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.
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.
The female, Mia, would let me hold her, she would sit with me, she would step up when I presented my hand.
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!
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.
It’s a bird, not a dog and doesn’t necessarily want to get pet.
Birds want to be preened.
Re: “Larry’s was more direct”.
He let himself get bitten.
He made a fist to lessen the amount of skin the bird could get in his mouth and just let him bite.
Spoiler alert: Your mother’s day gift is at the bottom.
Having 11 birds, 10 budgies and an African ringneck, we get it.
Living upstairs of our new facility, Keto (the ringneck) sleeps on the second floor with us but spends the day supervising mom in his “office cage (below).
If he is within 2 inches of skin he will lash out and bite.
Our first answer comes from a question on Quora
Do parrots we rear at home need sunlight?
Firstly, lets set the record straight.
No amount of natural sunlight nor artificial light will help with the production of any vitamin in a bird’s body.
This is because of the dual integumentary systems of feathers and skin.
We can’t thank you enough for your patience as we had to shut down shipping last week while we began to organize our new workspace.
There are a host of reasons that we made this move aside from saving money on rent, utilities and taxes.
Interesting to note is that when you operate an Internet retail company, you can run it from anywhere on the planet, as long as you have a high-speed internet connection.
