Could i get an email address for someone to answer a question about care of baby cockatiels?

Question

I have baby cockatiels and the youngest of five is getting it's feathers plucked by the others and I want to know how to stop this from happening. It is very skiddish and only three weeks old and I am afraid they will kill it if it doesn't stop. Please help me, I don't want to lose a baby.

Answer 1

Separate them now so they cannot be attacked. Especially when they are only little babies. They are too little to be attacked by adults.

email me if you have any other questions.

Answer 2

You should seperate it from the others, until it is healthy etc.

Answer 3

Your best bet is to hand rear it I'm afraid

it is hard work and takes a lot of time and patience but its worth it

email me any questions at [e-mail] will send you the feeding methods, feeding times temperatures etc that I have succesfully used

If you are already hand rearing

seperate the chick from the others

Answer 4

More than likely the one or both of the parents are picking their babies. It is bad to breed out of these birds. Their babies if bred will more than likely be pickers also. Not every bird that breeds is going to be a good parent. Just like humans. There is more to it than hatching out. I had a WF male on a Cinnamon hen. Their first nest ever they killed their babies when the oldest was about 14 days old. I tried them again and they didn't kill them they plucked them. I decided to pair them back up to see if maybe that they had grown out of the plucking. They haven't, so now I need to figure out which one is the culprit. I will weed the bad breeder out of my aviary. Unlike other breeders I will dispose of this bird. Most breeders will sell this troubled bird to someone else or a rookie breeder looking for birds to get started with. It takes three or four years to test and learn about a pair of birds. I will try these birds with other mates. One or both are genetic misfits and need to be destroyed instead of spreading these genes around. I won't sell any of the birds out of this pair until I have tested them myself. That is the only way to improve your stock. If you breed out of birds like this you are only fooling yourself.

If you are breeding just to make a quick buck it probably doesn't matter to you.

My personal goal is to steadily improve my breeding stock. If this means killing a bum breeder that I have spent $100-$200 for that is

the way it has to be. This is the only way to improve  your stock. Otherwise you will breed yourself out of the cockatiel business.