I'm going to be breeding cockatiels soon

[Mike]

Well I've had two male tiels for 2 years now. They were sold to me when they had only been out of the nestbox for a week and they were supposed to be a pair. Well they turned out to me two males. It took me forever to find a breeder at a poultry swap to find some females. Well they come out of quarinteen in 12 days and I need to get nestboxes in that time so I can breed them and hopefully get some babies. I'm pretty sure they will get down to business fast. The females have been bred before and when I got the females one of them had been laying eggs. But never laid any eggs with me. They are both cinnamon split to grey. Also one of them carries whiteface and the other carried pied. The males are cinnamons and carry pearl, pied, pearly pied, cinnamon perarly pied, grey, grey pied, grey pearly pied and I think one other color combination. So who knows what I'll get. I hope to get some pearls as I love pearls. Although it's REALLY love to get a white face. But my chances of getting that are slim to none, specially since the males don't even carry it. Or at least I don't think they do. I didn't see any in the aviary with them when I got them from a breeder and he didn't say they had white face in them.

[pigeonman]

sounds cool mike, those the ones i saw you get?

[Mike]

The two females, are ones you saw. The lady you got the plant from I got the pearl from her for 10, and she wanted 15. I don't know if it's male or female yet. It acts male, but looks female. It's only going on 6 months so it should molt anytime now. I'll keep something from the two pair and pair with it

Although my father's been yelling at the one male because it's pretty vocal and he's even more vocal now at night because one of the females has become vocal at night in my room so they talk back and forth. We are supposed to be cleaning out the basement this winter because we have a wood stove down there and my father wants to burn wood down there and the pellet stove to try and cut down on heat cost, we have a pellet stove we've used for the past 2 years and electric, but we don't use the electric. But anyways it will be cleaned out for the spring and then I think I'll move all my parrots down there and breed down there because he complains out the dust, although he makes more dust then all my parrots do. This will be good because he wont be able to hear them scream when they do, he wont have the dust. I'll get a bigger space to keep my parrots, and it will be easier to bring in new stuff and go unnoticed till it's too late LOL. The basement has it's own door from the outside so I don't even have to try sneeking it through the house.

The only problem is that the basement floods occacionally, and there are mice in there some how, We don't know how they are getting in. But we put out poison to kill them and once it's cleaned up a bit there will be less mess to attract them and it will be easier to kill them and put out poison and traps, I wont put them down there if we can't get rid of the mice.

[Mike]

Well I've had all 5 tiels together for some time and the males don't really pay all that much attention to the females, which is weird. I haven't gotten nestboxes yet and I hope to do that this coming weekend because I get paid on friday. The two males hate being locked up in the cage at night. So when I open the door they bolt out. The females go in and out a lot. But the one male I got for 10$ never comes out. He stays in the cage all day long. He doesn't even attempt to come out. Although if the ones who are out take off for some reason and he's near the door and he gets startled by their sudden take off he'll come out the door and land on the floor. His wings are clipped and he only has 2 tail feathers. He's totally nuts and when he was in my room in a different cage every time I went to feed and water him he would go nuts and broke all his tail feathers. He's also a biter. The females are pretty tame, the one will step up pretty easily. The males were wild when I got them but after awhile they calmed down and I can pick them up without them biting me. This other male who I named wacko bites down hard and wont let go of me.