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Help – My Catalina Macaw Is Chewing Everything!

• Mitch Rezman
• January 26, 2014
• Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds
• 0 Comments

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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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
• 0 Comments

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…

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Can a Cockatiel Choke on a Fortune Cookie in a Plastic Wrapper?

• Mitch Rezman
• August 22, 2013
• Foraging and Enrichment
• 5 Comments

We posted the picture above to our Facebook page on 8/22/2013) and received the following comment

 

“I am amazed anyone would give their bird a plastic packaging material. They could so easily choke on it”.

 

I thought I’d share my reply

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What Would It Be Like to Have a Large Parrot?

• Mitch Rezman
• July 22, 2013
• Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Supplies Info / Birds & Lighting / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds / Training Birds
• 1 Comment

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Try this:

1.WASTEFUL.. Buy $30 worth of groceries and throw $24 worth in the trash as soon as you arrive home. Do this several times a month. Parrots require fresh food in addition to pellets (not seeds) and are wasteful eaters. If you can’t afford the wastefulness of a parrot, you can’t afford the parrot. 

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The Bird Cage Privacy Canopy

• Mitch Rezman
• April 25, 2013
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment
• 0 Comments

Spaulding courtesy of Michelle Karras & the Polite Parrot

 

We talk about the 60/40 rule a lot. In the wild birds spend 60% of their time looking for food and 40% of their time trying not to be food.

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Help for a Yellow Head Parrot

• Mitch Rezman
• April 2, 2013
• Amazons / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments / Bird Nutrition / Foraging and Enrichment
• 0 Comments

Good Day! I have a beautiful Yellow Head Parrot that has been with me since birth. we grew up together! My mom bought him,(Chico) When I was born, and according to my mother, he had just been born. I am now 56 years young, LOL!! 

 

He is very healthy and happy.

He is my little companion and I have just decided to remodel his cage and give him some more love, do something different.

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Changes in the Product Lines of Foraging Toys

• Mitch Rezman
• December 14, 2012
• Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments / Foraging and Enrichment
• 0 Comments

We were recently interviewed for a pet magazine article with some interesting questions. We thought you’d enjoy our answers

1. Have you seen any noticeable changes in the product lines of bird foraging toys/ foraging treats in the past five years or so? Are more companies expanding into the foraging marketplace (bird companies that didn’t previously offer them)?
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Seeking Foraging Bird Toys

• Catherine Tobsing
• September 12, 2012
• Bird & Parrot Care / Foraging and Enrichment / Plucking/Screaming
• 0 Comments

 Didn’t you tell me that you are low on “parrot foraging” toys”?. My son decided to make a couple of simple foraging toys for Danny.

Foraging toy is a vague term 

It is a bird toy that can be used to hold toys, treats, or just become torn up.

 

A lot of toys for parrots for years were made so they could not be destroyed like a chain with hard beads or a heavy bell, big plastic rings, etc, they lasted forever but were boring.

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Getting Your Bird to Play With Bird Toys

• Mitch Rezman
• December 18, 2011
• Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Foraging and Enrichment
• 0 Comments

How many times do you get a new toy for your bird, stick it in the birdcage close the door, and then go and work on your computer or watch television? 
 
Then you wonder why your bird chewed your television remote or the wire to your mouse?

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Lighting and Your Bird

• Catherine Tobsing
• April 14, 2010
• Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Breeding / Bird Lighting / Foraging and Enrichment / Hormonal issues in birds / Inter species
• 0 Comments

Reprinted from the NCS Journal July/August 1999, Vol. XVI, No. 4

Lighting and Your Bird 

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