These photos are from yesterday

These photos are taken today! Warning: cuteness overload!!!















feather growth shot!

You weren't kidding about the cuteness overload!

The white fringe on some of the the feathers is unusual. I wonder what that's all about.

Day 17 baby is quite a poser. Adorable!

Omg those tiny tails and the mohican hairstyle! They are unbearably adorable. I might get three if the proper eggs I left in the nest together with the dummy ones will hatch... I can't wait to have some chicks, it's all your fault, Baruch, seeing yours reminded me of the fun I had

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Why are these babies so unique?!? I thought they were going to be a whiteface pearl but then I remembered that they don't have white down.



Thank you! Especially the 2nd baby




Haha I love your description for them
Thank you! Chick raising is so much fun!

A video!!

2 oldest are 18 days old and the 3rd one is 17

http://youtu.be/q8xIg8y01Pg

I never realised how large their feet looked...LOL
So lovely you've done an excellent job with them...
Well-done you!

I know that your last handfeeding effort ended in disaster, but if you have the nerve to do it again I'd suggest that you do some assist feeding with these chicks. At this age my babies' crops are bigger than their heads pretty much all the time, and these babies look pretty empty. Marsh and Bio are first-time parents and they might not completely "get it" about how often they're supposed to feed the chicks. Feel free to ask Susanne if she thinks it's OK that the parents are letting the babies get this empty, because I've only seen what two pairs of parents do and she's observed many many more. Have you been monitoring the babies' weight?

Their feather development looks pretty good though, if they're behind at all it's not by much - here's Susanne's 'Watch Me Grow' photo series for comparison: http://www.justcockatiels.net/watch-me-grow.html Don't compare the weights to your babies, this was a bigger than average chick, it's the normal development pattern that we're looking at here.

I know that your last handfeeding effort ended in disaster, but if you have the nerve to do it again I'd suggest that you do some assist feeding with these chicks. At this age my babies' crops are bigger than their heads pretty much all the time, and these babies look pretty empty. Marsh and Bio are first-time parents and they might not completely "get it" about how often they're supposed to feed the chicks. Feel free to ask Susanne if she thinks it's OK that the parents are letting the babies get this empty, because I've only seen what two pairs of parents do and she's observed many many more. Have you been monitoring the babies' weight?

Marshmallow and Bio are great parents! That video was taken in the early morning. There crops are always full besides in the morning since I doubt they feed them in the middle of the night.

I hand feed them once a day because I want them to be tame with me. The fourth chick was really my fault. I never aspirated a baby and I thought it was rare and I did notice that I fed more that the baby can handle.