For disinfecting cages and toys and other things birds use, bleach is likely the most popular choice. Bleach has a reputation for being an excellent disinfectant, and it’s very effective against both bacteria and viruses.
However, there are significant downsides to using bleach as well as equally…
[Note that I recently wrote a much more comprehensive guide called: So I’m thinking of getting a pet bird]
I used to breed cockatiels starting in the early 1980s, selling over a hundred birds a year. I used to advertise them in some town papers with my phone number.
When people called, I would find…
Previously, I wrote about animal research applied to parrot diets. This insight greatly opens up the much more prevalent research on animals, including humans. We can then supplement the much sparser research on animals, especially those kept as pets.
But how about mental disorders? There is a branch…
When trying to decide between feeding seed or pellets to your bird, many turn to mixes that combine both seeds and pellets. And it turns out that many “seed” mixes actually include pellets. For example, I did a search for “parrot seed” in Amazon’s US store and looked …
[Note: These products are popular and most bird owners probably use them. Eventually, either I can convince you to stop or time will pass and the same realizations people have had about dog and cat diets will finally reach the bird community More on this later.]
I was on the website for Lafeber, one of the…