About 20 years ago I fell in love. I was a married woman with 2 kids and one on the way but it was love at first sight. I couldn't help it! He was a lutino. Mean as a rattlesnake on a hot day, but he was gorgeous, and he talked a sweet line!! He was aptly named, Killer! I knew right then and there that I must have a cockatiel.

Well, my first tiel was not a lutino, and it wasn't a male, and she wasn't mean. She was a normal gray female, we affectionately called Mrs. Flutz. Our name you see is Fultz, and people ALWAYS mispronounce it as Flutz...hence, the birds name.

I remember one day I got a wild idea. I was tired of seeing my baby live in an ordinary cockatiel cage, so I decided to build her one. I bought 1" x 1/2" galvanized mesh wire (didn't know back then about the zinc), and pine 1" x 1" boards and got to work! The cage ended up being big enough to put my kids in! *G* It was 5' tall, and 4' square! My husband cut a branch off of an alder tree and made her a fancy pirch. She looked so lonely in that big old cage that took up half of my living room!

Pretty soon Mrs. Flutz had 9 friends in with her. And was extremely happy! I slowly ended up selling off the birds, after my kids were all in school and I went back to work. I was never home so I ended up selling all of the birds except Mrs. Flutz, who I gave to a friend. That was a long time ago, and I am glad to say I now have tiels again and plan to have many more!

I have Jake, a normal gray male; Angel, his mate, a normal gray hen; then there is Zach, and Esther, both normal grays. Babies of the other pair, so I am going to trade one of them for another female. Yeah right! I'll end up keeping them and buying another female AND another male!

Angel will say "pretty bird" and Jake has a pretty large vocabulary. I think he taught Angel to talk! Zack is a talker and a whistler too! I think Jake has been teaching him what he knows. Now Zach makes lots of noise, and Jake is pretty quiet.

I also have two parakeets; a white and a blue, Garth and Shania. Garth is real busy! Always pacing, chewing, and chattering, but is the friendlier of the two. Shania just kind of lounges around the cage looking pretty! They both sing real pretty too (thats why we named them Garth and Shania).*g* Garth says, hello and whacha doin?

I enjoy raising cockatiels. They make me happy! I am not into raising show birds, or manipulating genetics. I raise cockatiels for companion birds, and nothing more. A few weeks ago, I sold a normal gray female to a little 10 year old boy for what he could afford - $20! He has been visiting my birds for 2 years waiting until he could afford a nice cage and all the accessories he needed. Mom and Dad made him save his allowance so that he would realize that this pet was more than a companion, that she was also a big responsibility! One thing that make me glad to sell her to him, is that Mom and Dad also made him put enough money into a savings account to pay for a visit to the vet, just in case. I visited them after they had been together for a couple of weeks. Both boy and tiel were very happy together! That is what it's all about!

I'll be adding more to this section of my site, but I wanted to get started at least! You can see a few colors and mutations.

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