Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Kent, WA In the mirror: Galah "Bondi" Feather plucking and chewing, also over-preening has too many causes to name but many of them can be emotional causes from what the bird has been through in the past. These are much harder to work out so I’m going to go from the stand point of how to prevent your bird from ever...

Photo by Dave Location: Loveland, Colorado Pictured eating corn and brown rice: Camelot macaws "Comet" & "Tusa" Every once in a while a parrot related article will catch my eye and a recent on on malnutrition in parrots caught it this week. So I wanted to talk about the signs and symptoms of malnutrition, and what to do about it. First, wha...

Sometimes I grab whatever looks fresh in the fridge, toss it altogether and serve it up to my parrots. Sometimes I plan it all out, and sometimes I toss it in the crock pot and go. There are so many options, even leftovers too, for our parrot companions to eat. That's probably why you see I hardly ever serve the same thing every day. Which keeps...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Florence, SC Shown: Banana pieces on top of the aviaries I was trying to pick out certain pictures this week and having a really hard time figuring out if I really liked what I was looking at. My birds were making a lot of racket, and I was getting annoyed and feeling like just giving up on my project because I co...

Photo by Dave Womach Location: Fayetteville, NC Shown: Egg drop soup I was making my hubby some egg drop soup today (his favorite) when it dawned on me that the way you make the egg into the soup is a great and different way of making eggs for your birds If you've never had or made egg drop soup before, here's how I make it... I bring the soup ...

Oh man do I love to spoil my birds rotten sometimes. After doing a bunch of PR one morning, the lady who took me to my appointments took me out to breakfast at Bob Evans. Boy was it yummy! I ordered blueberry hotcakes, and found them so perfect that I decided to get some for my birds as well. Funny thing is, they have never been served hot cak...