Hello and welcome to the forum they are so gorgeous
Im also from the uk

 

Welcome to the forums!

 

Welcome to the forum, they're beautiful!

 

Beautiful birds! Welcome to the forum!

 

Hi, and welcome to the forum....we have several members from the UK

The female is a pearl, and the other bird is a cinnamon split to pied.

An FYI....broken tail feathers are not a sure sign of neglect. They can occur if the caging is too small. or if in a good sized caging, something scaring the bird to cause a panicked thrashing in the cage.

 

Welcome to the forum

 

Welcome to the forum... your birds are real beauties... Love the Cinnamon boy.

 

Thanks for all the comments i was just unsure with the male, in the pictures he looks quite dark, but he is really light grey almost like silver, my old cinnamon was much darker. So its a cinnamon/pied?
Many thanks, Steve

 

Yes...cinnamon comes in all shades. A Dominant Silver looks totally different. If silver he would have dark edged wingtips with very diluted centers to the flights, and black beak and feet.

 

Hi Steven welcome to the forum.

I would definately take heed of srtiels advice on the cage. I see that one is round which is bad news for birds, the bars look pretty wide as well. Would be worth looking out for a new cage or even a decent second hand one. I recently bought a huge second hand cage that I wouldn't have been able to afford from new.

 

I am going to get a new cage for them when the right one comes along. Most around here are far too small, the one there in has average sized bars that you would find with most ages the pictures just make them look big from the focusing and zoom. I'm going to a local bird auction during the week hope to find a large cage or a indoor aviary.

I accept all of your criticism positively
Many thanks,
Steve

 

Your cockatiels look stunning!

 

indoor aviary sounds good, i wanted one but got a parrot cage of my friend for cheap

 

Found a ideal cage that I'm getting tomorrow, a 56"tall by 22" wide by 19" deep indoor aviary. Bargain price of 25british pounds. Ill upload a picture when i get it tomorrow

 

£25 for indoor aviary wow that is cheap

 

Indeed it is, its a lime green colour aswell aha, jumped right out at me, I think they will love it! Just to make room but there definitely worth it

 

Mine is dark green lol

 

Got the new cage today, it makes my birds look tiny!!! they love it tho

heres a few pictures

steve.

 

Wow that's great

I had to spend some time cleaning up my new parrot cage yesterday, jet washed it then gave it a good handwash with F10 mix. I'm pleased it it though, very good quality cage just needed a bit of TLC to get it suitable for use again.

 

I think they will really love it in there
U can see the comparison to the old cage, I have yet to see my girlfriends face when she see's it yet though haha!

it should be a good cage for breeding too i assume?

cheers,
steve

 

Oh wow makes the other cage look tiny ha ha, I love it and it does make them so tiny

 

Indeed my girlfriend was pleased with it and not angry cause it takes up loads of room aha

 

Thats good to hear

 

I've put them in a breeding box, put some nesting material in but don't know what's best for them? Bailey hasn't been in it yet she just climbs ontop of it aha! Put some millet near the opening they went on the perch eat it then flew off Lol;p

 

I think it takes a few days, sorry i dont know as iv never done breeding before

 

me either, ive read up alot about it tho, was hoping to hand rear them, I have alot of time on my hands & thought it would be nice to try.im prob best off posting in the breeding forum

 

Yes another post will get more answers