Last Updated on by Mitch Rezman
WindyCityParrot.com
This is like saying I’m amazed you feed your bird seeds because they can choke on the husk or wood bird toys because they can choke on slivers – there is absolutely nothing wrong with this Julie – birds are smarter than that – we’ve been doing this for 30 years with multiple species and it not that we’re “lucky” that a bird in our care never choked on a fortune cookie wrapper.
Ironically the video below got posted to our Facebook page on 5/3/2017 almost 4 years later with the following comment:
“So the wrapping plastic isn’t an issue? I was going to try what you did with the treat stick and let them open the package themselves but the plastic freaks me out! Is it a risk for them to chew/shred plastic? I have two Pineapple Conures.”
For more precise information on a bird’s digestive system, please read this.
The moral of the story is? You needn’t make foraging harder than it needs to be.
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Birds Unlimited
7 May 2017CANARIES AND FINCHES ARE NOT SOFTBILLS. Their bills are not soft, and they shell their seed like hookbills do. Softbilled birds are so named for their diet. Turacos, Toucans, hornbills, mynahs, jays. are softbills.
I’m not sure how many species of birds you’ve kept, how long you’ve kept birds, how many courses, seminars or lectures you’ve taken or given but your information you give seems to be right off the internet, not experience. You regularly misidentify species and give wrong information. There’s plenty of topics that you can give your opinion and then are things that are just plain incorrect, like the finch, canary thing. Please just sell your products and stop trying to educate people about stuff you’re way off base with. Paul
WindyCityParrot
7 May 2017We’ve already had this dance BU https://windycityparrot.com/blog/2015/01/16/hookbills-hardbills-softbills-waxbills-just-feathered-factoids/
birdlover
7 May 2017My cockatiel Tulip gets tremendously excited at the sight of a fortune cookie. He tries valiantly to get inside the wrapper by banging it on the counter and ripping at it, but to no avail. Just the sound of the wrapper in my hand sends him into a tizzy. I have to open the wrapper for him so he can grab the cookie and start demolishing it. Was your cockatiel ever able to open the wrapper herself?
WindyCityParrot
7 May 2017she was birdlover as well as our ringneck & senegal
Birds Unlimited
7 May 2017I understand we’ve had this dance, but you keep putting this info out there.