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Do Birds in Cages Suffer All Their Lives?

Mitch Rezman
October 20, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Lighting
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Do birds in cages suffer all their lives?

Define suffer? If you don’t know any better how do you know you are suffering?

As good as our intentions are met by many things, they don’t necessarily meet our bird’s “instinctual expectations”.

Define a “cage”. If you talking about a big metal thing with bars that sits in your family room? In reality the entire home is a (bird) cage because the bird is not allowed to leave it unless it’s in a smaller travel cage

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Potential Toxic Effects of Vitamins When Given to Birds in Excess

Below is a listing of Potential Toxic Effects of Vitamins when given in Excess

The following information is compiled from AVIAN MEDICINE: Principles and Applications by Ritchie, Harrison and Harrison

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Winter Checklist from ParrotMag.com for Outside Aviaries

Mitch Rezman
October 19, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info / Birds & Lighting
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Some points here to help you through the winter months with outside aviaries – flights and to prepare for the new breeding season ahead:

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Congratulations – You’re No Longer a Caged Bird Keeper.

Mitch Rezman
October 14, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Feeding Pet Birds / Hormonal issues in birds
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You’ve been elevated to zookeeper

Dear Mitch,

I need advice in so many “bird” areas that I don’t know where to begin. It seems that all the personal bird stores are disappearing and even the good vets are a rarity. I have been involved with birds for almost thirty years.

I ordered a small crock on Amazon about a year ago and that is how I became “connected” with Windy City, your Sunday newsletters, etc. It is the result of a vision “issue” that discourages me with the computer and I do much better “talking”.

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Calling All Avian Veterinarians and PhD’s – What’s the Real Deal With Vitamin D Birds and Light?

Calling all veterinarians and PhD’s

to answer this one simple question

(none of you return my emails or respond to my Facebook questions)

How does artificial light really aid enable vitamin D/D3 syntheses in birds?

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Humans Have Lots of Bird Advice – Don’t Get One, They’re Hard to Raise

Mitch Rezman
October 5, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Peaches the Senegal Parrot / Veterinarian Related
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The following content is from 3 inquiries we received that we thought would be helpful by sharing.

We have four zebra finches in an outdoor aviary, with three walls being the exterior of our house, and the fourth wall is wire mesh.

We are in San Diego, and our nights can drop down to 40-50 degree. We are planning to add plexiglass panels over the mesh at night, and we are trying to decide on a heat source.

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My Birds Don’t Diminish My Air Quality – Doc.

Mitch Rezman
October 5, 2017
Bathing and Health / Veterinarian Related
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Water Wind & Stars replied – Oct 4, 10:12pm

After writing my first message I took a big pile of towels and curtains from the bathroom where my birds’ cage had been located and carried them to the basement to wash the bird dander out; the pile was big enough to cover my nose and mouth.

Not more than 5 minutes after I came back upstairs, I started to cough in the breathless, slightly spasming way that has been the main symptom of my lung issue.

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What Is the Best Parrot for an Apartment?

Mitch Rezman
September 25, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Habitats for caged birds
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What is the best parrot for an apartment? The answers thus far have been pretty limited (on Quora).

We (Mitch & Catherine) used to (until 2019 when we migrated to Indiana) live in a three-flat apartment building, erected circa 1885 in the geographical center of the city of Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood.

It’s 1800 ft.² with 9 1/2 foot ceilings. The all-brick building is quite solid.

We like parrots. We are in the (caged bird) pet supply business. It’s our job to know about them.

For the record, we don’t sell any birds. We simply teach proper care for about 750 captive bird species out of approximately 10,400 species of birds on the planet.

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Birds That Work for Money – You Won’t Believe Some of Their Jobs

The Police featuring Sting, one of my favorite artists (and groups) were singing a great little ditty the other day on satellite radio and it got me thinking. The name of the song was Canary In A Coal Mine.

The theme of the song was “you live your life like a canary in a coal mine”. We’ve all had friends like that, but I digress.

For the unindoctrinated or too young to know about this, years ago caged canaries were brought down into coal mine shafts.

They acted as the first warning sign that oxygen was being depleted and replaced with dangerous gases such as methane or carbon monoxide. Their method of warning the coal miners – was to die (in most cases).

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