Doh! What Crazy Mistake Did I Make?! | Day 3: Clyde the Cockatiel
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Today's video shows day 3 with Clyde the rescue cockatiel (who is between 8-10 years old) from Ronie's Birds in Sandy, Utah.
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I had a cockatiel who refused all mixes except the smaller budgie seeds. He ate vegetables and some eggs and loved them all! He lived 27 years old, so the budgie seed along with the vegetables didn’t seem to hurt him. Good luck to you! Your a very kind and patient person!
Try sprouting his seed mix. If he won’t eat anything else, sprouted millets are much healthier than dry unsprouted millets. Also, if he sees the different stages of sprouting the millets, he may be more receptive to eating leafy greens. If he likes toys, try using a favorite toy as a treat. I have had success doing this, using the favorite toy as a treat and not offering the favorite toy unless during training.
Thank you for this series! One of my cockatiel (a rescue) expresses a strong need for respect of her personal space and I see Clyde having a lot of the same body language. In the case of my cockatiel, what really made us bond was allowing her to almost always choose whether or not she was interacting with me. Even offering food was offending to her if I was doing it for too long, kind of like "don't you get it stupid, I said no!". So what worked in terms of stepping up was actually jumping up! Cause she was confortable with the distance between her and my hand and she felt in charge enough to feel motivated, she jumped on my hand no problem! One year and a half later, she knows how to step up with my hand close to her but she still really dislike it! But she loves to fly to me, knowing that I will raise my hand in time to catch her and I know that it's her way of trusting me, feeling happy that her personal space isn't invaded!
Permissive based training is very important!
Isn't it special when they choose to come to us!
Oh man you're awesome!
I learned that my quaker girl would avoid stepping on my hands and it tooke me a week of observing the little diva until I noticed that she was not scared of me at all, but scared od my hands, and therefore I had to let her step onto other body parts like, my shoulder, so she could build trust to eventually get on my hand.
She loves me a lot, for every angry scream and and attitude she gives me, she will later sit on my chest and give me kisses, or bathe in my wet hair.
Back when I got her, I was told this bird is not tame at all and does not want to interact with people at all. Most people don't take their time to actually look and listen to their bird, but you clearly did! That you noticed your cockatiel prefers to jump to you, is genius! Such a subtle difference, yet you figured it out!
@@corneliahanimann2173 often hands are a threat to birds. Take it slowly and you will get there ❤
@@corneliahanimann2173 Thank you so much for this! I'm so happy that your bird has found her forever home! Those little ones can show so much love when we take time to understand them. They just need to have their individualities acknowledged and they give so much back. Again, thank you for your comment it made my day!
We got super lucky with our Female Cockatiel. She came on a store bought seed mix (granted she was only 4 months old when we got her) and we started with adding your pellets to that mix. Once she decided she loved the pellets, I mixed up your seed mix and she took to that with no problem! Then we introduced your freeze dried feeding system and she took to that super quick as well. Her diet now is breakfast of your seed mix with pellets and dinner is a tsp of your freeze dried feeding system on top of whatever was left of her breakfast. She is an amazing eater and is very nut/millet/fruit motivated for training purposes. She knows what nut mix bag (salt free) looks like and i swear she says "Lets Do This" when I pull it out. She is all sorts of ready to train once she sees that bag! We didn't even finish the first bag of the store bought seed mix before she was completely converted to your stuff. I feel like her being so young was very helpful but we also did all of the BirdTricks things and it worked amazingly. Thank you so much for all of your help to make sure our little Phoebe has the best life she can! BT for Life!
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I am so delighted that you have taken on Clyde as a project. Cockatiels can be such stubborn creatures, but when you win them over, they are such a delight. 🥺 I got my last cockatiel 2 years ago. He was terrified of hands & it took quite some time for him to adjust to interacting with our family. He was so scared, he refused to even eat out of our hands. The one thing that helped me convert his diet was chopping the chop up VERY fine & sprinkling a little bit of seed on it & mix it together. Our baby, Kiwi, is now the most adorable guy ever. He still doesn't want to hang out on hands, but he will step up on our hands. He loves sitting on our shoulders & cuddling us. He is the friendliest bird ever & is the most relaxed/chilled bird ever. We also have a lovebird & he is the exact opposite.....as hyper as the day is long (but I still adore him). Just wanted to say that we all make mistakes. It's learning from the mistakes that is important so we don't repeat that mistake in the future. Keep up the good work. Don't give up on Clyde. He just needs more time. 💓
It's so nice to see some cockatiel content. I have to say Clyde acts just like my rescue tiel did - from the fear of hands, the seed/millet addiction, the nipping, etc. I found my tiel in a park, someone had abandoned him, and I just wasn't skilled enough to rehab him like this but he had a safe and happy home with us until he passed. Sadly, he passed from kidney failure because of his diet which I could never convert him from fully, so this series is so helpful to me for when I adopt my next cockatiel.
My experience with my lutino tiel; I found out that he’s really conservative with foods, and cockatiels have this reputation of being picky. My bird also “randomly” chose to stop training even if he was hungry.
My bird is much more skittish than him so I thought he might be being easily “spooked out” or “too stressed” to handle new foods or new trainings. Cockatiels are quite sensitive and stubborn creatures than they might seem😂
When I did the diet conversion with my lutino, I converted to pellets first by mixing the new with the old, then by percentage, increasing the new pellets while decreasing the old. Maybe by decreasing the ratio of millet to the other seed would help.
Hi, JamieLeigh. You are doing a great job! Please don't give up on him. He was hurt badly in the past by a human with bare hands and bare arms. My cockatiel, Beenie, got hurt by a veterinarian assistant when he was just a baby. I witnessed this. She forced him out of his cage by grabbing him and his wing got caught on the cage and hurt his wing and he had an injury ever since. Beenie couldn't stand my bare hands and arms ever. I loved him so much and had him for 19 years. I know it will take you some time with Clyde. Please don't give up on him. Thank you. Love, Barb, Beenie spirit, Baby spirit. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🥰🥰🥰🥰
These food conversion videos are so helpful! It gives me ideas to help my 10year old Senegal, foster transition. Your failures could be my success. I really hope that you get to see the wonderful personality of Clyde's very soon.
Maybe if you put the food on a plate instead of a dish that covers his vision when he leans in would help
Aaah yes! This was exactly the feeling i got, like he wants a flat surface to eat off of.
Also another thing I’ve noticed about cockatiels- (both of my birds are cockatiels) they prefer crunchy textures so I’m not surprised they don’t want scrambled eggs although I have seen breeding cockatiels eat it to regurgitate. I find they both like crunchy veggies like carrots, beets, squash, green beans, cabbage, etc.
Same experience with mine! Also likes crisp baby greens.
Same here👍🏼
@@kirstenjones5331 hmm I’ll have to give those a try!
My cockatiel will try new foods when he sees me eating it! Also, I read somewhere where cockatiels are hand shy. For the first week I had her, I would just put my hand resting on the perch near her a couple of times a day. Then pulling it out. By the end of the week, she wasn't afraid on my hands. Then I started diet conversion, and avidly watched your RUclips channel.
The same thing happened with my adult cockatiel - he came to me on an all seed diet and would mostly just eat the white millet. He has made some amazing progress with diet since he’s lived with me though. He eventually started eating some baby spinach that I sprinkled over his seeds one day and that was the moment he started showing interest in other foods. That’s when I began introducing pellets (I started with Zupreem Naturals and now he’s on Harrison’s and I’ve started to introduce some Top’s lately so he’s come a long way) and I would initially sprinkle a powdered version of the Zupreem pellets over his seeds. I did this for several weeks and eventually he decided to try some of the whole pellets. That was when I was able to start adding more pellets and less seeds to his diet. Now that he doesn’t get much seeds he eats all of his seeds and any kind of seed. You’ll get there just go slow!
Hi BirdTricks, after we got our wild-capture (from Florida) cockatiel Lucky diet converted to Topp's small bird pellets, he would still lunge and bite at hands. We followed your and others advice on training afraid birds. He learned target training and then we taught him to hop to our hand for a treat. Later, when we were more comfortable working with him in a more open area, I trained him to fly to my hand. He would land on my hand and then immediately move to my arm, so I always held his reward where he needed to step back onto my hand. We're still working with him 3 years later, but he will now fly directly to me when we open his cage. He still will only step up when he's gotten himself into a place he doesn't like (like flying into a window or dropping to the floor, but he's a loving bird. Keep going with Sunny!
My cockatiels are the most stubborn little jerks, but I love them that way. Their diet is still not great (they also refuse to fully convert), so I’ll be watching your content closely to see what I could do different. I had one for 2 years and the other for 1 year. They love to destroy my plants (non toxic of course), though. The first one was in a suboptimal environment and came from an acquaintance. The second one came from a shelter. They have both been on seed diets since forever, so whenever I see them eating some pellets, that’s a big win.
We got our cockatiel from the pet store on the worst diet and his anger and disheveled feathers reflected it. Now he looks amazing and he is addicted to your pellets, he prefers you pellet’s and fresh veggies more than his prior mix! I absolutely love you pellets! Thank you!
My cockatiel was also really open to being picked up via bowl in the beginning 😂
Just had to pop in and say: not all cockatiels are so mean! 😂 I had a girl who was the absolute sweetest! She loved cuddles and made the sweetest sounds. She was also very chill to just sit with me for hours. The only time she ever hurt me was when she was on my shoulder, my ears were just too tasty looking for her.
Then again, we also had an umbrella cockatoo my entire childhood who was an absolute sweetheart. She just wanted love and cuddles. In the 20+ years we had her with us she only ever bit one person, one time.
Maybe we were just lucky, because my parents have a young umbrella cockatoo boy who I swear is the devil.
Hi ,
You do so much for all these birds amazing 🐥thks for sharing!!!
I find diet conversion one of the hardest things with my 2 cockatiels. They're my first cockatiels, so I already know a lot of things I would do differently next time, but still it's been over 6 months since we got them and we've only got one of them to accept pellets. The other will scream and scream and scream until she gets seeds. It's sad, really.
"It's a confusing ratio of not interested and totally interested in his environment." I can feel that!😅Our male cockatiel is the same. I am at a point where there is no progress at all with training. He just does some repetitions, but never enough to be able to get a step further. 😟I am really struggling right now.
I love the massive tree perch.
We just got a cockatiel almost 2 weeks ago now and she is very stressed and scared. She was in a pet store for a year with minimal human contact so its understandable. I think she is making good progress, she now lets us get near the cage and changing the lining without hissing. She's more relaxed but I know there is a long way to go.
On thanksgiving our sun conure Eros passed in our arms. He was going to be 4 on Valentine's day. He had a metabolic disorder that the vet didn't catch and he got really sick out of no where. Not a day goes by that we don't miss him. We love him so much and its so hard. We want to give birds a loving family and the long and healthy life Eros didn't get to have. We were looking at a parrot adoption place but my mom has seen the cockatiel in the petstore for over 6 months. We still want to rescue birds in the future but we feel we did. The parrots at the rescue are very well taken care of with great diets, large cages, toys, foster homes, etc. amd this little cockatiel had a very small cage with fake windows.
Thank you birdtricks for all you do and I hope you all have a wonderful day
I commend your patience madam. I'm trying to learn to be more patient with my bird. I could learn alot from these videos, so thank you!!
I'm laughing so hard because .. I have 2 cockatiels and this is just.. cockatiels lol. Mine get super super super hissy when they're tired too. Even if they're like the nicest when you wake them up in the morning and take them out. My oldest one will randomly attack whatever he's standing on when he's tired, even if it's an immobile object lol They sometimes bite even when stepping up, or bite even when asking for pettings. Just so much random weird stuff with them. But omg are they cute and funny. You can't help love them
My budgies were also tough to convert. Same issue; they only ate millet. Didn't matter if the mix was 90% millet or 5% millet, they'd eat the millet and nothing else.
My original plan was to get them on a healthier seed mix, some good quality pellets, and then start introducing the fresh veggies. But they never got past eating only millet.
I recently switched up my strategy and just made chop and mixed millet by itself into it, but in a way that they could not possibly get to any of the seeds without putting the chop in their mouth too. And that was all I gave them access to. It didn't take long for them to figure out that the millet was hiding in the mash.
Now theyre eating broccoli, egg, sprouts, and all kinds of things they never touched before. I think I'm going to start replacing the millet seeds that I hide in the chop with other seeds and pellets to finally get them on a balanced healthy diet, and save the millet for training time.
Try sprouting the millet?
Did someone custom make your cool bird tree stand? It’s amazing!😍🐦
Yeah...I just adopted two budgies that were on an all-seed diet (supplemented by all-you-can-eat millet), and I realized pretty quickly that it's going to be baby steps getting them to switch away from that. But we're slowly making progress. :) All your content has been super helpful during our first week together.
It took my baby budgie 3 months to convert completely from millet diet to pellets. Now to make him try veggies is gonna be the next headache😅
I hate breeders that feed only millet because of convenience and cheap price.
I have a cockatiel, who is also coincidentally called Clyde. We are in a similar situation, even though S/he is a hand raised cockatiel, he does seem uninterested in training. But, he/She did eat pellets when I tried with one. He/She had been on a seed mix, with lots of sunflower seeds in it. Unfortunately, it is not interested in training what so ever. We are only on day 2, so I’ll take it slow and see where we go.
They ARE little dinosaurs 😅 i am having a hard time with my teil too...but i am willing to be patient and consistent and hopefully in a couple of months he will come around.
Just a thought, seeing he likes his tree stands and chewing toys, threading vegetables on a skewer or something and hanging it up like a toy, he might just take some bites. Might be a start, and it’s healthy. Soaking the seeds maybe? I do feed my 2 your seasonal feeding system, and they love it, he will to in time. All the best..
again, i know this has been filmed and edited well in advance of release. however, my tiel doesnt like things put in front of his face. putting it near him to see will eventually peak his interest and try it himself. also, having him out while eating, and having his own will usually get him to try something.
also, tobi, when i first got him, he took a bit to start eating. it is scary. they will go for a while without eating. they can be so stubborn sometimes.
To see him eat at 5.08 was great! What a moment. I've been through this, with some animals (horses. dogs and cats mainly) so I know how hard it is to make them change their unhealthy eating pattern. Cudo's to you my dear, for keeping him interested, he is on the right way! from out of Holland, Ellen.
He's a cutie!
Maybe he's scared of the food bowl. I have that white bowl and my Cockatiels don't like eating out of it either.
My latest budgie is wild over egg food, but served in a treat tray attached to a mirror decorated with mobile beads.
Yes. This is all true. I live with these monstars 🦖🌟and I love them.
So interesting. I love learning about birds even though I will never be able to have one. Thank you. May you all please take care and stay safe.
I have two Cockatiels. Try whistling something to him, Cockatiels usually like whistling tunes.
Also try a visible squelch with your mouth when you're near him. It's a universally friendly gesture in Cockatiels language. I wish you good luck.
I have 3 of these guys and they can be tough and toodie..They want what they want when they want it..lol
Our geriatric cockatiel is for the first time eating chop, we started with a sprinkle of millet and his favourite peanuts on top, but now he will eat the chop enthusiastically.Not sure if it’s just because he has gone a little senile.
What a little cutie pie❤
Anyone struggling with diet conversion… this may or may not help, some tips that helped us might help someone else. For my green cheek I mixed her favorite seed mix with everything to get her to try, birdie breads, sweet potato, seasonal feedings and I felt so exhausted from it all but then I remembered the tip of pretend your eating it and make “nummy eating sounds”…. That got her attention! But she still didn’t really want to dig in so I got messy with it and actually hand fed her with my fingers as I pretended to eat her conversion concoction. A few days later, we had ourselves a fully converted conure! Just hang in there 💕☮️🍀🕊Best wishes
I am so grateful that my cockatiel does eat veggies cuz I had the bird since little, but it took me MONTHS to give them pellets, its a process.
Thank you for explaining the seed mixes! I was definitely one of those wondering why you used that instead of fresh food, haha. Great video as always!
Could you do a video about pet insurance for parrots, and how to find avian vets?
Please make a video on how you make your tree stands please
Cockatiels - super stubborn and grumpy at times! Especially with food. It took me a year to convert my seed addict to pellets (adding veggie chop was easier), after going through several different brands. But Clyde will come round when he settles, you know what you're doing :)
My first rescue budgie had raspberries all over her face. I was told she loved raspberries.(she doesn't) it took me a while to clean her face with wet q-tips. She was terrified of silver spoons . I went slow and put her in a bird safe room to encourage her to leave the cage. In a couple days she was brave enough for human interaction. I was her 3rd home in one year. When she attacked the egg dish it reminded me of how sky reacts to silver spoons. Sky will try a few things as long as the dish isn't metal.
You could maybe mix the cockatiel mix with brown rice, quinoa, farro, and vegetables. That’s what my African Greys eat, except they have seeds and pellets appropriate for their species. But they like it. :)
I feel that problem...
Half a year ago I took over two 9yo tiels who are terrified of hands and they also refuse to eat anything except the store bought seed/grain mix (sugar free at least).
I love your videos but I honestly have no clue where to start. The male started singing after three months and he's a real showoff by now, but they still won't touch hands so I can't really do training, and any food I offer gets met with hisses and flaps by her and tactical retreats by him. Glad to see more tiel content here, maybe I find something that helps
Try oat groats with them. My tiel is CUHRAZY over them. And use SUNFLOWER SEEEEDS for jackpot rewards. Those are the holy grail of treats to most tiels (but pls keep sunflower seeds to rare treats only, they are very fatty).
Try to figure out what their most favourite treat is (like millet if possible) and then use that to teach them target training with a clicker. It might seem impossible, but if they are motivated by some food item at all, it's a great way to start bonding with them without having to hold them. You can do it with them inside the cage.
All 9 of my cockatiels eat and love your pellets. ❤️. Don't give up.
Nobodys perfect, ❤
I have a cockatiel and getting them to eat fresh is quite a challenge. Try leaving arugula, basil, thyme, oregano plants near it and it will eat the stems and young leaves. Once you eat them like this, give them cut into a bowl and there you will be able to add other things. Mine love corn, quinoa, rice, pasta, and any plant that is mine and forbidden to touch, so I put seedlings of what I want them to eat. very juicy fruits, forget about them, they do not touch them. 😅😅😅😅
my adopted tiel wasn’t eating much initially either, and although she wasn’t a fan of other birds, she saw my lovebird eating and then got interested in the food. it could help for him to see the other birds eating? if he doesn’t already!
I can see how hard diet changes are..I thought my hens ate their pellets, (I add two forms of food together, all organic) but bringing their food into the rodent proof coop made me realize they just pick them out or just eat around them. You can “color up” the egg yolks by adding organic paprika powder to the food, mist it a little for better sticking but not so much you make wet/mold issues, but I also think the paprika can help make a different brand or form of food look and taste more like what they’re used to..plus it’s probably just got a little bit of vitamins, fiber and oh shoot..I’m blanking on the color compound name..I think the paprika makes their eyes intensely colored, nice yolks, their feathers are good too.
It’s ok. He doesn’t like your cooking! Lololo
Thank you for all your great info. I'm wanting to get a GGC soon but cannot find a cage that I feel I can trust. Any suggestions? I'm still going through all your material. There is a lot of it. So glad there is.
My little green cheek was like this but waaayyy worse, he would draw blood every interaction. We changed his diet, his sleep and took away the cuddle hut plus i did training with him everyday now its rare he bites but still happens occasionally, i think hes become conditioned to respond with a bite for so long that occasionally he falls back to that behaviour. We have come such a long way though
Try a branch from a tree to munch on leaves. I had a bunch of cockatiels. He totally acts like they did.
My cockatiel was also like that and i managed to convert diet by getting 100% his trust then eating with him good thing like veggies or faking to eat new food mix... since birds eat what their friends eat like mmm looks good yeah it makes it easier
A healthier seed mix... how about when i sprout the seeds? It becomes a healthy diet, right? Of course I try to get my lovebirds to eat veggies too, but they are only willing eat a tiny bit of the chop in the morning, and that's after months of convincing them to....
My adult cockatiel also won’t step up to this day and he’s actually more afraid of a sleeve than a hand but I would prefer to get him on a sleeve to prevent any lunging or biting because he is the same way with hands and stepping up. He will step up to a hand held perch but he’s still very unsure of hands. He will step up to my hand or finger with one foot to get to a treat but that’s the farthest I’ve been able to get with him. I hope you can show us more of your handling and bonding techniques with Clyde because my bird doesn’t get to come out of its cage due to me not being able to handle him and the level of fear he has around people. He’s come a long way but we still aren’t quite there yet.
I used to make toys with celery and carrots in them
I got a volcano rock pestle and mortar food bowl and my birds nails get trimmed automatically while they eat from the rock bowl 😅
You are a genius
I have found that my rescued cockatiel (20 yo) eats best with other people or birds around.
He will eat people food to start then hops over to his seed mix plate. Mine prefers eating on a flat plate. I leave seed in his cage because he us so pickyHe plays w your toys and i give him millet for target training. Good luck
I’m really punked to see the rest of clyde’s journey. I have cockatiels myself and I do struggle with this exact same behaviour. I got my first cockatiel when I was 13 and I really messed up with diet en the step up game, well I do have him on yours pellets in the morning and a way less healty seed mix in the evening.. I want to confert them on your healthy recipe but they are not having it, they also won’t take any greens but I’m offering it still throughout lunchtime. The cockatiel I’m struggeling with is a male cockatiel around 7 years old now and is a couple with my lovely girl. She is just the perfect cockatiel but my male is just ughh. I struggle so much with training them as a couple cause everywhere where he is is she and everywhere she is is he, so when she takes a flight I’m losing him too… any tips on couple/group training?
Btw I love you’ll content I’m learningg so much from you guysss ❤️
If you’ll let me I’d like to suggest birdie pasta, it’s messy but it worked for me NOTHING else would.
Mix pellets, spinach/kale, carrots etc for “sauce” add semi cooked pasta and top with small bits of veggies and some seed
Sweet potato is a great food to mix with fresh foods. I have found many birds will eat them and then they get more fresh food then they intend. Then you just slowly decrease the amount of sweet potato
Clyde is an Undercover Cardinal 😂
Hi to initiate my mother's cockatiel to vegetables I tried with sprouts could be useful
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Hi from a canadian fan! Can you recommend some aloe brands for bath time? thanks :)
Do you do consults for budgies?
Try mincing up the eggs a bit, and also try hard boiled eggs, it’s interesting watching my hens voraciously consume hard boiled eggs as a treat. Sometimes they go for the hard boiled yolk part, other times they go for the white, but since he’s so small, maybe those big pieces of egg just didn’t look like food if he hadn’t seen it much before..plus, it’s yellowish, maybe he thought at first it was another bird!
hey guys! any tips with my cockatiel?? my cockatiel is a male, his name is mellow! he doesnt step up and i have been trying a lot lately. What he does is, he would nibble my fist (because i obviously dont want him to bite me) instead of stepping up. He isn't easily lured with a treat because he doesn't really like millet yet. Also, he barely plays with his toys. And he has a bunch! So what do I do to get him to step up without nibbling and to get him to play with toys?
I want a tree like that for my macaw
Maybe you could try taking the millet out altogether and use some other food as a reward.
Stubborn Teil. I have one of those. Bummer shipping is $59 I really earned some toys. 😢
Small birds eat differently from giant parrots; you should try more with leaves and leafy vegetables. My Budgies and Lovebirds love baby spinach that I cut into small pieces. My Budgies also love ruccola leaves as it reminds them of the Dandelion leaves they get in the wild. I test with different leaves and vegetables for my birds all the time. Giving them branches from eatable trees with green leaves is popular even if they are very scared of it at first. The funny thing is that my birds love baby spinach but not the bigger form that much. Maybe it is losing taste when it grows bigger.
I had a Lovebird that liked cooked baby carrots because she did get them when she was weened with food. But other Lovebirds don't like it at all. But my Amazon parrots loved them.
To get rid of biting you have to let them bite you. Most small birds like to lick your skin, especially after you have washed your hands so the skin on them got a little softer. The trick is not to pull your hand back when they bite. Instead, offer them to bite on the flat surface on top of your hand while holding it as a fist. Move the hand so they can't bite anywhere else. They will soon get tired of biting. They have difficulty getting a grip with the beak on the top of your hand. Of course, it won't work if the bird is very angry. This trick also worked with a male Amazon parrot but not so much with a female as there were too much hormones at the time. One thing to consider is that small birds also communicate with each other by biting. I have a super tame Lovebird that use to pinch me in the arm when he wants attention. He likes to sleep in my hand but can suddenly wake up and be very angry. I have seen my other Lovebirds and the Budgies also communicate this way with each other.
Good luck with Clyde. It is a nice bird.
Rescued 2 male baby cockatiels in November. One is sweet, cuddly eats great and barely makes a peep. The other is a yellow headed demon that I cannot figure out. The only time he doesn’t scream is when I hold him. When I hold him he bites me. Won’t eat anything I try ( $184.00 in fresh food tries) and thinks he runs the joint. I only cage them for sleep and I’m beside myself because of the noise. Someone on here lead me to an easier route. Vet said he was 💯 healthy- he has his brother and a budgie nearby and groomer thinks he is inbred. Meanwhile- it’s NON stop screaming!!!! Help!!!!
They were born 9/12/22
I used to pet sit a cockatiel and everything was fun and games until she saw fingers or toes, then she would lunge and bite and become a total meanie! 😅
My birds all loved plain scrambled eggs. He is just being stubborn.
He's in a brand new environment and being pushed to do things and eat things on DAY 3. This video is really upsetting. She should have given him more time to settle after bringing him home.
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Me watches you aloe spray bath clyde while washing my face with aloe
Respectfully, you are pushing him very hard. Changing a cockatiel’s diet can take at least weeks, if not months, and must usually be done super gradually. (I’ve done it a few times so I am speaking from experience.) Poor little guy has just had his entire world turned upside down and familiar food is probably a comfort to him.
This. I was shocked to hear her say diet conversation should be the first thing on the agenda. Respectfully, no. Getting the new animal, any animal, settled in their new environment for *at least* a week with the food they were previously on so that they can acclimate to their new home should be first and foremost. Once they're getting more comfortable and gaining confidence that's when the diet conversation should take place, and a slow conversion at that, unless the animal is extremely receptive and showing no signs of stress (or drastic changes in their stool) in which case you can speed things along. Everything about this video made me uneasy, especially since this channel is about education.
This bird
Could he have an issue with his sense of smell and taste?
i take in rescues, macaw and little birds, i found nut powder, has worked a treat for me, its basically toasted nuts cooled and put in the coffee grinder, i use it more as a food additive for hungry baby macaw who feel hunger on formula only, so had it to hand when a pair of ill lovebird came in...like u saw it was on there beaks so there getting some..i sprinkle;e it on top. once they know its food they normally go for it , or ive used eating it myself, if birds see us eat they want some...good luck with him, here were my st small birds, id had a macaw years already
i feel like ur little bird needs to learn food can be nice..he may just consume to survive..
To be fair Tieks are just Budgies who Budgie harder.
I don't know why im thinking he wants a flat surface to eat off but i am.
He is so angry but I have my own she is 4 years old and I just got her man it's hard
Some humans eat meat only. Some humans eat vegetables only. Maybe this is a miles only bird!
Tried yet putting him on your shoulder while YOU eat, and see if he gets the idea and wants some of what you are eating? That's how I got my birds to eat people foods. If they're hungry and see someone else eating something, perhaps they will want to try that, too.
is he overweight and just isnt as hungry at the moment?
Poor Clyde, maybe that sugary diet is like being on Cocaine for a bird.
So he's a little sugar monster
Stop expecting animals to behave like your circus slaves. Respect the animal for who it is, not who you want it to be.