prepare cockatiels for breeding

[milad 22]

hello
i wanna prepare my cockatiels for breeding but i couldn't find ad3e vitamin ..
now i wanna ask that what kind of natural foods i can give to prepare them?

one of them is wheat germ can you tell me another foods to do the ad3e work?

i dont know what you say in english i mean i wanna make them[ color=#8040FF] lush[/color] or sth like that

[pennyandrocky]

your probably not going to get the answers you're looking for. breeding is not supported by most on this forum since alot of us have rescue birds,including myself. birds are overbred already and many are homeless in rescues waiting for someone to adopt them and give exsisting birds the home they deserve.

[Grey_Moon]

I am one of those here who will not support or give you encouraging answers as to the breeding of your cockatiels.

Parrots should not be bred in captivity, much less the smaller species like your cockatiels who are a dime a dozen in most areas. There are hundreds of ads for cockatiels for sale (many are under 2 years old) by people who get tired of them, don't have the time or are moving on to bigger and better things.

Why you would add to this revolving door of disposable and abandoned cockatiels coming and going from one home to another is beyond me.

For every baby you allow to be produced, another is locked in a back room, left covered in the dark, or abandoned. Another is left to sit in a tiny cage neglected and alone, fed a diet of sunflower seeds and not allowed to come out of the cage. Or kept and adored for a few years, till 'things change' and then they're sold to the first person who comes along and left to gods know what kind of fate.
Worse yet, these will be the babies you produce.

I'm not going to ask please not to breed your birds.
I'm going to tell you NO, you cannot and should not breed these birds.

If you're going to persist, then this isn't the forum for you.
And I hope that at least your baby birds avoid the fate that awaits most for their own sake.

[liz]

When I have a slip up and my tiels have babies it is very hard to find them homes.

I have been really lucky that a friend who has a farm store is easy to talk into things. He took in my Columbus so he would add beautiful song to his store. They fell in love with him. Last year there were two girls born and I talked him into taking them to be friends to Columbus.

I have one baby left and she was born the first of December 2011. I still have not found her the right forever home and will keep her until I do.

I will be following the forums directions on how to keep them from nesting.

[milad 22]

thank you all
first:im not living in canada or some where like that ...im living in iran ...
iniran cockatiels are the most popular birds for sale ..after cockatiels we can just breed ring necked parakeet and Exceptionally some other parrots like african grey.
second :we have some forums that are the supporter of animals or some persian parrot forums....
i always sell my animals to them.

I say again iran is not such countries that breed every kind of parrots ....cockatiels are the most popular birds in my country


thank you for those convincing answers

[marie83]

I agree with everything the others said. Breeding should not be done.

It doesn't matter how popular a pet is if there are too many breeders. Also 'tiels may be popular but how many of the people wanting them will actually provide a good home? Very very few

Another reason is us interfering by breeding animals is we are causing a hell of alot of health problems and the like. Even people with a strong understanding of genetics get it wrong.

What are your reasons for breeding? If you are caring for your birds correctly then there is is very very little money to be made from selling the babies.

[milad 22]

thank's my friend
you know..before breeding i wanna put my parrots in one cage...i have bought my male tiel last week and now they are in two separate cages ..
and another thing my female parrot is too young for breeding at least i will breed them after 7 months

first i need to put them in one cage and then think about breeding

[liz]

Tiels are flockers and will call and accept any tiel in the area. They will also call to other small birds to join their flock.

We have a lot of animal shelters here. They are so full that the animals who don't find homes right away are just killed. They have everything from dogs to hampsters and also birds. Over breeding has been putting even pure breed species int these places. I could probably call my local one right now and ask for any species. If they don't have it - they will get it dumped on them within the month.

If breeders did not breed for at least 3 years then our shelters would be empty. The creatures that exist who are being killed would be valuable pets for those who are looking for a pet. With no breeders the people would turned to the rescued and rehomed.

All of my pets (5 dogs, 5 cats, 2 amazons, 5 cockatiels and 1 love bird) are either rescued or rehomed to me. Most are local but I drove to another state to rescue Amazon Myrtle. She would not have lived much longer if I did not.

[Elizebird]

I would love to tell you not to breed your cockatiels, because of the reasons above, however this would sounds extremely hypocritical coming from a person with two breeder bought birds. Knowing what I do now though, about half a year ago, I wouldn't have put payment down for my cockatoo, and instead would've hit the rescues.

However, as a question to Liz, I introduced my cockatiel to a friend's male cockatiel, hoping to get some bonding time for my little girl... (my GCC and too would both attack her...) and the male was just as agressive and did not want to hang out with her. However, I could leave them alone as their squabbles were quick little spats, and did not cause any injury (it was mostly just squealing) and they would perch next to each other without complaint. But as soon as the other made a move...

[liz]

Rambo hated/afraid of men. One time while on my shoulder a man came too close. Rambo could not reach the man so he bit my ear. I did not hold that against him. Instead I was just more carefull after that.

Cockatiels are flockers and enjoy each others company. My tiels squable with each other and even their mates but never cause harm.

The tiels are afraid of the other birds. Since they can't defend themselves against them they are taking it out on each other. Move the tiels into their own space where they can"t see or be seen by the others.