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I've kept birds since I was about twelve years old. My first interest was in breeding color mutations. In 1989 I bought a whiteface cockatiel from an importer in Miami and bred him with a big lutino hen. From that start I bred one of the first albinos to be shown at an ACS show.

My focus then turned to breeding more for conformation, that is to say, balance, size, posture and length.

In 2006 one of my Normal cockatiels went Best in Show at the American Cockatiel Society Specialty Show. His son took Best in Show at the 2007 ACS Specialty Show. In 2008 the ACS Specialty Show was won by his first-cousin on his mother's side. The breeders of this family of cockatiels have high hopes for taking home the 2009 ACS Specialty Trophy.

These cockatiels come from the lines established by Ken and Maureen O'Steen. Through the years I am out-crossing them to Pam Holmer's Alice/Sally/Edie line and to Linda Greeson's Hogan line. I owe a debt of gratitude to these fine people.

Rick Solis 

Tampa, Florida

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JULY 2010 

  Welcome to CockatielWorld!

What's new! 

NCS ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS

President Julie Allen
1st V.P. Clarence Culwell
2nd V.P. Pat Tucker
3rd V.P. Wendy LaBanca

Puero Rican Dirctor Juan Cotto
Northeast Director Annette Howard
Southeast Director Judy Shapiro
Central Director Dan Easter

Mutations Tab

See pictures of the new Creamface mutation

Conformation Tab

Show Preparation Tips by Julie Mitchell

Health Tab

Cockatiel Diet by Julie Mitchell

Genetics tab

- Description of normal melanin development

-The Elusive Albino

Espanol Tab

-Case Study of Post-natal Progressive Yellow Cheek

ACS-18S-02-99  Best in Show 2006 ACS Specialty Show

2006 ACS Specialty show winner, far left. His son, the 2007 Specialty Show winner at 9 weeks, far right.

You can contact me by email at:

  rick.solis@yahoo.com

Questions and comments welcome.

Great Links:

Elite Tiels Website

http://www.elitetiels.com

MUTAVI

http://www.mutavi.info

Martin Rasek's Cockatiel Genetics Calculator

http://www.gencalc.com/gen/eng_genc.php?sp=0Cock

Dirk Van den Abeele
President of BVA
(Belgische Vereniging Agaporniden)
(Belgian Lovebird Society)

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