Online special on Cockatiel!

Mr. Favorite needs a new home.
He is a Gray Male Cockatiel and about 2 or 3 years old.
Says "Pretty bird" and does a wolf whistle.
Mr. Favorite was hand-fed and is hand-tamed.

The reason we are selling him is we have enough male breeding "greys".
 Also, the ones we raise for breeding, I like to record who their parents are and we forgot to do that with Mr. Favorite.


Soon we will be advertising offline for $50.
We have decided to give an Online discount.
For any person mentioning they found out about this online,
your special online price is $30.

Cash only and pick of Mr. Favorite is in our Auburn Maine home.
For more info, reply to this e-mail send us a private e-mail or call us at 207-783-5748.

Sincerely,
Bill Mazzulla

Handtamed - Grey Cockatiels - $60 each

We currently have 2 

hand-fed, hand-tamed,

grey male Cockatiels 

that we are willing to sell for $60 each.

Because they were hand-fed and are hand-tamed, these Cockatiels make great pets.

Here is the information on the 2 Cockatiels for sale at $60 each:
                             Hatched         Approximate age    For breeders:   
                                                                                     Split to  :
Grey Cockatiel   Jan. 2009       1 1/2 years old.       Lutino/Pied  
Grey Cockatiel    Aug. 2009      1 year old                Unsure*

* unsure because the one time when we tried open breeding in our table-top flight cage.... the Cockatiels kept trying to take over each other's nestboxes and sit on another's eggs.

All other Cockatiels are still priced as the previous post (June 22, 2010).


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Cockatiels Available

At this time Cockatiels are priced at:

$150 for male regular greys

$200 and up all Whieface mutations (no orange spot on cheeks)

$200 and up for hens (mostly Lutino's and Pearls)

Note:
Which Tiels we would sell is our choice.
some are nesting and therefore not available.

The reason the prices are higher then in the past is these birds are our
breeding stock and we need enough money from selling any one of them to then replace it with a new purchase on our part.

Local (Northern New England) Deliveries

Delivery is temporarily suspended since we currently do not have a working vehicle.  All Purchases will be done at our Auburn home.

Remember since we do not normally ship our birds; you or a friend normally would need to pick them up here in our Auburn Maine home.

If you know what you want and are not particular about personally picking out your Cockatiel here is an exception to us not delivering our birds:

With an extra fee to be deposited (to be discussed by e-mail)  by money-order or check and only the exact amount. Then when it clears we will drive and deliver your bird (within certain area)  once we know the check or money order deposit has cleared our bank.

This deposited delivery fee will depend on the distance from our home that we have to travel and will be determined by us. We will let any customer desiring us to deliver birds to them if we feel the distance is reasonable for us to travel and how much the fee will be after double checking maps for the time to travel. Deposited fees for local deliveries (Lewiston-Auburn) will start at $20 but might be higher depending where in the L-A area the customer is. Outside of town will definitely have higher deposited fees..

Eventually I will create standard fees for various distances. 
We will NEVER deliver on Sunday!

Once we have left our home to deliver one or more birds to you; the deposited delivery fee is non-refundable.








Note:
This local delivery service is suspended during the Snow season, the winter.  We will not be delivering during the snow season because we do not want to be traveling in bad dangerous weather and during the winter weather is unpredictable.


During the winter you or a friend need to come to our Auburn home to purchase your bird.



Another Note:
Most of the time Pet shops charge much more for Cockatiels then us 
So depending where we are delivering sometimes even with the delivery price included a Cockatiel will still come out the same price or lower then the Pet Shops.

Note: 
We are no longer selling Parakeets.

Sincerely,
Bill & Rosemary

Twelve Parakeets and cage for sale as one bargain.

The Parakeets mentioned in this post are sold!

We are no longer selling parakeets.

From now on we will only be selling Cockatiels!

Old post:

We have decided for the right price to sell all of our Parakeets and mainly
focus on Cockatiels. Since all of our birds are in our dining area we need to make more space so theparakeets are going.

The twelve parakeets are a variety of colors.
About 6 of them were even bred, hatched and hand-fed at our home.
Within the twelve; 3 of the parakeets are albino but not hand-fed.

We are selling all 12 with the cage they are within.

We have decided the right price is $160.

We are planning to advertise in other methods also so if you interested and are within driving distance of Auburn Maine, please send a message immediately to us either through this group, or by e-mail to PastorBill3rd@JesusAnswers.com or call us in the later afternoons and evenings at 207-783-5748.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Bill & Rosemary Mazzulla

Parakeets

We are no longer selling Parakeets.

Only Cockatiels are for sale.

These 2 regular colored

Parakeets are $10 Each.

They have been hand-fed and are hand-tamed.

They are approximately 2 months old as of today!

We also have 2 blue parakeets from the same brood

but will only sell them for the right higher price!

For other color variety of Parakeets ask what we have available and then make us an offer. The offer must be over the $10 price that we ask for our regular green Parakeets. If we like the offer we will accept it, if not we will make a counter-offer for a price for you to purchase these special Parakeets.

Note:

Currently we are not selling

any of our white Parakeets.

These 2 Parakeet chicks are 7 days and 9 days old.

They are from a brood of 5 hatched and possibly 2 more (2 eggs due to hatch soon).

We always take them out of the nest eventually and hand-feed our Cockatiel and Parakeet chicks to make them tame. Sometimes, as in this case, we removed the 2 oldest a little sooner for hand-feeding because the smallest, youngest chicks could not compete for food with these two older baby chicks. So now we are hand-feeding these two and Momma Parakeet is feeding her other 3 while all of us are waiting to see if the last 2 eggs will hatch. Oh and the Daddy Parakeet feeds Momma by regurgitating it into her mouth and then Momma Parakeet she feeds her babies the same way.

Some males and females just take turns keeping the babies warm and feeding them.

In other pairs the Mother Hen stays in the nest almost constantly and the male bird feeds the Mother (often at the nest-box entrance) who in turn feeds her baby chicks. Both methods are true of Parakeets and Cockatiels. It just depends on the pair of birds.

Sincerely,

Bill & Rosemary Mazzulla

PastorBill3rd@JesusAnswers.com

Photos of Lutino Cockatiels for Sale

These are the 3 Cockatiels we currently have on sale for new homes. They are considered a valuable color mutation known as "Lutino" Cockatiels.

But we have currently lowered their prices!

For a much larger photo with more close-up details; you may left-click on the photos with your mouse.

For prices and details to place one or more of these Lutino Cockatiels in your home; please read our previous blog post!

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Hand-fed Lutino Cockatiels

At this time we have 6
hand-fed, hand-tamed
lutino Cockatiels available.

a lutino Cockatiel is a very light yellow Cockatiel.
As announced at The OC Club - Our Cockatiels Club
we have lowered our our Lutinos from $110 to $90.
Member of The OC Club - Our Cockatiels Club
receive a members discount of $10.
that brings the price for lutino Cockatiels down to $80.
You too can receive this discount by joining The OC Club
before making your purchase

I am not yet announcing or advertising this price of $90 any-
-where else besides here and The OC Club for a few days.
Right now they are advertised at Kijiji and Hoobly for $110 each
but in a few days I will also be advertising this lower price at Kijiji and Hoobly.

I gave readers of The OC Club - Our Cockatiels Club
first chance at this great deal and now readers of this blog are included.
In a few days I will also advertise this in Kijiji and Hoobly
so this is your opportunity to purchase one of our lutino Cockatiels.

Non-members if you join The OC Club , before purchasing
one of our birds then you too can receive the $10 discount.

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

Sincerely,
Bill & Rosemary

Local Pet Shops & Safety for your pets.

Not long ago, I received an e-mail implying that most everything found in pet shops are dangerous for animals and especially dangerous for birds in the parrot family.

I was told by a person who seemed to have much experience with birds
that this concern was when the lead scare about China's imported toys
and other products (pet products) was first a concern, but not anymore.
I think it is not a problem anymore because
1. it has been resolved on the Chinese side and
2. on our American side; their imported products are going through stricter quality control from the American distributors of those products.

Of course as another bird owner pointed out that you have to know your
bird or any pet for that matter and what is safe for them.

My example:
All Cockatiels chew.
If you ever got your bird a wooden ladder you will notice that
eventually many of rungs are chewed off.
Here is one example where the bird's safety depends on it's habits:
If you get your bird a plastic toy and chews on that;
you should remove the toy because plastic has too many chemicals for any bird to take into it's body.
Unpainted, unvarnished bird ladders are definitely safe!
As much as my birds are chewers, I never had any problem with them
chewing on their plastic water cups and plastic feeder cups.

If our birds were chewing on them:
1. I might try getting them more chewing toys and if that did not work
then
2. I would try other kinds of watering devices for birds and probably
use glass bowls at the bottom of the cage for feeders.


My conclusion:

Local pet stores in general sell the appropriate products for our pets, our birds and yes even for our Parrot birds like Parakeets and Cockatiels.

However as I already explained in detail, we need to know our own pet's specific individual behavior to know if something normally safe is safe or not.
With new pets, new Cockatiels, trust that the product labeled safe for your pet is safe and just observe your pet, your bird to make sure it is safe even if your animal chews more then most, is more energetic etc.

Also, if you hear from a reliable source and not only from a hyped-up advertiser that a certain item or food might not be safe then adjust your judgments accordingly.

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Join "The OC Club - Our Cockatiels Club"

As we sell some of our babies; more will be available soon. However due to the demand for our young Cockatiels, the expenses and time involved, we will be raising the prices on our hand-fed, hand-tamed Cockatiels.

Our gray Cockatiels are now priced at $50. Others will be higher. In consideration of this we have started a club (that on our Tiels priced $50 or more) , we offer a discount. This is for any person who joins (or subscribes to) our Yahoo group
"The OC Club - Our Cockatiels Club."

If you live too far to purchase a Cockatiel from us or already own your limit of Cockatiels; still free to join as we are looking for this Club group to also be a place of sharing information on birds, especially Cockatiels and Parakeets.

For more details please visit
"The OC Club".

Of the 2 above hand-tamed Cockatiels,
we still have the lighter one available plus some younger Cockatiels are also weaned and available. The darker grey of the 2 above Cockatiels has been sold. The lighter one, is actually a cinnamon/light grey or cinnamon/silver.
We recently realized that the colors on the second bird is worth more then a typical gray cockatiel so we decided to keep it unless we get a really good offer .... like $75.

3 more gray Cockatiels at $50 each are available
for a little while longer (from today's date; 8-24-08).
For members of
"The OC Club - Our Cockatiels Club"
with $10 discount that would come out
to the bargian price of $40!

More hand-tamed chicks after that;
will be available every so often.
So even as we sell some of our babies;
more will be available; soon after.

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By the way $50 each (before discount) for hand-tamed regular Gray Cockatiels is still a good deal. When we started out we were charging that much for our Cockatiels that were not hand-tamed and we were charging $125 each for any and all of our hand-tamed Cockatiels.
It is very rare to find a hand-tamed young regular gray Cockatiels as low as $50 each so we feel we are still offering you a great value that might even make it worth traveling some distance to our house (here, in Auburn,Maine) to purchase your Tiel.

Handtamed Cockatiels for sale = $40

We still have the above lighter hand-tamed Cockatiel available. The lighter one, is actually a cinnamon/light grey or cinnamon/silver.
Either color combination is worth more then a typical grey cockatiel so we decided to keep it unless we get a really good offer .... like $75.

More hand-tamed chicks will be available soon.
So even as we sell some of our babies; more will be available.



All 3 of these are sold.
The last 2 white-faces were sold on 7-21-2008.
Currently no more white-face Cockatiels are available.

Also, we would be willing to trade one of our handfed Cockatiels for 2 parakeets.
If it is an albino, or ALL white or ALL yellow parakeet, then we would be willing to trade one of our handfed Cockatiels for that special Parakeet. It would be your choice of certain of our handtamed Cockatiels.

We are keeping all of our white, yellow
and Albino Cockatiels for breeding.

We no longer have any $15 older birds available.
The 4 mature birds that we have left of our original group of older Cockatiels, we are also keeping for breeders.


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UPDATE on The Odd Couple

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

The Odd Couple are no longer for sale as a pair.
We purchased another parakeet (a white albino Rosemary named Fluffy) for Candy and gave Bully-boy a mate from our stock of Cockatiels.

Bully-boy is fine with females.
Both pairs have their own honey-moon suites.
(Their own cages.)

Since then we found a buyer for Bully-boy and his potential mate.
This man knew enough about Cockatiels that I am confident he will have no problems or very few with Bully-Boy.

My wife, Rosemary wants to keep the parakeets.
If we had sold this odd couple, we would have purchased 2 new parakeets with the money.
Now we have a pair and Rosemary is talking about acquiring more parakeets in the future. Parakeets talk less clear but they do take up less space since you can fit more in one decent size cage.

Hand-tamed Cockatiels now $40 each

Our 4 mature breeders are not for sale.
Also, we are not selling our Albino, white or yellow birds.


All of our other hand-tamed Cockatielsx are for sale at the wonderfully low price of $40 each which is a bargain for hand-tamed birds,
especially since most of them have color mutations
and are not your typical greys.

For example our first brood was 4 chicks.
Those young Cockatiels are in photos in earlier blog posts within this site.
They are hand-tamed and their parents were a grey pearl mother and an albino father.
All 4 from that first brood are white-faced meaning no orange cheek.
We are keeping the albino father and the one albino off-spring.
We have had several more chicks successfully hatch and mature since last November of 2007.
All weaned hand-tamed young Cockatiels are for sale except for the Albino.
Again $40 each for our hand-tamed Cockatiels.

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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.



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Hand-tamed Cockatiel photos.

We were asking $125 for our hand-tamed Cockatiels.
Now we have gone down to $40 each for our hand-tamed Cockatiels.
Our Albinos are not for sale.

Myself, Bill Mazzulla III and our hand-tamed birds.

Below is close-up of Greyhead.


















During their exercise time our hand-tamed
Cockatiels decided to visit
Candy, the Parakeet and
Bully-boy, another Cockatiel
who are both in the cage they are on top of.

Close-up of Crybaby.
Crybaby got her name
because she is the youngest of her brood and
she was always crying for food and attention.
Even after she being weaned;
Crybaby still cried to be hand-fed.

Snowy Jr.
is an albino like it's father.
Our albinos are NOT for sale.

The Near Future (Future stock)

We do not guarantee gender because we only know
the gender for sure of those who have mated.

Any cockatiel that mates and is nesting, or is sitting on eggs or has young that are not yet weaned will not be for sale.
Even if listed for sale.

These 4 photos are of 3 more of our birds that have nice color mutations.
2 are Lutino Pied and one is Lutino-Pearl.

All of the birds below have paired off, mated, nested and laid their eggs.
Two chicks hatched in the last few days so they should be weaned and ready for sale in about 8 weeks or so. From that brood more are due soon.
We have 3 other pairs with eggs so including the chicks that just hatched.
Your choices of Cockatiels with color mutations will increase by the time they all hatch and are weaned about 11 weeks or so. (End of July and early August)















Thanks again for visiting us here at:
The OC blog - The Our Cockaktiels Blog


William & Rosemary Mazzulla
For more information and phone number:
PastorBill3rd@JesusAnswers.com

Photos by internet Pastor Bill
If you use any of our photos please in your e-mail, post, blog, or website etc.
provide a link back to our blog since they are our unique photos.
Thank you.

Introduction to The OC.

This blog is about Our Cockatiels.
To find out about our Cockatiels available to your loving home scroll further down to our other blog entries.

Our first bird was a yellow parakeet that we named Big Bird.
Then we had another Parakeet.
Then after that we had various kinds of pets.

For the past several years we have had Cockatiels.
Until recently it was usually one or two at a time.

Recently we acquired enough Cockatiels to start breeding.
We had hope at least several pairs will mate but and several pairs have successfully mated and hatched Cockatiel chicks.

From our first clutch of eggs, we have 4 young Cockatiels about 3 months old.
Since the mother (Pearly) abandoned them when they were only a few days old and only the father (Snowy) fed them, eventually we decided to help him by hand-feeding them once in a while, in between his feeding them.
From our most recent successful clutch (Romeo & Juliet's mating) 2 of the chicks hatched, are weaned, eating on their own and are doing well.
Their mother has laid more eggs but the mother and father refuse to sit on them.
Another pair with our encouragement (setting the eggs in thei9r nest-box) has adopted those eggs and since laid more eggs.
At times many of our Cockatiels will be for sale.

We do not ship our Cockatiels due to the extra cost and due to the great risk to the birds.
One breeder charges $149 starting, just for the shipping cost.
Depending where you live and how soon you want your birds, that shipping cost will go higher!
Therefore buyers need to live close enough that you do not mind driving to Auburn Maine where we live. Or if you send a friend with the payment (cash) who lives close enough to pick up the Cockatiel (s) .

Cockatiels make a wonderful hobby and wonderful pets!
For children and those who want to handle their birds often, we suggest hand-tamed Cockatiels. Just when out of the cage for play and/or handling make sure your Cockatiel is safe from other pets like cats and dogs.
No matter how much a bird seems to get along with your dog or cat; when your bird is not safely in it's cage NEVER leave them alone together.
You just never know when the hunting, meat-eating instinct of a dog or cat will take over. Better safe then sorry!
Also, when your bird is out of the cage make sure no doors are open and make sure there are no windows without screens open. It only takes a second of someone going in and out of your house for your bird to escape and fly away. Even trimmed wings can grow out surprisingly quick!

If your Cockatiel is going to be in his/her cage most of the time then the cost of hand-tamed birds might not be a requirement.


(Note: Trimmed wings or not, your Cockatiel should have exercise time of at least one hour per day outside their cage whether it is flying around the house, walking around on the outside top of it's indoor cage, or just perching on your shoulder.
A little freedom and exercise will make your Cockatiel much happier.
This is something we have started to be more conscientious about.
If your bird is not hand-tamed or initially bites as you remove it from the cage then do what I do with our more aggressive birds and wear gloves.)

In the case where your bird is in it's cage most of the time, especially if it is one Cockatiel then make sure that it has one or two bird toys in its cage and that you talk to it often.
Cockatiels are a fairly smart bird and need stimulation as well as companionship to be happy and well-adjusted. Even if you do have 2 or more Cockatiels in the same cage; toys and speaking to them is still good stimulation to prevent boredom.
Preventing boredom is important because a bird can overgroom itself and even pull it's own feathers out as a result of such boredom.
One of their toys should be a grooming toy or a knotted rope with frayed ends because the Cockatiel will try grooming that some instead of over-grooming itself.
This is helpful no matter how many birds you have but especially important if your Cockatiel is alone in it's cage.
If you give most any bird a toy with a mirror; they will think they have a friend in the cage.
This can help with loneliness and boredom.
However, it may also cause the bird to be less attached to you.

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.

Oh and by the way:
if you click with your mouse on our photos you will see them larger with more details of our Cockatiels.

Sincerely,
William & Rosemary Mazzulla
PastorBill3rd@JesusAnswers.com

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Very Lowest Prices ever.

$15 one of our Grey Cockatiels!


Update as of May, 5, 2008:
Currently we only have one typical Grey (probably a male) for the price of $15 as we recently sold 4 of our Cockatiels.
And our other Grey has mated.
He is nesting and brooding over his eggs with his mate.

This is also true of our other adult birds for that price have mated and are nesting.

If these new mating pairs work out as good parents with healthy chicks then we will be asking much more per pair for these breeding pairs even though they are not hand-tamed.
The reason is a successful breeding pair are worth much more then 2 individual separate birds.



Our hand-tamed Cockatiels are still for sale at $125 each bird.

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Prices of other stock.

Breeding of pairs and sexing of birds not guaranteed.
Some we know their sexes because they have mated at least once since we had them.

We plan on keeping our 2 albinos (Father & son) .
$125 for any of the other hand-tamed Cockatiels.
The ones that we hand-raised and are ready for sale
are from 10 weeks old up to 6 months old.

Cash only, pick up here in Auburn Maine.
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