Bird Maintenance

eggs can be candled using a small flashlight. The light will show blood vessels in a fertile egg after 1 week incubation.

By repetition. Have training sessions everyday in same room, at the same time. Repeat the word you want your bird to say everyday during your sessions. Say the word the same way each time. First they will try to repeat the sound you are making, and eventually say the words/ Remember not all parrots are capable of speaking, it all depends on their species, living conditions, and personalities. Male parrots living alone are more likely to talk. Don't frustate yourself or your bird doing this. The key is to stay consistent.

Nearly any organic fruits. Just make sure that fruit should only take about 25% of a finches diet. Because they need the nutrients that comes from birdseed. Also it may be a good idea to give your finch brightly colored foods to catch its eye!

The best way to answer this would have to do with a visual inspection of the nail and what the nail touches when the bird is perching on a limb, perching device of some sort. Ideally, if the bird is perching on something round, and if the nail touches the back part of the foot while perching, then the nails are too long. Typically, you can see if the nail is clear, where the vein runs and you of course would never want to cut into the vein that supplies the nail with nourishment, oxygen, through its blood flow. If still not sure, don't risk it. Take the bird to your local vet and observe and watch them do one foot and then you do the other foot with their supervision. This is the all time safe guarded way of providing this service to your bird.

In the wild, the bird naturally keep their nails and beak filed down by the things it chews and claws upon while resting/perching. You may want to incorporate some of these items into the cage to assist in the natural way of filing them down.

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Actually this may vary depending on the kind of bird finch, the eggs hatch in between 12 - 16 days or 3 weeks. The nestlings fledge in 18 - 19 days.

A Zebra finch aviary must be no less thattwenty inches long for two-four, however, having a flock you would need a quite large one about the size of a large closet.

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The parents will feed them. The parents eat the seeds and chew them. They spit it out and give it to the babies. Do not worry about them, just give a little bit more seeds so that the parents have enough food.

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In order to answer this question properly one needs to know more specifics about the particular bird. In a young bird, perhaps disease brought home from a pet shop could be a culprit. If the bird is a bit older it could be related to diet. Parakeets fed only seeds develop are susceptible to developing tumors and those often are the cause of death in a bird around the age of two. Perhaps the use of non-stick pots and pans in the kitchen, candles, cleaning agents, sprays could all be suspect. A gas leak of some kind possibly.

Birds seldom die suddenly, in the wild a sick bird will be targeted by predators or by the flock, so birds will hide signs of illness until it is to late.

No leave them be. If you even touch them the mother canary will reject them.

If you prompt them into breeding, then yes, they actually will.

Green Chillies should never be fed to any bird regardless of his origin or ancestry makeup.

They can clean themselves, unless they are excessively dirty. You can get a bird bath from the pet store or a store like WalMart that attaches to the bird cage. If they can't get clean enough, if they are tame enough, you can let a budgie have a bath in the kitchen sink, in shallow water. Do NOT use soap of any kind, unless you find some at a pet store or somewhere that says it is specifically for birds. Human soaps will hurt them.

A health parakeet will have shiny feathers, clear eyes, shiny beak, and a cere that is free of drainage. A fluffed parakeet that sits at the bottom of the cage is very sick and needs attention immediately.

Yes. A male and a female cockatiel would be best to share a cage. If you put two males or two females together, they may fight. You don't have to worry about a male and a female breeding if they are in the same cage. Cockatiels won't breed unless there is a nesting box attached to the cage.

There are hundreds of varieties of parrots around the world, and they can be found in all habitats except for the Arctic and Antarctic. Parrots are found in tropical rainforests, temperate rainforests, deserts (in Australia), grasslands, sub-alpine areas, open forest, closed forest, wet and dry sclerophyll, suburban backyards, and so on. They are found in warmer climates.

Bird habitats are usually in many places such as rain forests or usually there nearly found in a tree in your community but they are found in the wild too and in many other places around the world!

When birds lay eggs they usually sit on them and keep them warm. Just like when a human is pregnant, our baby stays warm inside our body. If we freeze to death outside, our baby would die. If the eggs aren't kept at the temperature of the parents they wont be warm enough and they baby birds will not grow inside.

you can but they may fight and seriously injure each other or one may be picked on by the other some more serious results of bullying are broken jaws and the bullied finch may pluck its feathers out ect. i would advise housing two females instead although they may not look as good they will get along better than two malezs

I have two male zebra finches that have been together for a long time and they are best friends. They occasionally fight, but they make up quickly and they have neever hurt each other.

Check for embryos by candeling them(placing a light on the egg) and if they are still alive incubate them.

A sanctuary is the most holy part of a religious building such as a church or temple, and in times past, people being hunted could claim safety there from arrest or killing. Likewise, a bird sanctuary is a place of safety for birds.

Nope you can't leave it in the incubator for 3 weeks! maximum is 48 hours

you can make your own brooder all you need is

1 Large Card Board or Plastic Box

1 Red Heat Lamp

1 Lamp

and either kitchen towel or newspaper for the base

Oh and don't forget chick crumb and chick grit

i have always known it to be the color of the band right above the beak,,: if it is blue color it is a male and if it is a pinkish color it is a girl

The band can also be a purple color in which case is a male, or a brown or whit color which is a female. I have two parakeets.

I have been reading so much about parakeets lately and I read that it may be because of lack of exercise. So try to take your parakeets out of their cage once in a while. You can also try putting some new toys in their cage and introducing new toys once they get tierd of the old one.