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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.
| 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 |
Anonymous
Posted November 25, 2005
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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Posted September 21, 2001
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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Posted July 26, 2000
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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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.