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Cockatiels!

If you're anything like me, you love to view pictures of other folk's birds, so I'll put up as many as I can!

<--- This is "Sable", a beautiful 2003 cinnamon / wf / pied hen and her 2 sisters (to the right). Their grandfather, Carter, is a 15 year old U.S.A. grand champion from well respected US breeder Carter Atwood!

Meet Bailey and Casper. (left) These two tiels have been crazy about each other from the time they met, and tried 4 times to have a family. I guess practice makes perfect 'cause they were finally blessed with a fertile clutch of 4... Shasta (right) being their first daughter. Isn't she a pretty baby girl?

Peggy, a beautiful sweet big lutino hen (left) and Logan, a handsome cinnamon whiteface male (right) have had 2 clutches. Logan was also the first to be a daddy and the second bird to join my aviary.

Here's a pied clutch (left) and a lutino clutch (right). These babies are about 9 weeks old.

Frisco (left, wf pied male) and Willow (cin.wf pied hen) are very bonded and have not had a family of their own yet but are wonderful foster parents.

Xena is a huge standard golden pearl hen with an amazing full crest. She is one of my best show birds!

Maestro: WF emerald Steele: WF silver pied male Max: pearl male Paige: cinnamon pearl spangle male ~6 weeks old pied hen henx s sp~angle

<---This is "Bugsy", son of Casper and Bailey above

SL Yellowcheek cinnamon pearl / pd chick

Calypso: pearl pied male

Opal: yellowcheek cinnamon pearl pied

Yellowcheek Cinnamon Pearl Pied Cock

Lutino Pied - 4 weeks old

WF Pearl Young Cock...

He will lose his pearling after his first molt and resemble a WF grey male (like "Bugsy" above)

2002 Whiteface lutino hen

(with a dirty tail - oops!)

2002 Cinnamonl whiteface / pied chick

Big standard grey baby out of Magna and Carter

Silver pied chick out of Sterling and Crockett

"Comet"

"Hershey" (cinnamon pied <--- whiteface cock)

"Mingo" (cinnamon pied yellowcheek) --->

"Chiffon" (lutino hen)

6 weeks old

These 2 pics are of the same bird... a very large show quality standard grey hen out of "Carter" and "Magna". She's a beauty and sister to the young cock bird below. These two are weighing in at 12 weeks of age in the 129-132 gr. range.

For birds so young, these two siblings have lovely head shape and size, straight back lines, full crests and very nice wing set. They are siblings of the lutino pied "Chiffon" above.

"Tess"

2002 standard grey hen

"Tess"

"C.J."

(Carter Junior)

He'll get his yellow face after his first molt

"C.J."

2002 grey cock

"Jasper"

saddleback standard pied

"Daisy"

Whiteface lutino hen

nice crest!

son of "Max" above

pic. courtesy of Darlene Johnson

Whiteface pearl pied

chick at 4 weeks

"Halo" Lutino / WF hen

out of Bugsy and Tequila

"Kali" my personal pet cockatiel and a real love!

"Chiffon" Lutino show hen

Whiteface Pied hen

Whiteface charcoal cock "Tye" and

Whiteface pied hen "Amy"

Mmmmm - Handfeeding formula's delish!

Cinnamon pearl chick peeking out of the warm brooder waiting to be handfed

Here's the above baby at 5 weeks of age

Many thanks to Cathie for the amazing following pics

Left "Magna" one of my largest cinnamon pearl hens

Right: "Beauty" WF pearl pied / recessive silver

Whiteface cinnamon pearl pied chick

"Princess"

Pretty young lady "Princess" at 7 weeks

" Winter "

Whiteface Cinnamon Pied Cock

Winter , one of the finest cockatiels bred at Homestead's Hatchery is out of "Aspen", a cinnamon pied whiteface hen bred by Phil Feret of Washington and "Logan", a cinnamon whiteface / pied cock bird. ( see pic of Logan close to the top of this page ) Logan has sired many offspring, is a dedicated father and uncharacteristically has not bonded to any one particular hen. (He's my "casanova" male!) Logan takes fatherhood VERY seriously and does more than his share in brooding and raising his chicks.

" Frost "

2003 Cinnamon pearl / wf hen

2003 Cinnamon pearl whiteface / pied hen

2003 Whiteface pearl / pied male - 6 weeks of age

Butch

"Smudge"

Nice large cinnamon pearl pied chick out of show stock

Loki and Banjo. Loki (pied) is a brother to the chick pictured left ("Smudge") and Banjo is a cinnamon pied / yellowcheek out of Bingo and Opal.

Cute babies

"Shiloh"

"Butch"

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"Spring"

"Smudge"

Shasta is a whiteface lutino like her dad. They are snow white with red eyes much like albino rats and rabbits.ck here to add your text.

<--- a sweet whiteface cinnamon pearl hen

Homestead's Hatchery

<--- This is "Flicker", a gorgeous 2008 lutino pearl hen out of "Flame", a full brother to 2 top ten lutinos and out of a stunning lutino hen "Luminesca". Her mother "Aurora", a very large pearl/wf hen is out of Champion "Chilaca", a WF/pd hen, and by "Eclipse", a Julia Allen bred cock. Chilaca also resides with us here at the Hatchery and we feel blessed to be able to work with her.

" Flicker "

Flame and Aurora's first clutch below:

Flame and Aurora's two Whiteface lutino daughters growing up!

Homestead's Hatchery

Below are some of Aspen and Kodiak's babies

These 2008 babies below are out of "Cassidy"

(Pearl / wf) and by "Butch" (WF Pearl /c /pd). See Butch near the bottom of this page before his first molt.

Butch and Cassidy's babies above, while still in the brooder and below, 2 weeks later.

"Alaska" beautiful whiteface cinnamon pied, brother of Winter and Tundra and out of Aspen and Logan

"Ketarra" "Billie"

Two of Alaska's pretty daughters

"Billie"

"Sable"

September 2009

Some of our beautiful breeding stock and show birds... A few of these lovely cockatiels came from some of the top show producers and judges in the US such as Julia Allen, Phil Feret and Sabrina Hull to name a few. A number of these birds have produced show offspring that have gone on to make their parents proud!

In this pic, the birds were enjoying some warm sunshine after their cage was power washed and they had a good shower! They spent the better half of the afternoon preening, sunning and watching the curious sparrows!