The Odd couple

The Odd Couple


Besides other Cockatiels, we had 3 regular Grey Adult Male Cockatiels when we started.
For some reason the gray ones are mean to other Cockatiels, especially to each other; other Greys. And they get out of control on hurting each other during mating seasons.

When we first got our birds the Parakeet, Candy, came with them and was in a separate cage. Eventually, we put Candy the parakeet in our largest cage with most of our Cockatiels.

Strangely enough, Candy decided to be closest friends with our meanest gray Cockatiel, Bully-boy, who the other Cockatiels avoid. Candy got so physically close to Bully-boy as to be crowding him. Bully-boy, the Cockatiel, would peck at Candy, the parakeet as if to say "back-off and give me some space" and Candy would back off for a short time and then crowd him again.
Then the whole cycle would start all over again.

Eventually, because of our grey Cockatiels aggressiveness we had to remove the greys from the main cage and put our two remaining greys in seperate cages.
Apparently we got Bully-Boy and the other grey mixed up. We figured this out because Candy would not go near the cockatiel with whom he was sharing a cage. So we took him and put him with the other grey and he, Bully-boy, right away went up to Candy as if he missed him. Bully-boy was no longer annoyed with his new friend. When his little friend was gone and was back it seemed that Bully-boy realized that the annoying parakeet, Candy, was a good friend to be missed after all. Bully-boy no longer acts annoyed by Candy his little friend.

Bully-boy (the Cockatiel) & Candy (the Parakeet)

Since Bully-boy, the Cockatiel and Candy the parakeet get along so well,
we would only sell them together on the condition they are kept together in the same cage. Since Bully-boy does not usually get along with other Cockatiels: it is best that Bully-boy and Candy share a cage with no other birds.
$60 asking price for the two of them together.



------------------------------------------------