Here's your Morgan fix this week! First off, due to weather I was only able to work on outdoor desensitization one day (come on, Idaho-spring!) And here is what that looked like: After some serious time off from YouTube, Patty came back in a whole new light! Check out her and I training with our macaws, flying them back and forth between one an...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Shown: Blue throat macaw "Jinx" in aviary with zip tied manila rope Recently I got asked how to secure down water bottles inside bird cages so that the birds wouldn't break them free and drop them to the ground. Now currently, I don't use water bottles full time, I normally just use them for when I'm ...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Savannah, GA Shown: One aviary packed up In order to travel with our aviaries we had to have something made to pack them into, as the crates they came into were not ideal for multiple trips. So we had a local welder on our show make this framing in which the aviaries tie strap into. I've included photos so you c...

Photo by Amanda Stevens Location: Waynesboro, VA Playing: Galah "Bandit"  Preferably, I like setting my aviaries up on grass. When that isn't available, dirt is fine and when that isn't available that usually means it's on gravel or cement, or inside a building and their ground is sawdust. But I love it when they can be set up on untreated gr...

Photo by Dave Location: Tampa, FL  I wrote about this over at the bird tricks parrot training blog but wanted to say a little something here, too. I try not to duplicate topics but I really wanted a reason to show off some of the daylight photos of this set up, haha.  The breakdown of this set up: It's SUPER cheap Sets up in 15 minutes o...

"Before" I love aviaries because you don't have to clean them as often as indoor cages, and because it's SO easy to create ways for birds to forage in them by just using the grass at the bottom (unless you have cement). Cleaning our aviaries is no big deal and it's fun to do it with more than one person, but it's also fun for me to do it by ...