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Tips on Painting & Restoring Older Bird Cages

• Mitch Rezman
• June 9, 2021
• Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info
• 2 Comments

I think the main reason that people don’t try to paint older bird cages is because of what they’ve heard or read about the harmful effects of lead, zinc, and so forth.

 

The point that needs to be made is that most of the paints sold in the US for the past 40 years can be safe for human infants – as long as it’s dry.

Our government really wasn’t thinking about our birds – they were looking out for our children. The government has gone to great lengths to ensure that paint sold for use in the home is safe. The confusing issue is something called “Flashing”.

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Let’s Start With Forgetting That Birds Do Not Like Change!

• Mitch Rezman
• June 4, 2021
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info / Conures / Green Cheek Conure
• 5 Comments

Hi! I very much enjoy your emails and all the information you provide. By the way, my green conure (Wyndle) looks just like the bird you have in the picture with you, Mitch.

Wyndle is a “mutt”, not a pedigree like my Sun Conure was. She has a HUGE personality and is full of spunk; very strong, inquisitive, eats all day (not overweight, tho), etc.

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Do I Need a Perch to Go Fully Across My Macaw’s Birdcage?

• Mitch Rezman
• May 14, 2021
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments
• 0 Comments

Marsha C. asks,

 

I need a 66-inch manzanita perch for my macaw’s cage.

 

It is a large, double-wide cage and my bird is destructive so I really need another manzanita perch.

 

Do you have any single branches that long?

 

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When and Where Did Your Bird Learn the Difference Between Right and Wrong?

• Mitch Rezman
• May 8, 2021
• Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Training Birds
• 2 Comments

When and where did your bird learn the difference between right and wrong?

 

How does your macaw know the difference between a $6000 Bubinga wood armoire and a $300 wooden bird play stand you bought from Windy City Parrot?

 

What have you done to teach your bird chewing on the stand is right, chewing on the furniture is wrong?

 

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A Better Bird Video Series For Training Birds And Their Humans

• Mitch Rezman
• May 6, 2021
• A Better Bird / Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Supplies Info / Birds & Lighting / Biting Birds / Caged Bird Keepers Guides / Flight / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds / Inter species / Keto the African ringneck / Original content / Parakeets / Peaches the Senegal Parrot / Training Birds
• 0 Comments

Just as the name implies, this is a series of quick and easy ways to help your birds stay happy and healthy around the clock.

This is a series of short but incisive ideas you can apply today bringing you closer to bird care nirvana.

The number of things necessary to provide foraging enrichment for your birds can be found in a series of quick and simple ideas.

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How Do I Stop My Peach-faced Lovebird From Prolific Egg-laying?

• Mitch Rezman
• April 30, 2021
• Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird Cage Info / Hormonal issues in birds / Lovebirds / Veterinarian Related
• 0 Comments

Julie O. has a lovebird issue,

 

Hello Catherine & Mitch

 

We have a peach-faced lovebird named Kiki (she told us her name, it’s the only word she speaks) that was rescued nearly dead from starvation and dehydration on a busy Los Angeles street about 5 years ago.

 

We don’t know her actual age, but she looked to be fairly young then.

 

In the past two years, she has started laying infertile eggs.

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Is My Blue and Gold Macaw Going Thru the Terrible Twos?

• Mitch Rezman
• April 2, 2021
• Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Foraging and Enrichment
• 0 Comments

Michelle H. wants to know,

 

Does my Blue and Gold Macaw go thru the terrible twos?

 

She picks at my clothes, my blankets, and when I put her up at night she dumps her food on the floor.

 

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How Did I End Up With a Bird Mite Infestation?

• Mitch Rezman
• March 26, 2021
• Bathing and Health / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Supplies Info / Poicephalus parrots
• 0 Comments

Donna L. is concerned,

 

Hello!

 

I have heard about rope perches and all of the “pros” make sense except one con, their nails getting caught in the threads.

 

I don’t have Henny’s, my beautiful 21-year-old Meyers, nails clipped because she falls off of me or various other things.

 

She is free flight in the house, unless I am doing anything that could hurt her, or when I need my time.

 

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Should I Get a Quaker, Ringneck, or Conure?

• Mitch Rezman
• March 11, 2021
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Rescue / Conures / Habitats for caged birds / Quaker parrot / Ringnecks
• 4 Comments

Kayla writes to ask:

 

I’m stuck between getting a conure or a quaker (ok maybe an Indian ringneck too), and could really use advice on what current owners think.

 

I’m hoping to find a best friend who wants to be involved, cuddly, silly, and maybe even say a few words eventually.

 

I mostly don’t want one who screams and screeches all day.

 

Is a quaker on the right track?

 

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What Is the Lowest Temperature Can My 2 Greys Survive Outside?

• Mitch Rezman
• March 4, 2021
• African grey / Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Habitats for caged birds
• 0 Comments

Grae W. wonders

 

Hello, I have two 21-year-old grays, that I have had since they were young babies.

 

They are very healthy and happy birds. In the winter months, in the south (NC), I put them out in their cage on sunny, non-windy days, if it’s above 47 degrees.

 

As their cage loses the sun, I bring them in, and put them on their perch, in a glass door walk-in shower.

 

I have asthma, so must not bring in their cage.

 

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