Hello, This requires a bit of a background story so apologies for the length of my message in advance. My parents had a canary home which got attacked by a falcon and lost its wing. I took him to the vet where he stayed for a week to recover and then decided to take him […]
We have a pair of tiels (#1 & #2) and they managed to actually hatch and raise a baby (#3). #3 is now over a year old, and according to the breeder “it is most likely male because white-faced tiels usually are.” Only recently have we seen #3 try to “vocalize.” Also, #3 is literally […]
WE Purchased ultrasonic indoor pest repellers 22-65KHzand need to know if they will harm my African
I know parrots like cockatiels, parakeets, and lovebirds can get color mutations, but can cockatoos?
Hey I got some new finches they have laid 2 eggs but the mail is now sitting on the food bowl
Hello, I recently got 2 young budgies and am trying to hand tame them. They began taking food from my hand right away, so I am trying to get them to perch on my index finger. No matter what enticing treat I offer, they avoid stepping onto my finger at all costs, then scoot away […]
Hi.i have two cockatiels male is grey and female is white I assume they have bonded cause they sit side by side and scratch each others head gently .i installed a nest box and I provide food and water and corn and boiled eggs and vitamin (in their water)but i have not seen them mate […]
I have heard burning candles is not good for birds.? We have an umbrella cockatoo and my wife wants to use her candles…will it be bad for the bird?
I have 2 cockateils male and female…I accidentally kept them in open sunlight for quite a few hours…in the evening one of them started to make strange noise something like human asthma …but collecting breath but not able to breathe….I kept it on cool environment under a table fan…please give me a solution so that […]
How do Vasa Parrots change color without molting?
He has starting chewing on himself excessively. To the point he’s crying out.
I got my Quaker parrot about 2 weeks ago I’ve tried everything to get him to stepp up nothing has worked , I let him out of his cage everyday a speak to him all the time but when he’s out the cage all he dose is fly he never wants to come see me […]
How often should you cut a Scarlet Macaw’s nails?
I have a 16 yr old female sun conures and a 17 yr old Male. They live in separate houses which are huge. They are allowed 3-4 hrs out of there house to interact with each other. The last 4 yrs my female has been ripping/tearing her stomach a part too the point of bleeding […]
About a week ago, I took my budgie to the vet because he was sick and having trouble pooping (watery poop covered his vent and he was bobbing his head up and down like he wanted to vomit). The vet gave me medicine to give him for each day, and I’m still giving it to […]
I have 2 budgies. One budgie has lived with me a little bit longer than the other. I have read that you need to separate them while training. I’m currently training Blu (the budgie who has stayed with me for longer) and when he is alone, he is so sweet, and climbs up to my […]
I have heard burning candles is not good for birds.? We have an umbrella cockatoo and my wife wants to use her candles…will it be bad for the bird?
I just purchased a cockateil about 2 weeks ago and she is 1 years old not hand raised and she’s hiding her head and sits a lot next to her feeder inside cage and then sticks her head in there for quite some time, she is defensive but is getting better, she’s very quiet and […]
Hello, I have a question my African Grey will be 12 years old this December 21. My question is when can I feed senior lafeber food to him what age is a African Grey a senior. Thank you and have a great day.
Can you spay/neuter a parrot like a cockatiel
We have a Moluccan and she is everything you talk about. She loves me and is jealous of my wife. She is 23 now. She lays eggs every 3 to 4 months, 2 or3. About when do they stop laying?
My finch is doing some weird noise, I’d describe it as a little motor? I’m not sure. It sounds really weird and I’ve heard her do it often and i don’t know if it means something. Thanks in advance.
Hi! I have a pretty young cockatiel (3 months) that’s losing quite a bit of feathers, no large or fully grown ones. Just little fluffy contour and down feathers. He has no bald patches, isn’t acting strangely, and has a curious, playful disposition. His diet consists of seeds and pellets mainly (he will not eat […]
I’ve had a 3 year old green cheek conure for 14 months. I got him from a parrot rescue place, he was there for over a year. He does not like to be touched, at all! I did train him to “step up”, but he only tolerates me, then makes his great escape when I […]
I have an 11 yr old cockatiel. He has always been hi strung but affectionate. Recently he has started bitting and doesn’t want to be touched. His vet said he’s just moulting .
So my cockatiel is almost about a year old now and I would love it if she could have a family of her own so she wouldn’t be lonely but the thing is she is a special needs bird she only has half of the top of her beak so I’m worried this might affect […]
From today morning my 2 years old bird is not eating anything. He is sitting quietly with eyes closed and threw up water twice., his voice is very low.. What to do? I am very much worried
I was outside in my backyard with my dog Rocky who’s meant to be a hunting do (we don’t hunt though) a few minutes later I see this black bird with a purple head and bright yellow eyes searing my dog in the face. He then started to chase after the poor guy as it […]
I’m getting a new bird in a few days and I’m so scared I’ll train it wrong! I don’t want to live 10 years with a cooped up bird because he doesn’t love me! I only trust you guys for training steps. Please help -Addison
Hi, I just purchased a Lovebird a month ago from the local pet store. I was told that he was hand tamed when he/she came from the breeder three weeks before. My question is; How do I get my new Lovebird to stop biting and being aggressive?
Hi, I have a 5 years old African grey male parrot, at this tome I would like to look for his pair, should I get a female with the same age ? Which I think difficult to find or can I choose any mature younger or older female?
My white dove is llimping , what can be the cause of this?
I want to buy a hand fed bird. Have difficulty finding them in Montana and Wyoming. Canary, parrottlett, love birds.
We have had 2 cohabitating conures for 4 years. Last July we added a third. There has been NO acceptance by the original pair. Although they occupy a room and we have an open cage policy they new green cheeked conure sometimes attacks the other 2. Im concerned about this dangerous behavior as Kiki has […]
i’ve had a cockatoo for about 6 years now and i love her. she is completely healthy and loves to play, but in all the time i had her she never said a peep. the only word she does say every now and then is hi, but other than that nothing. she mainly just whistles. […]
My peach faced love bird that is 1 yr 3 months old seems to be eating more than usual. Why is that?
It’s more than a year now when I bought my love birds. But they are not laying eggs.l am not disturbing them giving them full privacy.
What should I do when my sun conure lays unfertilized eggs?
Spring is here and my male lovebird is now wriggling himself on soft “protruding” surfaces. This goes on for a while until he chirps, stops, and then pants heavily for a few minutes. He may repeat another one or two times in a row. Is it okay to leave him alone and let him continue […]
My 17 year old cockatiel typically has few or no behavioral or feeding issues during moulting, but this year is a little off her usual food preferences. Is there a supplement I could give him to help?
I got my cockatiel about a week ago. She’s very social and was handtrained. Right off the bat she was stepping onto our hands and climbing all over us. It’s come to my attention that she’s molting. When we got her she had a tail feather loose but didn’t understand she was molting. She won’t […]
My Quaker female (20 yrs old) has just started sitting on the cage floor. She doesn’t seem to be doing anything. But for some reason it bothers me, as this is a new behavior.
I have two pairs of cocktails in a single cage . 1 pair laid one egg but they are not incubating it what should i do??
Got my grey Male Cockatiel a month ago. He had lovely sounds, saying peekaboo.. now almost no sound ?What should I do ?
Can you keep a Ringneck Dove and a Diamond Dove together? I know you can’t keep two different parrots together but doves aren’t known to bite or to be mean and my Ringneck looks really lonely.
My cockatiel was a rescue from an attack in a park. She has been with us 6 weeks. She is happy but won’t come near my hand/finger. She’s been in the same 80cm square cage for 6 weeks. Should I let her out inside for a fly. She’s happier when the cage door is closed.
I have a 4 year old Parrotlet, Booboo, that shares her cage with a 5 year old male Budgie named Tonto. They are very good friends. About 2 months ago my Parrotlet, Booboo, started sitting on the cage floor laying eggs. She’s laid about 7 eggs so far. I’ve taken away any type of nesting […]
How long will a parrot live outside in 20 degree weather
My bird is 11 years old (probably more, I got her when I was 5 years old). She’s an Albino Mourning dove. I think this may be because she’s trying to mate, but I don’t completely know. She had a mate before; but they had eggs, that only one hatched. So she went ballistic, killed […]
I have an outside aviary with multiple pairs of doves and canaries. I am moving and now I have to sell most of them because I’m moving in a smaller apartment and I can only keep a pair. The pair I want to keep are two female fawn diamond doves. My question is how will […]
Hello 2 months ago I got a pair of budgies, they stay outside the cage until is time to sleep.I feed them budgie seeds and fruits they dont like vegetables that much. They both are moulting but my female budgie has a bald spot in the lower back, under some fethers that pop out, I […]
Please help me, my cockatiel (hand raised) was bought 2 weeks ago. But she wont stop screatching. It sound like whrn a baby cockatiel is hungry. But she eats and her buckets are full. She only eats the wheat grain. Is there perhaps something wrong with her? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVP4KGlxaQ She sound exactly like this link. She […]
hello,, I have a sulpher crested which i have had since he was hatched, he 35 , just in the last 2 week he has really slowed down on his eating,, he does a little but not much, he sits now back in his cage when he can run around, his dropping are fine , […]
My cockatiel likes other people but he gets a little afraid around me. (He’s a rescue) He sometimes starts calling me whenever I leave the room, but when I come back, he looks scared, what should I do to help him no it’s okay?
My 2 year old Caique had a little accident yesterday, he flew up onto a shelf and knocked a candle over and it fell on him. He was screaming and biting in pain. Today he is no better He hurt his right wing. I tried to make him as comfortable as possible today but every […]
My brother has a 30 yo Blue and Gold Macaw and every time he tells her to step up she hurts him. I know that she isn’t trying to hurt my brother because she hurts him by braking the skin on his arm with her claws. It never causes any major damage, but it does […]
I have a 18 month old male cockatiel, I am thinking of getting him a play mate, would this be ok?
I have 2 cockatiel I was told I have a male and female. They have not been mating but one of them sits in the nest box all the time my question is why do they do that
Hi I got a cocktail a month ago from pet shop not hand reared, it didn’t take long for him to settle but how long on average does it take before he will sit on my finger. Also my partner is currently recovering from an opp so has been with him every day all day […]
I’m a new bird owner of a what I believe to be a male cocktail. I acquired the bird from a lady that didn’t know much about the bird herself she said they kept him covered all the time because he just screamed constely. I felt bad for him and brought him home the first […]
