Using this channel as one of my guides/information areas as I’m getting Eclectus parrots soon! Your content is so helpful and has genuinely reassured me on a lot of things I wasn’t sure I could trust before, of course I’m going to get information from multiple trusted sources regardless (vet, specialists, etc.), but this channel is 100% one of those trusted sources. Any time anyone asks a question about birds, I’m referring them here!
My vet was also impressed by my birds' breast muscles when I've had them examined. They may not free-fly (they're too small for that; it wouldn't be safe) but they do get out of their cages to fly as much as they want for a while every day. Unfortunately, it's not the norm for people to let their birds get the exercise they need. I really wish it was. Even my little girl, who had a wing injury as a baby and doesn't fly quite right, loves to fly!
I agree. I’ve noticed that the way my birds, especially the budgies, eat millet when they feel safe inside of their cages is totally different than how they eat it when they feel that they’re vulnerable to having it stolen by another member of the flock. They eat it very leisurely when they know nobody else can get to it, but gobble it up when they’re out of their cages.
Ha, funny! Step-ups are so important both for the birds & for us. I've noticed as I train for desensitize my budgie is more willing to step in a scary thing than just be near, or to touch with beak. Allowing chest touch with a play (or real) stethoscope would be a good 'trick'. Maybe extend the 'go in the tunnel of fingers on a flat surface' to and 'allow brief touch to chest' to 'allow stethoscope '.
That is a long journey but it is taken into consideration by providing the lovely birds newspapers to peruse while on the road, very thoughtful indeed.
You are a good bird mummy. I remember having females budgies and the vet peeling off the brown keratin of the ceres. I can't wait until I can bring my birds outside as its still cold here.
How wonderful, the birds are so beautiful and so well behaved. You all deserve a big thank you for your excellent care and love for these awesome birds
Thank you for sharing all this amazing information! And you've calmed my own concerns regarding one of my budgies; Kite also takes *ages* to eat his food, but has done that for the whole 4 years I've had him so far. My vet has never found any issues with him that might cause this, and his health checks are always fine- so I'm glad to hear that it's just a thing that some birds do!
I'm not sure why RUclips sent me here, as a cat person, the only bird that ever held my attention came in a bucket. Anyway, your flock and family are lovely.
My budgie ghost had the same thing as berry! I was able to wash it off this morning, it was definitely making me think she was more hormonal that she probably was so this is such good information to have
Isn't it unfortunate that there just aren't enough avian vets. But to keep them healthy it is so important to find not only a great vet. no matter how far we must go to get correct check ups, i found one for my bird in a "exotic Veterinarian place" just got lucky being that even here , there are only two vets. that have the knowledge and training for our avian feathered freinds!❤❤
When we first brought our budgie (Sid) home he used to gobble his millet treat as fast as possible, in fact he almost snatched it out our fingers. After around a year. he is now a lot calmer and quietly nibbles at the millet, The home he came from was a breeder who handles the birds from almost birth, so the bird is semi tamed ready for it's new owner. I think Sid was used to competing with other birds, hence him grabbing at the millet to get as much as possible. Now that he is an only bird he no longer has to fight for his food and eats it at a slower pace.
We have cockatiels and Amazones and the cockatiels do smell, even though they are small! In my opinion they (all our parrots) smell the "strongest" after beeing completely dried off after a bath/shower and they smell almost like baby powder. Very clean, subtle, enjoyable smell. My Amazones though... I can't describe the smell, there is nothing to compare it to, but it gives the same feeling as baby smell! Soooooooooooo goooooood! @@Deedoof
I love the news about sun conures getting sun light I never new by the eyes they get a lil darker that’s so cool! Unfortunately it’s so cold out where I live I can’t take my sun conure out
I feel your pain! It can tough in the winter but I always look for those occasional sunny days and even if I can only get them out for a little bit it can still be very beneficial. I just avoid temperature swings of more then 20 degrees.
@@BirdTricks well rn the house is set to 72 and the past few days it’s been in like the 30s and 50s, Also could you help me my sun conure Rio I just recently introduced him into your guys pellets but he keeps picking out his old pellets and eating them! What can I do to make that better and him to actaully eat your guys pellets I’m thinking his old pellets had some sugar of some sort I also saw a mustard or a millet case after he ate his old pellets
I live in a cold climate too. On sunny days when it's too cold to go outside I put my birds in a carrier and sit in the car with them and unroll the window just enough to let the sun in. Being protected in the car from the wind and cold helps. If need be I let the car run with the heater on.
I’m deep in the country surrounded by forest. I have a fox you has seen my birds and knocks on my back deck door to come in to get them. So, when I move to a less forested house, sunlight will be easier. I was going to do an aviary here but a $40,000 septic system put the kybosh on that.
We can't comment on BirdTricks Kids but I really want to know: do you have a "deeper theory" as to why your daughter prefers the smaller birds to the larger birds so much? Are the larger birds more fussy with children?
I think they're definitely more intimidating for her and she's had more "bad" (ie scary) experiences with larger birds than small. The birds she first bonded with were a Parrotlet named Bluee and a 16 year old quaker named Lefty. I think because of those birds, she has a real special place for the smaller birds in general. But I will say even Monet intimidates her sometimes. She also spends a lot more time around the smaller birds so she has a lot more positive history with them. Typically she's around the larger birds when we are flight training or in a class setting. Hope that answers it or sheds some light!
I think about all of the "before", fearful experiences and memories that Berry may still carry within her mind, to this very day- those memories are what make her so appreciative, comfortable, relaxed, and even slow eating when she's with her flock. You are her flock. Berry has overcame squalor, horrible housing, food scarcity, constant startle reflexes, hunger, being ganged up upon by other budgie cliques that are also victims themselves, being forced into a bird-eat-bird mindset of purely just trying to survive. Thoughtless, conglomerate bird mills, aka: PetCo, PetSmart, etc. do not even give these precious beings a second thought. What you and Berry have achieved together is so amazing and important to share. My PetCo has bogo offers on birds they deem $15.00 worth in importance. Shame. How ignorant. I love my Figaro so much. I would do herculean feats, should something bad ever befall my precious baby. No such thing as "beginner birds." I would implore anyone with that mentality to peruse the pet rock aisle instead. Thank you so much for all that you do for birds. You truly are a highly trusted resource. Love, Figaro Mercury and NBL.♥️🐦♥️
Did they do blood work on olivia? Because in the short time on this video that she was on your shoulder she was sneezing, scratching her beak and "coughing" in quite a short time? My green cheek conures have been doing that same and they are both sick. Not like noticeably sick outwardly apart from the sneezing and coughing and scratching but their bloodwork showed that something is up so just wondering!
@@BirdTricks ok ty my budgie recently passed. thank you for responding because I knew blue had passed and you didn't have to Olivia anymore I was just confused ❤️
What vet do you see? Also, I did know this about the cere! I discovered it accidentally with some of the parakeets in my work and had a good time working it off. My older cockatiel gets a bit of it, as well, but not as much as parakeets.
Detka passed away around the same time we said goodbye to our toucan Rocko. We were away when it happened and she was in the care of one of our caretakers, her necropsy came back inconclusive so we didn't feel like sharing about it since it was a lot of loss at the time.
It makes me very sad to see Australian native birds as pets in the U.S. There was never any sanctioned trade ,so although there are now captive bred populations, the first birds would have be smuggled in horrid conditions.
Please read up on peanuts and aspergillous.Aspergillos is such a horrible disease and peanuts is not s real nut and they grow under earth so they can contain mold. I lost a very beloved parrot because of peanuts and I know a of other parrots that has become sick because of those damn peanuts. The parrot can get sick after eating one peanut and then something happen that triggers it…it can be stress, antibiotics, and so on and suddenly the parrot becomes very sick. Aspergillous is not something that is easily to cure :( sadly many still don’t know this and think it safe since it doesn’t kill straight away. It can take many years and the parrot will be healthy until it’s not. There is so much more healthy nuts to give that are much safer.
@@BirdTricks That’s great! So many people still think peanuts is okay to give and it so sad because some of them will lose their fids because they didn’t know better. Awareness is important.
Hi i have a question i have female kakariki and as soon as i start to train her She thinks it's mating time. She would do her mating call and i am not able to train her. She was sick at one point and that was the time that She wanted to work with me and She learned some new tricks. But now that She is healthy i have this huge problem that i can't fix. Please if anyone nows how to solve this write it down here👇. Thanks in advance.❤ ( And sorry if there is something incorect english is not my native language 😅)
Using this channel as one of my guides/information areas as I’m getting Eclectus parrots soon! Your content is so helpful and has genuinely reassured me on a lot of things I wasn’t sure I could trust before, of course I’m going to get information from multiple trusted sources regardless (vet, specialists, etc.), but this channel is 100% one of those trusted sources. Any time anyone asks a question about birds, I’m referring them here!
Thank you, this means so much! 😌
Same this the channel I use too ❤️
My vet was also impressed by my birds' breast muscles when I've had them examined. They may not free-fly (they're too small for that; it wouldn't be safe) but they do get out of their cages to fly as much as they want for a while every day. Unfortunately, it's not the norm for people to let their birds get the exercise they need. I really wish it was. Even my little girl, who had a wing injury as a baby and doesn't fly quite right, loves to fly!
Blue may feel 'food safe' so the speed of her eating could reflect that. Unless her actual health is changing, I agree with the vet's opinion.
I agree. I’ve noticed that the way my birds, especially the budgies, eat millet when they feel safe inside of their cages is totally different than how they eat it when they feel that they’re vulnerable to having it stolen by another member of the flock. They eat it very leisurely when they know nobody else can get to it, but gobble it up when they’re out of their cages.
Bird vet: Let me check you with this stethoscope
Galah: Okay, I will step up on this stethoscope
Ha, funny! Step-ups are so important both for the birds & for us. I've noticed as I train for desensitize my budgie is more willing to step in a scary thing than just be near, or to touch with beak. Allowing chest touch with a play (or real) stethoscope would be a good 'trick'. Maybe extend the 'go in the tunnel of fingers on a flat surface' to and 'allow brief touch to chest' to 'allow stethoscope '.
I'm never this early, it's always awesome to see how vet visits go with such large flocks.
For those who live in climates where getting outdoor uvb is difficult to obtain year round would UV lighting be appropriate?
@@CatCaffeine I was wondering the same thing, or if having them near a sunny window in an enclosure a few times a day would help.
Have you ever had a Parrolett?
That is a long journey but it is taken into consideration by providing the lovely birds newspapers to peruse while on the road, very thoughtful indeed.
Lol at the ass grab! 😂
You are a good bird mummy. I remember having females budgies and the vet peeling off the brown keratin of the ceres.
I can't wait until I can bring my birds outside as its still cold here.
It was like magic, haha!
What a lucky vet! I'd love getting a bouquet of feathers!!
Both jinx and Ava were blushing, funny
LOL @newspaper stock! Whenever I meet up with friends I get greeted with newspaper donations!
Thank you for sharing. It was full of health information about birds in general and of your flock members specifically.
I love that I always learn something about birds with you. Thank you. May you all please take care and stay safe. Louisa. 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️🤩🤩🤩
Your an amazing bird ouner. And you have so many. Pepole cant even handle 1. The veterinary seemd delighted at you and your birds. Good job.😮😊
that is awesome and i'm glad everyone is health
How wonderful, the birds are so beautiful and so well behaved. You all deserve a big thank you for your excellent care and love for these awesome birds
I’ve also noticed my cockatiel eating less for several years now, so I feel better about knowing this
Great to see your face again. Thank you very much for everything. 🎉❤😊
Loved this video, could have watched an hour more! What a long day it must have been for everybody but seems so worth it.
We all miss Rocko
Thank you for sharing all this amazing information! And you've calmed my own concerns regarding one of my budgies; Kite also takes *ages* to eat his food, but has done that for the whole 4 years I've had him so far. My vet has never found any issues with him that might cause this, and his health checks are always fine- so I'm glad to hear that it's just a thing that some birds do!
I love your channel it shows the reality of owning birds
The dedication and eagerness to continually learn more about the care of your birds is so highly commendable! ❤
Aww how comfy you’ve made it for them
Very nice trailer setup.
Oh my goodness, I love the bird trailer! You're prepared for anything!!! 🤩🦜🦜🦜🦜
I'm not sure why RUclips sent me here, as a cat person, the only bird that ever held my attention came in a bucket.
Anyway, your flock and family are lovely.
Thank for the cool video!! Hope you guys are doing well!! Have a nice day!!😊
wauw that is soooo amazing and cool
Butt grab, very important component of travel preparation.
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Btw love the fact that your birds are healthy❤
My budgie ghost had the same thing as berry! I was able to wash it off this morning, it was definitely making me think she was more hormonal that she probably was so this is such good information to have
another birdtricks video dropped woohoo
I love vet videos❤
Isn't it unfortunate that there just aren't enough avian vets. But to keep them healthy it is so important to find not only a great vet. no matter how far we must go to get correct check ups, i found one for my bird in a "exotic Veterinarian place" just got lucky being that even here , there are only two vets. that have the knowledge and training for our avian feathered freinds!❤❤
When we first brought our budgie (Sid) home he used to gobble his millet treat as fast as possible, in fact he almost snatched it out our fingers.
After around a year. he is now a lot calmer and quietly nibbles at the millet,
The home he came from was a breeder who handles the birds from almost birth, so the bird is semi tamed ready for it's new owner.
I think Sid was used to competing with other birds, hence him grabbing at the millet to get as much as possible.
Now that he is an only bird he no longer has to fight for his food and eats it at a slower pace.
Wow amazing setup!! I can’t imagine taking that many birds to a Canadian vet you would need to win the lottery or sell your house 😢
The bird bus. lol
How does each parrot smell ?
every type of parrot must smell differently
I've had parakeets, cockatiels, and a B&G macaw. Small birds don't have a smell, but bigger parrots smell like unscented baby powder.
My female eclectus smells like tropical flowers. She is my favorite smell ever! Lol
@@Deedoof good answer, my only caveat to that is my Moustached parrots stinks like a musty new car. so good
We have cockatiels and Amazones and the cockatiels do smell, even though they are small! In my opinion they (all our parrots) smell the "strongest" after beeing completely dried off after a bath/shower and they smell almost like baby powder. Very clean, subtle, enjoyable smell. My Amazones though... I can't describe the smell, there is nothing to compare it to, but it gives the same feeling as baby smell! Soooooooooooo goooooood! @@Deedoof
@@Deedoofmy Linnie smelled incredible, like maple syrup.
I love the news about sun conures getting sun light I never new by the eyes they get a lil darker that’s so cool! Unfortunately it’s so cold out where I live I can’t take my sun conure out
I feel your pain! It can tough in the winter but I always look for those occasional sunny days and even if I can only get them out for a little bit it can still be very beneficial. I just avoid temperature swings of more then 20 degrees.
@@BirdTricks well rn the house is set to 72 and the past few days it’s been in like the 30s and 50s, Also could you help me my sun conure Rio I just recently introduced him into your guys pellets but he keeps picking out his old pellets and eating them! What can I do to make that better and him to actaully eat your guys pellets I’m thinking his old pellets had some sugar of some sort I also saw a mustard or a millet case after he ate his old pellets
I live in a cold climate too. On sunny days when it's too cold to go outside I put my birds in a carrier and sit in the car with them and unroll the window just enough to let the sun in. Being protected in the car from the wind and cold helps. If need be I let the car run with the heater on.
Olivia's back!
She was around during this series, yes, I am hoping to make an update video on her in the next month or so!
I’m deep in the country surrounded by forest. I have a fox you has seen my birds and knocks on my back deck door to come in to get them. So, when I move to a less forested house, sunlight will be easier. I was going to do an aviary here but a $40,000 septic system put the kybosh on that.
We can't comment on BirdTricks Kids but I really want to know: do you have a "deeper theory" as to why your daughter prefers the smaller birds to the larger birds so much? Are the larger birds more fussy with children?
I think they're definitely more intimidating for her and she's had more "bad" (ie scary) experiences with larger birds than small. The birds she first bonded with were a Parrotlet named Bluee and a 16 year old quaker named Lefty. I think because of those birds, she has a real special place for the smaller birds in general. But I will say even Monet intimidates her sometimes. She also spends a lot more time around the smaller birds so she has a lot more positive history with them. Typically she's around the larger birds when we are flight training or in a class setting. Hope that answers it or sheds some light!
@@BirdTricks thank you!
How is Bean doing?
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Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed all of this! Now a personal question: where'd you get your cute zip flannel shirt :) Want.
Aerie!
Just a thought, surely it would be easier to get the vet to visit you home?
I think about all of the "before", fearful experiences and memories that Berry may still carry within her mind, to this very day- those memories are what make her so appreciative, comfortable, relaxed, and even slow eating when she's with her flock. You are her flock.
Berry has overcame squalor, horrible housing, food scarcity, constant startle reflexes, hunger, being ganged up upon by other budgie cliques that are also victims themselves, being forced into a bird-eat-bird mindset of purely just trying to survive. Thoughtless, conglomerate bird mills, aka: PetCo, PetSmart, etc. do not even give these precious beings a second thought.
What you and Berry have achieved together is so amazing and important to share.
My PetCo has bogo offers on birds they deem $15.00 worth in importance.
Shame. How ignorant. I love my Figaro so much. I would do herculean feats, should something bad ever befall my precious baby.
No such thing as "beginner birds." I would implore anyone with that mentality to peruse the pet rock aisle instead.
Thank you so much for all that you do for birds. You truly are a highly trusted resource.
Love, Figaro Mercury and NBL.♥️🐦♥️
Is Sun light through window 0k? Or through screens?
I have a scarlet macaw her neme it chilli
I'm surprised you don't have cameras set up in the trailer.
We have a baby monitor camera in there actually. 🙂
Did they do blood work on olivia? Because in the short time on this video that she was on your shoulder she was sneezing, scratching her beak and "coughing" in quite a short time? My green cheek conures have been doing that same and they are both sick. Not like noticeably sick outwardly apart from the sneezing and coughing and scratching but their bloodwork showed that something is up so just wondering!
What about the macaws?
Do you keep your parrots etc in a cage - permanently?
I thought taking my 6 parrots to the vet for their annual well bird exams was an adventure. It doesn’t compare with yours. Can’t imagine the vet bill.
How many different breeds do you have?
I bet the vet has another vet helping...thars a lot of work for 1 day
I heard the blue in the vid to yall still have blue in the video or do you have prim
This series was when we did have Olivia and Bluee but at the current moment we don't have either. Olivia was happily adopted and Bluee passed.
@@BirdTricks ok ty my budgie recently passed. thank you for responding because I knew blue had passed and you didn't have to Olivia anymore I was just confused ❤️
What vet do you see? Also, I did know this about the cere! I discovered it accidentally with some of the parakeets in my work and had a good time working it off. My older cockatiel gets a bit of it, as well, but not as much as parakeets.
We see Dr. Logsdon from WSU
Me wondering if you got a second mortgage to pay for the visit 😂 before finishing the video
Luckily veterinary teaching hospitals are less expensive than regular vets but yeah we pretty much plan all year around our annual for saving for it!
Hey!
I don’t mean to make anyone feel bad
But I wondering where the third sun conure is?
Detka passed away around the same time we said goodbye to our toucan Rocko. We were away when it happened and she was in the care of one of our caretakers, her necropsy came back inconclusive so we didn't feel like sharing about it since it was a lot of loss at the time.
It makes me very sad to see Australian native birds as pets in the U.S. There was never any sanctioned trade ,so although there are now captive bred populations, the first birds would have be smuggled in horrid conditions.
Please read up on peanuts and aspergillous.Aspergillos is such a horrible disease and peanuts is not s real nut and they grow under earth so they can contain mold. I lost a very beloved parrot because of peanuts and I know a of other parrots that has become sick because of those damn peanuts. The parrot can get sick after eating one peanut and then something happen that triggers it…it can be stress, antibiotics, and so on and suddenly the parrot becomes very sick. Aspergillous is not something that is easily to cure :( sadly many still don’t know this and think it safe since it doesn’t kill straight away. It can take many years and the parrot will be healthy until it’s not. There is so much more healthy nuts to give that are much safer.
They put pine nuts, not peanuts
Yeah that's all the reasons why we never use them as treats. We like to use walnuts, cashews, pine nuts and almonds.
@@BirdTricks That’s great! So many people still think peanuts is okay to give and it so sad because some of them will lose their fids because they didn’t know better. Awareness is important.
Hi i have a question i have female kakariki and as soon as i start to train her She thinks it's mating time. She would do her mating call and i am not able to train her. She was sick at one point and that was the time that She wanted to work with me and She learned some new tricks. But now that She is healthy i have this huge problem that i can't fix. Please if anyone nows how to solve this write it down here👇. Thanks in advance.❤ ( And sorry if there is something incorect english is not my native language 😅)
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