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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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Hormonal Changes Are Coming to Your Bird This Spring What’s Your Plan?

Mitch Rezman
January 13, 2017
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Birds & Lighting / Biting Birds
3 Comments

Americans have the ACLU – Captive birds in America have Windy City Parrot.

Part of a call from Hawaii at the Birdie Boutique

“I suggest72 hours of constant light, meaning the bird would be in its cage for 3 days, with the lights on”.

Cage birdkeepers response “she’ll never go for something like that“

My email response

As an advocate for pet birds, I wanted to follow up on your lovebird’s reproductive issues.

If a child is sick, he or she does not determine whether or not to accept care.

Although you state your bird would “have nothing to do with it” – she can easily be locked in a cage for three days for her own good so as to extend her life.

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Does the Size of Food Matter to My Bird?

Short answer – yes you can feed all size birds the same foods BUT – you have to understand how they eat. Our cockatiel would eat everything from a plate including picking from a steak bigger than her.

Peaches our Senegal likes to hold food in her zygodactyl foot thus she requires manageable chunks of “parrot size” food with larger pieces and larger pellets. We feed her Higgins Safflower Gold. A healthy blend of seeds, nuts, fruits, and pellets. All Higgins products include Intune Pellets sized accordingly to the species of parrot.

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Your 2017 Pet Bird Keepers To-Do List

Mitch Rezman
December 29, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Rescue / Bird Supplies Info / Training Birds
1 Comment

My bird(s) will get proper lighting using a timer to provide an accurate light cycle

I will work with my flighted bird to make him or her a better flyer. If my bird is not flighted I will consider allowing the wings to grow out for a more confident bird that screams less. (more…)

Christmas With My Parrots

Denise Wamsley
December 18, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Species Specific
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I just love this time of year with my parrots. Currently, we’re singing and dancing to rambunctious Christmas carols while hubby wraps presents. It’s time to think about gift-giving for your beaked family.

Homemade toys are the answer, because, like me, you probably have lots of things around, like wrapping paper tubes to make into foraging toys. Husband wraps with the pretty foil paper which isn’t suitable for them.

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Comparative Human and Bird Digestive & Respiratory Systems

Mitch Rezman
November 30, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Veterinarian Related
1 Comment

Comparative Physiology: Human and Bird

The human body uses food and liquids for energy, growth, maintenance and repair. Before it can use food and liquids for these purposes, it must go through a process called digestion, which is carried out by the digestive system. The digestive system consists of the following organs: Mouth, salivary glands, oesophagus, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, stomach, large and small intestines, duodenum, rectum and the anus.

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Windy City Parrot Videos- November 2016

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My Parrots Love Eating Any Kind of Fruit or Juice, Nuts or Seeds, but Aren’t Interested in Any Other Kind of Food

My parrots love eating any kind of fruit or juice, nuts or seeds, but aren’t interested in any other kind of food I think is good for them. How can I change this?

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Salmon-crested cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis is endemic to the Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia

My M2 Has a Problem and I Thought I’d Run It by You

Mitch Rezman
November 16, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Feather Plucking / Plucking/Screaming
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Hi Guys,

Love your newsletter!

My M2 (Moluccan cockatoo) has a problem and I thought I’d run it by you.

I’ve had birds all of my life, parakeets, cockatiels, amazons and this is my first ‘too. I got him as a baby and have had him for 10 years.

He seems very content as far as I can tell.

About 6 months ago he molted 3 feathers at the same time from his tail. The new ones sprouted, of course. But over the course of these six months, he continues to pick his tail skin raw.

I know M2’s are notorious for self-mutilation. I don’t think that’s the issue.

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

Hormonal Changes Are Coming to Your Bird This Spring What’s Your Plan?

Does the Size of Food Matter to My Bird?

Your 2017 Pet Bird Keepers To-Do List

Christmas With My Parrots

Windy City Parrot Videos- November 2016

My Parrots Love Eating Any Kind of Fruit or Juice, Nuts or Seeds, but Aren’t Interested in Any Other Kind of Food

My M2 Has a Problem and I Thought I’d Run It by You

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