About
I have had birds for some 40 years & have been breeding only cockatiels for the last 22 years, After starting out with budgies, pigions & parrorts.
When I started I had about 20 cockatiels in pieds pearl & lutino. I went along to the Melbourne show grounds & purchased my first cinnamon pearl cockatiel for $700 & was hooked on these beautifull birds.
I met ALLAN GODFREY who had bought birds off PEGGY CROSS. Peggy wrote a book on cockatiels with DIANNE ANDERSON.
About 15 years ago I bought a pair of Whiteface pied cockatiels from a person in Sydney for $5000 a pair.
Look how things have changed because you can now buy a good quality bird for $80 to $150.
Cockatiels have a good personality & you can teach the males to talk.