“The best pellet is the one your bird will eat” ~ Catherine Tobsing, President, Windy City Parrot.
I love talking about pellets for pet birds.
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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 and sunflower “too much fat”.
(I also feed vegetables) can you suggest a replacement for Fortidiet?
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
We don’t generally interact with mainstream bird rescue organizations.
The last bird club/rescue meeting I spoke at began with a police presence called by the current president trying to forcibly remove the former president, who wouldn’t leave.
The next 15 minutes resulted in parliamentary maneuvers so legal action could be brought against the former bird rescue president.
We’ve seen that a lot over the years.
Which is why we mainly work with private rescues and bird rescue initiatives.
At first I thought to myself “this’ll be fun.”
Once I started the project it was a bit more difficult than I forecasted.
I originally started with 9 YouTube channels but some favorites needed to be included not simply based upon numbers.
For those who are not following on us Facebook or our YouTube channel, you’ll note that we are ramping up our use of Fid-eo to better communicate caged bird care.
I have a cockatiel that has had extreme polyuria for years.
The vet believes it is liver damage.
He is a heavy whiteface pied.
Those mutations have been known to develop liver problems.
I am searching for ways to help his polyuria.
He is otherwise healthy and happy.
(sorry couldn’t find a white face pied pic)
