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Originally Posted by RoxyJosMom

Mine sit on the eggs and protects them fiercely - but since Cosmo is gender challenged, he nevers fertilizes them. I have a skirt on my cage, but they have seed spitting contests to see who can get them the farthest! Cosmo makes all kinds of animal sounds (barks, clucks, crows, meows, etc). We taught Cosmo songs like Andy Griffith, Jingle Bells, Beethovan's 5th, but he just puts them all together and makes up his own with parts of all the songs in them. And he picks up his own words without us teaching him like "Whatever!", "Can you hear me now?" and the telephone ringing. He also yells at Krysten just like I used to when she was running late for school. He loves to learn and play games like dropping things and saying "Uh Oh". They both used to be out of the cage alot but the cat we had could care less about them. In fact, they would tease him. Cosmo says "Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty". But the 2 cats I have now have way too much interest in them, so I have to lock them in another room to let the birds out. And they love to eat off my plate, too. I never thought birds could be so much fun or have such personalities. If there were only moltless ones, they would be perfect .

Awww Cosmo sounds like such a cutie and smart bird. I wish I could see him. He sounds a lot like my Timothy, who died. He used to catch up on things fast. Yes birds are a lot of fun, you just have to get them young so you can train them or get the right one. Usually the male cockatiels are the ones that talk the most. Females are known to do a lot of tricks but both can do both. I love them. If they're sitting on the eggs then they are getting fertilized. The mom may just be throwing out eggs that have nothing in them though so that may be why. You can do a test to see if there are babies in them by putting them in front of a light bulb and see if you see something inside. I used to do that and it worked. Do it when both mom and dad are not on them and so they don't see you do it.