Parakeets make excellent avian companions for those venturing into the world of pet birds.
Unlike all pets, it is crucial to take into account the lifespan of a parakeet before accommodating one into your feathered household.
Nourishing your feathered companions involves much more than just providing them with a daily scoop of pet bird food.
Adequate feeding of pet birds is an intricate part of avian health, demanding a balanced diet rich in nutrients essential for their vitality.
Donna D. cries for, HELP!!! I had a female grey for 40 years before she recently passed. My boyfriend and I bought a fledging together we both feed him with…
“The best pellet is the one your bird will eat” ~ Catherine Tobsing, President, Windy City Parrot.
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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.
Hello All
And thanks for your contributions to this often difficult topic.
Yes, it is true that flighted birds may have accidents, which some folks may attribute to their being flighted.
But then birds whose flight has been impaired also have accidents due to flight impairment.
Clipped birds are vulnerable to death during escape from cats, dogs and being run down by vehicles.
Victor V writes:
Hi, I hope you can help. I have been feeding my female Grey for years on Harrison’s Bird Foods High Potency Coarse.
Been getting the pellets from Amazon.
When we started this latest bag, she started just grinding the large pellets (not sure if she is eating them) and scattering them about the cage.
Harold Writes: I've been feeding my 12 conure and cockatiel friends Kaytee cockatiel Fortidiet and then top layer with Roudybush pellets for many years. Their doctor objects to the safflower…
Small species pet birds
Birds we classify as “Smaller” species
Green cheek conures weigh 64 grams (cockatiels are about 100 grams – Patagonian conures weight about 280 grams, about the size of a Timneh African grey.
Don’t think for a minute conures can be classified into one size category
Large Canaries
Gibber Canary