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Humidity and Parrots – Essential part of keeping parrots
You see all these parrot owners on social media sharing about their humidifiers, the question is are they essential to a happy healthy parrot or are they something overhyped? Most parrot species come from the rainforest. Their respiratory system and entire body is designed to live in those conditions. often times our human homes are far to dry for a parrot, unless if you live somewhere that is humid year around and your home is humid it is good practice for optimal health to have a humidifier in the room or home you keep your parrot in. Benefits of a humidifier: Humid air is easier on your respiratory system and…
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How To Teach Your Parrot To Ride A Skateboard – For Beginners
Once your bird is target trained this is a very simple thing to teach. I encourage you to go read my page on – The foundation of trick training for parrots! The Foundation Of Trick Training For Parrots! – How To Start – Optimal Avian if you are unfamiliar with target training. Target Training is a way to train your parrot that decreases your chance of getting bit but also gives you and your parrot a way to communicate with each other. Steps First you want to start by just having the skateboard around your bird, this can be scary enough, once they become comfortable about the bird being around…
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How To Teach A Parrot To Wave
The way I recommend teaching a bird to wave is through capturing natural behaviours. In simplest terms, you click when your bird is doing something you like and want to see more of. When a bird goes to scratch their head and they lift their foot to their head click and give them a treat, do this as often as you see them do it. When it gets to the point where the bird is begging you want to start giving them a cue, for my budgie I would bend my pointer finger up and down and say “wave”. Do this while they are begging click and reward. Eventually, you…
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How To Teach Your Parrot To Step Up – Beginners Guide To Parrot Training/Taming
Often times many people forget that step up is a trick and needs to be treated with as much time and patience as you would teaching your parrot other tricks. Steps Your first task before you take on teaching a bird to step up is to target train learn The Foundation Of Trick Training For Parrots! – How To Start – Optimal Avian Once you have your bird happily targeting around your next step is to start introducing the step up. Target your parrot to a training stand Place your finger 4inches (or more if they seem uncomfortable) away from the bird in the step up cue position. Place your target stick…
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5 Products Small Parrot Owners Need!
Owning any size of parrot is a lot of work. These are a few products that can make your life as a bird owner easier but also improve your birds life! food processor for parrot chop – this makes making chop much faster and easier resulting in you making it more often and not dreading the task. Humidifier – humidifiers have a ton of benefits for not only birds but us humans too. Especially for the respiratory system – which birds have a delicate one. As well as hydrating skin and feet and keeping the feathers looking healthy and feeling good. Air purifier – not only is this good for…
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How To Teach Your Parrot To Spin – For Beginners
Not only is spin a super cute trick but, it also serves as a way to get your bird to turn its back to you incase you need to look at their back or tail feathers. For example, if your bird is bleeding and you need to figure out why the bird is bleeding and stop the bleeding it is much easier to make your bird think it is doing a trick than having you try to turn the bird and not stress it out in an already stressful situation. Where To Start Once your bird is target trained this is a very simple thing to teach. I encourage you…
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Best Toys To Put In Your Parrots Cage
Good features in parrot toys Toys that are easy to destroy (for small birds give them egg cartons – I rip the carton into the little cup put it on string and budgies LOVE it! – also you likely already have them in your home just make sure the egg carton is clean) Toys that make it more difficult to eat and find food The following are screenshots from PetSmart’s website (Canada) I would purchase. Best online places to purchase bird toys Who wants to go out and shop for bird toys when you can shop from home and spend more time with your feathered friend! Planet Pleasures – this…
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Do Parrots Smell Bad?
Do parrots smell? A healthy parrot with good hygiene should have no smell. That being said if you are noticing there is an unpleasant smell it generally is the bird’s droppings and not the actual bird. It can be the actual bird but most times it is not. Some reasons your parrot may smell; Poor overall hygiene – just like us parrots can give off an unpleasant odor if they are not getting frequent baths and are not in a clean environment. Birds are messy, but it is very important to get into a routine and keep on top of it. It is not good for you or your parrot…
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How To Set Up The PERFECT Parrot Cage?
Perches – Offering at least 5 natural wood perches with a variety of widths and textures to keep their feet happy and healthy. Seeing as parrots feet are designed to hold onto all different sizes and textures of wood (no tree branch is perfectly smooth, knot free and the same size) you want to try your best to mimic this in your parrots cage. You can include more than just wood perches but I avoid plastic perches as parrots seem to slip on them. Toys – at least 2 foraging toys and at least 4 shreddable toys – these toys provide mental stimulation and keep them busy while you are…
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Should You Get A Hand-Raised Baby Parrot?
Considering your first baby bird! That is so exciting! You probably have seen all the ads online for hand-raised baby birds. Should you get a hand-raised bird? This post contains a balanced pros and cons list that way you can make the best decision for you and your family that suits your beliefs best! This is a completely personal choice so it is up to you to determine whether a human-raised/hand-raised or parrot-raised baby bird is best for you! Hand-Raised Pros Cons Already is familiar people More adjusted to humans and the human environment Require Human interaction Prefer humans to their species Birds can view humans as their “mate” During…