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You can use Nolvasan solution as an antibacterial flush and Betadine (available in pharmacies and most animal feed stores) to disinfect the wound on the human.

Betadine can also be used on any animal including all parrots, birds and mammals.

There’s nothing wrong with using peroxide.

Grabbing a bar of soap out of the shower or the bathroom sink to clean the wound will only add bacteria residing on that bar of soap and probably should not be used.

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What Is a Good Summary About How It Is to Own Parrots (Macaws Specifically)?

Mitch Rezman
March 16, 2018
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting / Biting Birds / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Hormonal issues in birds / Parakeets / Peaches the Senegal Parrot / Plucking/Screaming / Veterinarian Related
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I don’t know that there’s enough storage space on the Quora servers to answer this.

I read that parrots are loud, noisy, and messy – a lot.

Then again so are children.

Let’s start with a top-level explanation.

Pet people in the disciple category will always react negatively towards the word own preferring instead to call it pet bird companionship.

In reality, birds are the most owned pets we can have.

We have to lock them up in a bird jail.

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We’ve Learned How Much We Know and Don’t Know About Captive Bird Care After Taking the Exam

Find the Birdy IQ exam here if you haven’t taken it

Of the first 170 exams we had a 25% pass with 75% correct answers to 44 multiple and true/false questions

Please share your comments below terms if you think this helped or did not.

What else would you like to see?

more questions and/or explanations to the answers.

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An African Grey Parrot sitting on top of his cage preening his wing feathers.

How And Some Of The Why’s African Greys Molt Differently Than Other Parrots

Mitch Rezman
October 27, 2017
African grey / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Feather Plucking / Feeding Pet Birds / Plucking/Screaming / Species Specific
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Your African grey may have upwards of 8000 feathers. Feathers keep a bird warm, and dry and enable flight.

For a molt to occur, the old feather must be removed. Before molting begins blood vessels that support the feathers dry up so the attached feather becomes loosened by the surrounding tissue.

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