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Hi everyone!~
It's nice to meet you all, I have just recently joined to be able to become part of the cockatiel online community
I'm a 19 year old University student from Australia, studying to teach English in South Korea.
I have had a cockatiel in the past, but unfortunately he passed away from an illness at 3 years old. After a 5 year break of no pets, I have just recently chosen a new baby hand raised cockatiel from a very lovely and caring breeder, which I will be picking up this Thursday. I am really excited to welcome a new little addition to my family, and am looking forward to many years of happy cockatiel ownership! It will also be my partner's first experience with a bird (he has only ever owned cats), which I am sure will bring many hilarious moments!
I'm hoping to learn more about cockatiels by being part of this community, so I can further enrich the life of my own tiel and give love back to the community!
The cockatiels I chose from are still too young to tell the gender, but I am hoping for a boy, as I generally prefer male pets and I would worry about a female if she became egg bound etc, I wouldn't feel confident in helping her. However overall I think the personality is what matters most, and how well the tiel bonds with you, so in the end I don't mind what gender I end up with...I just need to make sure I choose a unisex name!!
Here is a phone photo I found that my partner took when we went to play and choose one of the teils. They are hand raised by a local breeder here in Tasmania, Australia. Personally, I would never buy a pet shop or aviary raised tiel.
There were 3 left, one of them had been nicknamed 'squinty' because he kept squinting all the time! You can see squinty at the front left. Although he had a lot of character, I decided against choosing squinty as I had a slight concern that perhaps his squinting was actually unhealthy or a genetic defect, especially since the breeder said in all her years of teil ownership and breeding, she has never seen a bird be squinty almost constantly like he/she is.
The one I chose is the front right, it was very alert and healthy looking, and very friendly! All of them had lovely temperaments, and it was really hard to choose just one! The breeder has been taking them to and from her scrapbooking store every day, so they can interact with people in the store and become even more tame. They have been raised on pellets as the breeder feels it is healthier than seed. The breeder certainly knew her stuff, and was a really friendly person, and it was easy to tell she cared a lot about her birds and was very experienced, so I felt no hesitation in buying from her. The fact that they are used to travel is also fantastic, as I know a lot of tiels can be very frightened by transportation if they are not used to it.
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Thank you and have a wonderful day!
It's nice to meet you all, I have just recently joined to be able to become part of the cockatiel online community
I'm a 19 year old University student from Australia, studying to teach English in South Korea. I have had a cockatiel in the past, but unfortunately he passed away from an illness at 3 years old. After a 5 year break of no pets, I have just recently chosen a new baby hand raised cockatiel from a very lovely and caring breeder, which I will be picking up this Thursday. I am really excited to welcome a new little addition to my family, and am looking forward to many years of happy cockatiel ownership! It will also be my partner's first experience with a bird (he has only ever owned cats), which I am sure will bring many hilarious moments!
I'm hoping to learn more about cockatiels by being part of this community, so I can further enrich the life of my own tiel and give love back to the community!
The cockatiels I chose from are still too young to tell the gender, but I am hoping for a boy, as I generally prefer male pets and I would worry about a female if she became egg bound etc, I wouldn't feel confident in helping her. However overall I think the personality is what matters most, and how well the tiel bonds with you, so in the end I don't mind what gender I end up with...I just need to make sure I choose a unisex name!!
Here is a phone photo I found that my partner took when we went to play and choose one of the teils. They are hand raised by a local breeder here in Tasmania, Australia. Personally, I would never buy a pet shop or aviary raised tiel.
There were 3 left, one of them had been nicknamed 'squinty' because he kept squinting all the time! You can see squinty at the front left. Although he had a lot of character, I decided against choosing squinty as I had a slight concern that perhaps his squinting was actually unhealthy or a genetic defect, especially since the breeder said in all her years of teil ownership and breeding, she has never seen a bird be squinty almost constantly like he/she is.
The one I chose is the front right, it was very alert and healthy looking, and very friendly! All of them had lovely temperaments, and it was really hard to choose just one! The breeder has been taking them to and from her scrapbooking store every day, so they can interact with people in the store and become even more tame. They have been raised on pellets as the breeder feels it is healthier than seed. The breeder certainly knew her stuff, and was a really friendly person, and it was easy to tell she cared a lot about her birds and was very experienced, so I felt no hesitation in buying from her. The fact that they are used to travel is also fantastic, as I know a lot of tiels can be very frightened by transportation if they are not used to it.
Thank you and have a wonderful day!
