Archive for the ‘Parrot Diet’ Category

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, and did [...]

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 me! Buttered microwave [...]

We recently had a question about Nanday Conures. This lady purchased and older bird for a pet and all it does is scream and holler. She can hold it and work with it, but the screaming is beginning to create problems with the neighbors. * For starters, you really need to do some research into [...]

  When we started out as bird breeders, we though we knew everything. We knew everything about nutrition…well, actually we knew they need more then seed, just didn’t know why. We know how to breed them…just leave them alone, they don’t need our help. We knew why the parents fought with each other all the [...]

Living with a parrot can be challenging, rewarding, fun-filled, stressful, heartbreaking, nerve-wracking, and many other adjectives. Our parrot’s behavior is directly related to their interaction with us and how we care for our birds. Below are some tips for living comfortably with your pet parrot: Don’t teach your bird to behave badly – Many parrot [...]