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Winged Wonders Aviary

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Winged Wonders Aviary

Ethical breeder of hand-fed parrots. We think there are no baby birds who are loved more than ours :)
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10/24/2024

Peach and Mango, our sun conure couple just welcomed their first egg! 🥹🥰 Fingers crossed for it to develop into a beautiful and healthy baby! 🥹
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09/20/2024

September 20, 2024: Welcome to the world, Baby A! 🥹
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09/09/2024

September 8, 2024: Egg number 4! 😊 Kiki is being super punctual with her eggs this time, every other day, like clockwork 😁
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09/05/2024

September 4, 2024: Second cockatiel egg has arrived! 😊 Still no progress with the conures 🙄
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09/01/2024

Baby Perri (2023 clutch) is staying with us for the long weekend so we get to hang out with her for a bit and observe her personality as she's growing. It's amazing how she took nearly all the colours from her dad, but her character and big personality is all Kiki. She's a real mama's girl, just as sassy and cheeky 😁 She's an amazing little birb and we're so happy we get to see her grow.

In general, I was thinking about what a unique experience we have created for ourselves and our adoptive families. Their birds get to have sleepovers with their siblings! 🤯 That's something you'd never have when you buy at a pet store or a breeder who has no contact with their adopters. And we get to see how the babies grow up and change and that is something we'd never have if we didn't have any relationship with our adoptive families. It is something we cherish and appreciate so much 🥹

Some of our babies live far away from Calgary in other places of Alberta, but we appreciate everyone who stays in touch 🥰

Kiki has been hanging out inside the nestbox more and more these days, so I have a feeling we can expect the first egg in a near future! 🥹

01/17/2024

We have two more eggs! ☺️ And we decided to switch to an incubator this time around. After Baby B from the last 2023 clutch failed to hatch, it was a heartbreak that made me analyze the patterns (nest camera recordings, "egg-topsies" etc.) and see what could be the reasons to why absolutely healthy baby birds just either stop in their development at some point or as in Baby B's case - fail to break their eggshell open.

The results came down to two main issues:

1. Parent birds' inability to incubate all eggs with their small body and/or them not turning the eggs enough or turning them right before the hatch when they shouldn't be moved anymore
2. Humidity of the environment too low

When it comes to point 1 - in most cases Tiki and Kiki simply couldn't completely cover all of their 5 eggs and there was always 1 or 2 eggs that were left out because there was no more room under the parent bird's belly. Cockatiel eggs need an average of 29°C to successfully hatch and it can't happen if the egg isn't being warmed.

And as for the point 2 - cockatiel eggs need a humidity between 60-70% for the highest success rate and that percentage is very hard to maintain in the nest box when you live in Alberta, Canada where the humidity in our home in the middle of the winter sits at 20%. Last year when we set up a humidifier in the room, we ended up with "attic rain" and a big, yellow spot on our ceiling 🙄

When the humidity is too low, the eggs evaporate too much, making it very likely for the chick to stick to their eggshell which is probably the most common reason for failed hatches.

So, all of this combined, we decided to switch to an incubator to give all of our babies an equal chance at life with a stable 29°C temperature, 65% humidity and regular turning every couple of hours until we stop the turning about 3 days prior to hatching so that the baby has time to get into a strong and safe hatching position ☺️
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01/11/2024

Our first 2024 egg has arrived! 🥰
Our cockatiel mama Kiki has always laid 5 eggs. Anyone want to take a guess on how many we'll have this time?
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12/09/2023

Hey friends! It'a been quite a while since we last posted anything. I was doing 60-70 hour weeks at work the last few months and as I'm the only one in this family that does social media content, that means - looong pause. However, all 6 of our birds are doing great!

I mainly wanted to talk about our green cheek conure Kiwi and his girlfriend Berry in this post. Kiwi was the only one without a mate for a while. He is an extreme cuddler, he wanted to cuddle up to someone at all times but neither the cockatiels or sun conures understood that kind of language so they kept shooing him off which was heartbreaking to watch, he really wanted a cuddle buddy so bad 🥺

We brought Berry home and we didn't know how she'd react to Kiwi, we thought it might take a good while for her to warm up to him as she's super skittish and scared of everything.
To our biggest surprise, they were cuddling right the next day 🤯 Our cockatiels and sun conures couples needed at least a couple of weeks of proper bonding process, so we were expecting the worst, but for Kiwi and Berry it was a love at first sight and they've been inseparable ever since. Kiwi has been so happy finally, it is so wonderful to see 🥹 Berry is still scared of humans, but we do have progress and most importantly - she is healthy and happy.

Kiwi and Berry are always sleeping like this and Berry often pushes so hard against Kiwi that his face feathers are poking through the cage bars 😁
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09/16/2023

Babies are having their first outing today! They are now old enough to get some exposure to the world and as the weather in Calgary today is 27°C with not much wind, we thought it might be a great opportunity for them to come with us to visit friends for a backyard lunch today!

This awesome backpack carrier was a gift to our birds by a lovely family of our adopters and I am so happy with this backpack! Especially with the babies, it's super convenient because of the many ways you I can open it, the pockets and the sun cover etc.

I packed the bag with their baby blankets for warmth (baby birds' ideal temperature is ~30-35°C), using a "diaper pad" so that they're always clean and dry and I can easily change it on the go. Thermometer always tells me if their environment is the right temperature. Packed their formula, feeding syringe, diaper pads, paper towels and we were good to go!

They spent a few minutes in the sun to get some healthy UV light exposure. UV light is very beneficial for birds, but they can easily get a heatstroke so the sunbathing must be carefully timed.

Desensitizing them to outdoor sounds and stimuli from a young age means that once they go to their new homes, they'll be totally comfortable being brought outside, driving in the car etc. A relaxed bird is a happy bird. It's way easier to get them used to everything when they are this small than when they're full grown.

So far it looks like Baby A might be a mama's boy and Baby C - a daddy's girl. Our female babies always take colours from their dad and the boys have always been yellow like their mom Kiki. That's never a guarantee, of course, but hoping that we'll have a boy and a girl because we have two wonderful adopters who are hoping for a boy and a girl 😊
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09/08/2023

This morning for the first time I heard the velociraptor screeches from inside the nestbox instead of the newborn chirps 🥲 The bebes are growing so well!
Look at this tiny cute claw of Baby C and the tiny supercute crest of Baby A starting to poke out ☺️
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08/28/2023

Welcome to the world Baby A!! 🥹

Egg laid: August 9, 2023
Hatch day: August 28, 2023
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08/27/2023

As our flock keeps growing, we thought it was time to move on from "Cockatiels YYC" and adopt a proper name. Especially because cockatiels are now a minority in our conure-dominated flock 😅 I usually say that parrots are like tattoos - you either live your whole life without getting one or you get a bunch of them all over you 😁 I have a strong feeling we won't stop at conures either because these little Winged Wonders have the remarkable ability to take over your heart with a single look 🥹
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08/15/2023

Fourth egg has joined the party! 🥳
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08/13/2023

The third egg has joined the clutch! 🫠
I think Kiki has started to trust us with her eggs a bit more. The previous times it was impossible to go near the nest box even, today we took the egg right in front of Kiki to mark it and she didn't try to kill us 😁 We put it right back, she immediately scooped it under her belly and that was it. A bit surprising 😁 Tiki, however, is still guarding the nest with his life and he will attack regardless of the difference between his size and ours. Parrots are brave to a point of insanity, it's like me trying to attack a dinosaur 😆
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08/12/2023

Two eggs now! 🥳
For some reason every time Kiki comes back to the nest to switch with Tiki, as he is leaving the nest box, she always bites his butt 😁 I don't know what she means by that, but it sure is funny 😁 Equivalent to a playful butt slap? 😁
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07/24/2023

We have another friend staying over for a bit :) Sunny looks exactly like Tiki when he was younger 🥹
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07/18/2023

Baby Loki's (2022 clutch) mama sent us these pictures and we were shocked to see how much he has changed since he was a baby 🤯 Loki is a little over a year old and can now be considered a "young adult". He used to be nearly a copy-paste of his mostly yellow mom but now he is a very unique mix of his normal grey dad Tiki and cinnamon pearl mam Kiki. His colours and pattern are truly beautiful, having some black tail feathers, dark back with bright white pearls and some cinnamon tones on his neck 🤩
Cockatiels can completely change their colours during the first year of their lives and you can never truly know what your adult tiel is going to look like, it is almost always a surprise (unless your baby has two parents of the same colours, obviously). Loki is also a very talented singer! If you'd like to follow him, you can find him on TikTok by searching "jessicapoirier6" (yes, I did obtain clear permission from the account owner to post it here l, I never disclose adopter details otherwise 😊)
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03/23/2023

Welcome to the flock, baby Peach! 🥹❤️🧡💛💚💙
Peach is a 6 months old baby sun conure and we waited for her for so long! We had been talking about adding a sun conure to the family for probably a good year or so. It finally felt like the right time and she came into our lives unexpectedly.
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03/05/2023

Baby B and C having their afternoon nap after going around the room like two little tornados for half the morning 🤣
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03/03/2023

Baby B decided the clock was a nice place to hang out 😁
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02/21/2023

Baby C has two little hearts on his tail 😍
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01/26/2023

Babies have moved from their baby box to the toddler cage, because they have now learned how to crawl out of their baby box 😈
They have the K&H Snuggle Up Bird Warmer in the cage and they love it a lot, I always find them snuggling up to it. Not an ad, we just genuinely like it 🙂
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01/24/2023

Netflix with the bebes 🥰
We sent out their DNA samples yesterday, so in about 10 days or so we'll know who's who! 🙂
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01/19/2023

Baby B - 16 days old! ☺️

01/19/2023

Baby A is 18 days old today! ☺️

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Watch Baby B grow from day 1 to 30! 🥰 • • #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

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 😁 • • #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

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 😊 • • #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

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! 🙂 #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

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! 😎 #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

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 🤩 #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

Perri - one of our September 2023 babies! 🥰 She was a long awaited dream come true for her human and Perri is spoiled rotten 😁 Such a smart birb and enjoys training with her family a lot! #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

Sassy - one of our August 2023 babies 🥰 The owners say her personality matches well with her name 😁 Living in a big flock of birds in her new family, she is the girl boss who keeps order, but is also gentle and very loving 🥹 P.S. Video shared with the owners' permission #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #Love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

I can watch the saddest, most tragic movie about humans and I won't shed a tear. Give me a movie about animals and I will cry like a baby even in happy scenes 😅 With the babies growing, the intervals between feedings grow too so we were able to go see a movie tonight - "Wild robot". The amount of times I cried during the movie is a little embarassing to disclose but what I can say is that I am hugging our bird babies a little tighter tonight 🥹 The movie was absolutely wonderful, beautiful, amazing! However, watching it while raising baby birds was a pretty emotional combo 😁 I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet, but I can't recommend it enough 🥹 • • #wildrobot #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

Loki, just like his brothers, is a very happy birb who loves to sing and his human mama says he is a velcro bird, totally glued to her 🥰 Video shared with the owner's permission. • • #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #Love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

Welcome to the Giuseppe's show! 😁 He is one of our January 2023 babies who's living his best life in an amazing family now. He was always a very vocal birb ever since he hatched and keeps entertaining his family to this day 😁 Note: Video shared with his owners' permission #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

Babies moved to the big baby cage last night as the nest box had become way too small for these little dinosaurs 😁 No idea what's going on in their little heads but seeing that the cage bars somewhat resemble the feeding syringe tip, they apparently thought the bars are going to give them food too 😆 #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #Love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

Aren't those little whisper-y "khhe" so cute? 🥹 So tiny yet so fierce, birds bravery never ceases to amaze me, this little dude or dudette can barely stand on their two feet yet they're already threatening someone 😂 #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

These three are growing SO fast! It is pretty visible now that they all took colours mainly from their mom and they will be pearly yellow-ish with some greys from Tiki 😊 They are growing and eating well. Baby A's wing feather tips have emerged from the keratin shells 🥹 They are becoming more and more active and strong! They are so adorable and they give us extreme cuteness agression all day every day 😁 My heart is overflowing with love for these babies, as usual 🥹 I gotta say, from all the clutches we've had, this one has been the easiest to feed. They are not as messy as our other babies have been 😁 I have a video to post tomorrow with our feeding process, so stay tuned 😊 #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada

Baby A (2 weeks old) and Baby B (11 days old) have started exercising their wings! 😎 They're going to spend quite some time now to strengthen their muscles and build stamina needed for flying. It is very important for baby birds to master their flying before they get to their new homes, they need to be able to maneuvre their bodies skillfully so that they can avoid obstacles and land safely. We do get asked if we clip wings and the answer is - no, we don't. In general, there are scenarios when that might be necessary at some point in a bird's life either due to medical reasons or behavioural issues where training and tricks don't help (yes, not all problems are solvable by tips and tricks and I'm not going to argue about that in the comments section), but that is to be left as the last resort and should be a temporary thing. For example, one single temporary wing clip can bring a teenage rebellious alpha macho male attitude in check when absolutely nothing else has worked (we have only had 1 or 2 severe cases like that). However, if there is one time where it 100% must not be done, it is before a bird has mastered flying and landing. A clipped bird who doesn't know how to handle their own body is a severe danger to themselves. When we give our babies away, we give them fully flighted and flying well. If at any point there are issues that are making the owners consider clipping, we ask them to connect with us and we'll help make the best decision about whether it is really necessary and if there are any alternatives. • • #wingedwondersaviary #cockatiel #sunconure #greencheekconure #suncheekconure #conures #pet #bird #parrot #avian #responsiblebreeder #ethicalbreeding #babies #cute #love #handfedbirds #calgary #canada