Originally posted by popcornbird
Tell Roger and Milly............ITS NOT SPRING YET! Silly tiels! Silly!

Are they screaming a lot too? Did you seperate them?

Tiels mate for life most of the time. If they are a bonded pair, which is sounds like they are, I would not seperate them. This could lead to severe depression, especially if they have mated successfully and she ends up laying a clutch of eggs. Of course, you could just make sure their cages are right next to eachother and they visit with eachother everyday. If we seperated our tiels our birds would get very sad.

Tiels mate all year long, ours would do it every day of the year, all day long.

Our female tiels would always rub themselves on their perches, or stick their tail feathers in the corner of the cage as if they were being mated, and then lay eggs. I don't want to be too graphics in the way they "displayed" themselves. Some tiels will mate with just about anything......newspaper being the most likely thing for males, and a perch for females. They do "M", like lot of other animals do and it's completely normal.