Hi, I have a 7-month-old English budgie that was born with one splayed leg that sticks straight out.
His wings were over-clipped when I got him at 2 months of age.Â
I have waited un-patiently for his wings to grow out as my other parakeets are flighted.
From: Sharon M.
Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2016, at 7:06 PM
Subject: two separate pieces of advice needed: ringneck parrot-biting and unsalted sunflower seeds
To: “[email protected]”Â
Sunnie- not sure if a male/female (DOB=4/27, took him/her home 6/27) and is a little over 3 mos. old now.
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jellenp@……..
Mitch, I learned sooooo much from you in today’s message about bird safety. I’m seeing my household with completely new eyes now. Thank you so much.
We are first-time bird companions of two one-yr-old beautiful little male budgies acquired at the same time from the same breeder when they were still youngsters. They are healthy and active.
There’s all this talk of immigration in Congress – something I try not to involve myself in.
Yet I know of feral parrot flocks around the country which I’ll identify shortly.
We talked about birds being the godfeathers of social media.
Birds are flock animals.
Your bird was born expecting to be in a flock. When the bird comes into your home you become its flock.
We have interactions with caged bird keepers from around the planet every day. “He won’t eat that” “I’ve tried that” “I just can’t get him off of his sunflower seed diet” (yes we actually hear that a lot – sigh).
Popcorn update
Thursday (6/9/16) she was very low energy and didn’t leave her cage after opening the door. The very first thing I do every morning is replace her water with freshwater after scrubbing out her food dish to avoid bacteria.
We are now introducing a milk thistle liver detox into her water. I place the eight drops in the bottom of a dry dish and add a couple of ounces of water to make sure the milk thistle solution gets dissolved. Then I add half an ice cube to keep the water fresh until the mid-day replacement. (It gets replaced again at birdie bedtime).
Major Mitchell Cockatoo (above)
There’s a lot of talk today in the pet bird keeper community about how bad seeds are for our birds. We should be introducing bird chops to our birds. If you are not familiar with bird chop – mix up about a pound of fresh lettuce, beans and vegetables, and fruit and serve to your bird.
Most birds will eat less than 1% of that 1 pound of chop which is why we let Popcorn just steal some nibbles from our plates – as long as she does not walk across our plates.
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