Breeding cockatiels?

Question

I juse got 2 pairs of cocaktiels.
One is lutino male and cinnamon female and the other pair is lutino pied male(half yellow/white and half grey) and a pearl female
What colours will i get if i breed the first pair?
what colours will i get if i breed the second pair?

I have a big cage which is divided into 2 parts(there is a mesh which goes right through the middle). If i put them first pair on one side and the second on the other, will it be ok if they can see each other while breeding?

Answer 1

When I breed cocktiels I had serveral different pairs and they where fine being able to see each other!

It is very hard to tell you what you will come up with as for color

I had a Latino male (red eyes)
And a cinnamon Pearl female

every clutch was like this
All the females where latio and the males where all cinnomin Pied

Second pair

Gray female
Latino male

All the males where grey except every once in a while one would be Pied

all the females where latino

You should fined yourself a book they do have coloration books out the that can be of great help!!

Good luck!

Answer 2

You do not need two cages one will be fine. Many breeders have a mixed flight (several cockatiels in one cage) and they breed perfectly fine, the mesh divider is a plus and you should keep that. The only thing you will need is nest boxes, and these will need to be covered so nothing can get in the box and disturb the process. You should have extra sources of calcium in the cages for the female, because laying eggs can deplete her calcium. You will want to check the box frequently to see if there are eggs and to prevent the hen from dying due to an egg getting stuck.
if the eggs are infertile, leave them in the box until the hen or male are no longer interested in it. The cockatiel babies will need to be taken out of the box to be hand fed, once the time is right. Now the color situation you will not know what color babies you will have until you know what each cockatiel is spit to. You can search on the internet, for possible color blends.

Answer 3

You can find out what colors you will get with this link below.
http://www.kirstenmunson.com/cockatiels/blue.html

I'll tell you the lutino you desribed with GREY on it is not a lutino at all. Any yellow cockatiel with GREY who looks like it is lutino is a PIED not a lutino. And depending on what your birds are SPLIT TO,(what their parents are) that is the only way of determining what colors you will end up with. I'll also tell you right now ANY cinnamon babies you get out of them will ALL be FEMALE sense cinnamon is a sex linked mutation.

Keep in mind some mutaion colors skip genrations meaning you could get all grey babies but then later on down the road the babies when bred will throw colored babies like you want. Never having grey babies of their own but always throwing the colors you want now.


I find useing ferret cages to house and breed my tiels in better then anything called a breeding cage like you describe here. I also use boxes without lids because its easier on the parents not to have to crawl threw a hole going in and out of the box, and I keep their boxes on the top levels having them go down stairs to eat for excersize. Their box not having a lid on it allows both parents to tend to the babies at the same time.

Answer 4

yes but i just had my mating set hatch thier first baby last june 2006, funny thing was it only hatched when there was no noise and very warm in the house shes a grey and white but her dads yellow or albino and mom's grey

Answer 5

hello :)
you will need two separate cages for them. one set for each, with breeding boxes attached to each cage. the breeding boxes have to be solid and completely closed off so no one can see in but so you can open it to take out nastys like unfertilized eggs or dead babies. but they will usually stay with their mate until one dies. so let them choose who they want as their mate's and let them breed, and you can sell their babies to pet stores or independently (:

Answer 6

it depends ya never know what you'll get like a human baby you don't know what the baby will look like until you see it. it mainly depends on the bird's traits.