If ya love to shop, check out these links to great toys!!
This is my list of goodies. Great links, good for preening or mechanical toys. I also like sturdy acrylic and search for neat stuff to add to our collection. Most birds love mechanical toys and enjoy taking things apart. Foraging toys provide for their natural instinct. Shredding toys are a must for any feather plucker!
Enjoy......
Links to food sources
ORGANIC FOODS:
Ever wonder what's in our birds (manufactured) foods? Want just wholesome food for your birds? Try this!!
PELLETS:
You can call the pellet companies and request a free sample. Pretty Bird and Roudybush have been great to give adequate samples. Remember, when switching to pellets, make sure your bird has checked ok from the vet before switching to a different diet. Persistance is key when switching over. Limit snacks and offer pellets before fresh foods are offered to give them a chance to be hungry for pellets. Offering 1st thing in the morning when they are really hungry will help also.
For Your Bird - For cheaper prices on pellets, nuts, and fruits.
Also another product we use for pluckers, birds who have very dry skin, or going into molt, is Palm oil. Palm oil is very beneficial by adding oils, and help add moisture and vitimins needed for healthy feather growth. It is said to use one drop per 100 grams of weight, daily. You can mix into their food, such as mash, oatmeal, eggs or something of that sort.
LINKS LINKS LINKS
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All my fun sites I like to visit:
Parrot Art:
Creatively Yours! Video Productions/Photography
Recommended Behavioral help:
Medical/Info Links
This link takes you directly to the articles page at Avian Network.
Testing for Zinc in Parrot Toys ~article
Hotspot for birds~ reference center
The Bird Brain ~Feather Picking~ article
Books about Parrots
Barbara Heidenreich
Good Bird! A Guide to Solving Behavioral Problems in Companion Parrots!
by Barbara Heidenreich
Published by Avian Publications!
A professional in animal behavior has created an easy-to-read step-by-step guide that uses positive reinforcement for teaching your parrot acceptable behavior. This book will help you deal with screaming, biting, feather-picking, bonding, and other difficult parrot behaviors. Chapters include Preparing the Companion Parrot Owner, Screaming, Biting, Bonding to One Person, Cage Bound Bird, and Feather Picking.
Training is a form of teaching. The companion parrot learns when the trainer positively reinforces (or rewards) each small step the subject takes towards the desired behavior. Using the principles described in training, it becomes easy to teach birds what is the desired response. The beauty of training using positive reinforcement is that it works! In this book the author prepares the trainer in the first chapter. She then describes some typical problem behavior scenarios experienced by companion parrot owners. She then provides an explanation as to why the behavior may be occurring and offers a step-by-step explanation of how to address the problem behavior using training techniques based on positive reinforcement.
Barbara Heidenreich has been a professional in the field of animal behavior since 1990. After receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology she began her career teaching birds to present natural behaviors in zoos. In her fourteen years of working for various zoos, companies, and as an independent consultant, Barbara has been involved in the production of over fifteen different free flight bird presentations. Currently the President Elect of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators she is now a private animal training consultant working with zoological parks, nature centers, and the companion parrot community. Barbara hopes everyone can experience that truly rewarding relationship that can happen when animals are trained using positive reinforcement.
A well-known parrot expert instructs on all aspects of the bird's feeding, housing, and health needs, as well as on behavior problems and ways to solve them. Titles in the extensive Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series provide pet owners with basic information on keeping healthy, contented, well-cared-for animals. The series includes approximately 175 titles and covers pets of every kind: dogs, cats, and birds of many breeds, as well as fish, reptiles, rabbits, hamsters, and just about any other animal that people keep as a pet. Facts and advice cover all aspects of pet care, which include proper feeding, housing, health care, grooming, training, and much more. The text in each manual is supplemented with many vivid, full-color photos, and with instructive, anatomically accurate line art. Each manual has been individually written by a breeder, trainer, veterinarian, or experienced animal specialist.
Parrot owners and prospective owners will find practical solutions to numerous parrot behavior problems such as screaming, biting, and feather chewing in this helpful book which also features information on bathing, grooming, communication, selection of accessories, and safe interactions with other pets and children. Includes dozens of full-color photos and detailed drawings. This expanded new edition of a widely respected parrot-care handbook explains parrot psychology as a first step in every bird owner's understanding and dealing with the most common parrot behavior problems-screaming, biting, and feather chewing. The author also points out the need for periodic reinforcement of desirable behavior patterns, and offers a wealth of information on parrots' needs in terms of health, proper nutrition, and companionship. This book has many full-color photos and instructive line art.
The African Grey can acquire a larger vocabulary than most other varieties, but with our without speech, it's a favorite companion among bird lovers. Here is detailed advice on nutritious feeding, caging, grooming, disease prevention, and much more. Titles in Barron's popular Pet Handbooks series instruct pet owners on health care, feeding and housing, and other facts important to owners and their pets. All books in this series have high quality, full-color photos, instructive line drawings, and run to an average of approximately 140 pages.
Offering a wealth of advice on such topics as choosing between a young parrotand an older parrot, a parrot expert discusses ways of coping with occasionalproblems owners can have with their pet.
Two expert parrot owners point out the pros and cons of adopting a bird that has had a previous owner. All Complete Pet Owner's Manuals are heavily illustrated with color photos and line art, and are filled with reliable, easy-to-understand information on pet care. The many titles in this series show and tell pet owners how to care for dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, gerbils, hamsters, and virtually every other animal that is kept as a pet. The books give advice on purchasing and otherwise acquiring a pet, maintaining health care, housing, proper feeding, and where applicable, grooming and training. Clear, straightforward text comes with high-quality, full-color photos and anatomically accurate line art, as well as helpful tables and charts.
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