Category: Bird Enviornments - Page 39

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Can My Daughter And I Co-Bond With An African Grey?

Mitch Rezman
August 26, 2018
African grey / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Pellet conversion tips
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We don’t generally interact with mainstream bird rescue organizations.

The last bird club/rescue meeting I spoke at began with a police presence called by the current president trying to forcibly remove the former president, who wouldn’t leave.

The next 15 minutes resulted in parliamentary maneuvers so legal action could be brought against the former bird rescue president.

We’ve seen that a lot over the years.

Which is why we mainly work with private rescues and bird rescue initiatives.

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What Are the Absolute Worst Types of Parrots for a First-time Bird Owner?

Mitch Rezman
August 25, 2018
African grey / Amazons / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Rescue / Biting Birds / Budgies / Caique / Cockatiels / Cockatoo / Conures / Eclectus parrots / Feeding Pet Birds / Finches / Habitats for caged birds / Hormonal issues in birds / Indian Ringneck / Large macaws / Lovebirds / Parrotlet / Pigeons / Quaker parrot / Senegal parrots
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Once again, although well-intentioned, people are breaking down your choices into the macro of species (Quora question).

One answer started with

Cockatoos
Macaws
Amazons

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Is Mixing And Matching Birds In Your Home Risky?

Mitch Rezman
August 24, 2018
Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Nutrition
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Barbara Writes,

I love the new format so much, Mitch.

And I have a question regarding the video of the cockatoo and sun conure. How do you know when it’s safe to let them be together like that?

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What Do You Know About Macaw Asthma? It’s Really A Thing.

Mitch Rezman
August 14, 2018
Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Cockatoo / Flight / Large macaws / Veterinarian Related
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This first of three answers about macaw parrot keeping solutions is in response to the Quora question:

Is it unsafe to have a cockatoo in your home and a macaw, Given that many macaws are susceptible to asthma? Following up, is there any sort of test a macaw could have done to identify asthma?

Macaw Asthma aka Macaw Respiratory Hypersensitivity disease is found in several species of macaws but is especially prevalent with blue and gold macaws.

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Is My Blue and Gold Macaw Biting Me Because of Displaced Anger?

Catherine Tobsing
August 14, 2018
Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Biting Birds / Large macaws
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Nancy H wrote:

Dear Mitch and Catherine,

I own a Blue and Gold Macaw that I’ve had for 23 years, I love him dearly as he’s been, my little companion and roommate.

The problem is and I’m hoping you can help is that I’m not able to have my family or friends over because Bernard will literally take a tantrum screaming until I go in and get him and bring him out to see who’s there and when I go to bring him back to his cage, he bites me hard with displaced anger.

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How Do I Stop an 8 Yr. Old White-bellied Caique From Chewing Everything?

Mitch Rezman
August 2, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Caique
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Hello,

I love your birdie brunch and read it first thing every Sunday. Thank you!

I hope you can help me.

I have an 8 yr. old white-bellied Caique.

Conrad has owned me since he was 3 months old.

I am also a strong proponent of flighted birds (seems to me they were made that way), so Conrad is fully-flighted.

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Can I Always Keep an African Gray Parrot in a Cage That is Placed in the Living Room?

Mitch Rezman
July 19, 2018
African grey / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Feather Plucking / Veterinarian Related
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I’m going to interpret this as a cage placement question.

The answer is not straightforward.

Parrots like privacy.

We talk a lot about the birdcage canopy effect of lining the top third of your bird’s cage with so many toys that you can not see the bird.

This gives them a sense of security in that they are not easily seen all the time.

You have some sort of window covering in your bedroom, right? (more…)

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Sex and the Single Bird

Mitch Rezman
July 5, 2018
Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments / Veterinarian Related
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There are two sides to this conversation.

There’s the “your bird needs to have some sort of sexual satisfaction in its life” and there’s the “what sex is your bird”?

Let’s start with bird sexing.

About 20 to 25% of parrots are classified as sexually dimorphic.

This means you can tell them apart by their color. Male Eclectus parrots are green and females are red.

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Budgie Bird Cages Cage Locks Aviary Building And Cleaning Them All

Mitch Rezman
June 8, 2018
Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Budgies
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What size cage is the minimum size for one small budgie?

The experts have all sorts of rules on proper cage sizing.

“It needs to be this size and shape in height”.

“In needs to have levels on this and that”.

“The bar spacing MUST be…….”

So here’s my deal with the experts

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12 YouTubers For Parrot Lovers You Need To Know

Mitch Rezman
May 11, 2018
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Bird Rescue / Exercising birds / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Pellet conversion tips / The Traveling Bird / Training Birds / Wild Bird & Wildlife
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At first I thought to myself “this’ll be fun.”

Once I started the project it was a bit more difficult than I forecasted.

I originally started with 9 YouTube channels but some favorites needed to be included not simply based upon numbers.

For those who are not following on us Facebook or our YouTube channel, you’ll note that we are ramping up our use of Fid-eo to better communicate caged bird care.

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Can My Daughter And I Co-Bond With An African Grey?

What Are the Absolute Worst Types of Parrots for a First-time Bird Owner?

Is Mixing And Matching Birds In Your Home Risky?

Is My Blue and Gold Macaw Biting Me Because of Displaced Anger?

How Do I Stop an 8 Yr. Old White-bellied Caique From Chewing Everything?

Budgie Bird Cages Cage Locks Aviary Building And Cleaning Them All

12 YouTubers For Parrot Lovers You Need To Know

Since 1993Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free$7 Ships Small

Toll Free877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,Lowell, IN 46356 USA

Since 1993
Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free
$7 Ships Small

Toll Free
877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,
Lowell, IN 46356 USA