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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:58 pm 
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I don't know if they are pied, but I know they are super cute.
I wonder why young chicks always seem to be looking up when their pictures are taken. Looking for Mom to come with the food?



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:45 am 
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Ok I'm showing my ignorance here....
Please, someone explain, what colour id pied?
In simple terms please :shrug: :shrug:

I'm awaiting a baby budgie colour pied?
Is whitish, yellowish creamish or what?

OMG Im dull :shrug: :shrug:



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 7:05 am 
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Pied isn't a color. It has something to do with how the colors are distributed on the body. I think it means the colors are in a more random pattern.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
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Let me tell you how I understand it (no guarantee my understanding is correct)
Normally all tiels should be gray. As a result of mutations some pigments that are making up gray in the feathers is gone which results in "no color" in those spots, or what appears yellow to us. Basically being pied means missing some normal (gray) pigments.

I can see that at least one baby will be pearl or cinnamon pearl - the one who is on the front of the first picture. Can't say yet with 2 youngest.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:10 am 
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yesterday I was handling raw chicken preparing to cook it and one tiel almost landed on the chicken which I think means that smell is attractive to them. They land on the plate while I am preparing rice with eggs.
I have read they can have cooked chicken, turkey, etc. I really want to get away from eggs for some time, I wonder of I could offer them some well cooked chicken. I even boiled a piece for them without salt.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:26 am 
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All the chicks are pied! The yellow crests are a giveaway. Pied is a mutation that removes the melanin pigment from part of the body, so that you get a different color than what's normally expected in that area. In cockatiels, melanin produces grey color so you get patches of white/yellow where you'd ordinarily expect grey. Pip in my signature is whiteface pied.

But in a lot of parrots, melanin interacts with the feather structure to produce the appearance of a blue color, and when you add yellow on top of that you get green. So in these species, when you remove the melanin from some areas you'll get yellow instead of green and white instead of blue.

Birds aren't thought to have a very keen sense of smell, so when a bird flies to a plate of chicken it's probably just coming to see what kind of food you've got. It's OK to give them small amounts of cooked chicken instead of egg.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
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they were not interested in chicken at all.
I disagree, one chick is the same pearl! Unless its considered pied as well.



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Yes, a bird can be both pearl and pied. You'll have to wait for them to feather out more to be sure, but right now they look like five little pieds to me, and maybe some pearl in there too. I'm not very good at identifying pearl during the pinfeather stage.



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 Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds
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Thanks that clearer now...
My birds luv cooked chicken, turkey
and also some fish all cooked.



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Jan wrote:
My birds luv cooked chicken, turkey
and also some fish all cooked.
no salt when cooking?



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