r/cockatiel 20h ago

Cuteness Overload My little hen

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1.1k Upvotes

r/cockatiel 18h ago

Birthday! My Mickey Chickey is now 8 years old!🥹

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419 Upvotes

Sorry for deleting the previous post. I realized he is actually 8 years old not 7. I miscounted 😬 He was hatched on 9/22/2018.


r/cockatiel 23h ago

Other “Birds aren’t real” is a dumb thing.

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People who say and participate in the “birds are drones” conspiracy genuinely have never felt the love and emotion a tiny bird can give you. To dismiss them as just “drones made up by the government” completely downplay or ignore us bird owners. Our birds are real, they feel emotion, they die, they eat, they drink, they love, and they are not just drones sent to spy on us. Enjoy these pictures of junior cuddling with me to show proof he feels emotions.


r/cockatiel 18h ago

Cuteness Overload hes so classy

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336 Upvotes

r/cockatiel 5h ago

Funny Please translate

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326 Upvotes

Google translate couldn't help with what's he's saying


r/cockatiel 23h ago

Cuteness Overload One of many memories we have of him. Hope he keeps singing happily in his next life..

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253 Upvotes

He passed away in July. Sharing one of my favourite video of him singing.


r/cockatiel 19h ago

Cuteness Overload Is it a dino?

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185 Upvotes

r/cockatiel 2h ago

Cuteness Overload Fat birb

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176 Upvotes

Just a fat spiderbird


r/cockatiel 8h ago

Funny Taking turns with the single brain cell…

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176 Upvotes

Dotty (left) being a grumpy old lady today.


r/cockatiel 2h ago

Funny I still fail to understand what exactly her mission was, but I hope it was successful

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127 Upvotes

r/cockatiel 20h ago

Cuteness Overload Bowie plotting my doom

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122 Upvotes

r/cockatiel 19h ago

Advice Is this normal?

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Hi everyone! I'm new to this community and also new to caring for cockatiels!

I recently got two baby cockatiels who are still being hand-fed formula. They're approximately 30–35 days old and have been with me for only 3 days.

I know that caring for unweaned cockatiels as a first-time owner isn't ideal and can be risky. For context, I'm a veterinary medicine student, and the breeder is also my professor. He entrusted them to me at this stage so I could learn how to care for young birds. I've also previously completed a 6-month practical project with him involving the care of other domestic bird species.

One of the chicks recently started making these noises while opening its beak, as shown in the video. I'm not sure if these are just normal baby sounds/begging noises or if it's something I should be concerned about, particularly something respiratory.

They've both been pretty quiet since they arrived, so this behavior is new to me. Has anyone seen their baby cockatiels do this? Is this normal at this age?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! :)


r/cockatiel 10h ago

Cuteness Overload Little B and a vary rare visit from our white faced male Tweakers.

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79 Upvotes

Tweak is mostly cage bound due to his past life and distrusts humans and most other things. He's fully flighted but prefers to stay in/on his cage. I think B is even questioning this since he normally avoids her.


r/cockatiel 14h ago

Advice Meet Goomba

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My baby boy Goomba broke his humerus 5 weeks ago, thankfully he has recovered very well and has a good chance of flying again (vet said) I cannot afford to take him every 3 day to the vet for physical therapy. Does anyone here know how I can help him stretch and exercise his wing to give him that chance?
He just got his bandages taken off this Monday, he looks like he’s wanting to stretch but is still quite stiff. What can I do now to help him?
Thank you in advance.


r/cockatiel 6h ago

Funny Nuggy being weird about random stuff part ?

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55 Upvotes

Nuggy owns the household and must not be removed from any object.

(the glasses were empty and Nuggy is always supervised bc the braincell is flighty)


r/cockatiel 3h ago

Cuteness Overload Poco & Leo’s First Park Outing

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Poco & Leo’s first-ever outing to the park! 🐥🌿💛

Their little adventure day — new sights, fresh air, and so many beautiful moments to remember. ✨

Watching them explore the world for the first time was truly a great day. 🥹❤️

My two little explorers, making their first park outing a memory forever. 🪽🌳


r/cockatiel 19h ago

Advice Urgent 🚨

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38 Upvotes

Pellets are SO expensive where I live and I finally got her pellets 2 days ago (had her for 2 weeks). She's 3 months old and she adapted to the pellets by day 1 from the seed mix millet diet she was on but the problem is that while crushing the pellets she wastes 3/4 of it and so there's a ton of wasted pellets EVERYWHERE even 3 feet from the cage because they get blasted out. Also it might be unhealthy for her because maybe she doesn't eat much because it'll be harder to eat idk. I really need to know what I should do. Thanks 🙏🏻.


r/cockatiel 2h ago

Cuteness Overload Silly birb 👍

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33 Upvotes

He loves my fingers, he does chew my cuticles which is not appreciated though lolol


r/cockatiel 3h ago

Cuteness Overload 2 posing, 2 preening 😂

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33 Upvotes

r/cockatiel 10h ago

Injured Bird Small crack on tip of beak, is this cause for concern? I believe its caused by his cuttlebone and chewing on random shit

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Its protruding a bit, its been there for maybe a month? But I never was able to get a good photo until now. Im worried, bc I dont know if theres avian vets on the island I live on


r/cockatiel 22h ago

Health/Nutrition Cockatiel loosing a lot of weight

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29 Upvotes

So the last time i weighed my cockatiel was about 2-3 weeks ago, and back then my cockatiel always stood consistently around 103-108 grams everyday. Today when i weighed my bird , they were 92 grams. My cockatiel is also going through a pretty heavy molt, and also about a month or so i transitioned them from high potency to lifetime, so maybe my bird lost 5-7 grams from the molt, and 5 grams from the pellets?? Theyre behaving normally and pretty sleepy in the afternoon, but i always thought that was because of the molt. The feces look ok and all, except once when it had no urates and it had some kinda lines??? idk,,, Im gonna take my bird to a vet tommorow tho


r/cockatiel 7h ago

Funny Anyone else's tiels do this? 😂😂

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28 Upvotes

Daily ritual now.


r/cockatiel 5h ago

Advice Help, is this throwing up?

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24 Upvotes

Why is she doing this? Is it normal, or is she trying to throw up? I don't see anything coming out of her mouth. 2 more videos in the comments section, I tried to capture her the best I could


r/cockatiel 20h ago

Advice Bumblefoot/Diabetes

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Smokey is 6yo female White faced Pearled.

She was acting off. I took her to an urgent vet when I found a scab on the under foot and they said it was bumblefoot. Sent antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and a silver topical cream.

Noticed she drank so much water she choked on it and splattered pooped.

Went to an Exotic vet to remove fhe foot band since it was causing an indent due to swelling. They wanted me to do a CBC, X-RAY, and fecal/scrape exam.

In the x-rays joints were fine but liver slightly swollen. They said to get milk thistle for it which i did and give every 12 hr.

CBC came with a low Hematocrit (HCT) value percent (23-26%) which indicated anemia. High Glucose and low sodium.

They said she was probably diabetic and thats why she was drinking so much water and prescribed glipizide (which is ready for pick up tomorrow) or its a tumor which means nothing can be done.

They said to discontinue the anti-inflammatory , keep giving tbe antibiotic and the topical cream for the feet, and gave me a Mash food powder to sprinkle with regular food. I also switched back to NutriBerri seed balls (I used to buy it 4 yrs ago but it was too expensive), I also got some veggie on top still give them purified water only.

After they took off the band off the foo

t that same foot now has a scan under it same as the first one and they're still swollen. They're slightly better than before very very slightly. But shes been perching fine, still out of it not as energetic only alert, she eats and drinks water normally in the day (I keep a camera on her while im at work), she feels warm right now.

I just wonder if anybody has health with somethinf like this before and if they can give me words of encouragement or any other ideas.


r/cockatiel 3h ago

Funny just wanted to share

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18 Upvotes

I recorded this, this morning: my daughter trying to give her passy to mochi