[Laura]

Oh they love to complain at this age he looks great Bea

 

[Sophia]

Snickers is super cute, little crest!

 

[birdieness]

awwww, he has both his little eyes open. Once the pinnies start they just pop in so fast.

 

[Bonny]

He is just too cute I cant wait to see what his feathers will turn out like

 

[Bea]

He really complains that much?

Yup, he's always got something or other to have a cry about.

 

[xxxSpikexxx]

Thats great that he is going to be a pied Does a yellow crest mean pied?

 

[Bea]

It means a pied of some sort, because a normal or a cinnamon would have a grey or brown crest.

 

[Kfontan]

How are the budgies?

Do they know there is a new addition?

 

[Bea]

The budgies are oblivious to the fact that there is a 4th cockatiel in the house. :lol: They are LOVING all the cockatiel free time they're getting out of their cage. At the moment, because of the bacterial infection, the tiels are all being kept away from the budgies.

Baby Snickerlicious is looking adorable and spiky today, i'll get some more photos sometime today. Both his eyes are open so he can look at the world and hiss, and he's got pin feathers beginning to show on his face neck and chest. His tail is also beginning to pop through and it looks to be all dark with the two middle feathers yellow.

Last night i went to bed very late after watching a movie, and i turned my reading light on to read a little before bed. I cover the tiels so this usually doesn't bother them any more than a night light. Anyway, Bailee decided that meant he should sit outside the nest box beeping (a slightly irritating sound he likes to make), and Cookie decided that Snickers was hungry so she'd better feed him! So for about 5 mins i was listening to the SQUEAKSQUEAKSQUEAKetc of Snickers guzzling food from Cookie, and for another 15 minutes after that i was listening to Snickers complaining about Cookie not feeding him enough. He kept hissing and crying even after i turned my lamp off!!! Baby tiel hissing is a SCARY sound to listen to in the middle of the night, in the dark, LOL!!!!

 

[Laura]

Oh!!! that would be scary hissing in the dark I am looking forward to seeing new pics of Snickers especially his little tail

 

[Bea]

Here is some photos, as promised, of little Snickers. He's 16 days old today!

Ready for some individual cute shots???

How adorable is he now, with his little eyes open and tiny weeny crest on his head!?!

I'm confused by the colour of his pin feathers, some look pale as though they're going to come out cinnamon, while some look so dark it seems impossible to be anything but grey...

While i was holding him, he did a poop which was normally formed but with lots of water. At this moment he's filled with VERY watery food (his crop felt like a water bed when i picked him up, all sloshy, it's usually quite firm) so i guess it's perfectly reasonable that he would do a watery poop. I'm not entirely happy with Cookie feeding him with her new drinking habits. If he's getting such watery food he won't be getting enough nutrition and won't grow the way he's supposed to. I'm not quite sure what to do...

 

[Laura]

Omg!!! I love him, he is adorable with his eyes open, look at him posing for the camera I see your confusion on the pin feathers I don't know what to say on that one...lol hopefully we will see more in a few days, as far as the feeding thats a tough one, they are so fragile at this age and you don't want him losing any weight does Bailee still feed him?

 

[Bea]

Bailee's feeding him as we speak (it's a very noisy event, you can hear it from the other end of the house), hopefully he's feeding Snickers something a bit more solid.

 

[xxxSpikexxx]

He is growing up so fast Could he be a cinnamon pied cockatiel He is gorgeous though no matter what he turns out to be I think it is good that Bailee is feeding him aswell, mabey he will get some more solid food. I would ask your avian vet about it.

 

[Bea]

Bailee is under VERY close supervision at the moment. I'm seeing signs that he might take to plucking Snickers. At the moment it's a curious nip at the pinnies, but that has potential to become plucking sooo easily. He clipped the tip of a crest pin, and it bled a teensy bit.

 

[Kirby]

Awww what a lil cute You have amazing photo taking skills Belinda

I do not think he is cinnamon. I do see the different shades of colour, however if he was a cinnamon his eyes would have been plum would they have not? Wait, now that I think about it, maybe that rule applies to budgies and thats what Im thinking of.
If Snickers is a cinnamon, then he would be a she though Thats a given haha, plus the fact that you would have a Bailee look-a-like hehe

I can't wait to see what he/she ends up being!

Kirby

 

[Bea]

I've been told by somebody else that the plum eye thing is true to cockatiels as well as budgies, and Snickers has definitely never had plum eyes so i guess he's a regular pied!

Here's what i can tell you about his patterning so far based on pin feathers (which seem to be popping up by the minute, it's crazy):
- yellow crest, obviously
- dark tail, possibly with two middle feathers yellow
- grey face, or at least grey cheeks
- mainly grey wings with odd patches and flecks of yellow
- mainly grey chest
- and looks to be a yellow tummy

We'll see how accurate that is in a few more days!

 

[Sophia]

Snickers does seem to be all sorts of different colours! :lol:

QUESTION:

This may be a stupid question but were did Persnickety go, or did you change the name to Snickers, or is it short for Persnickety, or maybe I am just missing something ?? :wacko:

 

[Kfontan]

Cute photos Bea. I love it how Bailee pops his head in to check things out.

Concerning the plucking, is that common for a parent to do?

 

[xxxSpikexxx]

Can't wait to see if you are right Bea I hope Bailee stops investigating Snickers feathers.