The cockatiels have names. They are named Crash and Pippin. This weekend they took their first bath. Birds like baths, right? Apparently, baths are something to learn how to do. Pippin, who in the post below is sitting on my finger displaying his crest, took to bathing like a fish to water...mostly. He jumped into the small pan of water we provided for bathing, and took some drinks. When we spritzed him with a mister he opened his wings and dipped into the water and got fairly soaking wet. Crash, on the other hand, is afraid of baths. He is afraid of a lot of things, our more timid baby. But we managed to mist him mostly damp.
The problem - our babies didn't quite realize step 2 to the bath was preening. They are ALWAYS preening when dry, so it didn't occur to us they might not realize this was the logical second part of a bath. They just sat there and shivered. I finally had to take them up into the kitchin into the sun of the main window til they warmed up and dried off enough to realize they were supposed to preen. They finally figured it out.
Let's hope bath #2 goes slightly better for them :) I'll take pictures during bath two so you can see the soaking babies. They are rather alarming!
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