by Red Arnold | Jul 3, 2017 | Bird Safety, Well Being
There are books to buy and you can also find online which plants are safe for birds. Your best bet is to keep them in rooms where the birds never go. Dirt can contain aspergillosis (covered later) a fungus that is pretty much a nasty death sentence for your bird. Its...
by Red Arnold | Jul 3, 2017 | Bird Safety, Well Being
Use mild dish soap if anything to clean items. Toys, perches (especially wood which absorbs so try plain water first) the cage, etc. We usually use really hot water and use the shower to pour over the cage part first, then then grate and bottom to get it clean. Poop...
by Red Arnold | Jul 3, 2017 | Bird Safety, Well Being
Place the bird’s cage near a window enough for sunlight (as they need sunlight to make certain vitamins). Or make sure that the play area is in a sunlit area. Don’t place the bird next to a window with drafts. Massive temperature fluctuations and/or long term exposure...
by Red Arnold | Jul 3, 2017 | Bird Safety, Emergencies
Avoid putting any sort of oil on your bird. This will spread very rapidly like when you drip a drop of gasoline on your car. Petroleum likes to be in a single layer. (hence why ocean spills get so large) This causes the bird to lose insulation properties of their...
by Red Arnold | Jul 3, 2017 | Bird Safety, Emergencies
Blood feathers are the large feathers that have blood supply and usually will have hollowness to them. Basically, if you could shrink down to a Nelwyn or large Lilliputian stature and use a feather as a quill… its probably a blood feather. If you notice that one of...
