1. Weaning
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... or sterilized. Digestive system impaction can occur if the baby overeats, especially on items like seed. Physical injuries and shock can occur from human error or accidents such as failing/ju...

2. HEALTHY DIET-HEALTHY HAPPY BIRD
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...something different along with their pellets. They get either fresh vegetables, or fruit, or a treat of seed and nuts . Three times a week they get a SPECIAL BEAN MIXTURE. Occasionally, they will get ...

3. Yellow Collared Macaw
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...uot;.In the wild their diet is every bit as varied as is their home range. It consists of fruits, nuts, seeds, green matter, an occasional bug and what ever the local farmer has to offer. The Y...

4. The Nature of Greys by Bobbi Brinker & Dr. Susan Freidman
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...nbsp;Favorite foods to offer daily include Bobbi’s Birdie Bread (see side bar), sprouts or soaked seeds, yellow-orange and dark green vegetables (see sidebar), brown rice, beans and pasta. These...

5. Some General Basic Dont's For New Owners
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.... Until more research is done, put onions on your "prohibited" list. 4) Fruit Pits & Seeds: When you feed your birds an apple, discard the seeds. Same with oranges, grapes (see...

6. An Introduction to Positive Reinforcement Training and its Benefits
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... the behavior. For example to teach a bird to step up on the hand for positive reinforcement, sunflower seeds may be used to lure the bird towards the hand. If the bird takes a step towards the hand, ...

7. Toxic Foods
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... alcohol. Avocado pits and skin, moldy food, mushrooms, food with salt added, raw meat and fruit seeds are to be avoided, toxic again. Sugar, high levels in the bird diet can cause sever...

8. Derbyan Parakeet (Asiatics)
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The Derbyan Parakeet, although not often seen in the companion bird industry, is one of the sweetest dispositioned birds imaginable.  They are beautiful birds and are easily sexed if you are wi

9. Profiles on Popular Species
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...al factor for success with caique pairs. Breeders of these birds say they do well on a diet of sprouted seeds and legumes, cooked rice and beans, fresh chopped vegetables and fruits with commercial av...

10. Are You A Bird Addict?
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... the "A" for my grade point!) You go out somewhere and have feathers on you or find seeds in your pockets. You’re out in public and someone notices bird droppings o...

11. Fresh Foods for Your Birds
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... learn to eat a big variety of fresh and healthy foods. Wild budgerigars feed on fresh half-ripe seed from millets. To maintain our domesticated birds’ health, we have to supply fresh foo...

12. Talk With The Doc
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... need to be replaced. Dr. Rick talked about diet and I was amazed, because most people who use seeds overfeed their birds.For instance, my budgie and canary should really only be getting abou...

13. Parrots And Water
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... favour the use of good nutrition through enriched formulated diets, or to use supplements for use with seed eating birds by placing them on green or soft foods.  this means that the water can be...

14. A Budgerigar World Breeder Profile
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...tio furniture. What a waste!" The birds are fed a vitaminized budgie mix which contains canary seed, white millet and groats. They also get corn on the cob, greens (carrot tops or dandelions)...

15. Color Me Beautiful
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...ught I was saying, but I do know he was obviously impressed. You can make good use of the seed that you clean out of your aviaries by planting it in a flower pot, etc. When it has leafed...

16. Nobody Told Me
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... jingle. Nobody told me he would kiss so gently despite his huge beak, and take a tiny safflower seed from a child's hand, barely touching a finger. Nobody told me how the bleating of on...

17. Choosing the Perfect Pet
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...st to have your cage longer than taller so that your bird has room to fly from perch to perch. A seed catcher can help contain the mess into your bird’s cage. For general upkeep, keep cag...

18. Safety Tips
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...be helpful. Do not use any fungicides, herbicides, or insecticides around your birds. Freeze your birdseed or pellets for 24 to 48 hours before defrosting and offering them to your birds to eliminat...

19. What to Do When Polly Escapes
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...3 feet on the ground close to where the bird was perched. I showed the bird a heaping pile of sunflower seeds and some millet spray, put them in the cage and then backed away. The cage was p...

20. Breeding Cockatiels
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... The vitamins most important in ensuring fertility are B12, E, K, and riboflavin. E and K are found in seed and greens. Riboflavin is also available in greenfoods. However, birds are most apt to be l...

21. African Greys
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...epared pelleted foods provide a good, balanced, wholesome part of the diet. You have to be careful with seeds because some greys will eat nothing else if given seeds. Breeding greys need a significa...

22. My Thoughts on the Care of Budgerigars
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...hey are available in most pet or grocery stores. Budgie feed: (usually a mixture of 50% canary seed and 50% millet seed.) Millet Spray, (once or twice a week). Spinach, (twice a week, sma...

23. Finches
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...edium-sized bird that is endowed with a strong, broad and sharp beak designed for grasping and cracking seeds. This has given rise to affectionate descriptive terms, such as "hardbill" and &...

24. Canary Care
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...birds. Though mainly intended for the canary fancier, these rules may easily be modified to include all seed eating birds. Aviculture requires a great deal of time and effort and a little information ...

25. Making Polly Picture Perfect
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...e warm food and a bit of millet, but did not touch the pellets.  Likely she had been on a strictly seed diet, which inevitably would deplete her body of calcium, so my goal was to convert her to ...