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Zoo Med 2008: Psittacine Medicine (2008)

Mitch Rezman
March 15, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Veterinarian Related
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Author: Gretchen Kaufman, DVM

OCW Zoological Medicine 2008
Psittacine Medicine (2008)
G. Kaufman, DVM
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

1. Learning Objectives and Review

This section pulls together the main diseases and health issues of psittacines, representing the major group of birds seen in pet bird veterinary practice. Color coded topics indicate learning objectives that the student should become familiar with. Cases will be presented in class to illustrate these topics.

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Those Lovable Lovebirds – 5 Lovebird Videos

Lovebirds are native to the African continent while the Gray-headed lovebird also known as the Madagascar lovebird comes from of all places, Madagascar. Lovebirds are known for their strong monogamous relationships and spend a lot of time being together wing to wing.

They are capable of having close relationships with people in addition to their chosen companion. They like to snuggle with people and quite often they will train their humans. You’re really better off spending short periods throughout the day with your lovebird rather than just one or two longer interactions, the way you would with a larger parrot. Lovebirds can be noisy but are not necessarily good talkers.

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How Can You Compare the Personalities of an African Grey and a Macaw?

Mitch Rezman
March 9, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Species Specific
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That is not really a fair question. The personality of a captive bird is determined by many factors and the environment that humans provide for them.

The bigger question is are we seeing the paratroop personality or does being a captain of birds change everything? In other words, would a bird be different in the wild than in captivity?

There is no single event, procedure, or training apparatus that will cause a bird to act like this or that, be an uncontrollable screamer, feather self-mutilation, or toe-tapper (a neurological issue in some Eclectus parrots).

Most people fail in raising captive birds because they don’t “speak bird”. It is essential to look at a pet bird holistically because every component of their life impacts their behavior.

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Birds Can Be Difficult When Trying New Foods

Mitch Rezman
March 2, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment
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Dear Nora How can you get your parrot to eat pellets? Birds can be difficult when trying new foods, I am reaching out to the company for their suggestions on…

5 Ways to Reduce Hormonal Bird Behavior Before You See the Avian Vet

Mitch Rezman
March 2, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Birds & Lighting / Biting Birds / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Plucking/Screaming / Veterinarian Related
5 Comments

Hypothetical – a 21st-century genie sits down next to you on a park bench. He looks pretty normal and explains that the whole genie thing has evolved along with modern society.

The dapper young lad named Gene (really?) goes on to say;

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Feeding Conversion – Scenic Bird Food Pellets

Mitch Rezman
February 14, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Parakeets / Pellet conversion tips
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How to improve your bird’s health with Scenic Bird Food and good fruit &
vegetable selections!

• Place Scenic Bird Food in a separate cup from your bird’s normal food and leave it there all day and night.
• Replace with fresh food daily.
• Keep the cup full.
• Only after your bird is eating Scenic Bird Food should you place it in the normal food cup.

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So I Have Left is This Crazy 28 Year Old African Gray

Dear Theresa

Your bird passed today? Oh my. I am so sorry to hear this. It is never easy to lose a pet, they are so much a part of the family. You have our deepest sympathies.

Theresa replied

I’m a bit at a loss. We’ve had her for twenty-five years. With the exception of some arthritis in her foot, she’s been healthy as can be. Just back from a vet check about a month ago…Good eater always eating the things good for her…Saturday I woke up to uncover her cage only to find she’s thrown up a cooked food I got from parrot island. It was a pea soup blend.

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Hagen’s (HARI) Alternative Formula Pellets Offer Better Nutrition for Mature Birds

Mitch Rezman
February 3, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Veterinarian Related
3 Comments

December 10th of last year I sprained my ankle. I finally got my boot on that foot for the first time last week on 1/24/17. In less than a month Medicare will be paying all my medical expenses (in conjunction with a supplemental plan F policy). I can relate to getting old. I look old. I have a long gray beard. Look at me and you know that I’m old.

Not so much with birds

For those of you that have stuck with your birds through the screaming biting and destruction – kudos! You’ll learn how much life bird’s can bring into a home.

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Birds Are Amoral, Not Bad. Humans Are at Fault and the Problem Source.

Mitch Rezman
January 20, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Foraging and Enrichment / Species Specific
4 Comments

My name is MitchR. I am an avian influencer. Full transparency – my day gig is selling products just for pet birds – I spend approximately 20% of my work week scanning about 40 Facebook bird groups and niche (species-specific) forums like this. The content I write has one purpose which is to make you a better pet bird keeper.

I think serving dishes filled with any sort of commercial bird food without offering foraging and enrichment opportunities 24/7 in and out of the cage is the single biggest problem with getting our birds to eat properly.

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10 Plucking Triggers Your Vet Never Talks About

Mitch Rezman
January 18, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Feather Plucking / Veterinarian Related
13 Comments

A woman replying in a Facebook thread about her self-mutilating parrot “My vet said that it’s become a habit that’s it very hard to break”.

My response was “Ask your vet why these habits don’t develop in the wild”?

Another woman had spent $4000 between veterinarian bills and behaviorists. Her bird was still plucking. In the thread that evolved it turns out that her cages were filled primarily with eucalyptus perches.

Although eucalyptus can be safe it also has a great many toxins that can be lethal to a bird. She also related that her bird got about one hour of daylight – none of this came up in the conversation with her veterinarian or behaviorist.

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Those Lovable Lovebirds – 5 Lovebird Videos

How Can You Compare the Personalities of an African Grey and a Macaw?

Birds Can Be Difficult When Trying New Foods

Feeding Conversion – Scenic Bird Food Pellets

So I Have Left is This Crazy 28 Year Old African Gray

Birds Are Amoral, Not Bad. Humans Are at Fault and the Problem Source.

Since 1993Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free$7 Ships Small

Toll Free877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,Lowell, IN 46356 USA

1. Learning Objectives and Review

Since 1993
Online in 2002

$49 Ships Free
$7 Ships Small

Toll Free
877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,
Lowell, IN 46356 USA