Catching the budgies...

[birde]

I am having so much trouble. I can't catch my budgies from the aviary to move them to a new cage. Its not them thats the problem, the tiels go crazy! They go flying everywhere and disrupt the budgies - sometimes when I am *THIS* close to catching the budgie..
Is there a way to calm the tiels down? They go psycho. :(

I need to get the budgies out so the tiels can breed.
Will they breed if the budgies are there?

[Greycloud]

Try darkening the room, it seems to calm them down.

[WhiteRaven]

If the aviary is outside, you can still do what Greycloud suggested and catch them when it is getting darker. Although this is probably not a good idea because the budgies will be stressed because they can't see the new place you put them...

When I catch my birds, I normally wait until they land on the cage mesh at a certain point and quickly net them. Sometimes the other birds do get in the way and you have to wait for them to move. It does need to be done quickly to minimise stress in the birds, but I understand it does take a while and improves with practice.

My cockatiels are currently breeding with budgies, turks, and ringneck doves in the aviary.

Good luck! I hope it all works out.

[birde]

Well I have now separated both pairs (with help from my dad), the Tiels are in the aviary and the budgies in another cage, both have their nest boxes, cuttle fish, fresh food etc.
Fingers crossed at least one pair will breed! :)

[WhiteRaven]

Great to hear. :)
Good luck!

[new guy on the block]

they would have probrably bread better together, sorry to say after all your troubles lol, both species use a method of breeding called colony breeding, this works on the concept of safety in numbers. but i think that u will find that there will be immediate breeding upon the removal of birds to rebuild numbers in the colony. cockatiels will continue to breed all year round and sometimes even use their chicks to hatch a second clutch of eggs aslong as you continually thin out the number in your aviary.
hope this helps one breeder to another ;)

[new guy on the block]

they would have probrably bread better together, sorry to say after all your troubles lol, both species use a method of breeding called colony breeding, this works on the concept of safety in numbers. but i think that u will find that there will be immediate breeding upon the removal of birds to rebuild numbers in the colony. cockatiels will continue to breed all year round and sometimes even use their chicks to hatch a second clutch of eggs aslong as you continually thin out the number in your aviary.
hope this helps one breeder to another ;)

[birde]

Thankyou!
The hen seems a bit hyper lately, I can tell she is slightly irritating her mate..?
She keeps sitting on top of the nestbox looking out kind of hunched? I think she is inspecting everything (shes not bending over to breed, I know what that looks like Bebe does it once in a blue moon..).
I'm dying to add to my tame flock so I hope she goes down soon. She might even already be pregnant (I know birds don't get pregnant but I mean the egg process may have started) but who knows. How could I tell?
I wanted to take the Budgies out in case they tried to breed in the Tiel's nestbox!
Any more hints/tips? Thanks