Category: Bird Nutrition - Page 11

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Help For A Green Cheek Conures Projectile Vomiting

Mitch Rezman
March 14, 2019
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Enviornments / Bird Nutrition / Green Cheek Conure / Habitats for caged birds / Veterinarian Related
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Mona S. writes

I recently had the experience of seeing my beloved Green Cheek Conure do what I would describe as projectile vomiting, which absolutely scared me to nearly to death.

I have owned birds for about 30 years or so and had never seen anything like this.

Actually, I was not even aware that birds could vomit at all, except for regurgitating to feed their young.

This looked like someone had turned on the faucet for a couple of seconds.

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My Budgies Beak Broke Off – Can I Fix It?

Mitch Rezman
March 14, 2019
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird Nutrition / Bird Rescue / Budgies / Feeding Pet Birds / Parakeets
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Stevie Van Zandt requested your answer

I have a rescue budgie, the top of his beak was almost totally gone, just barely hanging. We have NO vet in my area and nobody specializes in birds. I removed what was hanging and she seems ok, I made a “mush” for her to eat. Will the beak grow back?

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How Do I Treat Macaw Mites?

Mitch Rezman
February 1, 2019
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Nutrition / Feather Plucking / Large macaws / Veterinarian Related
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Are Mites Making Making My Macaw Miserable?

Hi Mitch,

Always look forward to your Sunday articles, thanks!

Madeleine is a (Blue & Gold Macaw) rescue from a home where she was malnourished, neglected, and abused.

I was able to negotiate relinquishment but it’s been a year of learning for me, we bonded and I decided to adopt her instead of fostering.

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Answers To Cockatiel Problems Including Swollen Tongues And Bumblefoot

Mitch Rezman
January 3, 2019
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Nutrition / Cockatiels / Veterinarian Related
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12/24/2018 – My cockatiel has a swelling on the side of his tongue and the vet is off for the holidays. help!!

12/24/2018 – Dear Patricia

We are very sorry to hear your bird may be ill.

Of course, timing is often not right and our pets health issues may come at the wrong times.

This is beyond our experience and knowledge.

Yes, a trip to your Vet is the way to go.

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Windy City Parrot Defines Small And Medium Size Species Of Pet Birds

Mitch Rezman
December 20, 2018
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Bird Rescue / Clean / Events / Exercising birds / Lost Birds / Original content / Parakeets / Pellet conversion tips / Plucking/Screaming / Training Birds / Uncategorized / Veterinarian Related
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Small species pet birds

Birds we classify as “Smaller” species

FYI There’s something like 100 species of Conures. Conures need to be subdivided into small, medium & large (which is on our to-do list)

Green cheek conures weigh 64 grams (cockatiels are about 100 grams – Patagonian conures weight about 280 grams, about the size of a Timneh African grey.

Don’t think for a minute conures can be classified into one size category

Large Canaries

Gibber Canary

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Cream Cheese, Rescue Budgie Number 10 In Our Flock

Mitch Rezman
November 8, 2018
Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Bird Rescue / Budgies
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This has become a helluva slippery slope.

0 to 10 budgies in 25 months.

They are in this big beautiful Prevue F050 aviary.

They’ve created their own micro-culture.

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Can You Address Feeding And Care For Larger M2s (Moluccan Cockatoos)?

Mitch Rezman
September 20, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Biting Birds / Cockatoo
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Think of a bunch of garden hoses banded together arbitrarily shooting water out one or the other.

As opposed to a “firehose” of information.

Now you know what fielding questions about captive bird care looks like to us.

We don’t know where it’s going to come from – Disqus, our blog, one of three ways you can contact us directly on the website or email.

Just organizing the questions is a task in-and-of-itself.

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A Better Bird Ep 13 – How Bird Proof Is Your Home? Video

Mitch Rezman
September 9, 2018
A Better Bird / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Nutrition / Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting / Keto the African ringneck / Parakeets / Peaches the Senegal Parrot
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In about 24 months our household has gone from 0 to 9 birds.

Six budgies (2 males/4 females), a female Senegal (surgically sexed) and a male African ringneck (males have the ring).

I fondly call the budgies my little hooligans who have their own cage as does Peaches our 9 year old female Senegal and Keto the newest member to our family, the 17-year-old male African ringneck.

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