While surfing around the internet recently, I stumbled into the middle of a debate. Do you give grit to your birds?
On the one side, we have the folks who insist that birds must have grit in order to digest their food. Without it, they will die a quick death! Besides, if grit [...]
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There seems to be a resurgence of people recommending that you feed your pet bird mealworms. I don’t know why…these people seem to come around in cycles.
We were introduced to mealworms several years ago. A salesman called us up. At that time we were at the biggest stage of running our aviary, [...]
We are always getting letters and email asking for advice and comments. So from time to time we will be passing along some of these conversations.
QUESTION: Is it OK to have packing-peanuts in a parakeet’s cage as a toy? Also, would bubble wrap in the cage be ok?
ANSWER: You enjoy listening [...]
In our many years of breeding birds, we get a lot of people asking to purchase very young baby birds. The younger the better…..even a couple weeks old.
Sounds like a reasonable request. After all, we have constantly stated that getting a young bird is much easier to train than an older one…why not [...]
OK, allow me a few moments to vent, let off steam, and do some primal screaming. I know my birds are having a field day with this. I hear them giggling in their cage. They read the news in the newspaper on the bottom of their cage and they are laughing at [...]
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