than not, our babies are a second bird in a flock and they've been doing great with their new siblings! However, there are some things that are very important to follow when bringing home a second bird, regardless of how friendly the birds are.
1) Proper introductions - research the correct way to introduce one bird to another and follow the process exactly! Successful introductions is the strongest foundation to their future friendship. Parrots hold grudges so if you get the introductions horribly wrong, getting them back to a good place will be difficult.
2) Follow the pecking order in everything - do all things in the order the birds arrived in your home. When you come into the room, greet your first bird first, then the second, then the third. First bird's food bowl gets filled first, then second, then third. Same with letting them out of the cage and everything else. Your new bird won't be offended because they came to a house that already had a bird, for them it's normal. But if your first bird sees you prioritizing a newcomer, they are likely to get upset with you and lash out not only at you but the new bird as well.
3) Extra love to the first bird - when everyone is still settling in, make sure your first bird gets extra love, extra treats, extra attention. That's the best way to avoid them feeling threatened and/or jealous. The goal is for both birds to associate each other's company with good things :)
Kudos to Olive's family, they're doing a great job with both of their birdies! 🥰
If you have a tip or a trick that worked very well for you, share it in the comments!
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Honey (a.k.a. Baby B) is being extra cute tonight 🥹 I keep wondering whether she misses her sisters at all or not. It's ok baby, just a few more days and you'll be going to your new forever home where you will be so loved 🥹
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Miss Grinch, a.k.a. Gigi, formerly known as Baby A with her sister Beju - they are so adorable together and her new humans say they're a great fit for each other, both very curious and playful 🥹
Find them on Instagram @beju.gigibaby for more of these two beautiful girlies 🥰
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A big day for the babies today! 🤩 All three are 100% weaned off of the formula and are now eating pellets and cooked grains 😊 We never wean our babies on seeds, that is the worst thing one can do for a bird, especially cockatiels because their species are notoriously picky and prone to seed addiction making it very hard to transition them to a healthy diet later on. Our babies go to their new homes used to healthy food 😊 Baby A drank water for the first time today and Baby B rushed to copy her sister and tried it too! That means they will most likely be heading home next week! Baby C will probably copy her sisters drinking water very soon too.
When they had drank the water and started tipping their toes in it, their natural instict kicked in and they also asked for a bath for the first time 🥹
It seems it was just yesterday they hatched out of their eggs all pink and fuzzy, barely and inch in size. And now they're about to "leave the nest". Bittersweet... 🥹
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Girlies' brother Giuseppe is visiting for a week and he enjoys having breakfest together with his sisters, showing them the ropes of eating their grains 😁
We had a busy Sunday this past weekend, with three visitors coming to meet the babies. We always invite selected adopters to visit the babies before taking them home, it gives everyone a fair chance to meet, see what the vibes are and make the right decision. The visit doesn't require the adopters to choose a particular bird or commit to adopting right away, however this Sunday all three birdies claimed their future humans (and vice versa) and once again, we couldn't be happier with the people that found us, these babies will have amazing lives in their forever families 🥹
We're at the last stretch of the weaning process. Today is the first day the babies are not having additional formula for breakfest, cooked grain mix all the way and it's going down very well 😁 It's messy, but as long as enough food gets into their bellies, that's all that matters. Babies could potentially move to their new homes as early as next weekend 😳
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Watch Baby B grow from day 1 to 30! 🥰
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Throwback to a week ago when babies were cuddling more and flying less 😁 Don't get me wrong, they are still glued to us, but their new obsession is looking out the window and flying around the room. Letting them out of their cage in the morning means unleashing a "birdnado" 🙄😁 Before every feeding we need to let them fly around for good 5 minutes before they are ready to even think about food 😁 They won't always be this hyper. This is the "terrible twos" for cockatiel babies, the second month is always a complete chaos before they start calming down 😁
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DNA results are in! We have three beautiful pearly girlies! 🥹
So we were right about Baby A but wrong about babies B and C, we thought they'd be boys 😁 Just another example of how unreliable is any sex detection that is not a straight up DNA test.
All three are now a month old and half-way on their journey to their new forever homes 🥹 They can now fly and most of the times as soon as we open their cage they choose to fly directly to the humans, another clutch of total velcro birds 😁 They also looooove to sit on the big bird stand by the window and observe the outside world 😊
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Babies had their first car ride! 🤩
This is a great age for them to be experiencing new situations, new sounds, noises and people because they trust us completely and they know they're safe, so they can be brave and explore 😊 They were not afraid in the slightest, on the contrary, they were very curious and were observing everything all the way to our friend's house. Baby C being the youngest spent a lot of time napping away, but the oldest one especially is at the age where napping is boring 😁
We want our babies to be ok with car rides so that it's not stressful when they need to be taken to a petsitter or a vet or anywhere else and for the most part all our babies are always used to riding in a car before they are taken home 🙂
On another news - our sun conure Peach has plucked a line of her belly feathers and her belly seems to be hanging quite low so we suspect there might be a sun conure egg coming sometime soon 🥹
Our green cheek conures Kiwi and Berry have been working on it and Berry has been spending quite a bit of time inside her nestbox, so that might also be happening. I wonder if we're going to end up having a whole kindergarden of conure babies at once 😅 Stay tuned! 🙂
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Babies were looking at the big world outside the window for the first time the other day and they were mesmerized! 🤩 They have reached the age when they don't just mindlessly scream for food all the time even when they're full, they are screaming less and quietly observing more and it is so much fun to see that they have started to be interested in their surroundings! 😊 Now we get to actually play with them and show them things that they absolutely didn't care about a few days ago 😁
DNA samoles have been sent out today so now the countdown begins! 😎
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I've said this before but it never gets old - as soon as cockatiel babies are taken away from their parents for handfeeding, the parents instantly forget they ever had babies in the first place 😁 So whenever we show them their babies, they act very surprised like "What the heck are those and where did you get them from" 😁
Babies are having daily walks now where they get to stretch their legs and wings and have some exercise before meal time. Pardon the dirty floor, our robot vacuums it daily but that's something to get used to when you decide to have a bird - wherever they are, will be messy, that's just how it is 🤷♀️
Their DNA samples are being mailed tomorrow! So in a week or so we'll know who's a boy and who's a girl 🤩
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