Category: Veterinarian Related - Page 20

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Hagen’s (HARI) Alternative Formula Pellets Offer Better Nutrition for Mature Birds

Mitch Rezman
February 3, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Veterinarian Related
3 Comments

December 10th of last year I sprained my ankle. I finally got my boot on that foot for the first time last week on 1/24/17. In less than a month Medicare will be paying all my medical expenses (in conjunction with a supplemental plan F policy). I can relate to getting old. I look old. I have a long gray beard. Look at me and you know that I’m old.

Not so much with birds

For those of you that have stuck with your birds through the screaming biting and destruction – kudos! You’ll learn how much life bird’s can bring into a home.

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I’m declaring myself THE caged bird keeper’s influencer for the Internet.

Mitch Rezman
January 24, 2017
Events / Uncategorized / Veterinarian Related
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(no one else wanted the gig)

If you follow digital trends as I do, it’s impossible to not recognize “the next big thing in marketing” called influencer marketing

something that’s actually been around since 1940.

All the “experts” in the many LinkedIn groups I follow and blogs I read coming across my crowded inbox have very precise instructions on how to achieve influencer marketing.

Search for influencers, connect with influencers, reach out to influencers, tell the influencers what great stuff you have, offer cash and gold bullion with the goal of a said influencer with 3 million followers on Instagram happily talking to their fans and followers about what remarkable stuff you have to say. It’s nice you have an instruction document.

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10 Plucking Triggers Your Vet Never Talks About

Mitch Rezman
January 18, 2017
Bird & Parrot Care / Feather Plucking / Veterinarian Related
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A woman replying in a Facebook thread about her self-mutilating parrot “My vet said that it’s become a habit that’s it very hard to break”.

My response was “Ask your vet why these habits don’t develop in the wild”?

Another woman had spent $4000 between veterinarian bills and behaviorists. Her bird was still plucking. In the thread that evolved it turns out that her cages were filled primarily with eucalyptus perches.

Although eucalyptus can be safe it also has a great many toxins that can be lethal to a bird. She also related that her bird got about one hour of daylight – none of this came up in the conversation with her veterinarian or behaviorist.

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Is Human Food Killing Your Bird?

Mitch Rezman
December 8, 2016
Feeding Pet Birds / Veterinarian Related
4 Comments

One of last week’s posts was entitled Comparative Human and Bird Digestive & Respiratory Systems – it was a bit heady and I think the point was lost on many readers. The message was that avian and human digestive and respiratory systems are very different.

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Comparative Human and Bird Digestive & Respiratory Systems

Mitch Rezman
November 30, 2016
Bird & Parrot Care / Veterinarian Related
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Comparative Physiology: Human and Bird

The human body uses food and liquids for energy, growth, maintenance and repair. Before it can use food and liquids for these purposes, it must go through a process called digestion, which is carried out by the digestive system. The digestive system consists of the following organs: Mouth, salivary glands, oesophagus, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, stomach, large and small intestines, duodenum, rectum and the anus.

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Canaries – Nature’s IPods – Why They Sing

Mitch Rezman
November 14, 2016
Feeding Pet Birds / Habitats for caged birds / Species Specific / Veterinarian Related
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Before iPods there were boomboxes. Before boomboxes, there were stereo radios. Precursors to phonographs were Victrolas.

But the way to get tunes in your home long before there was electricity was the natural sound of bird songs.

For years people would place a Canary or other singing finches in a small cage on either side of the room and whoever did that first can take credit for inventing stereo sound.

Canaries are small songbirds coming from the Finch family and were initially found in places like the Azores and believe it or not the Canary Islands.

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Does It Matter What Sex My Bird Is as Long as He or She Knows Its Name?

Catherine Tobsing
November 4, 2016
Bird & Parrot Breeding / Species Specific / Veterinarian Related
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Why is DNA so VERY important even for your non-breeding parrot?

About 20% of parrots, like budgies, eclectus, and cockatiels that are sexually dimorphic.

That means that the gender of the bird can be identified by physical differences.

In the case of budgies and cockatiels, they have to reach near-adulthood to exhibit differences while Eclectus are readily identifiable upon feathering out the first time since females are red and blue while males are green.

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Sexing Lovebirds – On the Cheap

About a quarter of all parrots are sexually dimorphic meaning you can tell the sex by the color or markings of the bird or parrot. Green Eclectus parrots are boys, red ones are girls (as a side note as recently as ten or fifteen years ago zoos were placing 2 red Eclectus together hoping for mating.)

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