This Hello is from breeder, the tamed one.

The Lutino is from petshop, that one I called "Morning" still cannot socialise with people yet.


Just now my Mata Puteh escaped and flew away, again its my maid's carelessness! Luckily only cost RM20. If it is my Pekin Robin, I will sure deduct her salary.

This post has been edited by Juztiny: May 22 2008, 09:16 PM

Nice bird! Does it sing? I went to many bird shops saw a few, but none of them made any sound, so didn't buy. But saw one of the bird forum video clip of this bird, it makes a lot of funny sound.

Wah, your mata puteh so expensive ah?? Can sing very well one, is it? I bought my Mata Puteh from Penang Toby.

Which bird shop you bought your San Wu? And how much?

Wow..congrats! Hope your lovebird chicks can survive, will the mother knows how to feed the chicks? If not, you will have a very tough time in hand feeding such a tiny chick. Must use syringe, and the food must be very fine only can be push through.

I only know how to tame a Cockatiel. May be the method is more or less the same.

Not sure how young is your bird, the younger it is, the easier to train. I spent the first few days just sitting next to the cage. I took it out for the first time. I used a towel wrap around it, so it won't struggle and fly away. I pet on its head for about 3-5 minutes. And then put it back into its cage. You need to stick with this towel training until it come to realize you mean no harm to it.

It takes time to tame it down, but in order to tame a bird till it will come back to you, unless the bird was raised from a chick. The trust needs to be built over time.

The next stage is to finger training by teaching your bird to perch on a stick or your finger. Gently nudge your finger to the portion of the legs. Repeat this routine until the bird instinctively steps onto your finger.

As with teaching anything, repetition is the key.

This post has been edited by Juztiny: May 25 2008, 09:46 AM

What a beautiful bird you have! How many you have? Keep in outdoor aviary?

I have a white canary. Used to sing quite a lot, ever since I bought other songbirds like Magpie and Pekin Robin, now my Canary refused to sing.

Actually I feel geri by looking at these chicks (when they are very young without much feather).

My handfeed lovebirds had grown up quite a fair bit. See picture below. Now I put them into a bigger cage during day time, so that they could stretch and flap their wings and learn to stand on the stick.


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I think he feels inferior as compared to those Magpies. Sigh....

Birds also can get jealous too, if I put my 2 cockatiels on my shoulder, the tamed one (normal grey) will try to push the new bird (Lutino) off my shoulder. Very funny...

This post has been edited by Juztiny: May 26 2008, 06:03 PM

Here is the website where it teaches how to handfeed 1 day old chicks. http://www.lovebirdsplus.com/day1babies.html

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Added on May 30, 2008, 8:53 pmThe price you mentioned on Sharma around RM60-80 was how long ago? 10 years ago too? If you can get this kinda price currently, do let me know too.

I just came back from a jungle retreat trip for 4 days in Melaka Bukit Hantu. Saw many birds inside that jungle, quite a few Sharma, Magpies, Serindit, Bayan etc. Very nice experience.



This post has been edited by Juztiny: May 30 2008, 08:53 PM

Wishing you better luck this time. Since your tiels don't know how to feed the chicks, you better take over and handfeed it, otherwise sayang lor...waited for 5 years already!

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Added on June 2, 2008, 11:00 pmVery sad...don't know what to do...my Lutino Cockatiel is dying...I really have no clue why it suddenly collapsed, I checked it no injury, but it just weaken suddenly and seem very difficult to breath. Now is 10.30pm, serdang vet is close. I couldn't do much except just watch him helplessly.

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My Lutino Cockatiel died soon after I posted on the last thread.

Yesterday I went to Macau Trading and complained to the boss, that the Lutino I bought from there only 3 weeks already died. And then I bought a Merbah Jambul back. Here is its picture. Can sing a few short note.




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How long is the Cockatiel breeding season occur, once a year? or twice a year?

That day I saw someone wanted to sell a pair of healthy adult Lutino Cockatiel for RM380. I regretted I didn't buy, because thought that I already had my Lutino, didn't expect it to die so fast. Now have to wait for the next opportunity.

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Added on June 6, 2008, 10:55 amAnyone here keep Blue Rumped Parrot (Tanau/Puling)? Someone wants to exchange with me 3 birds of Blue Rumped Parrot with a pair of lovebird.

I heard Blue Rumped Parrots sound not so noisy as compared to Lovebirds. In fact sound like singing. So quite tempted., but their colours not very colourful. Any other opinion?

This post has been edited by Juztiny: Jun 6 2008, 10:55 AM

Tamed one from RM150 - RM250.

Untamed one from RM110 - RM150.

Macau Pet Trading in Bandar Tasik Selatan. It stated RM120, but can nego down to RM110.

Good to hear that. You know what to feed it, right?

Yes, that's right! Over there also have tamed one for sale, but the boss not willing to sell anything lower than RM250 each.

I'm getting 2 more cockatiel chicks to babysit and handfeed soon, this time the chicks are pied and pearl. I'm actually very interested in Lutino, but very hard to find Lutino chicks to handfeed. Since the breeder I know has pied and pearl chicks, I just sapu first, then will see how they turned out, if the colour is ok to my likings then I will keep, if not then will probably try to exchange with others on Lutino or sell.

This post has been edited by Juztiny: Jun 11 2008, 09:23 AM

Hehe..since my cage still have sufficient space for 3-5 birds. No harm adding more since got cockatiel chicks offer. So..wanna sell your lovebird chick to me? I can hanfeed all in one go just same effort anyway.

Now I only left one lovebird at home. I want different colour from my existing collection, that is why I swap a pair of my lovebirds for 3 Tanau (Blue Rumped Parrot).

I sapu all this batch. You can call up David and ask him whether he has any more coming to hatch or not. I heard he supplied his tiels to Pets Wonderland.

Nice bird. I like this gouldian finch colours very much. I know someone who bred this gouldian finches, one day I may keep finches like gouldian and Java sparrow too. But not now...hehe...

I had exchanged a pair of my lovebird for 3 Blue Rumped Parrots, but the birds are not in tip-top condition. Took them back home only realised that their beaks are not really healthy. Quite regretted that I had exchanged my lovebirds with that guy. I was told these parrots were very picky on the food (only eat sunflower seed), that is why they are mulnutrition and caused the beaks look flacky.

I will try to see how I could improve their diet, but may be very hard to change.

This post has been edited by Juztiny: Jun 15 2008, 07:17 PM