About Us
| "Your website along (with your MOST AMAZING, DROP DEAD COCKATIELS I HAVE EVER SEEN) is awesome! I cannot believe there are actually cockatiels out there that look like this." - Joey, Ontario Canada "I am just in awe with the wonderfully colored birds you have... Just wanted you to know how fantastic your birds are." - Debbie, Indiana "You have one of the best web site and THE most beautiful Cockatiels I have seen. " - Adriana, Dallas Texas "Don, The birds are just absolutely great! The one pearl pied and the normal felt like Turkeys when you hold them! They are very full in the chest and solid birds!!" -Linda, Laguna Hills CA |
| Meet the BEST OF 2006! |
| Here are some of the Boys! |
| Castor, along with Pollux (not pictured) and Achilles, are three unforgettable brothers from Zeus and Hera. The BEST pairing here! |
| from Greeson pair #129, and Aura's daughter, 71-98- this boy has fathered some of our favorites here! Just look at Keenan and you'll see why... |
| Another original Greeson boy! Zeus has the best pedigree in the aviary (his brother 59-97 is also here, but not pictured) He IS a pair #129 boy! |
| Sparks is Balls' first son with a gorgeous Whiteface Cinnamon Pearl hen. His hawky brow and impressive head are all from his father! |
| Velcro has the Magic Triangle in his pedigree based on Tory 1/2 & 1/2 (which was built around Chicken George, a Greeson Pair #16 cock) |
| Keenan is the only son of Moose & Sadie, our original Feret birds with a heavy Greeson influence. He's long and elegant with a refinement that we LOVE. |
| Apollo is one of our first 3 original Greeson boys. A linebreeding of pair #129- His chicks are large, robust and very impressive! |
| Ares is Apollo's brother! Thankfully, there are two of these beautiful boys to share the hens at TopTiels. Full Greeson genes and all! |
| Achilles is Castor & Pollux's brother. He's the largest of our Normal cocks here with a HUGE head and a beautiful disposition. Zeus & Hera son. |
| Big Boy is from our Greeson pair of Apollo & Leta. His name says it all and most of his siblings (not pictured) are just as large as he is! |
| Rocky is from 55G-883-94's son (pair #16 cock) and Moose's daughter. He has a great full crest and hawky brow set onto a large frame & head. |
| Balls is definitely a showstopper! Breeder, Julia Allen paired an uncle of the famed "Sunburst" with an original Tory 1/2 and 1/2 for this boy. |
| A sublime pairing of Hogan and Charmin, Angus' pedigree reads like the "Who's Who" of the Cockatiel World! Pair #16 and the mother of all Pair #54s. |
| Renowned for his size and stately brow, 112-98 is one of our newest and most impressive cocks. Zeus' nephew, he is from a pair #129 cock & Jennings Hen |
| Sterling is Hera's Nephew! He's here to begin a new linebreeding program the largest most impressive birds to ever leave the famed Greeson Aviary! |
| A stately Jennings cock with a pedigree to match! Freddie's lineage melds with Carter Atwood stock to give this senior an impressive stature that all the hens love. |
| The son of Aura herself! Made famous in Philip Feret's aviary, Aura was a Cockatiel to which all other Cockatiels have been held to to determine quality. |
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| All of our main cocks are here because of their pedigrees echoing back to the famed Greeson line that we are so admiring of. Many of these birds proudly wear the band number 55G, while others are direct descendants of them and have been bred by other collectors of this fantastic line of Cockatiels. Top Tiels currently hold the most Greeson banded birds of anyone in the United States! These birds, when used correctly, pile on the size and pass on the classic blocky heads that Linda Greeson's birds have become known for. Their linebred offspring will continue this tradition and their F1 outcrossed progeny will be competition on show benches all over the country! |
| More About Our Boys |
| A Word about Breeding |
| It is common practice at TopTiels to pair the pedigree of a cock to the visual attributes of a hen. The genetics behind a fantastic hen do their best to ensure that she proudly wears all of her qualities visually. The width of her chest, the size of her head, her crest, her eyes and her length are all displayed right there in front of you to admire. Hens express their sex-linked genes visually and many of the genes that contribute to the overall appearance of a Cockatiel are sex-linked. But cocks can be tricky. The genetic code that governs what their offspring will look like can stay locked safely away waiting patiently for a chance to express themselves. Oftentimes the cock's pedigree is used to make an educated guess as to the phenotype that this cock will reproduce. If his mother was an outstanding subject, then this cock may be nowhere near as impressive as some of his progeny will be. On the other hand, if his mother was “less than gorgeous”, his chicks have the same odds of inheriting this negative attribute no matter how stunning this boy may be! It may help to think of this as we do breeding Lutinos. Cocks can be split to Lutino, but hens either are or they aren’t. If at all possible, it is beneficial to see both parents of a male that is being considered for breeding purposes because chicks resembling either parent may be produced instead of any resembling the original male. |