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
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 […]
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
Two of my female budgies mated together and laid eggs. Will these eggs be infertile or should I keep and try to incubate them ?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Can you introduce a 1 1/2 male to another male , same spices? And if so how do I go about it?
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 […]
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
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 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 […]
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 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?
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 […]
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
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 […]
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?
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
Can I break up & give to canary?
My male cockatiels mate died and he is pacing the cage. What should I do?
Cockatiel laid 3 eggs after hatching their first clutch 1 egg was fertile among the 3. The first clutch chicks has weaned and left the nest. Should remove the nest box ?
I have a baby lovebird(1 month old)the last two days I noticed that it’s loosing feathers from the wings
Hi, I have 2 male cockatiels both in seperate cages beside each other. So far everything has been well and have moved onto letting them out together. The second male cockatiel sometimes goes into the others cage to sleep and explore around it and sometimes my first cockatiel joins him but recently I’ve noticed that […]
I had a male and female the other day one died we have no idea why it was fine all day but after lunch it just went to the bottom on its back and died what happened
Hi my cocktail female is more than 3 years and male is approx 2years of age but female is not showing in mating they are together with approx 6 months
I just noticed our cockatiel has hatched an egg an the chick was not near the mother or the other egg an the mother was not paying attention to her baby what does that mean we have put the baby back in the nest hopping that the mother will go back to it but still […]
I accidentally sent 2 for the same question thinking that it didn’t go through since it didn’t appear in my email, but I want to say thank you Brenda for answering my question(s) and giving me advice for my birds! -Sincerely Lina
I have a cockatiel which is almost 2months old. It’s been a week i am trying him to eat some seeds and vegetables by putting in the cage.At first she did shown some interest. However last 2 days she isn’t eating hand feed food or the others.And also want to attach with me all the […]
I have a hand fed1 and a half year old male green cheek Conure, he recently (about three weeks ago) flew away, we were lucky enough to retrieve him safely but now it appears to have lost interest in his cage and toys, we started bringing him downstairs more and he starts to fly away […]
I have a 2 year old female cockatiel we bought from a breeder. She is tame and spends most of her daytime out of her cage. She also flies very well and will be clipped next week. She had her last clutch 3 weeks ago. I take them away after about 4-5 days. ( tho […]
I have a few birds whose nails have fallen off (they’re fine now 🙂 ) and even one whose whole toe has fallen off and I’ve seen that before it falls off, the area of the toe has some sort of bump that almost looks as if their skin is coming off. my guess is […]
Hello, we have had 3 birds die randomly. The first one we had we got 8 years ago and was a quaker parrot, then one day he fell to the bottom of his cage and just died. A few weeks later we got two cockatiels and the boy died the same way, the. The girl […]
I have a female cockatiel that seems perfectly healthy, but she randomly started chirping a little squeak while yawning. She was doing it again and again and again. I paniced and i picked her up even if i knew she dosent like that and i tryed looking in her mound if she has a little […]
Why my bird doesn’t want to be touched
Are male and female cockatiels compatible? My dad is thinking to get another cockatiel for our male cockatiel, and we don’t know if we should get a male or female. My dad wants to get a female, but I’ve heard they might be aggressive towards eachother. I want to get a male because I think […]
I have put a deposit on a male and female cockatiel about the same age. One will be ready in a week and one will be ready mid December. How difficult is it to prevent the female from laying eggs?
I have a pair of budgies who surprised me with their nesting the hen laid her eggs in her food dish after that I supplied her with a nest box which she refused to use she continued to lay her eggs in her food dish so far total is 4 she incubates them not sure […]
So I have mum n dad cockatiel on veg diet n seeds n pellets ..with a vitamin in there drink..do I need give anything different when there babies hatch..
I have 2 cocktail birds they are both under 2 years old , my female bird started laying eggs long time ago , and my male bird also sits on these eggs even though they have never mated , so they are expecting little birds even though they never mated , taking away the box […]
i have 2 baby cockatiels from my two pets, they are currently 6 and 8 days old. i am wanting to hand rear them but i do not have nearly enough time to feed them. is there a way for me to rear them just by being with them? and if so when should i […]
I just got a yellow canary a month ago. He or she? started moulting a week ago. Should I be concerned? I thought they only moult once a year in late summer.
If my male budgie comes out and goes missing can i put a new male with mom and babys?
Hi there, I have 2 cockatiels and 2 Parakeets in a cage together, the female cockatiel and the 2 parakeets moved in with my older cockatiel about 4 months ago. I want to move them all to a larger cage, should I do this slowly or are there concerns when doing so?
It’s early November and my 2yr old Dutch blue is constantly laying eggs what can I do
I am a veterinarian with a client who has two budgies which are bonded – a male and female 6 months of age. It is unclear if they are related. The male is smaller than the female – we are assuming sex based on cere color. Must these birds be separated? What is the current […]
