New addition to the Doll House

[Dangerdoll]

Check out what I got today!! Her name is Sunny, someone couldn't keep her so guess who's door they went knocking on!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay Doll!!! She reminds me of one that was very special to me that died about 8 years ago, she's roughly 4-5 months old....
http://pic2.picturetrail.com/VOL1021/3558336/inbox/46007.jpg

[Southerrngirrl]

Thats a very cute bird Dangerdoll! Looks very cheeky :)

[nursie]

What a cutie!! I got my mom and dad one several years ago and she's quite the princess!

[Swimfins]

:clap: pretty bird, pretty bird!

[Dangerdoll]

hehehe, thanks guys :D Needless to say, I am a happy doll..... nursie, you know from experience what absolute doll's these little guys are. What's weird is how very delicate I see her now because of my other bird which is a rainbow lory.

[nursie]

My parents' bird LOVES my dad. If she hears him come in the house she starts calling until he comes to see her. My folks have a sun room they let her fly around in and she will sit on my dad's shoulder when he reads the paper, tries to groom his hair, and will try to take a sip out of his beer can....lol!
They buy every musical stuffed bird they can find and have them lined up and play them for her. She has her own tape player, bird music tapes, and I think possibly more toys than I had as a child.

[Leopardess]

Congratulations!! She's very pretty! I'm sure she'll have a great home from now on. I want to get another cockatiel once we buy a house. I'm on a "no more pets" rule right now.

And mine has the same ladder:D

[Dangerdoll]

hehehe, Nursie, I can see her being spoied, it's awfully easy to spoils these babies :D sheesh, I love her already :)

hehehe,thanks Leo, that is funny!! I was on a "no more" rule too, hehehe but sob stories are sob stories, and hehehehe, I'm such a sucker for them :)

the ladder came with her :) She'll be moving into a bigger cage tonight, the ladder will be going with her.... ;)

[reiverix]

That's a nice bird. My wife has 6 cockatiels and a baby white capped pionus and every morning they greet me with a chirpy chorus. They can come out with some really strange sounds.

[Lila]

Pretty bird, Doll. Wish I could get one, but it would drive my dog crazy!

[Leopardess]

Sorry to hijack your thread a bit, Doll, but what Lila said about other animals' reaction to them got me thinking about something. One of my cats, Dante (the gay one), is fine with Kramer. They can stay out together...though I never leave them unsupervised...they "play". Kramer will walk right up to Dante on the floor and fold his head under and sleep. The other cat, Baron, is funny as heck to watch when Kramer is out. You can literally SEE the internal struggle he has. "Oohhh, I want to eat him. Nooooo, mom would kill me. Ooh, I could kill him. Must not touch him."

All of those thoughts just flash right across his face. The most he's ever tried to do is touch his tail feathers with a paw but he knew he wasn't supposed to do that. Now all I have to do is look at him and he leaves the room before he gets in more trouble!

6 cockatiels - that's aweomse:) Got any pictures:D

[nursie]

Doll..is there a name for her coloring? My folks bird doesn't have the pattern on the feathers like yours does..very nice. And such an intelligent looking baby too!

[Dangerdoll]

thanks guys :) John, I can remember way back in the day when I had babies galore as I was breeding, the chorus is unforgetable so I know exactly what ya mean :D

Lila, I thought my dogs would be nuts but it's the exact opposite... you should give it a try ;)

hehehe, Leo... my cat is like that with my lory.... the lory just happens to be tougher than the cat though, hehehe

nursie, she's called "pied", but that may change as she goes through her first molt which could be from not up until she's 6 months. Then we'll know if she's going to keep this pattern or not. My original pied kept her markings but she did have chicks born pied that turned grey.... only time will tell :)

[125gJoe]

Thats a very cute bird Dangerdoll! Looks very cheeky :)I totally agree!
Very nice bird!
:cool:

[Dangerdoll]

thanks guys. Well, I moved her into her new cage which is a lot bigger than the one she came in, and it's white.... she's looks so pretty in it. She started singing yesterday and now I'm waiting for her to use her swing for the first time. Pat (my Lory) loves her already. Although I would never trust them in the same cage together, he nearly flipped out when I took Sunny out of the room to switch her into the new cage. And when she was rolled back in, he settled with these kissy sounds he makes :D

[FL Knifemaker]

pretty bird pretty bird pretty bird pretty bird.

Oh sorry,

my wife has one and that's what it keeps saying. I think it has a complex

pretty bird DD!!!

[Dangerdoll]

hehehe, thanks Knife ;)

[flyingfish]

What a beautiful animal! Reminds me of the one my best friend's family had growing up. Her preteen brother taught it to scream "rape" on command. The bird had a wonderful character when the brother wasn't around. :)

[reiverix]

Feeding time in the Reiverix household....

http://www.truescotland.com/bird1.jpg

Our new pionus is quite the softy

http://www.truescotland.com/bird2.jpg

[Leopardess]

Reiverix - :eek: I am so jealous! They all look so pretty in a group like that! Thank you for posting that:) I'm going to show it to Chris and beg:D

What kind of foods (not "bird food") do yours prefer - that's a question for everyone? Mine likes broccoli best and will eat green peppers and baby spinach. Past that it can be difficult sometimes. I buy pelleted Cockatiel formula food at the vet which is really well balanced and completely organic as a staple. It's called Harrisons and I'd suggest it if you can find it.

EDIT: Being the overly proud mama that I am...I'll post up a pic of Kramer so we can all look at each other's beautiful birdies. Mine doesn't have the fancy coloring of many of yours though:

http://members.aol.com/chris420529/kramer.JPG

http://members.aol.com/chris420529/kramie2.JPG

[Dangerdoll]

ah, great pics everybody, I love them in a group too.... looks like a tasty meal at that!!

Leo, just because Kramer isn't coated with different colors, it makes him (her?) more pretty!! how old is Kramer.... looks like a she :) don't be surprised to find an egg in the cage :D My first one, I swore was a he until that infamous day..... then I was in cockatiel heaven with babies (of course after getting her a mate. She hated the first one I offered her, another tame tiel..... then I went to a breeder and got a wild male... well, untamed male and she was nuts for him, and he loved her too.... *sigh* miss them guys...

Let's see, Sunny loves broccoli, cheerios, and will do anything for popcorn (popped) :D

[reiverix]

The birds like rice, pasta, most veggies, cereal, popcorn. One of them likes pizza!

They also really go crazy for this stuff. Beak Appetit (http://www.beakappetit.com/)

[Leopardess]

Oops. Sorry, I meant for vegetables.

Doll - Good eye. Kramer IS a she. When we rescued him (her), we were told they had the bird sexed at a very young age with a DNA test. Well...I guess they lied about that part. We've believed Kramer is a she for quite some time now (and the vet suspected it wayy back when), but we had always thought of him as a male...so it's hard to make the switch. Kramer isn't a very feminine name either. Kramer was young enough when we got him/her that it could have been a male who hadn't yet developed all his colors. She is almost three years old now.

Kramer loves pizza crust, cheezits (rarely), corn chips, cereal, and he/she (see, it gets confusing lol) always wants to bite at whatever you may be eating.

Thanks for that link, reiv. Here's the one for Harrison's. It's great stuff. Kramer eats that plus a few tablespoons of fresh things everyday, with 10% seed in his diet.

http://www.harrisonsbirdfoods.com/

[125gJoe]

I like birds - so do the dogs...

Guess I'll never have them as pets.

Whatever happened to the popularity of Miner Birds? Or is it Minor?? There was one kept at Mather's Bridge (hole-in-the-wall) restaurant years ago (very end of Merrit Island, FL). This bird was the most vocal, articulate bird I've heard!!

Ooops - that was Mynah Bird!

Link: http://www.mynahbird.com/

[Dangerdoll]

oooooh, all these good links too!! Anyone go to a cool Tiel forum?

I have a rainbow Lory too.... he looks like this:
http://research.amnh.org/users/nyneve/LoryLore-green-napedRALO.gif
he needs a powder diet and fruits only that I get from www.arcatapet.com

unfortunately, they can only be friends from afar..... the lory is a little rough and more heavily footed then little Sunny :D

[Tuolumne]

I think it's a pearl. I'm no expert on cockatiels but I think pearls have the small spotted patterns and pied have big patches of color, like a pinto horse.

Oh and Pootspete referred someone to a great pet birds forum and I've been spending a lot of time there lately.

Check out www.tailfeathersnetwork.com. You'll like it!

[Dangerdoll]

You know what Tuolumme, hehehe.... I was just coming to this thread this morning to correct myself. I meant to do it yesterday but got caught up with work (how dare they, hehehe).... anyways, you're right, it is a pearl... the pied has more of a painted splash look..... BUT this little gal looks like a pied pearl, if that makes sense..... at least she does now.... I don't think she's gone through her first molt yet.... under her belly is completely white and her back neck is white...... so we'll see :D Thanks Tuolumme :D

[nursie]

I like birds - so do the dogs...

Same here!!! Mine will chase every sparrow from the back yard. We bird-sat for my mom's bird once, and Duke was a madman trying to get her. First we had the cage on a hook on the doorway getween 2 rooms..we found out just how tall our boy is on his hind feet. Next we put her in an extra bedroom, and he was always trying to break the door down and get in. Bad dog!
So now when my folks go out of town they have someone come feed her. They tried to board her once, buy mom was afraid she'd pick up some kind of bugs or something.

[nursie]

I like birds - so do the dogs...

Same here!!! Mine will chase every sparrow from the back yard. We bird-sat for my mom's bird once, and Duke was a madman trying to get her. First we had the cage on a hook on the doorway getween 2 rooms..we found out just how tall our boy is on his hind feet. Next we put her in an extra bedroom, and he was always trying to break the door down and get in. Bad dog!
So now when my folks go out of town they have someone come feed her. They tried to board her once, but mom was afraid she'd pick up some kind of bugs or something.