Trimming a cockatiel's beak?

I have to trim my birds beak also. What we do is cover the bird with a clean dish rag. Make sure you have covered the birds eyes. Hold the bird in your lap. Use small nail clippers. If you are the slightest bit nervous, take him in! Good Luck! :)

You may want to get some wooden toys...they even come with fruit flavors.If your bird chews on them...that will help keep his beak trimmed.Other than that...the vet is the only option.

If the bird is not trimming his beak himself then you will need to continue taking him to the vet. What do you have in his cage? I have a sunconre( I know I spelled that wrong) and we have wooden toys, wooden perches, and cement perches for him in his cage. He chews on them and thats how he keeps his trimmed down.

This needs to be done by your vet if you are not experienced. He will use a dremmel tool to trim it down. Beaks are sensitive so you don't want to do this without learning how. Ask the vet about you doing this yourself. Ask him if he will show you how in the vet office. You will have to invest in a good dremmel tool to do this. Do you have cuttlebone in the cage? This is an excellent source of calcium and keeps the beaks trimmed. Most birds love it!

Well firstable the main reason why the beak of the bird becomes longer and as a result weak is because of lack of calcium, so make sure your bird gets the right diet and good enough calcium, more in particular females in breeding time. Also buying concrete special perches will help your bird to have a healthy beak and nails. About the trimming, you dont really want to do this yourself because it might affect the trust between you and your bird. Trimming could become a dramatic experience sometime, let somebody else with the right experience to do the job. Sometime your local special bird store offer this service for free or at a lower cost than local avian specialist. I hope this will help to anyone with the same concern.

Well firstable the main reason why the beak of the bird becomes larger and most of the time weak, is because of lack of calcium, so make sure your bird is getting the right diet and good enough suplement of calcium specialy if your bird is a mature female. Also buying special concrete perches will help your bird to keep healthy nails and beak. About the trimming, you don't really want to do this yourself no because I doubt you could learn how to do it, but because the trimming experience could become dramatic for your bird and this will affect as a result the trust on you. Let somebody else with the experience to do it, you might be able to find this service for a lower cost than a local avian specialist ( no every vet doctor knows how to deal with birds )in your local birdstore ( no just a regular birdshop but people that breed birds ).