The OC blog - The Our Cockatiels Blog

Cockatiels make a wonderful hobby and wonderful pets! For those who want to handle their birds often, we suggest hand-tamed Cockatiels. Please research through reading, the internet, and asking questions of pet shop clerks before purchasing a Cockatiel. The more you know and understand about these wonderful birds the better relationship you and your Cockatiel will have with each other. If you click on our photos; you will have a super close-up.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Economy lowers our prices! ........................ Four Lutinos priced low.


We have 4 Lutinos available for homes and due to the economy we are willing to go way lower for you. These Lutino Cockatiels are hand-fed, hand-tamed! They are now priced at $60 each.

With the $10 member discount that brings them down to $50 each.
A great bargain since in Pet shops Regular Grey Cockatiels are usually priced at $90 or more and Color mutations are as high 139.99. Remember
, Lutino cockatiels are usually priced on the higher side then regular greys. So $60 is a great bargain and if you visit our Yahoo group and join our Club $50 is an even better bargain!


Non-members if you join
The OC Club - Our Cockatiels Club
before purchasing one of our birds
then you too can receive the $10 discount
for any Cockatiel over $50.

We do not ship.
Purchase and pick up
is done by appointment
in our Auburn, Maine home.

Sincerely,
Bill & Rosemary

Contact information:
PastorBill3rd@JesusAnswers.com


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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Leg Band Group


If you breed and band your birds or if you have a bird with a band Leg Band Numbers is a good group to join and record your ownership (via it's leg band number) of your bird in case it ever flies away by accident. If your bird does fly away, whether you previously recorded its leg band ID within the group, you can still post your bird's band number in hopes somebody finds it and has the integrity to look for the bird's original owner.

Also, if you are not the first owner; sometimes the group owner will be able to attempt some investigating of the history of your bird, using the leg band number.


So here it is:


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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Food guidelines for Cockatiels

Seeds and pellets are OK but if possible it should be supplemented with a variety of fruit and vegetables in a Cockatiel's diet.

Here are some guidelines about food:

1. Most vegetables and fresh fruit are good for Cockatiels.
Our Cockatiels love the watermelon rind for one example.

2. Eggs - Eggs can be fried or boiled (no salt, no avocados)
3. Milk - food soaked in Milk (like grain breads)
Cheese also but not spicy or sharp cheeses!
Eggs, Milk and Cheese are the only non-plant proteins that are allowed as far as I know.

4. Bread - Best if not white bread but any bread that is less processed and grainy.

5. Our birds love Cereal
(any cereal with grains but not sweet cereals)
A Cockatiel probably would probably like sugary cereals but it is not good for them.

6. Stay away from anything high in sugar.

7. Stay away from foods high in sodium,
This includes No MSG and all of the sodium by-products.


8. I have also read that the tomato stems, tomato plant and fresh tomatoes can be dangerous for Cockatiels.
Well-cooked spaghetti sauce is probably OK but if even one piece of tomato did not cook well it could be dangerous and if using cans it might have sodium or sodium by-products which are also bad for Cockatiels.
So to be on the safe side we give our birds plain cooked spaghetti or plain cooked noodles for a occasional treat before we add any flavoring or sauce to our portions.

9. Toxic foods are avocados, chocolate (in any form),
anything with caffeine (including coffee and soft drinks)
Alcohol is strictly off-limits!

Some of this is from my own studying and my own experience.
Also some of the above information is from a website at:
Caring For Your Cockatiels
http://www.geocities.com/monkman338/Cockatiels.html

Since GeoCities is probably closing out their sites before the end of the year, if you want to read all the info on that web-page I recommend that you do it soon.

Sincerely,
Bill Mazzulla

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