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badjay posted...

They're all cute, my first cockatiel was a pearl like Omelet. I hope it works out for all your birds, the moment they're sleeping on two feet instead of one you have to bring them to a vet ASAP.

Quiche has been fighting this for a while and is doing well. Antibiotics have helped keep symptoms in check, and seemingly completely fixed up Nod and Omelet when they came down with the same, but Quiche just keeps relapsing once she comes off them.

Omelet's pearling was quite a surprise to us. The father was wild-type, but must have been a carrier. The mother is a lutino pearl, but the color difference between the pearls and her "main" color is subtle enough that we didn't notice it until we looked closer after seeing how the babies turned out, we thought she was just plain lutino.