to Mitch@WCParrot
Hello, love your website have a parakeet female about 5 years old with a cyst on the left wing.
Our avian vet was not too helpful only said it could be a feather cyst after I suggested it.
She does not seem uncomfortable but the cyst is getting bigger mostly pink with whatever color of feather appears any suggestions?
Barbara S. doesn’t know what to do,
I have an African grey named Rocky who is 29 years old.
Over the last couple of years, he started to make these strange noises day and night out of nowhere.
So we took him to our aviary vet and after several visits and numerous tests, it was determined that it is a behavioral issue.
Jean R. is concerned,
I have a middle-aged white-capped Pionus parrot.Â
I live in North Carolina in an apartment that uses electric heat.Â
I chose this apartment for my parrot because I ran into issues with gas leaks at other places and was concerned about my bird.Â
But in making the switch I lost the option to use gas logs in a winter loss of power in cold weather (which we had last winter).
 I do not even get hot water. Â
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Start with the Endangered Species Act from 1973
Quaker parrots are illegal to own or sell in
1 – Weigh your bird
Birds are prey animals. Evolution has taught them that if they look weak they are more subject to an attack by a predator in the wild. Thus it is not uncommon to see a bird appear to be healthy one day then fall over dead the next because there are no visual symptoms like you can see with a cat or dog.
One of the most precise tools you can obtain for a mere $19 is our best bird scale ever which can be used to weigh birds from budgies to large macaws.
When you weigh your bird regularly at least twice a month you can easily see large swings in weight gain or loss possibly indicating an illness without being visible by looking at the bird.
Susan F. is concerned,
I just noticed a patch of black on Seymour’s right side just now.Â
Should I be overly concerned about this enough to get her in to see the vet?Â
I have been giving Seymour 1/2 of a strawberry almost every day for the past two weeks.Â
Could that be causing this?Â
Also, I have been trying to file Seymour’s nails with a crystal file for the last several weeks on Sundays to get her used to it and to do a little at a time…perhaps 5 mins because she pulls away so often.
Julie O. has a lovebird issue,
Hello Catherine & Mitch
We have a peach-faced lovebird named Kiki (she told us her name, it’s the only word she speaks) that was rescued nearly dead from starvation and dehydration on a busy Los Angeles street about 5 years ago.
We don’t know her actual age, but she looked to be fairly young then.
In the past two years, she has started laying infertile eggs.
Gail H. wrote:
I have a very healthy 2-1/2 yr. old Cockatiel and he is still a baby to me.
I am wondering what weight is a healthy weight for him.
He has been molting since about 8 wks ago and of course, the molt is getting less now.
Rotary trimmers are becoming very popular when people realize how easy it is to trim their own bird’s nails while saving money at the same time.
Although we recommend using an electric nail trimmer to keep your bird’s nails trimmed neatly we do not recommend that you attempt to trim your bird’s beak.
It’s a sensitive organ and has a lot of sensory receptors and which could potentially be very painful to your bird if handled in the wrong way, which got me to thinking about today’s topic.
