I have a make cockatiel and its been about 2 months since I have gotton him. When I got him, I left him alone in his cage for a few weeks, afterwards, I sit beside the cage sometimes, but he always walks away from me. I tried giving him some time, but it was no […]
Is any type of cancer generally a death sentence for a parrot? Or can some of them recover from certain cancers?
What are the best nuts to feed parrots? Why would an amazon be interested in a mug filled with coffee or tea but ignore one with water?
best way to get bird to stop biting
How do you get a parrotlet to stop biting? She likes to be with me but just constantly bites. I’ve tried gently blowing on her to distract her. (She scolds me if I leave her in her cage.)
Can we give dry fig to indian ringneck
My boy and girl cockatiel are always hormonal now. For months they shred the newspaper in their house or hide under it. I move their cage around, rotate their toys, cover them up early, and they do have a LOT of time out of their cage to play. They get so worked up ; what […]
I have 2 green cheek conures how much out of cage time do they need? Do they have to be Only on pellet diet? Should there cage be covered at night? Should green cheeks be seen every year by the vet? Can you tell genders of conures? Also should i get pet insurance for birds? […]
I have a female cockatiel that has laid eggs. She has become aggressive to the male. I had to take him out of the cage. What should I do?? Try to put him back in the cage or keep them apart
we adopted Hansey about 4 months ago after my mother in law passed away. Hansey has known us from our visits at our mother in law’s place. Recently in the last month Hansey has become very attached to my mother in law daughter Sandra. Hansey follows her everywhere around the house, walks around the house […]
Hello sir, I am vasanth from chennai. I am having 4 budgies….. 6 months ago 2 baby birds were born … one died in that….. so now there is only 1… It is not matured and got mate with another budgie and now there is a egg…. That small baby budgie dont know to take […]
Hi. Just lost one of a pair of zebra finch. Should I remove the body straight away or leave for a while so his partner can realise/grieve. Thank you
I’ve had my little budgie for 2 1/2 weeks I keep a shallow dish of water in the bottom of the cage and a dish of seed and pellets , every day I try a different fruit. The only thing he’s enthusiastic about is the seed and to my knowledge he has never had any […]
My cockatiel who has pretty much up to this point been compliant with bedtime routine. However, the last 6 weeks he has become IMPOSSIBLE!!!! He flies off, screeches, bites and is a real monster when it comes to bedtime. Now anytime we go to try to get him he flies off thinking we are putting […]
Dear Brenda, Thank you so very much again Brenda for all your help with my Senegal Parrot Socrates. He was not like this quite a while ago. I also never had a parrot before. I got him originally from my former boyfriend Joshua a couple years ago. From someone who was giving my Socrates away. […]
Hello, my name is Piper and I had a male and female zebra finch who had 3 beautiful babies, 2 males and one female. Just today my mama bird who has been with me for years passed on. I now have her male mate and their two sons and one daughter. I was concerned that […]
Dear Brenda, Thank you so very much for getting back to me so soon. I really appreciate all your help. I removed my Socrate’s hut. I really hated to do it. But I followed your advice. It hurts me to do it because he felt so safe and secure. That was like a security blanket […]
Hello Brenda, My Senegal Parrot Socrates; his behavior towards me changed. And I don’t understand why. He was originally very friendly towards me. But recently he has become extremely frightened. He used to let me pet his head. He used to sit on my shoulder sometimes. But when he bit me once on my ear; […]
Hi! I followed your advice and took advantage of verde’s new sweet side and worked on stepping up without chewing or biting and I’ve been letting her come out of the cage and it was Wonderful! She loves spending time with me but I have two questions. My first question is how can I make […]
Hello again! I followed what you said and let the parents feed the chicks. 3 of then are pretty big and are about 12 days old. I had a baby chick hatch four days ago. I was worried that it wouldn’t be feed properly so I moved the bigger ones away from the nest and […]
Hi there , I have a green cheek Conure (cheeky )who is about 12, we think he is a male. He has some fears about finger which I am training , cheeky is getting much better with hand, he gets alone with other birds. He has meet and stayed with a Alexandria parrot (Lui, he […]
Why is he doing that
Verde stayed at my friends house for a while because we went somewhere over night just for one day, and when I got verde back she was a completely different bird she lets you pet her she steps up without and glove thing on my hand hand her bites aren’t as nearly as hard as […]
How many nutri berries per day as his main food do you suggest? I’ll also give him fruit and vegetables daily. Thank you,
I have some problem with my gouldean finch. Already my 5finches has died. I can’t treat them .I give them medication and enough light but it didn’t work. As u know I from Bangladesh I can only give medicine only which I found locally. Their symptoms were lose motion which is white, floppy body and […]
Can you tell a little about Yellow Wing Tipped Canaries Parakeets.
I have Lady Gouldian Finches. They have access to grit, cuttlebones, fresh kale, egg yolks, and broccoli. They have regular beak and nail care, drops of iodine in the water, vitamin drops, and regular dosing for air sac mites. My problem is…. a bird will become “dumpy”. listless, eventually sitting on the bottom of the […]
How can you tell the difference between green cheek conures and maroon bellied conures?
How come some zebra finches have orange cheeks, while others have mustard yellow, and some have black?
Hi…i have a 5 month old Timneh AG who is a real mommy’s boy, he is afraid of everyone else.. what do I do when I go away next year for 10 days a month on business? How do I handle leaving him with a bird sitter?
Hello I’m interested in buying a bird but i live a 3 1/2 size Appartement building . which bird species would suited for life in a Appartement? I would a medium-sized bird.
My cockertiel is of 4 months. He is losing his feathers around his eyes. He was not active for past 1 week. He used to sit dull with fluffy feathers. And was not eating much.
My girlfriend and I have been living together for nearly a year, and she has a little bird named Pilot. I’m still a little uneasy with how messy and loud birds can be, but the bird is very important to her and I want to be able to work with it. When we first moved […]
I have a pair of ringneck doves. I adopted the male about 8 months ago. I already had a female ( her mate passed at 9 years old). She is also about 9 and I adopted a male about same age. I had the stupid idea of letting them hatch an egg… she is beautiful […]
My tame cockatiel lost one foot due to injury this morning. He’s had the foot amputated and I’m bring him home now. How can I help him adapt? He was outside in an aviary, but I now plan to bring him indoors in a cage.
My birds all fly in the house will thy have eggs
This is a curiosity question… Lori, my housemate, owns a Maroon Bellied Conure – female – 13 years old. We have cable news on during most of the day as background while we are doing other things. The Conure is in the same room as the tv. So she hears a lot of news and […]
Single female Cockatiel sits in box and wont come out protecting her eggs but there are no eggs
My female cocketile wants to mate but my male doesn’t want to do it. Both are one and half years old and my female always shows intereste but male one is not interested. I put a nest box where female lay non fertilize eggs. Of course they didn’t mate. But they have a good bond. […]
i bought a parakeet and i’m raring it to become a service animal, any tips or suggestions?
Hi, I recently bought a budgie that I was told was hand reared, I got him at 8 weeks old and he is now 10 weeks. He literally runs away from me every time I try get close, he sometimes gets on my finger when I am holding millet but jumps off as soon as […]
My birds are breeding but they are not laying any egg. I have not change their nest box not even change anything in case.
I got one cockatiel about less than 2 weeks ago. She is randomply screaming, I checked if she was fine and I also checked her food, water, cage, etc.. Everything was fine. I thought that maybe she wanted attention, but everytime I went near her, she gets agitated and flies away from me, in her […]
Why can’t i let my sun conures baby breeds
PLEASE HELP! I bought a pair of zebra finches and I thought I heard both making noise (that squeaky toy noise) and I had remembered hearing somewhere that it’s the males only that make noise, does this mean i have 2 males, the female looks like a female (she has no cheek patches, barely any […]
Hello! I have two pairs of budgies, all just over a year old, in separate flight/breeding cages. There are no nest boxes yet. One pair is bonded and the other is starting to show bonding behavior. I am doing all my research before deciding to breed (or not). Two questions I have not been able […]
Verde is in fact eating her feathers when the molt our and I was wondering if that’s something I should worry about?
I have 3 parakeets in a small cage. Two male and one female. The female one, you see, l say it’s kinda crazy. It goes inside the place where l provide the food (seeds) and it’s tail started to fall off. I think she’s pregnant ’cause her belly looks really big. The males are fine. […]
Its me again, dont know how to respond to the other question… but she has laid 2 more eggs, do you have any clue what to do?
I have recently bought the ‘Parrot’ nutriberries(El Paso, Garden veggie, sunny orchard and tropical fruit varieties) in error for my 3 year old cockatiel. Are these still suitable for him? Do I need to adjust the quantities?
The first egg hatched! I don’t know if I show feed it yet! I bought the formula Exact Hand Feeding Formula (with OMEGA-3) and I don’t know how to use it. It says to use 92% water and 8 % for the first few days. How should I mix it in?
I just recently got a baby cockatiel. I have plenty of budgie pellets (since there’s 2 of them and they don’t eat as much) and for ease (since my cockatiel is already accepting the food), I’d like to feed both birds the budgie pellets. Is that ok? Are the cockatiel pellets formulated with different nutrition? […]
Hi, I read that cinnamon is healthy if you take the Ceylon, because the Chinese cassia one is to chemical. Greetings Balder
i just want to thank you for the great advice handling mango and his birdy problems he really is a great pet and we love him lots thank you so much
Hello, it’s me again. This is meant to be a follow up question regarding Kiwi, my peach faced lovebird who I have asked about in a previous question Lovebird Trust I am writing this to inform you that it have been quite some time and I have worked on Kiwi was far as earning my […]
I mist our Congo Grey every day and notice she molts quite often. Could this be a result of the misting?
My TAG has malformed mucous membranes and I have to clear his nares everyday. Do you know other Grays with this? And if so can you tell us a bit about it?
I’ve had my 11 year old male for about 6 months and he does not fly. Is there hope, with training, that he will fly? Or should I be content that he walks everywhere?
Lisa, what is the sign that Sam communicates to you that she wants water?
Where do you get those “trees”?
