Can My Bird Safely Eat People Food?
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Can My Bird Safely Eat People Food?

My parrots love eating any kind of fruit or juice, nuts or seeds, but aren’t interested in any other kind of food I think is good for them. How can I change this?

 

This article is written with the understanding that you are providing a high quality formulated parrot pellet to your bird. Seed diets are ok but many nutrients are lost from “vitamin fortified” seed diets when the hull of the seed (where the vitamin fortification is applied) is discarded by the bird. We advocate a multi-vitamin supplement to ensure optimal nutrition with a seed diet. (more…)

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How Bird Food was Sold More than a Century Ago
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How Bird Food was Sold More than a Century Ago

This catalog from the Max Geisler Bird Co. is clearly pre-1900. The picture is interesting on the cover the little girl offering a parrot of no discernible species would appear to be a cookie or a cracker with the term “Human Talker” above the couple.

How can you argue with the power of magic when it comes to feeding your bird? This food claims to work for any bird well or sick and improve its feathers and voice. It was appropriate for all seed-eating birds – according to the label.

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