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Not Looking at Your Bird Holistically May Be Dangerous to Its Health

How many times have you watched in awe as a flighted bird hops off the top of it’s cage – the “flap, flap, flap” then it lands on an inch wide piece of ceiling crown molding or a computer monitor and in bird speak says “what’s up?” Never giving a thought to that gravity thing that keeps the rest of us tethered to Mother Earth.

These are special creatures indeed.

Do we really give our birds enough credit for their ability to adapt?

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How Did Our Cockatiel’s Leg and Foot End Up in a Paper Cast?

Mitch Rezman
February 26, 2015
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info

Funny you should ask – file under life imitating art imitating life.

On the heels (<- pun) of last week’s blog entitled “How do birds sleep standing on one leg?” where we saw the most exceptional illustrations of how the flexor tendons in a birds leg act as an ingenious pulley system enabling a bird to firmly grasp a perch even while sleeping and in the case of birds of prey this system also aids in the killing of said prey.

Mother nature as usual was simple eloquent and right to the point. The question arose recently, for us, how do you shut down 50% of that system for maintenance? It’s been an interesting few days.

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Bird Cage Seed Guards – A Pet Bird Keepers Solution Or Problem?

I purchased a new cage for my severe macaw about a year ago and the seed guards are only 3 inches in width. Since she seems to like to hang on the side of the cage, and of course poops while there, the guard doesn’t catch it and we have a mess on the floor.

Could you recommend a particular cage approx? 20 deep x 24 wide with larger seed guards? thanks!

Deb

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Your Government Wants to Outlaw Your Pet Bird!

Mitch Rezman
February 13, 2015
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info
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We’ve all heard about all those government perks Swedes get – 97% of their healthcare is picked up by various Swedish taxing bodies (about 9% of Sweden’s costs for health and medical care amount to approximately 9 percent of Sweden’s gross domestic product GDP)

Stuff like 5 weeks paid vacation when you start a job, increasing with your length of tenure – 480 days of paid parental leave – it’s cold and dark and then sunny and perfect and all those beautiful women (although I’m reminded here in edit by Catherine that the beautiful women are not supplied by the government 🙁

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Bird Teflon Dangers You Didn’t Know and Other Household Perils

Mitch Rezman
January 29, 2015
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Care / Birds & Lighting / Veterinarian Related
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One of the first things new pet bird keepers learn is that Teflon is bad for your bird which is pretty well-known. The statement “I threw out all my Teflon cookware before I brought my bird home” can be found on the internet as often as Lady Gaga changes hairstyles.

The potential danger of Teflon does go beyond cookware so I wanted to give you a little background.

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Accessories to Keep Your Bird Cage Area Cleaner That Actually Work.

Mitch Rezman
January 24, 2015
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info
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We’re going to start out with one of our favorite product lines that’s been solving birdcage cleanliness for more than a decade – Lixit water bottles.

Do you really need a water bottle? Birds being the messy creatures that they are will poop in their water dishes regardless of placement we think yes.

They spray food, poop, and other contaminants into their drinking water which carries bacteria that gets ingested by your bird causing mouth & throat infections. Think of the $200 vet bill….minimum.

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Diverse Birds With One Thing in Common – a Softbill Picture Story

Mitch Rezman
January 16, 2015
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care
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Caged bird keepers know that bills are not something you pay, it’s the thing in front of your bird’s face.

Birds Unlimited posted a comment in last week’s blog about light and vitamin deficiencies. The incriminating statement I made was. “Finches are softbill birds & not able to crack the husks of seeds larger birds or “hookbills” never giving it a second thought having always lumped finches with softbills in the same category – which is incorrect I’ve come to find. Let’s do some fact-checking, shall we?

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Birds, Light and Vitamin Deficiency Misconceptions

Catherine Tobsing
January 9, 2015
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care
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Hi,

I am a bird lover and have a few pairs of budgies, cockatiels, finches, Love birds and Alexender Raw.

Due to space issues, I have all in one room where Sunlight comes only for a few minutes. I think due to lack of sunlight, my birds have a deficiency of D3 and Calcium. Could you please guide me if Hagon’s PRIME will work for me or if I have to add any other vitamins?

Waiting for your response,

Regards,

A.Qadir

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Are Parrots, the God-feathers of Social Media?

“THERE’S YOUR SIGN,” Bill Engvall

“My parrot is smarter than your Facebook developer,” mitchr

First of all I want to say that I’m proud that we went social media silent over the 2014 Christmas and Hanukkah holidays.

It’s time to celebrate the holidays with family and friends not stare into electronic boxes with glass windows to the universe. We all put our devices down for the holidays, right?

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Questions Just Over the Bird Cage Wire week of 12/14/14

Mitch Rezman
December 19, 2014
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Rescue / Bird Supplies Info
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Hi,

I’m looking for an old toy – I know this is a tricky one, it’s a wooden cube it came in a couple of different sizes. Unfortunately, I do not remember what co. made it. It was dowelled which connected to 4 different color square wood pieces with a colored large rope knot in the middle.

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Not Looking at Your Bird Holistically May Be Dangerous to Its Health

How Did Our Cockatiel’s Leg and Foot End Up in a Paper Cast?

Bird Cage Seed Guards – A Pet Bird Keepers Solution Or Problem?

Your Government Wants to Outlaw Your Pet Bird!

Accessories to Keep Your Bird Cage Area Cleaner That Actually Work.

Diverse Birds With One Thing in Common – a Softbill Picture Story

Birds, Light and Vitamin Deficiency Misconceptions

Are Parrots, the God-feathers of Social Media?

Questions Just Over the Bird Cage Wire week of 12/14/14

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