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 […]
I have a large cage with two pairs of parakeets. One pair has bonded and are now breeding. They have not laid yet. I’m wondering if I should remove the other pair and leave the mating pair alone. There has been a few minor scuffles at times but at other times they all seem fine […]
Laverne and Shirley are my 2 blue parakeets , Thought they were females , I got them pretty young Shirley’s nose is white and Laverne gray . Well every time I come in the room Laverne is mounted on Shirley. There are now 6-7 eggs in the cloth cage . I finally separated them , […]
My lovebirds mated for the first time 10 days ago and then mated for two more days after that. The female started nesting. During this time I often moved their cage not knowing it would discourage egg laying. It is the tenth day today and it still did not lay eggs but comes to bite […]
My cockiteal is 4 or 5 yrs old and he sits in his food dish I thought maybe he is nesting I thought it’s cute but he is doing it more and more should I be concerned
I bought 2 what were supposed to be 2 females , Laverne n Shirley , I sent a picture to a friend who told me they were actually Tom n Jerry . Well Laverne hopped on Shirley and there is an egg in they’re nest . Shirley has a white nose piece and Laverne is […]
We have an 18 month old African Grey hen (she lives with our 4 year old male). When she came to us she would step up when she wanted to, ie if she ended up on the floor. Now she is able to climb and fly she will not step up at all, she either […]
Hi! My cockatiel is probably 15 yrs old. I’m not 100% sure his age as i got him from a girl going off to college and she could no longer care for him. He is a feather picker since he was a baby. I guess my tiel was picked on, and since that day he’s […]
I have a 20 yr old nanday. He’s been allowed to chew baseboard (yellow birch), as it kept him from chewing me during mating months. I’ve moved into a new house new baseboards and he’s chosen them over the yellow birch these are pine. Can I use bitter lemon or something used for puppies to […]
Dear friend Please help me with my Zebra Finch. I am in India and had bought a pair of Zebra finch of around 2 months old. The finch started laying eggs in next two months but on cage’s floor not in the wooden nest attached to their cage. Due to this eggs broke and didn’t […]
What can i do to stop my male indian ringneck from thinking im his partner? he’s driving me crazy and wont let me out of his sight.
When looking for a pet quaker what are your recommendations as far as which sex is better. And are female as likely to talk as males?
Hi I have a little rescue dove that we have since he was a featherless baby. He is know 3 years old. For the nutrition, it has always been really complicated… We gave him the Hagen Handfeeding formula when he was a baby and transfer him on a finch seeds formula as he gets older. […]
I have a 29 year old Sulphur Crested Cockatoo and in the last week she has laid 2 fairly large eggs. Before these it was a year ago that she laid one and before that it was about 12 years ago when she laid her first one. These last 2 were much bigger that the […]
Hi there is there a way i can send a picture of my Cockatiel and will you be able to tell me the sex and type of bird i have thanks chris
Hi I am looking for. Bird care info
Hello, I have a Green Cheek Conure and a Senegal Parrot and I want to know what pelleted food they should be eating. I prefer to only have to buy one type if that is acceptable.
I have four fledging Zebra Finches. The parents would not feed them, so I have. They are ready to eat on their own. How do I get them to eat out of food trays???? I do have your diet for finches.
Hi,my name is dua Khan and I have green cheek conure whose name is greeno I needed to talk about him.he is a very nice bird and tamed he steps up on my finger and comes to me when I call him but the thing is he sometimes bites very hard and also doesn’t let […]
Hi, I have had my budgie for about a month now, I got her when she was 6 weeks, i think she was a bit younger, but she is very friendly, she’s used to my hand and jumps straight on when I put it in the cage, she steps up and loves a scritch but […]
Do DNA test work all the time? Because I have a cockatiel and I don’t know its gender.
-i bought a pair of fischer lovebirds three months ago. i tried my best to train them, and when i try to touch them, they either panic in their cage or try to bite me. i have no idea how old they are. any suggestions on how to tame them? p.s: i have a feeling […]
My 20 year old cockatiel seems to be in a constant molt. He has lots of feathers with their sheaths still in tact on his tail. This has been going on for a few months. He lets me preen him some as it must be irrating to him. He is not as active as he […]
I have a pair and I can’t keep them together. Should I cover they’re cage at night? Also what kind of food is best for them?
