Why Weighing Your Bird is So Important
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Why Weighing Your Bird is So Important

One of the best ways to ensure your bird’s good health is to weigh it on a regular basis.

By using a good quality gram scale (you don’t have to spend a lot of money on it) you will have one of the best preventative health tools that can provide red flags to any potential problems before they develop into something a bit more serious.

We don’t recommend using a spring-based scale used for measuring kitchen ingredients because we are seeking accuracy.  (more…)

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Proper Size Thermo Perch for Scarlet Macaw
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Proper Size Thermo Perch for Scarlet Macaw

Hi Elaine

We received your order. 

Upon examination of your order, we see you ordered a MEDIUM thermo perch for a bird that is too large for a medium thermo perch. A Scarlet Macaw will need a LARGE Thermo perch

The medium could break and is not thick enough for such a beefy bird. A larger perch is required for such a large bird so it does not have to grip it so tight to hang on. 

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Getting Your Bird Play With Bird Toys
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Getting Your Bird Play With Bird Toys

How many times do you get a new toy for your bird, stick it in the birdcage close the door, and then go and work on your computer or watch television? 
 
Then you wonder why your bird chewed your television remote or the wire to your mouse. Introducing a new bird toy into your bird’s cage is no guarantee that he or she will engage it. To complicate this people will introduce new items into the birdcage when they get home from work as the sun is going down. 
 
The problem with introducing new items in the birdcages around sundown is the shadows that can be thrown which may scare the birds or the birds may become phobic over these new items.

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