How To Care Your Pet Birds

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Pet birds provide homes with a connection to nature and companionship, and talking birds can even be friends. All are beautiful, and some exquisite and rarer varieties are extremely divine in appearance.

Pet birds are becoming more and more popular as pets. You can choose pet birds from many variety and sizes. The larger birds are the Cockatiel, African Grey, Cockatoo, Amazon, Quaker, among others. The smaller birds are the Parakeet, Canary, Finch, Budgies, Lovebird.

Pet birds are highly intelligent animals. They are extremely social creatures, fairly inexpensive to feed, relatively easy to care for, and display amazing colors and behavior patterns that are interesting to watch and have even proven to improve peoples health i.e lower blood pressure and stress levels. The smaller birds… canaries, budgies, love birds are ideal for apartment dwellers.

Pet birds are low maintenance pets. You should keep their environment clean, bearing in mind they would not naturally stay in one place for so long. Newspaper or some non-glossy paper is perfect to line the cage, and this should be changed every day. About once a fortnight, you can wipe their entire cage out with warm soapy water and a cloth.

There are what things you should do and don’t if you have a pet bird.

Some do’s:
- Do cover aquariums.
- Do keep other pets (cats, dogs) away from the pet birds.
- Do keep the cage clean.
- Do close the blinds or pull the drapes over the windows if you let the bird out of it’s cage to keep it from injuring himself flying into the glass.
- Do clean food bowl.
- Do make sure a fireplace screen is covering the fireplace.
- Do keep toilet lids down to keep the bird from falling in.
- Do keep clean water in it’s cage.
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Some don’t’s:
- Don’t leave any doors and windows open in case the bird gets out of his cage.
- Don’t hold a bird tight because their bones are fragile and can easily be fractured.
- Don’t turn on ceiling fans if the pet bird is out of its cage.
- Don’t feed the bird certain foods (i.e chocolate, avocado) because they are toxic.
- Don’t smoke around the bird.
- Don’t let a pet bird loose in the kitchen around boiling water or stove burners.
- Don’t feed the bird pits from fruit as in cherries, plums or peaches because these contain cyanide which is toxic to birds.
- Don’t over heat non-stick-coated (Teflon) pots or pans for the fumes are toxic to birds.
- Don’t let the bird eat toxic plants (daffodils, juniper, azaleas, oleanders,etc).

3 Nutritious Sources Of Seeds For Your Pet Birds

There are literally thousands of different types of seeds for pet birds. Here are 3 nutritious sources of seeds to add to your bird’s diet. To avoid pesticides and other additive organic is best.

1. Sprouted Seeds
Before seeds sprout they are high in fat content because that is the food used to help it grow leaves and start to become a plant. Once it sprouts the fat is used and the sprouted seed becomes a little plant that is the source for a nutrient-rich diet. And as the seeds continue to sprout each day, they provide different nutrients-a gift that keeps on giving comes to mind.

2. Vegetable Seeds
Most of the vegetables that we can’t wait to deseed are exactly the seeds that are best for pet birds. Foods like pumpkins, squash, bell peppers in any color, and cucumbers all contain wonderful sources of nutrients that are wholesome, but don’t cost you any extra money to provide.

3. Fruit Seeds
Another great source for seeds, fruits are rich with nutrients and many like seeded grapes have a double advantage in that they allow your pet birds to hunt for the seed that’s inside. Others to provide include pomegranate, apples, oranges, watermelon, honeydew melon, and cantaloupe.

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