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6 Reasons Summer is Dangerous for Your Bird
We talk about parrots being equatorial animals and how life in North America, for example, screws up their instinctual expectations for things like light cycles and temperature.
A blue and yellow macaw performs a trick involving a toy car at the KL Bird Park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
6 How To’s for Terrestrial Travel with Your Bird
Air travel with your bird is a post all it’s own so today we’ll focus on terrestrial travel.
We are moving all comments from the old style blog to this new fancy schmancy one, by hand. Any comments made today and moving forward, will be made under your own profile. We apologize for any confusion and hope this new format will help make us all better caged bird keepers.
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Bird Parasites, Cage Litter And The Great Wing Clipping Debate
How do you know if your bird has mites? Excessive scratching could be the first clue, but that could also be attributed to dry skin. The simplest method is to take a piece of white computer paper and hold it under your bird’s main perch. Then tap, tap, tap hard on the perch with something like a wooden spoon. If you see small red dot “crawly things” on the paper, those would be mites. If you’re in doubt a visit to the vet would be in order.
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Pellet Alternatives – Cage Cleaning and Cage Sharing Tips
I thought it was appropriate while introducing some of our newest divided cages to talk about the best uses for a divided birdcage. As luck would have it the following question came across my digital desk.
from: Kristen
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Your Resume Has Bird Poop and Beak Bite Marks – You’re Hired!
In an effort to show you reasons we should be your bird supplies purveyor of choice, we feel it’s important that you know we offer expertise, answers and solutions to the endless problems associated with caged bird care.
To that end having people on our team that can fulfill these needs is essential. So you’d think it would be easy to find someone to write relevant content keeping our website what we call “sticky”. We want you to come back.
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Do Expectations of Our Birds Set Us Up for Failure?
They warned me it was a slippery slope. A week away from my 62nd birthday I find myself a short white balding Jewish guy who’s become a “crazy bird person”.
Our apartment is 60 feet long and 30 feet wide or more in places.
In the morning I tend to domestic chores going in and out of rooms organizing, cleaning and while this is going on I have 95g of white feathers following me.
And if someone was looking through the window it would appear as though I was happily talking to myself because I’m carrying on a conversation with 95g of white feathers who happens to be in the same room wherever I am.
Bird Cage Make Over Winner is Amberly Hoffman
Bird Cage Make Over Winner is Amberly Hoffman
It was interesting to see one of more than a thousand entries from around the country – thank you for the great response. We’ll be launching sweepstakes on a regular basis – Just to perk up those of you who didn’t win, how about a crack at a $100 Amazon gift card. (more…)
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Help – My Catalina Macaw Is Chewing Everything!
I have ordered toys from you previously. To be quite honest, I have probably ordered at least one toy from every place I’ve found online.
I have a 5 yr old Catalina Macaw that I have had since he was 6-1/2 weeks old. At 6 months old, he broke the bars of his first cage, then we got him a big “Kings Corner” Cage, and it didn’t take him long to learn how to open the latch on the door, so we have been duct-taping that for quite some time now. (more…)
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Need Cage Cleaning Help? Read this
What’s the single most asked question at Windy City Parrot? “Why is my bird so messy”? It’s not that “your” bird is messy.
Birds are messy by natural design. For us old folks, the talk you had with your folks was called the “birds and the bees” talk for a reason.
Bees spread pollen by going from flower to flower, thus we have more flowers.
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My Bird Can Climb Over and Down the Cage Seed Guards
My Sydney (19-yrs) has finally figured out how to climb over and down the bottom apron of her cage. Has anyone else had this problem and a solution other than keeping her in her cage? The four dogs tend to leave her alone but can not take it for granted.
Having sold several thousand bird cages my recommendation would be to take them off. They actually are more to clean and can be dangerous to other large and small humans and pets in the household.