Baby cockatiel Pickle, and her brother Chutney were the results of accidental captive breeding. The following link will take you to the MYTOOS site, and the thread I posted there. MYTOOS is a strictly anti-breeding site, and normally will never give any advice regarding hand-rearing. However, in this case they made an exception, because of the extreme circumstances.

Please take the time to read the whole thread. It is long, and in Pickles case, has a desperately heartbreaking ending. It shows all to clearly why life should not, MUST not begin on a cage floor.

Gracious thanks too Charlie and the mods of MYTOOS for allowing me to use this link.

http://www.mytoos.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=125207#Post125207