What are You Feeding Your Pet Bird?
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What are You Feeding Your Pet Bird?

As a pet bird keeper, providing your pet bird with a nutritious and well-rounded diet is crucial to their overall health and well-being.

At Windy City Parrot, we understand the importance of a healthy diet for your parrot and that’s why we offer a wide variety of bird and parrot food options from some of the most trusted and respected brands in the industry,

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Which Pellet Bird Food Blends Have the Least Amount of Corn?
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Which Pellet Bird Food Blends Have the Least Amount of Corn?

Steve S. is concerned about the amount of corn in bird food,

He is a companion to a Goffins cockatoo AKA Tanimbar corella

Message: We have been using Harrison’s adult lifetime fine. The first ingredient is corn. We would like to cut back on her corn consumption.

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Are Any Food or Supplements Able to Reduce My IRNs Plucking?
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Are Any Food or Supplements Able to Reduce My IRNs Plucking?

Kathy M.  has concerns about her Molting IRN (Indian ringneck) parrot

 

Agni, our 12-year-old IRN parrot is molting.

 

We live in California. This one is a big molt, so he looks really scruffy.

 

I’m wondering if there is anything particular in food or supplements that could be helpful.

 

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What Can I Do to Stop My Regurgitating Macaw?
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What Can I Do to Stop My Regurgitating Macaw?

Charles S. is concerned with feeding his macaw,

I have had Cookie since a baby for 15 years. Every day for years she/he regurgitation food that is barely if at all digested. I feed her the best parrot food Zupreem and a few nuts and sometimes a little table food.

 

It looks like she regurgitates as much as I feed her. It’s a lot.

 

Otherwise, she is very healthy. I have taken her to the vet a couple of times and am told it may be a mating thing. She does this year-round!

 

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Nutrition for My Indian Ringneck Parakeet
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Nutrition for My Indian Ringneck Parakeet

Mitch can you give me some information on nutrition for my IRP?

For whatever reason, he is a picky eater, unlike most as I have read. He hardly eats any seeds. I currently feed him cream of rice with Harrison pellets and I put the missing link ultimate avian in it.

I can’t get him to eat hardly any vegetables/greens as I offer them daily. I give him mixed vegetables with added corn and he eats mostly the corn and picks at the rest of it. He does well with fruit, grapes, apples, kiwi, bananas.

He likes the Higgins worldly cuisines Tuscan dream.

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Why Higgins Worldly Cuisines is Comfort Food for Your Birds
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Why Higgins Worldly Cuisines is Comfort Food for Your Birds

Old guy (70 on 3/7/2022) that I am I’ve always enjoyed a steaming bowl of oatmeal on a cold morning. What makes me feel warm at the beginning of the day is the same thing that will make your tropical bird a little more balanced in their counterintuitive environment that we call winter.

Call it “Comfort Food” for your birds.

There are fewer wild-caught parrots in captivity these days which means chances are, your bird was hand bred and fed yummy, soft gooey, hand feeding formula as a chick. Cooked bird food is a reminder of those comfy days just out of the nest. 

The soft, warm, nutritious blend of fruits, vegetables, and spices is easy on your bird’s crop which helps reduce the stress of an unnatural cool, dry habitat. (more…)

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Can I Improve My Budgies Diet Using Vitamins or Supplements?
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Can I Improve My Budgies Diet Using Vitamins or Supplements?

Yvonne S. wrote:

 

I would like to ask you a question about my parakeet.

 

I have been thinking she could use a vitamin/supplement.

 

She has a very good appetite and is active but she is eating like nobody’s business.

 

I eat mostly organic pasta, and fruit, and a lot of baked potatoes.

 

Also some fish now and then.



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