Hi I’ve had my male cockatiel for 5 years and my female for 3 years. Usually before they never liked each other and always hated. I’ve always had a nest box in their cage for a long time but they never went in it. Now this time I see that my male cockatiel is so […]
Hi! I am considering adopting a pair of adult pionus parrots. How do you discorage a pair of parrots from breeding? The birds in question have been breeder birds for some years, and have successfully raised a clutch every year for several years. They are now in their mid to late teens, and I feel […]
I hand raised my male cockatiel from 2 weeks on. He is so spoiled and attached to me that he screams when I leave the room. His voice is so shrill no one wants to be near him. How do I train him to make sweet noises?
Hi my adult pairs of cockatiel aren’t going to the nest box after mating many times. It’s almost been a month since they are mating. What should I do?
My budgie can’t fly since she born, she try to fly many times, she run and jump and flap, but just like a chicken she drop to the floor, Im sure she’s not sick but maybe she has no energy, don’t move too much in day but climb curtains too much and also enjoy being […]
Hi, my budgie laid an egg on the cage floor despite of having nest in her cage few hours ago and is not sitting on it. They are 2-3yrs old, we got them from a pet shop few days ago so they aren’t tamed yet and it’s their first time .What should i do ?Should […]
Even after doing certain changes in the diet and changing toys position the bird is constantly laying eggs. She is weak and was trembling two days back. We are providing with supplements and medicine as directed by our vet. But how will she recover and how long it will take to lessen her cycle. Weight […]
Hi, I have a female Cockatiel, about 8-9 months old. Around New Year’s, she laid 4 unfertilized eggs and since then she seems to be flying hard. I have the impression that it flies slightly tilted to one side. Is it a result of the eggs or should I take her to the vet? TY!
My budgie sat on the egg for 20 days now and she threw 2 eggs out of the 3 eggs… I checked that one egg was empty it was clearly white while the other hand a little crack but I checked it was red and black in the half of the egg… While the 3rd […]
I feed my parrots Lafeber but my son now has 2 ring necked doves. Does Lafeber carry food that is for doves? I trust Lafeber avian food and would like to continue to use the brand for the doves.
Hi, I’m trying to help my Molccan Cockatoo recover his neck. I’m wondering where I can get a neck collar made with FRP material, as Moluccan Cockatoo is a large bird, I need a collar that doesn’t break with his beak. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you!
My female and male are fighting they have 4chicks do I take male out or female out as he is holding her down at times and want let her near chicks
How long before eggs hatch
I have been visiting this pet store for about a year. I visit with all of the animals, but this 1 year old cockatiel stands out to me. I’ve never had a bird before, so I’ve been researching for days now, I’ve been sure about getting him until I read that without a mate, they […]
Why is my lovebird not sitting on her eggs during the day when the evening comes the female and male will go in it and sit on the eggs all night this is not my first time for hatching eggs or dealing with lovebirds I’ve had baby many years I have love birds parakeets and […]
I have a lovebird (Luna) and a budgie (Pinù) in separate cages. Pinù recently lost his bonded mate, with whom he shared the cage for years. The budgies were rescues, and didn’t like being out of their cage, so they rarely went out. But I got Luna when she was young and I regularly let […]
A friend wants to send a patridge from Iraq to Pakistan. I need details charges etc
Can these birds talk ?
My new bird canary came in sick with sinus infection. Left nostril completely closed by mucus and right nostril has on/off wet no color discharge. Doxycycline we did 2 course(each course 12 days) and it helped to resolve half of the symptoms but we aren’t seeing further results and clavamox was suggested as next antibiotics […]
what bird species can i put in with a butcher bird?
Hello, looking for some advice on 2 green cheek conures I got late past December. I had no idea on their sex until I did a gender/DNA test and found out I have a male and female. Both are starting to show interest in each other in which I will have to prepare for eggs […]
My mum has 2 cocktails male and female, Recently the female has been fluffed up and swaying side to side. What does this mean??
I have a pair of macaws. I feed them sunflower seeds, fruits & veges. How much food do they need in a day
We had a Cockatiel for over 23 years. After losing him, we got a 7 month old one. My first one ONLY ate Parakeet food, didn’t like the extra stuff in the Cockatiel food, and also shared a cage , with a Parakeet for over 10 years. It’s funny how, I had left over Parakeet […]
my budgie is shivering and is not able to fly and when i take my hand near him, he starts to bite my hand so hard that is starts bleeding. I want to know why is that so
My Quaker- Caesar passed on December 26th. He was 29 -I was always careful on feeding quality food-( no nuts, salty foods, chocolate, parsley etc)—he had fresh water, homemade Birdy Bread. Woke up that morning she gave him his unsalted green beans that he loved. Wouldn’t eat them or drink water. He was hunched down […]
My female budgie about 6 years old. Alone in cage us Laing eggs for past five days? Naturally they are infertile! She lays and then rejects they lays again rejects … four so far? She is very bright and eating and drinking well when not producing/sitting in eggs? What must I do???
My female parakeet is alone. She killed the male quite some time ago, before she started laying eggs. She has clutches of 4 I’d say every other month. There is no nest in the cage. She lays on the bottom of her cage. I let her sit on them for a little while. I hate […]
I am from New Delhi, INDIA. These days the night temperature is about 9 degrees and day time max. about 18 degrees. I have a yellow naped well bonded AMAZON pair in my aviary. I have seprated them from the aviary and have given them a seprate room with a big cage in that room. […]
I just recently moved my birds cage into my room because of something that wasnt good for him in his cages original spot. It stressed him out so i moved him back, he’s comfortable in his cage again but i dont think he’s as comfortable with me anymore. He used to be very attached to […]
I have a Parakeet egg tha has been in a incubator, after it hatches can I but it back in the nesting box with the parents.
female cockatiel not accepting the male to mate they both are adult and how to mate them
I took on two lovebird siblings found out one is male and one is female I do not want the eggs of the female to hatch. Is it ok to remove them she just had her first two eggs
My budgie laid the egg out of its nesting box i.e. in the cage.the shape of the egg is slightly distorted I picked up the egg and placed it in another nesting box.The other bird has accepted it as its egg so is it right or not
My two year old female budgie’s dark brown crusty cere is starting to turn light blue on one side. What is wrong?
I have a wooden nest box for my breeding pair of budgies. It has gotten covered in poo but I’m not sure exactly how to clean it without having the wood mold and avoiding toxic fumes for the birds.
Hi, I got a female yesterday, the owner said she might lay an egg and as she had a mate, so she did today .but she is not sitting on it. She has had chicks before so she has experince. She is in a big cage with two males that I already have. Why she […]
My bird suddenly started walking in circles, making a little chirp sound and has his mouth open. I had taken him to the back office where the guys were in earlier, drinking, smoking and whatever else. How sensitive are these birds to lingering fumes in the air? Although it was hours earlier.
my one and only birdbath baby is now 5 weeks old when should I remove it from the cage and how do I prevent the parents from mating again besides separating the pair.
She will only eats nutriberries , avicakes and seeds. I have tried fruits and veggies, she is so picky she picks out the fruit or veggies from the nutriberries and eats the other parts. What can I do to get her to try veggies and fruits? She will not eat human foods
Hi I put your nutriberries in a foraging bowl for my two tiels,they pick at them all day but don’t eat them all,how long can I leave them in ymthe forager before they spoil?. I don’t want to swop them out every day as they are pretty expensive
Hello, I own 2 cockatiels: a 5 year old female and 2-3 year old male. The female has laid eggs once when she was about 2 years old, she just sat on them and got bored after a week or so. The male was introduced to her when he was very young so there was […]
Cockatiel laid there 1st clutch and weaned them. Now after a month they laid their 2nd clutch,is it too soon to lay eggs ?
I have two cockatiels (male and female), this is my seeing her laying egg, and i don’t know what to do. She laid her’s egg on the cage floor. Should i buy some kind of box? Every help would be appreciated.
He is definitely hurting them by biting their skin as well because we can see small sores on their skin. Also we haven’t seen him feed him to today though mummy cockatiel tries to feed them abut he won’t let her. Is it right to take the babies out the box because it seems to […]
Our male cockatiel is plucking out the feathers of his 2 and a half week old babies. We don’t think he’s driving them out because when we took them out he desperately wanted them back. We are also giving him lots of salt.What do we do?
We are about to buy one blue and one green lovebird is this ok
After the young ones grew up, parent birds starts to wean, then we have to keep it in a separate cage. After that can we reintroduce those young birds again into the parents cage? (i. e after some months passed from separating it from its parent)
Do only female greys dig ?
My cocateil was very close to my husband and my husband passed away. Chico (my bird) has completely changed. He bites is not friendly and keeps looking for behind his urn and pictures. I love Chico but he’s biting me. How can I get him to stop morning and come to me. He’s a bit […]
What happens when u buy a boy parent raised cookietel and tame it then buy a girl one
Hi everyone! I have a pair of bonded budgies for 4 years and they are around 4.5 years old. The male is slightly younger and they’ve been in the same large cage (1 meter x 1.3 meter x 1.5 meter professional parrot cage with sufficient amount of toys, food, water, squid bone, and millet treats […]
I have a 29 y/o African Grey. I got him when he was about 6 months old – so we’ve been together a LONG time. He has always regurgitated a bit on a favorite toy and I would remove the toy so as not to _encourage_ regurgitation. I am not sure why they do this. […]
Hi I know everybody thinks their parrot the most brilent but my Piewacket is “something else as far as talking “she loves her bath wings up puffed up.. BUT I can only do alot of that in the summer. I do have a little bird heater in her cage and a dehumindier but she doesn’t […]
Is there a difference between the Parrot or Macaw/Cockatoo daily pellet diets or is it just the size of pellet?
I have 2 lovebirds recently bought by a breeder he told that they are male and female. According to him green was male and yellow lutino was female but i see sometimes green climbing on yellow and sometimes yellow on green(green more)green share food also yellow bites harder and shred more paper. I am confuse […]
I move my cockatiel pair with 16days old eggs. Then my pair won’t go inside nestbox about 10 hours … now I’m worried if the checks inside still ok or what ?????????
How long can my parakeets eggs survive, if she left the nest for over an hour and still has not returned?
I had to move the nesting box, the mother parakeet will not go back in nesting box and sit on her eggs now. What do I do?
is it ok to give my birds fresh water every other day
