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Is Organic Bird Food Really Better for My Bird?

First off, I love your site and am grateful to have found it. I like local shops, don’t shop Petco, and most pet stores don’t have a great bird section anyway.

I’m writing because I have a question about Bell, my quaker parrot. He squeaks. He didn’t used to, and it seems to be getting more pronounced. When he sleeps and sometimes when he eats – it just occurred to me that it must be a breathing thing. I should take him to the vet, maybe. (more…)

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Feather Plucking Parrots – a Questionnaire to Help Work Through the Problem

As you can imagine we get a lot of calls and emails about feather plucking problems. Because of this, we are the only website on the Internet to have a comprehensive feather plucking category that contains products that we know (based upon feedback from our 70,000 plus customers) are helpful in the reduction and/or the elimination of feather plucking. Many of the emails are quite detailed. Others will ask nothing more than “My bird is plucking what can I do”?

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Why Do Eclectus Parrot Moms Peck Their Male Chicks to Death?

Mitch Rezman
May 7, 2015
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care
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Feathered factoid: Eclectus parrots represent about 20% of parrots that are sexually dimorphic meaning you can tell the sex of the bird by it’s color.

Eclectus boys are green, girls are red. Only male Indian Ringnecks – have the ring.

It’s like headlines ripped from supermarket check-out tabloids. (more…)

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Got Pigeon Milk – For Real?

Mitch Rezman
May 6, 2015
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care
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Birds can have weird habits. I knew a Cherry-Headed Conure that loved to attack toes. Some birds will only eat food that has been through their water dish or will fall in love with a particular pair of shoes on your closet floor.

African Green Pigeons take weird habits to a new level. Pigeons in spite of not being mammals meaning I have no breasts are able to in fact produce milk. Pigeons generally incubate their eggs for about three weeks.

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How Defense Wins Football Games and Saves Parrots

Mitch Rezman
May 5, 2015
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Macaw
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Remember the letters E-B-F. All your birds emotions are built upon 3 activities.

Eating – Breeding – Fleeing

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Of Moms, Motorcycles and Magpies or How One Cockatiel Coped With Separation

This is a tail of separation anxiety between my bird and me and my mom and her village.

from the Joni Mitchell song “big yellow taxi” come the words “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” So it was interesting to hear that popcorn was “beside herself” in my absence – I learned this from a 1000 miles away – in Oklahoma – maybe. How did I get here? Funny you should ask.
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I’m Pinned to the Ground by a Feathered Demon Send Help!

The names have been changed to protect the innocent

“Well Johnny, your father and I have decided since you won’t eat anything that’s good for you we feel is perfectly fine for you to eat French fries and drink Coca-Cola three meals a day until you turn 21”

File under “my bird doesn’t like what I give him or her” I’ll make sure that I won’t do anything that would possibly make my bird unhappy”:

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Understanding Your Bird’s Hormonal Issues May Help You Cope

Eclectus and African Greys have the ability to breed year-round, many times, and never show changes in their behavior.

They both reach sexual maturity around the age of three and eventually mature and grow out of it. Conversely, Amazon parrots reach sexual maturity between the ages of five and twelve.

You can expect a great deal of aggression for one to two years during this period. The good news is Amazon aggression will settle down once they are no longer hormonal.

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How Bird Friendly Is Your Bird's Cage?

How Bird Friendly Is Your Bird’s Cage?

Mitch Rezman
April 1, 2015
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info
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I make up words when it suits me – who doesn’t?

I no longer read books. I read the biggest dictionary I could find and now in my spare time I keep rearranging all the words into stories that I like in my head. To that end sometimes there’s just not enough words in the dictionary to explain every thought.
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I Want My Bird to Wear a Harness But My Bird Doesn’t Like It – What to Do?

I'm having a heck of a time trying to decide. 1. Which size Aviator flight harness to purchase for my Meyers Parrot (weighs about 80 grams) for the record -…

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Is Organic Bird Food Really Better for My Bird?

Feather Plucking Parrots – a Questionnaire to Help Work Through the Problem

Why Do Eclectus Parrot Moms Peck Their Male Chicks to Death?

Got Pigeon Milk – For Real?

How Defense Wins Football Games and Saves Parrots

Of Moms, Motorcycles and Magpies or How One Cockatiel Coped With Separation

I’m Pinned to the Ground by a Feathered Demon Send Help!

Understanding Your Bird’s Hormonal Issues May Help You Cope

How Bird Friendly Is Your Bird’s Cage?

I Want My Bird to Wear a Harness But My Bird Doesn’t Like It – What to Do?

Since 1993Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free$7 Ships Small

Toll Free877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,Lowell, IN 46356 USA

Since 1993
Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free
$7 Ships Small

Toll Free
877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,
Lowell, IN 46356 USA