Projects filed under: Birds

Parrots are extremely intelligent and social animals. Appropriate games/activities can provide mental stimulation and promote a flock mentality within the household. This helps keep your parrot happy and healthy, and discourages pair bonding and associated health and behavioral problems. Please...
  Converting your bird to a mostly pelleted diet is important, but can also be challenging. A complete diet promotes health and reduces likelihood of heart disease, hepatic lipidosis, and other medical problems; for these reasons, it is important to...
In general, parrots should receive about 75% pellets and 25% other foods. This handout discusses some of the healthy foods that might make up the part of the diet that is not pellets. Remove fresh foods within about 8 hours...

Specific Requirements

Primarily pellets with a healthy mix of fruits and vegetables
NUTRITION: The precise nutritional requirements of most bird species are not entirely known, and multiple schools of thought exist regarding their dietary needs. For parrots, we recommend a diet of approximately 75% bird pellets and 25% other foods. Pellets are...

Specific Requirements

Appropriate diet is a must, bathing 2-3 times per week, large cage necessary, supervised out-of-cage time

Reasons To
Visit A Veterinarian

Healthy annual examinations, decreased-to-no appetite, fluffed, feather-picking, self-inflicting wounds, chronic egg laying, lethargy