Cooler days and colder nights ~ Forewarned is forearmed
Ready to have the whole fam damily sit in front of the fireplace for the first time this year and watch a movie on Netflix?
It would only be right to have your precious little bundle of feathers in the room to enjoy the family bonding time too. (more…)
or adding another parrot to your life
Taking care of a parrot is a lot of responsibility. Most of you already know this but a few may not.
Your friends that don’t own parrots probably look at yours and think they want one too, so please pass these points along to them so they can make a wise decision.
Whether you are buying your first parrot or your 10th, you need to think these things through as well.
Sharing life with a parrot is very much like living with a poorly mannered undisciplined 3 year old who will not grow up and go away to college.
When you are not with your bird, what quality of life do you provide it?
I’m lucky, I work from home and can spend more time with my birds than most people, but I also find that Mango, my tame, trusting conure, doesn’t want to be with me all the time.
And I have a rehomed budgie, Kiwi, that isn’t trusting due to his early life and Mango is teaching him how to be a bird at two years of age, things he should have been taught as a just weaned baby.
Put a cage full of finches in a room if you want to breathe life into it. In reality, the term "Finch" kinda-sorta describes hundreds of "passerines." You can tell…
Would you like your parrot to learn to talk or whistle, imitate sounds of any kind? If you haven’t been told yet, there is some bad news on that front: there is no guarantee that any bird of any species will ever learn to talk or make sounds. It just isn’t guaranteed.
If that is why you are adding a feathered companion to your home, then your motivations are wrong because even those parrots that do not speak add a lot to the lives of their owners —
First little housekeeping. Popcorn's off her eggs! Follow her adventures on Twitter This weekend marks daylight savings time where we set our clocks back one hour. My former brother-in-law who…
Accidents around the home are far too common when it comes to parrots. I have many years of experience and yet, I want to show you just how easily someone with my skill level can still allow something to happen that shouldn’t. This is how Mango lost a joint from his toe when he was very young.
Hello Windy City Parrot
I am visiting friends in Puerto Rico and they have a 2-year-old Moluccan Cockatoo. He is very needy.. loves to be petted and is a little neurotic.
The past few months he has been pulling the feathers out to bloody skin and pecking at it around his neck to the point where the Vet put a collar on him to stop more damage. he still tries. he eats well. (more…)
How a Lonely Little Understimulated Budgie is Learning to be a Bird
As many of our loyal Sunday Brunch readers know, Kiwi is a beautiful little yellow and chartreuse budgie who needed a good home and found me through Craigslist. My first parrot — yes budgies are small parrots — was a normal green female budgie named Sydney and since falling in love with her and spending every day of her 11 year life with her, I’ve always loved these tenacious little parrots. I even bred them for a while when I lived on the mainland where an outdoor aviary was practical.
Mark Hagen is to Parrot Knowledge as Dennis Yu is to social media or as Michael Jordan is to basketball.
His knowledge base of parrot breeding is second to none.
He’s got a Master’s Degree in agriculture and runs the largest single parrot research Institute on the planet – HARI.
He IS the creator of Hagen bird food.