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First Prize Smart Crock Bird Cage Locking Food Dish 40 oz

Are they acrylic? My b-g macaw ‘throws’ his ceramic dog bowls around on the floor of his cage!!! He also can untwist the twist bottom ones!!!! Need help desperately !!! Would they fit a macaw cage??? Joan
The big birds are tough sometimes.

These dishes may help. They come in several sizes, this is the largest one. 40 oz

First Prize Smart Crock Bird Cage Locking Food Dish 40 oz – Found Here

The Smart Crocks are guaranteed against damage with a registration card included with each crock.

I have just contacted the company and they state they are made of polystyrene/acrylic resin. We will add the material to our listings.

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The Predictability of Fortune Cookies and Your Bird

Is It Okay to Let My Amazon Eat Peanut Shells?

A parrot should not eat peanut shells, that it is doing so may be from an event in its early learning to eat after being weaned, it could have been hungrier than expected and consumed all it could get into its beak, it could have been given solid food sooner than it should have.
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An African Gray Parrot Plucking Her Breast Feathers on Top of Her Cage

Can We Cure Feather Plucking (Picking)?

There are many reasons that a parrot may become self-destructive.

Until recently there has been very little information to help us along with our feathered friends.

Feather destruction can be a difficult behavior to deal with and not all birds are able to recover from this bad habit.

There are many ways however to help make your parrot happier and feel safer in their environment simply by adjusting their surroundings and improving stimuli.

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Can a Cockatiel Choke on a Fortune Cookie in a Plastic Wrapper?

We posted the picture above to our Facebook page on 8/22/2013) and received the following comment

“I am amazed anyone would give their bird a plastic packaging material. They could so easily choke on it”.

I thought I’d share my reply

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My Bird Can Climb Over and Down the Cage Seed Guards

My Sydney (19-yrs) has finally figured out how to climb over and down the bottom apron of her cage. Has anyone else had this problem and a solution other than keeping her in her cage? The four dogs tend to leave her alone but can not take it for granted.

Having sold several thousand bird cages my recommendation would be to take them off. They actually are more to clean and can be dangerous to other large and small humans and pets in the household.

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Old School Falconry Jargon Untangled

per Craig Hendee – In the case of the Peregrine only, the males are called Tiercels.

Throughout history, if you said Tiercel, it meant male Peregrine.

The female is called the falcon.

If you said the falcon, it meant and was understood to be a female Peregrine.

Nowadays only the purists or those with great knowledge of the history of falconry and its language would understand it as such.

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Eclectus Parrots – Great Family Birds

Surely the most notable thing about Eclectus parrots is their dimorphic sexual coloration. About 25% of all parrots are sexually dimorphic meaning you can tell the difference between the male and the female bird by their color.

The name Eclectus actually comes from the world electric because of this species coloration. Female Eclectus parrots have a the heavier looking body and are predominately red in color. Subspecies are notable for their lavender-ish and blue breast feathers and the daisy yellow tail bands of the Vosmaeri’s. The brilliant red Eclectus’ body is accented by its black beak.
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Bird Food Confusion – Seeds, Pellets, Organic – What’s Best?

Today’s science lesson: because birds are small and have a high need for energy they can digest food rapidly. This is one reason young birds mature quickly and migrating birds are able to store fat which enables long flights. There are species of birds that are known to increase their weight 40% in 10 days.

Birds may break up their food or crush it with their bill, they don’t chew it. Parrots, birds of prey, and finches have short, thick, fleshy tongues which allow them to manipulate their food. Where humans swallow with our soft palates, birds have to tilt their heads back to get the food from inside their mouth (buccal cavity) to the first part of their throat (Oesophagus). The oesophagus continues to draw the bird’s food down into it’s body – where it stands at the Crop.

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Should You Give Citrus to Your Birds?

You know what a motorcycle rider and a bird in the wild have in common? They both rely on a 360-degree view of their environment for survival.

First, full transparency. It’s important to understand where we get the information we pass on to you from “Command Central” at Windy City Parrot which today is from any of our PCs, tablets, or smartphones we interact with daily, tens of thousands of bird owners as well as vets, manufacturers, and rescues, monthly (for the past 20 years) between our website, Facebook, Pinterest, email and other social media platforms.

We listen, we read, we chat and we draw our conclusions. Should you take what we say as gospel? Not necessarily, but it’s not in our best interest to provide bad bird care information.

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Tropican Sizes Are a Bit Different.

Due to our new extrusion operation at Hagen Industries, our Tropican sizes are a bit different. And, notably the Sticks and the Biscuits. These lots are just now coming to the US inventory.

The formulas, flavor & nutrient content, are the same high quality as before…in fact better. For about 10 years Hagen Pet Foods in NY had extruded our Tropican, in addition to our other extruded consumables (small animal), as well as the major tonnage for our Nutrience Dog & Cat Food products.

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First Prize Smart Crock Bird Cage Locking Food Dish 40 oz

Is It Okay to Let My Amazon Eat Peanut Shells?

Can We Cure Feather Plucking (Picking)?

Can a Cockatiel Choke on a Fortune Cookie in a Plastic Wrapper?

My Bird Can Climb Over and Down the Cage Seed Guards

Old School Falconry Jargon Untangled

Eclectus Parrots – Great Family Birds

Bird Food Confusion – Seeds, Pellets, Organic – What’s Best?

Should You Give Citrus to Your Birds?

Tropican Sizes Are a Bit Different.

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