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Originally Posted by RoxyJosMom  I have been considering it. I have a male and female now. My female, JuJu, flirts with my male, Cosmo, all the time. But he is definitely date challenged! When she flirts, he runs to his mirror and has his way with himself and his perch. He says about 60 words, phrases and songs and is a total ham. JuJu is just a sweet little girl that does her own chirps - no words. I have always wanted babies. She has laid so many eggs, I can't count them, but they are all duds because Cosmo doesn't have a clue what he is supposed to do.  I'm just not sure I want another set of feathers to clean up  . How do you deal with all the bird seed and feathers, anyway? |
I hear ya! There aren't feathers anywhere. The seeds tend to fall on the floor, well they used to but now we have a cage skirt, it goes around the bottom of the cage so that no food falls out. Especially when I give them treats they like to drop them on purpose
so now they can't
I never planned on breeding, it just happened. Ever since I was 3 yrs old I had a cockatiel. He was the BEST cockatiel ever, I mean he was like a dog! He would follow me, protect me, wake me up in the mornings, eat off my plate, drink my lemonade, etc., he would talk, never ever flew away, I mean he was the best. When he died
I always had to get another cockatiel but none compared to him. So I got a female and we ended up getting another male, the female was older so we didn't think they would get together, well they did and we ended up handfeeding the babies and weaning them. Then they KEPT having eggs and I kept feeding the babies, etc and that is how I ended up breeding them. The female died sadly so I haven't bred in a while but since I have 5 now(long story, they are not the babies) and they're all related I am going to get a female and try to breed again. The ones I have I believe are all males
It takes a lot of time but it's such a good feeling to see the babies grow and know that you helped in doing that
So your's never sit on the eggs? Usually they know to do that after the 1st time. Your pair sound so cute