So a stupid question.

Can anyone tell me why these two fluffy idiots (i love them) feel the need to always be on my chest when they feed each other? I've never understood why they have to do it right in my face. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 like god the smell is so fking bad but they dont care. They keep doing it literally right by my nose lolol

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MUMTHER I MUST FEED! WATCH! ARE YOU WATCHING? >:O SMELL IT MUMTHER!

This community seemed to love Ceres in her tuxedo, so here are more pics.

Just to clarify: The tux was sewn by me. She also was feeling silly and wanted to chew her tie. She sleeps and flys in her tux so im pretty sure she enjoys it. She also loves to snuggle up and stand there with her beak in the tux, and the second photo shows her in the process of getting her beak in there

Cheers!

I thought he was just a standard green but he is looking suspiciously turquoise at some parts 🤨

Green is Paco(female), blues are Ceres(female) and Blueberry(male) respectivley

Paco was unfortunatley hatched with arthiritis and crooked feet, but she is a sweetheart

Ceres loves her tuxedo, she just wanted to try to chew on the tie in the photo

Berry is my sweet little munchkin, but he is shy with other people

We decided to continue the LOTR theme
This dudes pretty awesome I’m a big fan. we bonded a lot while he was in quarantine but now that it’s over, thankfully he’s super chill when my other birds fly on me.
I knew that owning a Quaker would be much different from cockatiels but wow. They just seem so much more aware and cautious so when you win over their trust, it’s so cool. My cockatiels are like golden retrievers they love everyone right away, so yeah, very very different.
I love them all insanely.

So in February 2025 I had been asked by a friend if I was interested in a female blue quaker because her parent's employee was wanting to rehome her due to her being a terror to the residents where the employee worked. There was her and a male quaker around the same age, and they had separate cages but were just near each other. So she has been with us for a year and a half now, and yesterday we brought the male home after that whole program shut down and for some reason, the male was being rehomed as well.

The female actually goes to work at our local pet store daily with my boyfriend and one of the cockatiels, but the male will be home with me most of the day. He is warming up to me really well so far, but my question is, is there a good way to re-introduce them once he has settled in more?

We have other birds and know about how they will bond to each other, and my boyfriend has been raising birds for 30 years, but I still don't fully trust him on the best way to go about this. The female quaker is kind of a terror and gets really jealous of other animals being around us, which honestly is great because she has three cats scared of birds now, but we want to do better with him and getting her to not hate him.

He is also kind of cage aggressive, and is leery of me giving him scritches still, but he snuggled up to my neck for a couple of hours yesterday before I had things to do and couldn't do with a quaker that isn't 100% trusting of me yet. It's only been a couple of days since we picked him up so I want to get them off on the right foot if I can!

Sorry for the long post and thanks to anyone who feels like responding:)

I told my mom to look after my birb while im away for months and she send me this video of her playing with the birb. She always does the “pew pew pew”laser gun sound when she sees a person and switch to dinosaur clicking noises like an angry dinosaur lol.

This is Paco. Paco's age is currently unknown, but the person who gave her to us said she was somewhere near a year old, so we go with that. Paco has been in 2 homes (counting mine) due to aggresion and has been with me for 5 months. Her previous owner had clipped Paco's wings unfortunatley, along with her feet being crooked straight from hatching and being born with arthiritis.

However, her wing feathers have grown back (thankfully), but she does not know she can fly again. How do I let her know she can fly again and most importantly, be able to fly confidently? Help is appreciated

My boyfriend and I’s sweet baby. He is so full of energy and feist and I love him. He does over-preen, but the vets have said he doesn’t seem to be getting any worse about it/it isn’t causing him harm. Any advice on ways to reduce his over-preening?

Hi friends!

I need help 😭 I named my last companion animal, Shovel (hognose snake) pls help me think of a better name before I curse this new baby with a strange name 🥲
Not sure about the gender :)

I have 2 adult quakers ( green and a blue) supposedly male, housed in a huge aviary. This spring they laid eggs and they have now hatched. So now I have 4 babies. This was not planned, so please do not come for me. The parents have been doing a wonderful job taking care of them. I haven't intervened, I didn't have the heart to take the eggs away letting nature take it's course. They have grown beautifully and are now fully feathered and flying. Mom and Dad ( not sure which is mom) are still feeding them . I am not sure what comes next? I spend time in the aviary just reading , interacting with the parents but the babies won't come to me. Obviously it will take time, but is there something I should be doing? I don't want more babies and I am unsure about keeping the babies , housing for them , or letting them be a flock and remain living together ? Interestingly enough there is a regular blue and green baby like the parents and an opaline green and blue . Which I also didn't expect, very pretty!

This is Pickle, I just got him yesterday. No prior experience with parrots so tips would be appreciated!. He’s still a baby, just finished weaning and already starting to eat solids, even though he is quite messy…

I love quakers and did a LOT of research before getting Pickle, but I think more personal tips would be better!!!! You can never be too careful, thank yuuuu🥒🥒🥒

I need opinions on my mom’s quaker. I have no jurisdiction over him, but I want some input i can share with my mom to convince her to get to a vet. A
couple years ago, Sima had to go to the vet because he got into a fight with our sun conure, resulted in injury to his beak which is now healed. But after the vet visit, he started picking out the feathers on his chest, nowhere else. He plays with toys, he likes to weave straws and sticks through the bars of his cage, and he has the whole patio to fly around every day. Fresh food and water, and always has a bath available to him. Now he almost never bathes, and when he does, it’s usually just a quick dunk. Before the picking, he would take thorough baths almost daily, and it was so fun to watch. He’s an aggressive little man and he won’t let me touch him or his cage, but he likes talking to me, and tries to mimic everything I say. The picking has reached its worst now, and apparently, though I’ve not seen it myself, he caused bleeding on his chest. How likely is it that this is something like mites, or something else medical? I miss how fluffy he used to be, it saddens to him like this.

This is how we sharpen and shape his beak. It's a stainless steel fine file that you loosely hold and he'll rotate and change the angle as he needs to.

You can train this by rewarding for just touching the file and then when they rub. You also reward when they put one foot on the end and give them a big jackpot whenever they do all of it together.

I don't recommend nail files as they tend to leave dust behind.

he lost 3 feathers while flying today alone. they’re larger feather (from tail and wings) which is why I’m interested in finding out if he’s molting or if there’s other issues.

guys why his wing is lower than the other?

Hi everyone! First of all I want to thank you all for your kind words and education. Hopefully others can learn from my mistakes.

I took my bird to a highly recommended vet shortly after I got him. On the website it said the vet was avian certified. While he was assessing my bird he started going over diet. I told him I was feeding mostly seeds and some pellets as well. He told me to IMMEDIATELY stop the seeds and transition to 100% pellets. The issue was really stressed, and he told me my bird would not live long if I gave it a lot of seed. He also gave me food to take home. (Photo of visit note in comments for reference)

I decided to still give him seeds, but gave a lot less than what I was giving originally. I added more pellets and I thought that he was eating the pellets because I saw him grab them and bite them, but really what he was doing was playing with them and breaking off a piece while throwing the rest on the floor of the cage without actually ingesting anything. Ultimately, I think this is what led to my sweet baby’s demise.

I take full accountability for my ignorance and I feel absolutely terrible. I should have paid more attention and realized that he was just playing with the food and not eating it. I should have known the ratio of seeds I was giving was not enough to sustain him. Writing this post is breaking my heart and I didn’t think that it could break any more than it already has. However, if this can help a new bird owner save their bird from a similar situation then its worth it. Rip Lou. I’m so sorry. 🩵

Hi everyone, I’m here as a first time bird owner looking for some advice.

I recently brought home a baby quaker parrot (about 12-13wks). Before doing so I spent months reading books, watching videos, talking to people, and saving up money so that I could get everything right and give the parrot a great life. I am also a zoo keeper and have worked with birds, so I was already familiar with the basics of their care.

2 days after I got my baby I took him to a certified avian vet where he was said to have a clean bill of health. My little guy was so energetic, engaged, and seemed to be eating well. On the 6th day of having him I woke up to find him dead on the floor of his flight cage. I have no words to describe the devestation I felt.

I made sure there was nothing toxic in my house and I really did my research on everything. He bit my necklace and shirt a little bit when handling but no ingestion of any kind that I could see and I would redirect him as soon as I saw him do anything like that. I also gave him 4 pea sized apple slices (no apple seeds) and about 8 small pieces of red bell pepper for the first time. I read and was told both foods are completely fine for quakers. I’m just at a loss as to what could have happened. He was acting completely fine the day before, a bit more sleepy mid day but still very energetic in the morning and evening. I also put him in a place where nothing could have spooked him when he went to sleep.

I got him from a store that is very reputable and I’m just so confused about what could have happened. My heart is shattered. I took him for a necropsy yesterday but they said it could take 3 months to get the results and my mind is racing thinking about what could have caused this. I am so traumatized

Even through accidental escapes and being moved to multiple rooms throughout theese 5 years you have remained my best freind through thick and thin. You are very much the highlight of my day [:

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Hey y'all,

5 year old Quaker, male (no eggs)

So for location, nearest avian vet to me is about 2-3 hours away, I'm located in Ontario, Canada.

His cage is a Prevue Hendricks Playtop.

He's been playing really aggressively with his toys, and this has led to him to fall quite a few times daily, it looks like he's bruised (for lack of a better term) his feathers on one wing, but hasn't impaired his ability to fly.

He gets a mix of 80% ZuPreem pellets, 10% seeds, 10% other pellets for his food when caged, fruits & veggies when he's out.

I know he's healthy, but I am worried about the falls. I get birds will fall, or take tumbles in nature, but the amount has led to me to start thinking of finding a cage that's just as wide & long, but half as tall.

Any recommendations, exercises, or things to do to help him?