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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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More Free Bird Toys & DIY Bird Toy Videos

Sometimes it’s just hard to rationalize spending money on bird toys that you know will be destroyed.

Gas prices are not going down soon and available funds that we have to devote to our pets seems to be getting diminished daily.

Search the term “bird toy” on Google and you get 7,300,000 results. Windy city Parrot like many sites offers bird toys with free shipping ( $49 minimum order on our site). Bird toy parts although getting harder to find are still available.

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Would You Like to Spend Less on Your Bird?

Without sacrificing the quality of life?

Every once in a while we get a little blowback from the people that sell us the bird toys that we sell to you. They don’t understand why we give you instructions on how to make your own bird toys.

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Following Up on Last Week’s Conversation About Our Birds

Mitch Rezman
March 6, 2015
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info
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Rant

You are reading a blog.

Blogs are considered social media.

I consider myself a social media guy telling my stories to you, listening to yours.

We press the digital flesh every day on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn and Pinterest.

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Not Looking at Your Bird Holistically May Be Dangerous to Its Health

How many times have you watched in awe as a flighted bird hops off the top of it’s cage – the “flap, flap, flap” then it lands on an inch wide piece of ceiling crown molding or a computer monitor and in bird speak says “what’s up?” Never giving a thought to that gravity thing that keeps the rest of us tethered to Mother Earth.

These are special creatures indeed.

Do we really give our birds enough credit for their ability to adapt?

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How Did Our Cockatiel’s Leg and Foot End Up in a Paper Cast?

Mitch Rezman
February 26, 2015
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info

Funny you should ask – file under life imitating art imitating life.

On the heels (<- pun) of last week’s blog entitled “How do birds sleep standing on one leg?” where we saw the most exceptional illustrations of how the flexor tendons in a birds leg act as an ingenious pulley system enabling a bird to firmly grasp a perch even while sleeping and in the case of birds of prey this system also aids in the killing of said prey.

Mother nature as usual was simple eloquent and right to the point. The question arose recently, for us, how do you shut down 50% of that system for maintenance? It’s been an interesting few days.

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Bird Cage Seed Guards – A Pet Bird Keepers Solution Or Problem?

I purchased a new cage for my severe macaw about a year ago and the seed guards are only 3 inches in width. Since she seems to like to hang on the side of the cage, and of course poops while there, the guard doesn’t catch it and we have a mess on the floor.

Could you recommend a particular cage approx? 20 deep x 24 wide with larger seed guards? thanks!

Deb

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Your Government Wants to Outlaw Your Pet Bird!

Mitch Rezman
February 13, 2015
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info
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We’ve all heard about all those government perks Swedes get – 97% of their healthcare is picked up by various Swedish taxing bodies (about 9% of Sweden’s costs for health and medical care amount to approximately 9 percent of Sweden’s gross domestic product GDP)

Stuff like 5 weeks paid vacation when you start a job, increasing with your length of tenure – 480 days of paid parental leave – it’s cold and dark and then sunny and perfect and all those beautiful women (although I’m reminded here in edit by Catherine that the beautiful women are not supplied by the government 🙁

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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?

More Free Bird Toys & DIY Bird Toy Videos

Would You Like to Spend Less on Your Bird?

Following Up on Last Week’s Conversation About Our Birds

Not Looking at Your Bird Holistically May Be Dangerous to Its Health

How Did Our Cockatiel’s Leg and Foot End Up in a Paper Cast?

Bird Cage Seed Guards – A Pet Bird Keepers Solution Or Problem?

Your Government Wants to Outlaw Your Pet Bird!

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