Pet Forum / Birds / Birds / February 2007

Did he dissapear?

I read this today on "About Exotic Pets: Parrot Nutrition 101 - What Not
to Feed".  I was surprised to hear about sprouted lima, navy and fava
beans.  Can anyone provide more info about why we shouldn't feed these
beans to our birds?  Thanks.  LindaA

Not to start a big thing about pellets vs. seeds, but perhaps the best thing
to do is go to the experts. Our birds.
The seed mix we've been getting lately has little bits of what one would
think were goodies for the fids. Bits of carrot, coconut, and dried greens.

I'll be brief.  We have 2 "rare" parakeets (read: blue and white) -
absolute dolls.  Our female (Anwen) will often hang onto a perch and
beat her wings rapidly, creating quite a breeze!  Our male (Ares) has
never done this that we know of.

Can anyone recommend free bird breeder software for budgies? I downloaded a
few trials and kintraks seems to be the easiest to understand. I couldn't
even get started with the others. Why do they have to make them so complex?
Free would be best but if not I'll have to put some ...

We just brought home a new parakeet, its our first pet. I understand
that she must be very nervous, and am following the advice of a lot of
users in this newsgroup giveing her time, not asking her to sit on my
finger etc.

A cute video clip from National Geographic
http://tinyurl.com/3yrob6

We thought this Snuggle Sack would be a nice warm hut for our lovebird
George but this morning I came in and found him in there and he was
struggling and couldn't come out. His leg was caught in some fleece and
threads inside and he was freaking out and fighting it furiously. I ...

I am new to this group, but hope that I can get some helpful insight.
My daughter came home from school yesterday to find her 5 month old
parrotlet dead in his cage. Our family has been through some
tremendously difficult times over the years and my daughter has become

First things first....
A Happy Holiday Season to all of rpb...
But wanted to let everyone know that we have been invaded once again by a
group of posters who are more than likely the same person.....

We have a lovebird and just got him a Snuggle Sack, the little tent with
the hole in the front that they can sleep in, to keep warm on cold nights.
( we're in the north )
What kind of safe warm nesting material can we toss in there for him, so

I am trying to find golf and basketball toys so I can teach my bird
the tricks in the video:
http://www.zanyvideos.com/video/1877/Clever-Parrot.html
He already talks and waves BYE BYE!

I was looking to buy a cage online and stumbled upon
PollysPerch.com .  I figured I'd share this gem because it seemed to
have anything an avian lover can dream of.
There slogan "What's everyone squawking about?" is cute as well.

This is a very unpleasant story but I feel that I should post it.  My
wife's  sister had 2 cockateils 1 male and 1 female. Apparenlty her
husband heard one of the birds chattereing this morning and when he
went to uncover the cage he found a lot of blood in the cage. The

For those who might be worried about turning the thermostat down take
a look at this.
GOOD NEWS! Lost Grey in New Mexico is recovered!
From: kwingrove@comcast.net