Do Expectations of Our Birds Set Us Up for Failure?
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Do Expectations of Our Birds Set Us Up for Failure?

They warned me it was a slippery slope. A week away from my 62nd birthday I find myself a short white balding Jewish guy who’s become a “crazy bird person”.
Our apartment is 60 feet long and 30 feet wide or more in places.
 
In the morning I tend to domestic chores going in and out of rooms organizing, cleaning and while this is going on I have 95g of white feathers following me.
And if someone was looking through the window it would appear as though I was happily talking to myself because I’m carrying on a conversation with 95g of white feathers who happens to be in the same room wherever I am.

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Help – My Catalina Macaw Is Chewing Everything!
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Help – My Catalina Macaw Is Chewing Everything!

I have ordered toys from you previously. To be quite honest, I have probably ordered at least one toy from every place I’ve found online. 

I have a 5 yr old Catalina Macaw that I have had since he was 6-1/2 weeks old. At 6 months old, he broke the bars of his first cage, then we got him a big “Kings Corner” Cage, and it didn’t take him long to learn how to open the latch on the door, so we have been duct-taping that for quite some time now. (more…)

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Egg Laying Umbrella Cockatoo
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Egg Laying Umbrella Cockatoo

We have a female Umbrella Cockatoo, age 26 who, despite head-only petting when she is ‘broody’ will lay an occasional egg or two (maybe once a year, sometimes not for a couple of years). 
 
I have never been able to find the answer to: Is it better to let her sit on the eggs or take them away immediately? We have tried both methods. She gets a very healthy diet and supplemental calcium when she is going to lay.
 
I have read that if you take away the eggs, it encourages them to lay more, but I worry that sitting on the eggs for several weeks isn’t good for her either. Has any research been done on this topic?

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Random Bird Care Questions Answered
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Random Bird Care Questions Answered

No one’s favorite chore is taking out the trash. Today we not only have household and work waste but recycling as well. The 21st century brought us “digital” clutter. files, images, emails, and sometimes stuff gets lost. Here’s some stuff I found in my digital dust pan. 
 

Budgies in the Bedroom

Hi…I was just reading some information on your website about where to place a birdcage. We Have a birdcage in our oversized master bedroom, however, I read that bedroom is not a good idea. 
 
Why?? We have 6 parakeets in a huge cage and have had them in here for a year or so…

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