Care of Birds

one of them is its beak. one reason the great hornbills beak is so large is so it can carry its prey to its nest.

Well, I'm guessing the bird is either bored, is sick, or some other reason. It may be reacting to stress. Has anything major happened around the house lately? Or maybe the bird is allergic to something. Have you started feeding your bird something new? Or it could be bored. Try adding a new toy to the cage. Remember, you should have 5 toys or so on hand and rotate a toy every week or so. After not seeing the bird for about five weeks for the time it's been in rotation or whatever, the toy seems like new to the bird.
The bird may be sick, have mites or a skin irritation. But anyways, I think you should take your bird to the vet no matter what. The vet might recommend a bird behaviorist. Keep trying different things till' he/she stops. Or the bird may never stop and become a plucker for the rest of his/her life. In that case, enjoy your feather plucker and don't sell her just because she doesn't have feathers.

Parakeets do not kiss. what you're thinking of is probably regurgitating. parakeets feed each other sometimes by regurgitating. they will turn their heads sideways and put their beaks together and one or them will regurgitate food into the others mouth.

pretty gross eh?

Have it's wings clipped. The first time, I would have someone who knows how do it. On the ends of the wings, depending on the species, you cut off between 1/4 to 1/3 of the feathers about 1/3 to 1/2 of the feather from the tip of the feather to the base. This lessons the amount of lift the bird can create and the best they can do is a controlled crash. The feathers will grow back and have to be clipped again in 4-6 months. If you cut too much off, you can get into the blood supply which is very serious in a bird. That is why you should have someone who know how do it. Also, the bird can resent it and that way it isn't mad at you.

I "GNU" the answer to this once upon a time...

the bird is getting annoyed at the boy but it will pass. i had a similar case and now they are breeding :)

Turtles have lungs to breathe air; they also store in their cloaca, which is located on the posterior of their bodies

Loads. But most are inexpensive. For starters, a cage. If there's only one parakeet, then a fairly small one. Some perches toward the top for (s)he to play on, maybe a swing, toys, etc. dry seeds you can buy at a pet store, and get a water bottle, leave it out for a night, and use THAT water to feed your keet. Make sure you put the seeds and water in open bowls that you buy, not closed. Rather than eat out of not open bowls, like dispensers or something, keets have been know to starve themselves. There are other, some optional, nutritious things you may add, that you should ask someone at a petstore at.

You might think they are asleep all the time but they are not. They are nocturnal which means they sleep in the day and are awake at night. Rarely you should see them awake in the day time.

Okay so you said a "mother" parakeet, well if you don't know when it comes to animals and their children you don't mess around with them. The parents are very protective of their children. Maybe that other bird went near the other birds babies and the mother got mad. Or maybe they got into a fight. But she's been caged with her for years? Hmm this is puzzling. Well im like really sure about the whole baby reason. Wait by any chance did you have a male bird??? If so maybe they were fighting over that mate? Or over extra space in the cage??? Sorry for your loss Sincerely. echub The only recorded instances of parakeets fighting is in captivity. It is very rare, and always it is among females. There are two reasons they fight. They would fight over a mate, or fight over nest space. Fighting over nest space is the most common, but is still rare. You need twice as many identical nests as you have female parakeets. That means if you have two parakeets you need 4 identical nests. You can remove the extra nests only after each female parakeet has chosen her own nest, and really you should leave an extra nest or all the extra nests as a precaution. Also you cannot house two female parakeets and one male. That doesn't work. You need to house a male and a female, or two males, or even three males and one female. If you need to house two females together, you must make sure there are more males than females. That means if there are two females you need three males. =End New Answer= A mother parakeet would do that because she would probably want to protect her babies. Try buying a male. The mother budgie shouldn't kill this one. Hope this helps you.

Most seed eating birds require grit of some form in their diet. It is used in their gizzard to grind against the seeds to break them down. If no other grit is available to your bird she is using the sand from the sand paper for the same purpose. Female birds alo need a source of Calcium in order to make shells for their eggs. Cuttlefish bone is commonly hung up in the cage for this purpose.

• toucans have 2 legs its a bird

it is called the crest

Yes it is perfectly natural behavior for a goldfish to eat its own eggs and/or fry. That is why you must sepperate the parents from the eggs/fry when you breed goldfish.

a:two feathers a:a beak a:claws a:two wings

Sleep.

There are many things that would happen if something devastating happened between bees and marabou storks. These two animals are dependent on each other to survive.

No a pigeon lays and hatches eggs.

Pigeons communicate by chirping. Or I don't know about this, but they might poo.

Yes, they're called gay budgies, ey.

Parrots are very intelligent and territorial. This is why most people get a parrot when they are very young and start training right away. They can be destructive, loud, messy and very very lovable! You need to train them to be gentle with their beaks from a very young age because their beaks are very strong and can cause serious damage.

All in all owning a parrot is very much like having a 2 year old baby for life, they never grow up! They are a joy to own and will love you unconditionally but they are also a handful

you should get it young so you can tame it easyer and make it talk quicker

There is not a torture here for these kinds of birds/budgies. These birds/budgies have a structure which is suitable to live in a cage. They are not harmed because they are fed and looked after.. Also an incident takes place lighting up this issue on the time of our prophet. Little brother of Anas Ibn Malik used to have a little bird. Once when Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) saw this little kid he asked him "What happened to the birdie?" 3. We understand from this that it is ok to have a bird.

There are even texts which may be taken to mean that it is permissible to keep them so long as one gives them food and drink. Al-Haafiz ibn Hajar said in his commentary Fath al-Baari, among his list of the things that we learn from this hadeeth: … It is permissible for young children (or any other aged) to play with birds, and it is permissible for parents to allow their children to play with things with which it is permissible to play, and it is permissible to spend money on permissible things which will amuse young children, and it is permissible to keep birds in cages and the like, and to clip the birds of wings - because one of the two must have applied in the case of Abu 'Umayr's bird, and whichever was the case, the ruling also applies to the other.

Additionally there is NO text in Islam to say that it is haraam to sell them, this statement is complete garbage.

There are many more examples, but I think its crystal clear that it is permissible.

جزاك اللهُ خيراً‎ (Jazakallah Khayran)

Male rabbits can be fertile for sure around 6 months of age. BUT if you have more than one rabbit and do not want to breed (there thousands of unwanted rabbits in rescue centres) then it is advisable to separate them from 9 weeks onwards. Reputable breeders will sell kittens (the correct name for baby rabbits) from 9 weeks onwards and NOT BEFORE. This is because they need their mother's milk and her soft droppings to help with bone density and antibodies.

No, you need a bigger gene pool. ( they would be deformed )