Hey y'all :) i'm new to owning cockatiels and have a 3 weeks old baby named Aruan (21 days to be exact) and i know how cuttlebone is important for a birds health, but i dont know about it on a babys diet.. my lil Aruan in now starting to show a lot of interest in chewing (mostly shirts and hair...

Hello, My ten year old female cockatiel is displaying many of her typical spring brooding behaviors, with a new twist: she won't shut up. My cockatiel, Amelia, usually lays a few eggs in her food dish during the spring and makes the sweet little nesting cooing sounds when she hangs out in...

So scroll to bottom for title question. Thought I'd at least explain the situation first, but it's long. My female cockatiel, about 8 1/2 - 9 years old, started laying eggs about a month back. It was rather on and off. Before this she hadn't laid an egg in 7 1/2 years, back when I purposely...

I moved the cuttle bone and now I realise they hadn't known where it was. Buttercup especially. She hasn't stopped eating it for a whole day, I had to replace it because it was gone and she's still going on the new one. Will she eat too much? Should I restrict her intake or is she eating so much...

I feed my 3 a mix of pellets and small parrot mix, about 50/50 nowadays as I used to feed more pellets and less seed but my avian vet said that was wrong. Anyway my question is do my birds need additional calcium in the form of say a cuttlebone? I provide one but I worry that they will get too...

I currently have a cuttlebone in my Nibbles' cage, but I've never seen him touch it. To be honest, he really doesn't touch much of anything I put in his cage to play with, or his play gym. So, I think I need to start supplementing with a powdered supplement, most likely in his water. My question...

I meant to post some tips on the subject earlier so here it goes. I know it can be pretty scary to find an egg in your 'tiel's cage, especially when you weren't expecting it. It's normal for females to have a clutch sometime during their life. It usually will happen when your 'tiel is happy and...