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My budgie is shivering

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 Quakers death

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 […]

Female budgie Laing infertile eggs

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???

Parakeet eating her egg

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 […]

YELLOW NAPED AMAZON

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. […]

Indian Ringneck is acting weird

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 […]

Incubation

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.

Lovebird siblings

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 eggs outside of nesting box

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

budgie cere change

My two year old female budgie’s dark brown crusty cere is starting to turn light blue on one side. What is wrong?

How do I clean wooden nest box

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.

Cockatiel laid egg

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 […]

Cockatiel behavior

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.

Budgie fledging

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.

Feeding my cockatiel

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

Cockatiel nutriberries

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

Aggressive male cockatiel

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 second clutch

Cockatiel laid there 1st clutch and weaned them. Now after a month they laid their 2nd clutch,is it too soon to lay eggs ?

My cockatiel laid an egg

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.

Thanks for your prompt reply

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 […]

Daddy cockatiel biting babies

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?

Do we introduce a young zebra finch again in its parents cage?

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)

Human attachment

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 […]

Cockatiel

What happens when u buy a boy parent raised cookietel and tame it then buy a girl one

female budgie from a bonded pair became aggressive.

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 […]

Regurgitation behavior

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. […]

My Grey itchy skin

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 […]

Lovebirds pairing confusion.

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 […]

Eggs

How long can my parakeets eggs survive, if she left the nest for over an hour and still has not returned?

Eggs

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?

Canary water

is it ok to give my birds fresh water every other day

Bird limping for 2 days

My Cockatiel, DJ, likes to chew a wicker basket we have and I think he probably has a piece of wicker–of course it might be something else–caught in his foot. He will let me touch, briefly, the outside of his foot but will not let me examine the underside. How urgent is this? Can we […]

Breeding cockatiels

Sooo I have a female who is getting ready to lay eggs, but her male mate just died, will her eggs be fertile? Even though he has died ? They mated several times before he died too

Female Budgerigars

Two of my female budgies mated together and laid eggs. Will these eggs be infertile or should I keep and try to incubate them ?

Sudden death of my Conure

I bought my Jenday Conure three weeks ago. He was six months old and seemed very healthy. We were bonding well and he was very loving. Suddenly this morning, he squawked and fell to the bottom of the cage moving around erratically. I picked him up and he just died in my hand! I’m in […]

Cockatiel Died Overnight

Last week I came downstairs first thing in the morning to find my 13 year-old Lutino Cockatiel dead on the floor of the living room. Previous to this he had never left his cage at night, even though it was left open. I am absolutely heartbroken and can’t understand what happened. He seemed lively and […]

Cockatiel health

Hii My cockatiel has laid an egg today in her nest box but she is not sitting on the egg. She enters the nestbox and comes back within 15 min and sits on the floor of the cage. I have seen her sitting silently on the floor everytime I enter the room. She has not […]

Did my bird die because of me?

Hello. At the beginning of the summer, my family found a baby sparrow. The bird had a scabbed wound on its head. The wound healed and the bird’s feathers grew back. The last time he had hair resembling a black beard had grown. His name was Kushik. Kushik died last month. A large wound appeared […]

Health of newly born zebra finch

Baby zebra finch is 4 or 5 days old and seems to be moving alot less than first few days after hatching. He looks like he has grown a little bit and looks like he is being fed. He appears to be weak. Could he be dehydrated? Not sure if he should be given a […]

Fishers love birds

Can you introduce a 1 1/2 male to another male , same spices? And if so how do I go about it?

Leaving parrot alone for two days

So for Christmas I’m planning on spending with my dad which I haven’t done in ten years I have a Amazon parrot and one budgie I’m planning on putting them in the living room so they can chat have the cirtons open a little bit so they can see outside however we don’t have many […]

Beak wiping

My canary keeps wiping his beak on wooden perch. He has done this since we got him two months ago. Otherwise appears to be ok. Should I be concerned? Thank you

What should I do with my two fighting budgies?

My two budgies (around 5-6 months yrs old) though regurgitating to each other and following one another sometimes, seem to hate each other. They would make this kind of warbling noise then come at one another. Also, if one of my budgies is eating (for example), and the other comes, the one eating immediately leaves. […]

My Budgie is Struggling to Fly

My budgie about 8 to 9 months, as of recently as been struggling to fly. This started two days ago when I let my two budgie out but as they took their first flight I noticed that my smaller blue one named Baby crash landed. I picked her up and put her where my other […]

Eggs

Hi..I have a male an a female budgie and they are about 3 years old. She laid an egg in her food dish last night. Is it possible for it yo be viable and if so is it too late to put it in a nesting box. Thanks

My birds ate their eggs

My birds gave 2 eggs 15 days ago and when I went to check on them today the eggs disappeared. Not even egg shells remained. What should I do?

Airborne Toxicity

Is there a possibility that airbone irritants / fumes kill only 1 bird in the flock and the rest are fine? Recently one of my pet bird passed on with first sign of seizure and thereafter lack of appetite and would not even take in formula.. succumbed within three days but my other birds are […]

Cockateil has stopped eating formula

Hey my bird is old enough now and he still won’t eat seeds so I stopped giving him formula for 10 days now and he has lost weight still hyper active and he is starting to lose his small feathers

Stressed cockatiel

My cockatiel is eight years old. She has been on her own for most of this time. I recently put my canary in with her. I know parrots and canaries generally do not get along and the cockatiel would normally attack the canary but my cockatiel was born with deformed feet and a crooked wing […]

Lovebird eggs fertile or not?

My female Fischer lovebird has laid three eggs. We just candled all the eggs around 10 days after the first egg was laid. All we see is a yolk inside. Does this mean the eggs are infertile or do they still need time to develop?

female cockatiel attack male cockatiel

hi i have two cocktails and they are pair they put 3 eggs and two eggs are hatch but now the female cocktail put 2 eggs and male was try to incubate but female was attack male while male cockatiel why?please help me I have no idea

Baby lovebird

I have a baby lovebird(1 month old)the last two days I noticed that it’s loosing feathers from the wings

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