Pellet diet specifically formulated for your Cockatoo is recommended in order to meet their recommended dietary nutrition. This also prevents the Cockatoo from becoming too picky. Enriched seed mixtures designed for your Cockatoo are also great as long as your Cockatoo isn't only eating his favorite seeds and discarding the rest. To supply calcium, your Cockatoo should have a Cuttlebone in it's cage at all times.

Although pellets can provide your Cockatoo with the ideal nutrition you should also be sure to include variety in your Cockatoo's diet. Giving your Cockatoo a variety of foods will inspire them to eat. Cockatoo love fruits, nuts, beans, legumes, grains and vegetables(no avocado). You will enjoy seeing them flurry excitedly to their dish at each feeding time.

Your Cockatoo should have water readily available at all times.

Cockatoo droppings should be removed daily and the bottom of the Cage disinfected at least weekly.

Use Gravel Paper already cut to size and made especially for bird cages. This is the cleanest and easiest low maintenance way to go. It will absorb spilled water and droppings.

Once a month you'll want to disinfect the walls of the cage to protect your Cockatoo's health. The Water Dispenser and Feeder Bowl should be rinsed out daily and disinfected weekly. This helps protect against harmful bacteria. Cage Cleaners disinfect and dissolve hard dried-up droppings.

Trim your Cockatoo's nails and beak. Wing clipping is also recommended if you want to limit or eliminate the bird's flying abilities. If you do not feel comfortable trimming or clipping, an avian veterinarian or breeder will do it for a small fee.

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Cockatoos are very lively and affectionate birds and bond very closely with their owners. However, they demand a great deal of time from their owners due to heir need for affection. Cockatoos will become depressed or exhibit neurotic behaviors if deprived of affection. They are intelligent, playful, mischevious, and they can be exceptionally loud. Cockatoos in general they do have pretty good speech capabilities.

Cockatoos should have a cage no smaller than about 24"x48"x48" with a bar spacing of 1 inch. The larger the cage the better. A strong cage (wrought iron, stainless steel) is necessary to withstand the cockatoos tough beak. Cockatoos love to chew and destroy things, so providing chewable toys is a necessity. Provide both hanging toys and toys that can be picked up in the feet. Softwood toys, tree branches, vegetable tanned leather, rope toys, bells and cardboard are all great toy options

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A cockatoo is any of the 21 bird species belonging to the family Cacatuidae. Along with the Psittacidae family (the true parrots) and the Nestoridae family, they make up the order Psittaciformes. The name cockatoo originated from the Malay name for these birds, kaka(k)tua (either from kaka "parrot" + tuwah, or "older sister" from kakak "sister" + tua, "old"). Placement of the cockatoos as a separate family is fairly undisputed, but it is not resolved whether or not other living lineages of parrots (such as the lories and lorikeets) are as distinct as they appear. The family has an Australasian distribution, ranging from the Philippines and the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia.

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