Category: Feeding Pet Birds - Page 26

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A Diet Your Bird Would Eat in the Wild – It’s Healthier, Right?

Super Bowl Sunday and we’re pinned in by snow and freezing temperatures. Popcorn our blacktail Albino Cockatiel (A.k.a. the tail dragger) flitting between the top of my computer monitor play stand and the floor creating little clouds of seed husks and the pieces of woven IKEA baskets at the bottom of our entertainment center.

How do I pick what to write about each week? I’m an analog guy living in a digital world. Being a post-war baby boomer I grew up watching black-and-white TV. I still like watching old war movies where the radio guy is frantically turning dials trying to “tune in” to a certain radiofrequency.

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All Seed Diet Problem for a Senegal Parrot

A woman just called and asked if we had any Beta Carotene. We asked why she was looking for that particular product. She replied her 6 year old Senegal was not looking well.

Next question – what’s his regular diet? Answer – “a bag of seed”
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Congo African Grey Who Regurgitate His Food

Catherine Tobsing
January 24, 2014
Bird & Parrot Care / Feeding Exotic Birds / Feeding Pet Birds
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Tory Violette writes,

Hi Catherine and Mitch, I’m writing about Jasper my Congo African Grey who is now 8 months old.

Well since he was about 16 weeks old he has been doing the motions to regurgitate his food when I pet him and talk to him.

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How Do Roudybush Bird Food Pellets Compare to Harrison’s?

Mitch Rezman
January 7, 2014
Bird & Parrot Care / Feeding Exotic Birds / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment
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They are both excellent food for your bird. Harrison's has USDA organic going for it Roudybush has no peanuts Harrison's does. Roudybush also has a little variety now in that they recently…

Introducing Birds to Roudybush Pellets or Crumbles

These instructions are found on bags of Roudybush bird food

Birds that had never been fed pellets or crumbles generally do not recognize the is food at first.

Also, pellets are lower in fat than seeds, so at first most birds will not like them as much as seeds.
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Bird Seed Blend Which Would Have No Safflower or Sunflower

Mitch Rezman
October 10, 2013
African grey / Feeding Pet Birds / Veterinarian Related
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Hello

I’ve been feeding my 12 conures and cockatiels friends

Kaytee Cockatiel Fortidiet and then top layer with Roudybush pellets for many years.
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First Prize Smart Crock Bird Cage Locking Food Dish 40 oz

Are they acrylic? My b-g macaw ‘throws’ his ceramic dog bowls around on the floor of his cage!!! He also can untwist the twist bottom ones!!!! Need help desperately !!! Would they fit a macaw cage??? Joan
The big birds are tough sometimes.

These dishes may help. They come in several sizes, this is the largest one. 40 oz

First Prize Smart Crock Bird Cage Locking Food Dish 40 oz – Found Here

The Smart Crocks are guaranteed against damage with a registration card included with each crock.

I have just contacted the company and they state they are made of polystyrene/acrylic resin. We will add the material to our listings.

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The Predictability of Fortune Cookies and Your Bird

Is It Okay to Let My Amazon Eat Peanut Shells?

A parrot should not eat peanut shells, that it is doing so may be from an event in its early learning to eat after being weaned, it could have been hungrier than expected and consumed all it could get into its beak, it could have been given solid food sooner than it should have.
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Eclectus Parrots – Great Family Birds

Surely the most notable thing about Eclectus parrots is their dimorphic sexual coloration. About 25% of all parrots are sexually dimorphic meaning you can tell the difference between the male and the female bird by their color.

The name Eclectus actually comes from the world electric because of this species coloration. Female Eclectus parrots have a the heavier looking body and are predominately red in color. Subspecies are notable for their lavender-ish and blue breast feathers and the daisy yellow tail bands of the Vosmaeri’s. The brilliant red Eclectus’ body is accented by its black beak.
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Bird Food Confusion – Seeds, Pellets, Organic – What’s Best?

Today’s science lesson: because birds are small and have a high need for energy they can digest food rapidly. This is one reason young birds mature quickly and migrating birds are able to store fat which enables long flights. There are species of birds that are known to increase their weight 40% in 10 days.

Birds may break up their food or crush it with their bill, they don’t chew it. Parrots, birds of prey, and finches have short, thick, fleshy tongues which allow them to manipulate their food. Where humans swallow with our soft palates, birds have to tilt their heads back to get the food from inside their mouth (buccal cavity) to the first part of their throat (Oesophagus). The oesophagus continues to draw the bird’s food down into it’s body – where it stands at the Crop.

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A Diet Your Bird Would Eat in the Wild – It’s Healthier, Right?

All Seed Diet Problem for a Senegal Parrot

Congo African Grey Who Regurgitate His Food

How Do Roudybush Bird Food Pellets Compare to Harrison’s?

Introducing Birds to Roudybush Pellets or Crumbles

First Prize Smart Crock Bird Cage Locking Food Dish 40 oz

Is It Okay to Let My Amazon Eat Peanut Shells?

Eclectus Parrots – Great Family Birds

Bird Food Confusion – Seeds, Pellets, Organic – What’s Best?

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