Wing & Nail Clipping
Be Prepared with These Items:
-Needle Nose Pliers
-Sharp Scissors
-Large Towel
-Coagulant like Kwik-Stop or Others listed below
-Your Bird
-Confidence and TRAINING
Wing Clipping:
Though controversial, the risk of loosing a beloved…
Bird Training
Once upon a time when wild import birds were all that we had to choose from bird training consisted of teaching a few basic things like “stepping up” onto your hand, or a perch without the bird biting and speech mimicry. Some would teach…
Hand Feeding
Hand feeding is the process used by bird breeders to feed a baby bird before weaning in a manner that replaces the parent bird's regurgitation of food into the baby's crop. It allows us to create a very tame and trainable bird because the baby…
Hand Feeding Problems & Possible Solutions
Food not being digested
This can be caused by improperly mixed food, lack of bacteria in the crop, food fed too hot or cold, yeast infections and the baby being kept too cool. Try feeding a small amount of baby applesauce and water. If this…
Nutrition & Treats
I purchased my first Amazon parrot 34 years ago from the previous owner in Tucson, Arizona. It was a Double Yellow Head Amazon, an adult that had been originally imported to the USA thru a quarantine station. As a child I'd had parakeets…
The New Baby
Bringing home your new baby parrot is very similar to bringing home a human baby. There really isn't anything difficult about the process but it has a tendency to make people nervous and apprehensive. What I would like to give you here is a…