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Bird Maintenance
How to keep your pet avian companion as healthy and happy as possible is what this category is all about. Questions and answers about the basics of caring for them are here.
160 Questions
How do you clean up bird feathers easily A vacuum blows them around...?
well, did you test it?
because you can just test it okay search for a dead bird and then pluck out some feathers and clean it up with a vaumme cleaner or something
How often do you have to feed a baby bird which hasn't opened its eyes?
To begin with they need tiny amounts of food every 60-90 minutes for about 16 hours a day. How that changes very much depends on species as they can be nestlings for anything from 12 days to months.
What temperature should your home be kept at for a bird?
Different species of birds are adapted to all climates on earth, from equatorial rainforests to the Antarctic.
Can you show a parakeet from a pet store like Petco and show it in a Parakeet Bird Show?
I'm sorry but no, birds from petco and other large chain pet stores are almost always inbred and are always American style budgies. If you buy from a breeder you may be able to find an English budgie. English budgies conform to the show standard below.
Unless your budgie looks like that your budgie cannot enter a competition. Hope this helps!
Cartier736 ; )
Excuse me? Um yes you can I have gone to and won first, second, and third place in over 30 contests with a parakeet I bought from pet world. He is a prize champion.
Think about that Cartier736
How do you tell the age of a dove?
You can tell the age of a dove by its feathers. Newly born doves will have no feathers. Light colored feather indicate the bird is under 3 years old.
How long can a bird remember things for?
It depends on the species. Larger species of parrots can remember things for decades, smaller birds will remember things for years.
A male bird (obviously)
A nest box and get paper from a petstore for it to shred
to get them in the mood 13 hrs of daylight
lots of calcium from cuttlebones/mineral blocks so the female doesnt have a high chance on egg binding or the shell being broken when the female is producing it.(all these things could kill your female)
You should allow them to be ATLEAST a year old (for small birds like a budgie.)
Lots of food and water
Make sure to check the babies to make sure they are getting fed by the mother so look in there crop a couple times a day.If they are not getting fed you might have to hand raise them.
I own a mourning dove and a ringneck dove. They enjoy eating millet spray (you can buy a bag of millet spray for a couple dollars at a grocery or pet store), a variety of seeds (I go to the grocery store and buy the one that is specifically for doves, it has a picture of a dove on it), and sometimes crackers.
