What Is a Good Summary About How It Is to Own Parrots (Macaws Specifically)?
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What Is a Good Summary About How It Is to Own Parrots (Macaws Specifically)?

I don’t know that there’s enough storage space on the Quora servers to answer this.

 

I read that parrots are loud, noisy, and messy – a lot.

Then again so are children.

Let’s start with a top-level explanation.

Pet people in the disciple category will always react negatively towards the word own preferring instead to call it pet bird companionship.

In reality, birds are the most owned pets we can have.

We have to lock them up in a bird jail.

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Are Bananas Bad for Birds?
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Are Bananas Bad for Birds?

From a recent Facebook thread

Donna R

I have never had a bird that ate the bananas they should leave those out

Donna, Donna, Donna

Normally I would jump into high gear and do some real micro fact checking on the subject.

Alas, it’s St. Patrick’s Day and my best friend, John Jameson and I have been chatting.

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How To Best Treat Your Birds Broken Blood Feather
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How To Best Treat Your Birds Broken Blood Feather

The probability is high that your bird will experience a broken blood feather or two in its long lifetime.
 
Some people freak out at the sight of blood, others do much better.
 
In any case 
 
All birds have a blood feather (a.k.a. pin feather) for every feather molted out. 

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