The Cockatiel Handbook: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Behavior, Breeding, and Diseases, with a Specia

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Cockatiels - parrot-related birds that originated in Australia - come in a variety of color mutations. This handbook gives detailed purchase advice, considerations related to caging, proper nutrition, grooming, health care, and keeping the bird safe from household hazards.

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Overview

Cockatiels - parrot-related birds that originated in Australia - come in a variety of color mutations. This handbook gives detailed purchase advice, considerations related to caging, proper nutrition, grooming, health care, and keeping the bird safe from household hazards.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764110177
  • Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/28/1999
  • Series: Barron's Pet Handbooks
  • Pages: 192
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 7.87 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface vi
1. Considerations Before Purchasing 1
Do You Really Want to Keep Cockatiels? 1
Do Cockatiels Fit Your Way of Life? 4
Obtaining Cockatiels 7
Welcome Home! 13
The First Few Weeks 17
2. Housing, Care, and Management 19
Cages 19
The Aviary 26
The Bird Room 37
Location of Cages and Aviaries 38
Plantings 40
Keeping the Cage Clean 45
Basic Grooming 46
Special Care Considerations 48
Table of Dangers 50
3. Foods and Feeding 52
Proteins 52
Carbohydrates 54
Fats and Oils 54
Vitamins 55
Minerals 59
Water 61
Green Food 62
Seeds 64
The Most Important Seeds 68
Rearing Food 73
Concentrated or Universal Food 73
Insects 74
Fruit 74
Table Scraps 74
Bird Pellets/Extruded Diets 75
Cleanliness and Hygiene 76
Conclusion 76
4. Taming and Training 78
The First Steps 78
Outside the Cage 79
T Perch Training 81
The Ladder 82
Tricks 85
Wing Clipping 86
The Talking Cockatiel 87
5. If Your Cockatiel Gets Sick 94
The First Steps 94
Hospital Cages 95
What to Look For 96
Preventive Care 99
Diseases and Injuries 99
Basic Medications 116
Other Health Necessities 117
6. Breeding Cockatiels 119
Introduction 119
Choosing Breed Stock 119
The Nest Box 120
The Eggs 124
The Nestlings 127
Banding 128
Trouble-shooting 129
Pointers for Breeders 130
Worming the Fledglings 131
Chronology 131
Caring for Young Cockatiels 132
Abandoned Eggs 134
Incubating Eggs 134
Hand-rearing 136
7. Heredity and Mutations 141
Colors 141
Mutations 143
Principles of Heredity 148
Formulas 149
Crossing Mutations 157
Additional Considerations 157
8. Understanding Cockatiels 158
Physical Characteristics 158
Feathers 159
Distribution 161
The Cockatiel in the Wild 162
Flight 165
Breeding 165
The Cockatiel in Scientific Literature 167
How Cockatiels Came to Europe and the United States 170
The American Cockatiel Society (ACS) Show Standard 172
Bands 175
ACS Point Standard 175
Useful Addresses and Literature 177
Index 179
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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 25, 2005

    So great I used it for a report!

    this book is one of the only ones cockatiel owners (or owners to be!) will need to have around! it tells how to clip wings, provieds pictures and more even how to tame!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 21, 2001

    what a book

    i am a first time cocktail owner and this book helped me through everything. I would recommened this book to anyone that is a first time cocktail owner. this book explains everthing from breeding to cages.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 26, 2000

    Cockatiels

    This book was vary helpful with caring for cockatiels.I recommend this book for people buying Cockatiels for their fist time.It has great references on sicknesses and seeds.Its discription is great too on the different colors of mutations.

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