Janie D.
I have an almost 16-year-old Red Fronted Macaw.Â
(2 – Red Fronted Macaws pictured above)
I got her as a 6-month-old chick and taught her bite words “hurt” and “cry”.
She uses them accurately!Â
Yes I have another question for you, my green-cheek conure seems to be molting all the time and he’s lost the two big red feathers in the tail and I can feel the feathers under his skin in between his back and wing feathers is this normal or is he short on calcium he will not touch a cuttlebone or any calcium bone to rub down his nails or beak so I have two perches, that are rough, he is a year and a half old, already really molted.Â
Thank you very much! Jane
This might be an interesting topic for a Birdie Brunch!Â
Hello, I’m Laurie Cannon, who wrote to you about the possibility of adopting an older Green-Winged Macaw.Â
We didn’t do that, however, we did contact a breeder about a Panama Amazon baby.Â
She seemed almost horrified when she found out both my husband and I are totally blind.Â
You asked whether our birds are flighted.Â
All three of our birds – African Grey, Dusky Pionus, Cockatiel – are fully flighted.Â
We have a lot of large windows in our apartment but so far we have not had a problem.Â
They all have their favorite routes and pretty much stick to them.Â
The only time we have clipped our bird’s wings is when we were traveling internationally and they had to go through the health and customs inspections at the airports.
Lisa Y.
We asked this question in our Birdie Brunch served on 6/22/19
Do you serve your bird(s) chop? Share your thoughts.
I do not feed my birds only ‘chop’, but I think it is good for part of the diet. Â
Don’t you think this is all about ‘the next big thing’?
Hi Mitch,
In my limited experience with biting birds, I can share what happened to work for me.
We have a bonded male and female S. I. (Solomon Island) Eclectus both birds got along well with us and others.Â
The female, Mia, would let me hold her, she would sit with me, she would step up when I presented my hand.Â
But if she perched too long on my hand or if I got up from sitting on the couch with her she would go after me and bite!Â
Laurie C asks
My husband and I rescued a 3-month-old medium Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (aka Eleonora cockatoo) from a horrible pet store situation last August.
We finished his hand-feeding which took another month.
He was very skinny and underfed so we have spoiled him rotten.
Hello, knowing of your holistic approach to things here is a synopsis of our bird and situation. We have an 11 1/2 yr old Goffins Cockatoo, Taedo ( we have had him since 2008 when he was 3 mths). We did have him sexed and know he is a male.
Over the past few years, we’ve been emphasizing the proper use of man-made lighting and its effect on pet birds.
Search results when googling the term “pet bird lighting” predominantly yield links to products relating to lighting for pet birds.
With the exception of Windy City Parrot and the Lafebers blog, it is difficult to find information about pet birds and the many ways light affects them.
I Have An African Grey And A Triton Cockatoo.
I hand fed both and have had the Grey since 1985 and the Cockatoo since 1987.
They are housed separately in AE birdcages and I have perches around the house for them to move to as I work around.
Both are female.
My Gray has begun acting strange.
