4 COCKATIELS TAKE OVER MY HOUSE! + How to tame a bird?

Guess what? If you guys seen our last videos where seven kaiikes take over my house and it was insane, you are not going to be disappointed because in this video, guess what's taking over my house? Tina here pointed out that in all the time I've been making videos on my channel, I have not had a lot of cockatiles. So, today cockatil are going to be taking over my house. There are a bunch of cockatils right here and we're about to let them loose. And by the way, in about like 5 minutes, I'm going to ask you the question of the day cuz I want to get to know your birds. But first, we have got to let these cockatils loose. So, Tina, who did you bring today? You walked in with again separate cages. So, tell me, Tina, why is this bird isolated? Is this bird anything like the demon kay nutmeg? That is my favorite. >> He's mean. >> He's mean. And he was fighting with the others, so he got separated. >> Is he always Is he mean to you? >> He's mean to me. >> And I handfed him. >> He says that he's not. So, I'll be letting him out. >> You're going to be all nice to him and he's going to be nice to you and I'm going to look like a lunatic. >> That'll be really funny. I think this is a really good opportunity for me to show you guys something that I kind of always wanted to show you. A lot of you ask me, "How do I choose a bird?" All right. So, first of all, if you have no experience with cockatails and you're going to get a bird, if you go up to a cage with a bird, let's say the bird comes to you. What do you guys think? See that? That is not a scared bird. That's going to be a really easy bird for a first- timer because the bird's already interested in you. There's a lot of taming that the bird is already going to do for itself. See, let's pretend, okay, you're interested in my nails. It's okay. >> But you see, the bird is interested. A lot of times you'll go up to a bird cage and the bird will be terrified and fly away. Not a good bird for you to try to attempt to train or tame when it's your first time bird. Not impossible, but just it's going to require a lot more work. So, if I put my finger up and let's see. Look. See, this bird's already like, "Hey, how are you? I want to be your friend." So, that will be a good indication that this would be an easy bird for you to work with. See, this one's like he's going away. But this one is obviously going to be the friendliest. Now, let's test crazy out and see. What did you do? Did you eat something? What's on your head? >> I don't know what that is. Turmeric. I don't know if that's my makeup or if it's >> Yeah, you're so cute. Okay, so she says this one's crazy. This is Speck. >> Let's see if Speck is crazy. Who should we let loose first? >> Speck out first. >> Oh, let Speck out first. Okay, >> he will. >> Yeah, they're all flighted. >> Flighted birds are great because it helps them burn off necessary fats and energy. >> Uh, it's filming me. >> Yeah. >> All right, here we go. Let's see. Come here. Come here, Speck. Come on. >> Yeah. What? What are you doing? What are you intelligent? Because you need to turn around. Come here, Speck. This is the exit. This bird's not too swift. I'm just telling you now. >> Okay. [Laughter] Come here. Okay, fine. Look. Just non-stop scream. >> I know. What are you scared of? >> Dramatic. He's not crying. >> Okay. It's like a Shh. Okay, that's a new one. [Music] It's okay. Sweet, sweet baby. Okay. Honestly, I don't know how crazy this bird is, but let's just say I needed to tame a bird at whatever stage they're at. Oh, I'm sorry. I got lipstick on you. So, one thing that I like to do if they'll at least come this far easily is just kind of hold them and get them used to like love. I feel like that's very easy to do with cockatils because their feathers are softer so they don't mind head scratches and it's like a hypnosis that you put them in. And then he'll take his time to like try to get out once he realizes he's been hypnotized. Okay. So, in all honesty, this is what I would do. Take the bird and watch television and sit with the bird like this. And I would just kind of pet the head and let the bird bond with me. Then the bird like will just calm down and relax and feel my heartbeat. Cockatils is is easier to do than let's say a ringneck because you know they really enjoy their head scratched. My dad calls it hypnotizing them. He's like you hypnotizing them. Oh, you're going to go home with lipstick. By the way, a lot of you will probably end up with lipstick on your bird at some point. It'll come off. You don't need to get it off. like they'll naturally be able to pull it off. It's okay. Yeah. Look at you loving the tension. I know. So then when you try a new spot like so you can hypnotize him in one spot, right? See he like this. He's a boy. Okay. Then if you go try to go farther, he's going to resist maybe. Okay. He likes that. He like that. And you just calm them like Yeah. And listen, it can take many many times of this and also inclusion. I know. I know. And then eventually they just like get much more calmer and tame. A lot of it isn't necessarily about all of the specific training cuz there's training, right? Which is very important, but there's also taming. And a lot of my taming comes from like bonding. So this one you said was very wild. It's going to fly away. You got to get them all used to that love, you know, especially if you can get them to sleep on you. A really good time a day to do this is when they're already tired and they've already eaten, right? And you're just going to like watch TV. Let's say this bird would go to bed at 8. Normally at 8, 8:30, you take the bird out. It's overt tired. It doesn't want to fight as much. It's fed. You're not trying to get anything out of it. And you just kind of let it bond with you like that and sit until later. You'll just be able to have them more loose. And you know, just let them feel that comfort. It'll take like hours and days of doing this. After that, what you're going to want to do is bring the bird with you to all your activities. Not going to want to be near the cage and whatever. This bird saw the dog and got scared, too. So, I know. Do you want to sit on my shoulder? So, we'll try the shoulder. Yeah. He might have the instinct to fly. He might also go potty on me at this point. So, now he's understands that like we're chill. What did What happened to your head? Looks like you ate something with turmeric. And you can tell, do you see how he's like shaking his head? It's a bit loud for him. like I was too see I'm too loud for him. Hey, how do you like that? I don't know why she says you're crazy. I think you're pretty amazing. Isn't he cute? >> He's adorable. And he's behaving. >> Are you behaving? I love the cockatil whiskers. You know, like their little like black. Oh, he's so sweet. I like the feisty ones because when they love you, they'll like just love you. Okay, you want to go tired now? Do I make you tired? Yeah, I made you tired. Why don't I have a cockatil? It makes no sense. I love them so much. Honestly, let me tell you something. Cockatils are the one bird no matter what. I could look at any picture. Tina sent me a picture today of the birds that she's bringing and I could smell them. Like cuz I grew up with a cockatil, a yellow cockatil named Dulie was my first bird. It transformed my life. Here I am. Yeah. This is the bird you were talking about. >> I don't know what you did. I don't know. He was He was crazy. Beck has always been the noisy one. The crybaby. He cries. I used to I was telling Marlene I run downstairs thinking that there was something wrong with him and there's absolutely nothing wrong with him. He's just screaming in the dark. >> Are you dramatic like that? No. He says he's not. Hi. He's amazing. >> Got a big head. >> I love the big head ones. Let's take the crazy birds out. Should we take your siblings out? Every bird that she says is crazy is not. Hi, Smokey. What I love about cockatails is that although they bite and can bite you and you could get like a really hard nick, if you've had any other bird, it's not comparable at all. >> No. Hi. You like my nails? A little too much. A little too much. Oh, you Oh my god. Let the nails go. Hi, Smokey. You're handsome. Look at your calm little brother. This is >> He's very protective of her. >> Really? >> Yeah. They're they're siblings, but he's very protective of her. >> Oh, look at me getting cockatil. I'm not going to kiss you cuz Okay, I couldn't help it. Hey guys, do you need to have my nails? What's up with that? Okay, Kaiikes are much crazier cuz like look, you just let them loose and they were >> running around causing problems. I think he has Oh my god, they smell so good. M. These are the best birds. Also, they don't do a lot of damage. Like, I'm not going to lie, they could eat your homework. You could have a book cover and it's totally chewed up. But for the most part, you're not going to be missing your floorboards. Do you know that cockatus in the wild? Okay, it's starting. By the way, don't ruin my hair because George did give it a blow dry. So, yeah, it's a little bit poofy, but at least something's done with it. Do you know that cockatos in the wild, part of their foraging is destruction? It's destroying things to get to what they need to get to. Guys going Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. >> Should we see what Jersey thinks of them? >> Sure. >> Let's see. Vinnie tried to attack me. >> Why? >> Jersey. Who are they? While he's doing his low foraging thing cuz you know how they like forage low and so like I'm in his pace. What do you think? She's like, "No." She's like, "Absolutely not." What do you think of them? Are they cute? Yeah. Or you just want to play. Yeah. You just want your own attention. Tina came to see you. >> He's woke up. These guys, >> they all woke up. Jerseyy's like, "Oh, let's play. You want to go play with the cockatil?" Jersey, what do you have to say? Come, come, come on. Look at her run. >> Come on. It's okay. Come. >> She wants to hide. Look here. If you want to catch her, you got to make like a cove for her to like hide. Come look. Come. Come. Come in the cove. Come on. You excited? She wants to blaze. She says, "Why are you filming those cockatils? They're not doing anything." I'm a cute bird. I'm a cute bird. I'm a cute bird. Yeah, Vinnie. Oh, there he is. Come on. Since you want to come, >> Vinnie. I'm your biggest fan. Hello. Will he come to me or is he going to bite me? >> He might come. You want to try or? >> I don't know what I want to try. >> I'm worried. He looks mad. >> Yeah, he is pretty mad right now. Vinnie, are you mad? >> Hermy's like, "Yeah, I know." >> Are you upset? >> What? Come back here. Can I get your pennies, man? >> What? He's waddling away. >> Yeah, he he gangster leans. >> Vinnie, where are you going? >> Will he let you pick him up? >> Yeah. Vinnie, come here. >> He's got some tension in his hand. >> What? >> Shut up. What? >> Did you Did you >> Do you want to trade? >> You want to see them? >> Okay. Can I have a kiss? >> Okay. Let's go look at the cockatil. >> I gave you one. >> That's nice. >> I did. Uhoh. >> What do you think? >> Save you. >> When I get a chance, >> they're not witches. They're not witches. >> They're actually Say something about Smokey. No. He gets really gross. Oh, you want attention? You want to see more witches from the same country as you? This one's obsessed with me. Smokey. Okay, don't be jealous. It's okay. Okay. What do you think of Smokey? I don't think he likes him. Say something. Look, they're over there. He laughed. Oh, you deserve love. Okay. Normally, this could be dangerous. Like, if you have a bird and you're kissing Yeah. you're kissing another bird, it could possibly make your bird bite you and bite your face. So, it may not be safe to do this, but I'm doing it because I can feel the tension in his leg. So, not to say he won't surprise me, >> but I try to kiss from above to have control over his beak. >> Well, come on. Let's meet the other witches. >> Come. Oh, he's not happy about this. See, he's Are you scared? You know that's not good for your image being scared, right? Are you a gangster? See, this one loves me. >> So, cockadills in the wild, they eat grass seeds. So, what are grassy? They're like, "So, yeah, >> I guess." So, who cares about >> cockadillos? Who cares about them, right? We're gonna talk about you. >> I know. >> Look at him. >> He's so cute. This is >> a dollar 30 max. >> Really? That's why I don't wear jewelry because I used to have a lot of costume jewelry and jersey ruined it. But to me, it looks like a bird toy hanging on someone's ear. >> It is a bird toy hanging on my ear. Now, if he breaks my necklace, I'll be upset. But this I don't care about. This is cheap. You look like you're enjoying it, though. Look at that, guys. Now, other birds could break this really quick. >> Yeah. >> You know what's funny? My macaw don't do this. My My bigger birds really don't care. >> The bigger birds don't care. >> This is like they found something really exciting >> and it's on my ear. >> Look at the new demon sleep. >> Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about with that bird. One really great thing about cockatils is that yeah, the chill also makes it easy to have them out. So like this little bird sitting out while you're doing your homework, while you're drinking your tea, while you're hanging out is so chill. Jersey being out or Cody being out can be a lot less chill. Cody, my African gray would be like, "Don't bite that. You might put a hole in the couch. Don't chew that. Oh my god, your flew over there. I thought you were going to be over here." Like you're not just going to sit. With Jersey, my cockatu, you'll be able to sit. But as long as you're petting her and hugging her and it's requiring a lot of your attention. I'm also not saying that there's no rambunctious cockatil. But comparatively, this is an amazing first bird. This is an amazing bird for anybody, even for me who has every kind of bird. I just love cockatils. I don't know why I don't have one except for the fact that I don't really go out in search of any birds. A lot of these birds came to me. I'm now searching for a monkey. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not. I'm not. >> It's after my ring. That's one thing I feel like cocktails love. Jewels. Yes. >> Yes. You're so cute. >> They're great apartment birds, too. >> They are great apartment birds. And that's a question I get a lot. >> Condos. >> Yeah. This is about as loud as they're going to get. They might do that over and over again. Even the crybaby over here, he was just crying and he just wanted my love and it was amazing. I'm scared. It's okay. And they smell so good. Honestly, if you set out to get a bird and you did what I said where you went up to the cage and the bird came up to you, you chose that one. Okay. Yeah. I think you would have an easy time bonding and taming a bird. But when you make the commitment to get a bird, you don't want to just have them locked in a cage and forget about them. It's a huge responsibility. You have to really care about that. You have to be the type of person that cares about that. That has to bother you. If it doesn't, you should not get a bird. What are you doing? But this bird I love. Who's this? >> That's Smokey. >> Smoke. >> Look at you. And they look at how they smile. Like cockatails have a beautiful smile. And the smell, guys, if I could describe the smell. It's like I don't know like sweet musky. It's not fruity or powdery like a mustache parakeet. It's just perfection. Oh, I love you. I love you. And everything they do is like so >> dainty. >> Yeah. Dainty. That's the word. I was going to say minute, but it it's dainty. Not that you can't get bitten. It's just >> not that bad. >> It's not that bad. Like I've had budgies bite me harder. I think like out of all the birds, I think these guys and mustache parakeetses love jewels the most. But Brando's never went for my ring, but always cockatails go for my ring. Brando always goes for my necklaces and she loves zippers and like those kind of things. What are you looking for? Oh, you look a little chunky. You're getting the little excited. Okay. So, yeah. So, this would be an example of a bird getting a little too excited and wanting to mate. So, in that way, you never want to get used to like satisfying that by accident. So, that is something you need to look out for when they're like spreading their wings like that. And also, that means that's a male. The way he did that, I'm telling you guys, I'm the bachelorette. I almost feel like if I just sit here, all my birds will be surrounding me. Wow, Tina, you brought the wildest party of birds to our house. >> These are my best birds. >> Question of the day. Remember I told you I was going to ask you a question. So, this is what I want to know. I want to get to know your birds. And I also love to know how birds are in their behavior. And I want to know the kind of bird you have and also his name cuz I love to imagine his name. Does your bird go potty on you? Or does your bird take the time to alert you to remove him from you? or like Jersey for example, she will not go potty on the couch. She'll walk to the edge of the couch and go potty somewhere else. She'll never potty on you. And we were talking about it because I have my African gray Merlin who just is for some reason it just goes with his personality. He just goes potty anywhere. No warning, nothing. I just think he's very rude. So, I would like to know about your birds, who they are, and do they take the time to notify you or maybe go potty off of something else so they don't like go potty on your couch? Or do you have one of those birds that just has no manners? Let me know in the comments. >> I have a few of those. Potty on my head. >> On your head. Wow. I'm not potting on my head. >> That's a big potty. >> So, I'll be honest, guys. I thought this was going to be like a major cockatile takeover. They're flighted like, but I guess I forgot how chill they are. I'm not promising you a chill bird, but I'm just saying like you saw the Kaiik video. It's very different situation. You saw how Vinnie just behaved. You saw Jersey. Very different. I think it's great to do videos like this with a bunch of them because that's going to be like them at their maximum with other birds, with other energy, and so you can see what the difference is. Like really go look and compare. Now, Kayika is a very high energy bird in general. This is apparently the cockatil sleepover. I mean, even never it's never been so quiet ever. >> Nappy nappy. >> He hasn't moved. >> Nappy nappy. But if you have any questions about cockatil or anything you want to know, please write them in the comments. Tina will collect them up because she's really good at remembering all that stuff. And then we'll answer all your cockatil comments. There's so much I would love to inform you about cocktails, but honestly, I thought this was going to be like rambunctious. I thought the one that she actually she had one separated like he's all the big bad bird and all he's done is sit here and cry like a big baby and get his face painted. Yeah. Oh, no. He gave me the most beautiful kiss. >> Once again, as always, thank you guys for watching and thank Tina for making this possible. And also, Tina, like just for you to think like, you know what? You really haven't had cocktails on your channel. I'm like, why? Like, this is my first bird. I'm in love with cocktails till this day. I the sniff that I Oh, I love it. I could smell them when you guys send me your cocktail pictures because a lot of you send me pictures of your birds cuz we communicate when you purchase on Parrot Station. And if you're getting mystery boxes, I want to know what kind of birds you have and you guys share your photos. And I'm just like, I could spell them through the computer. I know I'm crazy. Yeah, me too. >> Did you watch me and think I'm crazy before you met me? >> Sniff this. What you told me when I texted you the picture? You said you could smell them. >> Okay, >> I can. How am I going to How am I going to make a good thumbnail with this? There's >> I don't know. They're just it's like the it's like the sleepy stooges or something. I don't know. They're just >> But it just goes to prove like if you want a pet that you can interact with, if you live in an apartment or a place that doesn't take a lot of noise or won't allow noise. I mean, they're perfect. I think kyikes are like the malininoa of birds. And my brother has a Belgian meloninois. And I really compare having a dog like that to having a parrot because I think the same type of person that can tame a meal is the same type of person to work with parrots. Especially parrots that are rescued, rehomed, they have all of the same issues. You're talking about territorial animals, right? They're extremely territorial. Yeah. They get lack of trust. They need to be socialized early for them to be able to get along with multiple people. This is the second mal in our family. >> But even that one is chill compared to most. >> Oh, he's really chill. He's funny. >> These are like your pugs of the dog world. >> You guys know you're on YouTube, right? Like >> like look alive. Okay. Like squeeze you. So, um, maybe they can tell us what bird they'd like to see next. >> Yeah. What do you want to see next? >> Manifest that bird. >> I think we should surprise my dad. >> What if he watches this video? >> Then maybe you shouldn't put this on there. >> This doesn't look like a cockatil takeover. >> No, it looks more like a cockatail sleepover. [Music]