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Q. Julie Simons
Hello I have just joined and yes I have a love for pets birds. I have 8 handreared cockatiels and a sun conure named lollie. They all live in my home in a room just for them. I couldn’t imagine life without them. I also have 2 rescue cockatiels that were in someones avairy and were very neglected. They have many trust …issues with anyone but we are slowly working on them. They both are very thin and although I have tried most diets to help they still seem to be very thin and can’t fly very well. Has anyone any ideas on what I can give them to help their diet ?? any help would be appreciated. I give them soaked and dry seed and hulled oats also veges and fuits which they wont eat.
Q. Rachael Tennent
I have an adorable litte scaly breasted lorikeet named Harry. I did have a blue princess parrot and an alexandrine parrot but they both died on the same day for no apparent reason. 
( Does anyone have any ideas why this happened.
Q. Lisa Halls
I have a sulpher crested cuckatoo, he is now 2 years old but developed beak and feather disease at about 1 year of age……please is there any cure and any way to keep him warm in winter and cool in summer?
Q. Rachael Tennent
I have seen cockatoos dressed up in little knitted jumpers. Do you know anyone that knits?
Reply. Lee-ann Simpson
I had a friend that had a cockatoo with the same disease and she used to put a knitted jumper on him. He lived for years like that. Good luck x
February 8 at 7:30pm
Reply. Erica Stressedoutmax Wilson
I had a galah that suffered from the same complaint!, naked in the summer, but always in shade. or a bit of sunscreen, and a jumper when it was colder. he was on a t-bar in the house, obviously couldn’t fly, so had a rope to ground when he was allowed to roam, took it away at bed time. had him for 20 years like that, only cost was constantly having his beak trimmed. but he talked and laughed, and i had to give him away sadly, but as far as i know, 3 years on he is still cheeky.
February 18 at 9:45pm
Q. Paige Fichera
I have a blue quacker aswell and he has a habbit of attacking us alot is the any way to stop him from doing that cus hes been only attacking me and my mum and my dad only and likes my older sis and bro….
Reply.
Lee-ann Simpson
If you type quaker parrots biting in the search box on google you can have a look at some sites there that might help. One was www.ehow.com another was www.quakerville.net Apparently it is very common that quaker parrots bite and attack, but you can learn how to handle them with training. I will have to try some of these ideas also. Good luck
Here are two more sites that might help. www.birdtricks.com and www.quakerparrots.com
February 6 at 10:57pm ·
Q. Lacey Jay Robinson
I have one gorgeous princess parrot and i wouldnt trade him for the world he is mummas lil man but i tell u wat i compare him to a damn 3 yr old cuz he does crack the biggest tantrums when he doesnt get his own way
Reply.
Charlie our Quaker Parrot does exactly the same! He also has days that he doesn’t like one of us, but the next day he cuddles up to us
Q. Kathy McCarthy
Sun Conures I need any and all advice on Sun Conures, I havent had one long and want to make sure Im not doing the wrong thing by him. Cathy Demuth I have a pet cockateil. Thinking of adding another pet bird. Any suggestions?
Reply.
Erica Stressedoutmax Wilson
Ilove my lorikeet, talks, wrestles and juggles cat toys! very very entertaining. but squirty poo. cockateils have great character, hard to compare. son’t get another not worth the tension, but possibley a regent. mine constantly chatters away. but you could end up like me! started with the cockateil, and now have 12 birds tame in my house , and another 450 in the garden. in only 3 years… they are most awesome.
February 18 at 9:50pm
Lee-ann Simpson Tragic News
Dear
lee-ann
simpson,
A
few days ago I got this tragic email from one of my subscribers… who
asked if I would please pass it along to you so that you don’t have to
go through the same pain she and her family are going through right now.
Please find her message below, and take it SERIOUSLY!
>>>
A
Subscriber’s Trag…ic Story:
[Chet,]
I
have a horrible incident to share. My hopes would be that you will
include this somewhere in your literature to other bird owners and make
it readily and painfully obvious information.
Yesterday I was preparing food for my birthday party which is taking
place this evening. I brought out a roast to cook, but my oven needed
cleaned. In my haste and anxiousness to get prepared, I ignorantly
opted to use the [Specific Brand Name Withheld For Legal Reasons]
Tabletop Roaster my mom left here at Christmas
time.
Within 2 hours my beloved Nicky, 15 year old African Gray Congo,
was deceased
on the bottom of his cage.
That
roaster
was NON-STICK Cookware… and is LETHAL to BIRDS.
This
is
HUGELY important to get out to your readers. I only wish we knew
this PRIOR to the incident as he would still happily be calling and
singing from his perch. Instead, he’s been buried and is gone forever
from our lives. Oh how we miss him so.
I
killed my best friend with ignorance. My beloved Nicky. My life, let
alone birthday, will never be the same. Nor will my kids who haven’t
quit crying… nor my husband who had a hard time burying Nicky last
night with us.
I’m
doing now what I wish I would have done a LONG time ago…. cleaning my
house of anything and everything TEFLON and NON-STICK.
We
hope to find another resident for Nicky’s cage… although the hardest
realization is that Nicky can never be replaced. We miss him dearly. I
am so filled with guilt for my ignorance which caused us to learn the
hardest lesson ever.
‘Night Night’ my beloved feathered friend.
Brenda
>>>
My
Comments:
My
heart goes out to you, Brenda.
And
I know that your message WILL save many parrots, as we here at
BirdTricks have what I’m pretty sure is the largest active online parrot
community with several hundred thousand readers of this email
newsletter…
…
And I know even if your message can only help one in a thousand people
who read my newsletter, the lives of several hundred birds will be
spared.
So
if you can find any comfort in your pain… hopefully it makes you feel
a little better to know that your tragic experience will save many
lives.
Many
parrot
owners have NO idea how sensitive our bird’s systems really are,
and how unsafe some products can be from them.
My
brother and I have had several close calls ourselves over the years,
like metal toxicity poisoning from toys that contained unsafe metal
toxins or color dyes.
Which is why we created our Toxin Free Toy line at:
http://www.birdtricks.com/parrot-toys/
And
while it’s not something that will kill your parrot in 2 hours like non
stick cookware can, we’ve also done our best to help convince people to
get their birds off of the high fat seed diets and non organic pellet
diets that so many pet stores try to sell you on.
The
fat in seed and nut mixes takes YEARS off of a birds life, and all sorts
of other toxic ingredients are often put into your bird’s food that have
no business being there.
If
you’d like to read more about things to watch out for in your bird’s
food, read this:
http://www.feedyourflock.com
Here’s to keeping your bird safe!
Sincerely,
Chet
Womach
BirdTricks.com
