With Charlie my grey success has come quite easy,I have had no major problems with him. Cracker my cockatiel is another story. He came to me as a 4 week old chick unweaned and very scrawney.It took a lot of time patiance and dedication to get him up to scratch. Then came the biggest challenge. He got metal poison and it took all my vets knowledge and determination to save him.He was only 4 months old when this happened , It took a few months of special care and lots of help and advise from the vet who was always available for us.Cracker is now almost 3 years old and shows no sign of his rough start in life.He can be a little agressive for a hand reared tiel but I put this down to having been prodded and poked with needles so much when he was ill.He is my little survivor .