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What color should I get???
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i usually find that the grey ones have better personalities when i see them in the petshop...im not sure why...arent the females grey and the males white? or something? dont mind me i know nothing about birds lol...r u getting one soon? they always have them at total pet...:)
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I am especially fond of Lutinos. That would definitely be what I went for, but that's my preference.
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i fell in love with this one... a cinnamon pearl cockatiel!
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i also don't see how color affects gender or attitude. oh well...:D
i like best out of all these the one jess attached. its so pretty. but you should also pick the one with the best personality. (i don't know if that's the bets way to put it)
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thanks guys I will go by who picks my :D...
oh ya and how do you figure out what gender Tiels are???
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i doubt its the same but with 'keets they have a colored patch (i forgot the right word :confused: ) if the patch is brown, its a female. if it is blue, its a male.
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You get parrots DNA tested by a nail or feather. I dont know if its the same for tiels?:confused: good luck:)
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also the electus i beleive it was. The females are purple and red and the males are green:)
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omg me2! I was gonna get a female electus instead of tiki, but my mom freaked out because it was too big. lol:D Im glad she did though!:)
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i know! :)
o ya and i was wondering... do popcorn and muffin have a web site????:D
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I have mine on geocities right now too. And Im making another for just tiki and im gonna put lots of cute birdy pics:D
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I could tell Spanky is a boy because he has blue nosrtills :).. Ok thanks for the advise.. I dont really care if it is a boy or gurl. I just want another tiel.. :D
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its probably just a coincedence that the grey ones at the petshop are nicer than the others lol....they are probably just more socialized or something ;)
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I went to toal pet today wolfsoul and there cockatiels are like 120 or something bucks .. Yikes
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Originally posted by tikeyas_mom
I went to toal pet today wolfsoul and there cockatiels are like 120 or something bucks .. Yikes
eep! r u sure? they r supposed to be forty dollars...not like thats not expensive lol...did u try petcetera?
that would have been funny if i went to total pet and saw u and didnt even know it lol....mines the house that lives right behind it :D
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were you there today?? lol that would beee sooo funny if we just missed each other lol.. LMAO!!
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were you there today?? lol that would beee sooo funny if we just missed each other lol.. LMAO!!
i didnt go today, but i go almost every other day lol...today i was desperatly trying to clean my entire room...we had ppl coming over to look at our house, so ya know...and then i had to babysit and uggh it was a hectic day heehee :rolleyes:
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My favorites are pearls and latinos, although PCB I do have to point out that the "albino" you pictured is not a true albino, that's a BEW. True Albinos will have pink eyes. We used to breed tiels and man you wouldn't believe the color combinations we got! Amazing little fellas! :D
As far as the greys being nicer, in my experience having lived with tiels ALL my life, well since I was 5 lol, I have noticed that latinos seem to be more aloof, as well as skittish, whereas the pearls are the most happiess of all. Now this is just my experience with these birds, not a fact!;)
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If you were to sell teil I think you wouldent get much buisness. I would personally never but a teil or any pet for 200$ that is rediculas(sp?) .. I got my dog for $150.00 and she is pure bred.
I just think that 60$ for a bird is kinda silly. @ lest I know that I would never be able to buy one if they were all 100-200 $... :eek: how much did you get your birds for ?? I got Cheeko for free. I also got Spanky for 10.00$. :p And even though they are cheep they are still great pets exna the fact that cheeko bites and hisses at everyone.. lol :D
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Birds are more expensive than other pets (dogs/cats). Not cockatiels, but birds in general. Macaws are usually priced at $3000-$4000. Everyone sells their tiels here for $100 + and they all make good business. The ones that sell them cheap don't! They have their birds for months without selling. I don't know the price of cockatiels in your area, but they are $100 + here, and $70 if you're lucky and get them on sale.
Here birds are not more exspensive then other pets. I live in B.C. Canada if that helps. Some pet stores over charge I think. For instance today I went to total pet and they has 3 grey cockatiels and they were all like $160.00 . And I could find a cockatiel for like less then half that price.
Macaws are aroung 300$ here as well as Cockatoos..
The price range in pet stores here is 100+ as well. I would and never have bought a teil and I dont plan on paying more for the bird then I did for the cage and other stuff.
I have a HUGE cage with a stand that my mom found for sale for $50.00 and the man bought it for like $200.00 ..We got a major deal on it. I will take the bird for a vet check and crap. But I dont think the breeder will let me take the bird without paying ..
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tiki was $900 and NO that is NOT rediculous. its a bird!
jewels was $1200
jordan was $500, but we got him 12 years ago when prices were a lot lower:rolleyes:
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i agree with tikeyas_mom, that birds here are cheap compared to alot of animals...at total pet, the dogs can be expensive...small dogs are sold for between 300 and 400 dollars, and large purebred dogs are between 100 and 200 dollars....large mutt dogs are between 40 and 100 dollars...but their rodents are really cheap compared to petcetera...but thats cuz total pet sells their rodents as snake food :(
and u said that the macaws there are about 3000-4000 dollars?! :eek: they had a macaw named bentley at total pet one time, and he was sold for 1000...he was originally 1500 though but he was at the petshop for a couple years :(
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check your emails..
way ahead of you lol ;)
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My first ever tiel was a lutino, named Charlie. I got him for my tenth birthday
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...6/fc8888a6.jpg
He was a little clown, too, Popcornbird, so it may be a lutino thing! He was the happiest, friendliest little bird and i'd rush home after school to take him out of his cage and he'd be waiting by the door of his cage, whistling and bobbing up and down. Anyway, the point of this story is that it really is difficult to tell a cockatiel's sex, because when I was thirteen Charlie died laying her very first egg. She never gave us any reason to think she was a girl - she whistled and acted clownish and hypo, just like a little boy.
And regarding price, we paid $AU90 for Lachie, which is about $45 American. But tiels are native to Australia, so I guess that makes a difference.
Congratulations Tikeya's Mom, too! It looks like we're getting a whole new generation of tiels here at Pet Talk!
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your tiel look just like my Cheeko :)
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The owner of the store I work at has two breeding pairs of Hyacinth Macaws. The young ones all sell for at LEAST $8,000.
$120 is a good price for a Tiel. I'm with Popcornbird....If there was someone selling Tiels for $40 I wouldn't buy from them, for fear that I was buying a vet bill with wings. So many people come into the store all ready to buy a bird and then balk at the price of the bird, or the cage.
"What do you MEAN the cages are over $100? Do you have any for under $30?" NO!!
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I love cockatiels so much. I've been close to getting one or two several times. I think I decided to wait until I have a house though so I can safely keep my kitty cat seperated from them at all times. I don't think she'd hurt them, but I don't want to find out!
I was in the pet store for cat food today and went in to say hi to the cockatiels. I fell in love with the sweetest little gray one. I kept clicking my tongue and she'd do a dance for me :D
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OMG! OMG! OMG! That's MY Popcorn! LOL! She's doing the same thing as Popcorn too, and he looks JUST like her! CUTIE PIE! I believe cockatiels should be lower priced in Australia because they are native to the country. :)
Mmm, yes I think so. They go up to about $150 ($US75) here I think, although I bought from a private breeder, so it was cheaper for me. She loved her birds but just had completely too many, so she was just glad to let them go to people who were going to look after them.
Do you have Galah's as pets over there? They're native to Australia too...but I don't know if you call them Galah's or not. They're a kind of parrot too, and they're kind of pinkish. It seems weird to me that people would keep them as pets and pay hundreds of dollars for them, but I heard that they are available in America. There's a whole flock of them that roosts just over my fence, and at sunset every day they make the worst racket. But I admit, they are kind of cute :D
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Remember, you are buying a tiel, not a parakeet, not a lovebird, not a rat, not a hamster. A COCKATIEL.
So? That doesn't mean they are a better pet then a parakeet, lovebird, rat, hamster or any other animal.
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tiki was $900 and NO that is NOT rediculous. its a bird!
jewels was $1200
jordan was $500, but we got him 12 years ago when prices were a lot lower
WOW Jessica12345, you are one spoiled kid!!! :eek: ;)
Somewhere in this thread we lost track of whats
REALLY important...and that's certainly not what the pet cost.
Smokey was $50
Reggie was free
Nebo was $300
Does that make any one of them a better dog then the other? No. BUT, in the same sense, if you pay more, you are most likely getting a dog that is healthier/less problems. Not always the case though.
I agree that you'd most likely get a more healthy/tame bird for a higher price, and that *should* be important.
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If you were to sell teil I think you wouldent get much buisness. I would personally never but a teil or any pet for 200$ that is rediculas(sp?) .. I got my dog for $150.00 and she is pure bred.
I'm sure she would get business. Just not from people like you.
P.S. I don't care if birds are more expensive/live longer, I'll take dogs any day! :D :p
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So? That doesn't mean they are a better pet then a parakeet, lovebird, rat, hamster or any other animal.
I'm pretty sure we're just saying that a cockatiel is not more important, or better than a parakeet, lovebird, rat, hamster etc, but they are more of a commitment, seeing as their lifespan can be up to thirty years.
And chances are if a person is selling a bird for a very low, not discount but absolute bargain price (ie $30 for a cockatiel) then they're probably less concerned with the health and happiness of the birds they sell than the amount. Kind of the equivalent of a puppy mill.
I don't mean to speak for Popcornbird and Jessica, but in their defence I don't think they were talking about price in terms defining an animal's worth...more about looking very carefully at 'bargains' where animals are concerned.
You can't be too careful when you don't want to keep profit breeders in business. I think they were just pointing out that it's a characteristic of these kind of breeders to sell for a very low price. :)
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I'm sure she would get business. Just not from people like you.
P.S. I don't care if birds are more expensive/live longer, I'll take dogs any day!
I love dogs too! I volunteer at my local dog shelter, cleaning out their pens, not because I like cleaning up poop :p, but because I love to see the dogs and pet them and hope I'm making a difference. The only reason I don't have a dog is because I'm not allowed one. But birds are great too, and they're real little personalities and they can be just as great companions as dogs!
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Zan, you are SO lucky you have parrots instead of sparrows in your yard! :eek: LUCKY!!!!! I've heard of gallahs but I've never seen them, nor have a clue of what they look like. Do wild tiels, keets, and cockatoos also fly around in your area? I know they are native to Australia. Are the wild ones only in the forest or in cities like we have sparrows, doves, and pigeons flying around here in North America?
These are what galahs look like:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...c/fc885a13.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...0/fc885a12.jpg
They're really noisy little critters, and since our house backs onto a school oval lined with eucalypts they roost there and chatter to each other at sunset and dawn.
But no, I've never seen wild cockatiels or budgies. We do get rainbow lorikeets in a lot, though, and they're sweet. If you have a bird bath in your backyard you can teach them to be quite tame, I've heard, but I've never tried it. And we get cockatoos flying over too! Boy can they make a racket! Have you ever heard one? They have this throaty, deep call. It sounds kinda cool when they're flying around and in the bush, but I don't know if I could cope with one for a pet!
But asides from that we just get basically what you get - sparrows, pigeons etc. We get them especially in our backyard since I have guinea pigs who spread a lot of seeds over the lawn, and they have like a communal feed there every day :D
And no, I don't live in the outback...I live in a suburb about thirty minutes from the city. ;) It's pretty cool the birds we get around here. Although we don't get any like the wedge tailed eagle or anything...no way would they be hanging in the 'burbs :D
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omg there is always galah (rose breasted cockatoo) in pet shops around here and they are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooo gorgeous. but for some reason i seem to like the medium sized birdys like tiki or the teils or the conures the best:D
OK well lets get back to the point of this thread. Good luck on finding a bird just for you and becareful who you buy and who from :D :) ;)
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lol jess..yes..lets ;)
zanzan - you work at a shelter? i really wanna help out! how old are you? and you are SO lucky you get those gorgeous birds in your yard. i get stupid pidgeons that fly in and leave feathers in my yard :rolleyes:
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lol :D
i cant beleive you get cockatoos and stuff in your yard still. The galas are ALL over the pet shops, but they would be so gorgeous in the wild!:eek: :eek:
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Actually, there are birds that sell for over $10,000 as well.
10000?! :eek: i wouldnt buy anything for 10, 000 dollars...
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zanzan - you work at a shelter? i really wanna help out! how old are you? and you are SO lucky you get those gorgeous birds in your yard. i get stupid pidgeons that fly in and leave feathers in my yard
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I love pidgeons, they are so beautiful. I love the robins that fly into my yard and MY favoret wild bird in my area is the black crow. I love them they are soo beautiful. We only had 1 pideon here in my area befor it was a homeing pidgoen and kids killed it by throwing rocks at it :(.. SOO sad.. :(
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And chances are if a person is selling a bird for a very low, not discount but absolute bargain price (ie $30 for a cockatiel) then they're probably less concerned with the health and happiness of the birds they sell than the amount. Kind of the equivalent of a puppy mill.
I don't mean to speak for Popcornbird and Jessica, but in their defence I don't think they were talking about price in terms defining an animal's worth...more about looking very carefully at 'bargains' where animals are concerned.
You can't be too careful when you don't want to keep profit breeders in business. I think they were just pointing out that it's a characteristic of these kind of breeders to sell for a very low price.
Yes, and I agree with that...and I know some people in here were saying that, but it seemed that others were just a bit confused...
Oh, and I really like birds too. I think they'd be awesome to have for a pet. I've never been allowed to have any other animal besides dogs (and a few fish many years ago) though. I'm definitely a dog person though! :)
