Put a cage full of finches in a room if you want to breathe life into it. In reality, the term "Finch" kinda-sorta describes hundreds of "passerines." You can tell…
First little housekeeping. Popcorn's off her eggs! Follow her adventures on Twitter This weekend marks daylight savings time where we set our clocks back one hour. My former brother-in-law who…
Hello Windy City Parrot
I am visiting friends in Puerto Rico and they have a 2-year-old Moluccan Cockatoo. He is very needy.. loves to be petted and is a little neurotic.
The past few months he has been pulling the feathers out to bloody skin and pecking at it around his neck to the point where the Vet put a collar on him to stop more damage. he still tries. he eats well. (more…)
Mark Hagen is to Parrot Knowledge as Dennis Yu is to social media or as Michael Jordan is to basketball.
His knowledge base of parrot breeding is second to none.
He’s got a Master’s Degree in agriculture and runs the largest single parrot research Institute on the planet – HARI.
He IS the creator of Hagen bird food.
Parrotlets – although appearing to be about the size of a parakeet, is not how they see themselves. They definitely have a big bird mentality and an abundance of energy. Because they had not been in captivity for all that long nobody really knows their average lifespan which is generally expected to be around 15 to 20 years, some say even 30. With proper care, these little birds can be quite durable pets.
Parrotlets – although appearing to be about the size of a parakeet, is not how they see themselves.
They definitely have a big bird mentality and an abundance of energy.
Because they had not been in captivity for all that long nobody really knows their average lifespan which is generally expected to be around 15 to 20 years, some say even 30.
“I’ve got a lot of addictions but not a lot of time so I’ve been going to polkaholics anonymous because they offer a two-step program” mitchr
So Popcorn our cockatiel, (pictured above) has become a prolific mom and if we put our hand within 12 inches of her in her cage, my arm will be ripped off by the doting mother sitting on 2 nonfertile eggs. We feel your pain and we are about to embark on a journey trying to figure out why this is happening and how to fix it.
Recommendations are to leave the egg(s) in place for 11 days past the time the last egg of the clutch is laid. Normal cockatiel clutches have about six eggs. Popcorn is sitting on two – does that impact her? (more…)
the post date is actually 10/12/15 - the 1/1/2010 date is for database sorting purposes. I apologize for the confusion I have been a motorcyclist for almost half a century…
Nutrition Resources Obtaining sound and biases information on nutrition and feeding of birds & parrots from reputable sources is not always easy. For your convenience, we provide links to several…
What’s he talking about now Martha?
So my sister the psychotherapist sent me an article from NPR entitled Struck By A Macaw? Now there’s a medical diagnosis code for that found here.
Our federal government is mandating that On Thursday, doctors, hospitals, and health insurers must start using the ICD-10, a vast new set of alphanumeric codes for describing diseases and injuries in unprecedented detail apparently including injuries caused by macaw parrots. (more…)