When they are "hormonal", does it mean they want more children or they just want to mate? They have 4 children flying around and 5 kids sitting in the box. Isn't enough???
I wish they would just mate... people on another forum say their tiels mate for pleasure. I wish mine would do this. It's not too bad though. I can see some reduction in how much they attend to the chicks but both parents still feed them. I haven't tried to feed them yet.

Older chicks started to lose weight a little bit but the youngest chick beats all the records - 2 days ago he measured 113g, and yesterday he was 123g !!!!! I never had such a heavy chick! Of course, this is probably not his true weight as I weigh them in the evening. He is still the smallest in size (and has less feathers) but he is the heaviest! Is it normal? I used to be putting smaller chicks back to the box closer to the hole, now I will be doing an opposite! I can see that older chicks are being more hungry as they cry more.

I can't decide where they should fledge. New large cage sounds scarier to me and more hectic. Also, nobody ever even goes to the bottom part - they only sleep up above. Can't imagine somebody wandering at the bottom of that huge cage! I will probably leave them for fledging in the breeding cage, as I did with the first clutch and remove the box as soon as the youngest leaves it. What do you think?

just look at them - everybody HAD TO check the box when I left it without lid while I was weighing the babies! They all got in and out, and checked it all over.

SOOO CUTE!!!

They're so cute! I don't see any pearls but it looks like you have two or three cinnamons, and it looks like they're all light pied.

When the babies are about three weeks old or a little more they'll naturally start eating less. That might be the reason that the youngest chick is the heaviest - he's still growing fast so he needs a lot of food.

Cockatiels don't realize that sex is how you make babies, so mating is always for pleasure. But the natural urge to raise a family is always there too, and whether they go for it is really just a question of whether the conditions are right for it. Some hens won't lay eggs unless they have a nest, because they don't think conditions are right unless a nest is available. Other hens aren't so picky and will lay eggs whether they have a nest or not. Cockatiels are opportunistic breeders who will keep on making babies as long as conditions are right, so it's up to us humans to change the conditions to make them stop breeding.

thanks. I like the most their "beard"

It does look like a breard lol.

Lovely looking birds and babies...

do you mean it's their (baby's) choice to eat less (then why are they crying???) ? I can hardly imagine parents to be looking inside and thinking - "ok, this one is getting older, I need to feed him less, but this one (the youngest) is still growing - I will feed him".
Well, if it's their choice then again - do I need to interfere trying to hand feed them? Imagine: you trying to lose weight and I come to you every day with an ice-cream

Are cinnamon chicks necessarily girls? The father is pied with a lot of yellow and light-grey feathers, mother is a regular pied (not so pretty, sorry to say LOL)

Thanks Jan

Since the mother or father is not a cinnamon and since females cant be split to sex-linked mutations (i.e cinnamon) then that must mean that the father is split to cinnamon which means any cinnamons will be girls. I hope I didn't make it more confusing. You can get cinnamon males if the mom is also a visual cinnamon but that would make it a 50% male or female