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Foraging Strategies with Feeding Activities

Our birds need to forage as part of their daily activities, yet sometimes, we have to take steps in teaching our birds to forage successfully. Caretakers can use various pet products to create different levels of foraging activities that empower a bird with a sense of accomplishment!

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  • Flight Harness Training Your Parrot

    Flying is one of the most difficult and meaningful tasks a parrot can acquire in its life.  You can help your companion bird further develop these skills with the use of an avian flight harness. But first you must desensitize your parrot to the harness in order to ensure flight become a safe and stress free activity.

  • Clicker Training Your Parrot to Modify Behavior

    Clicker training your parrot has several key advantages

  • Foraging Training for Parrots

    It is better to provide nutritious and familiar flavor to satisfy his natural tendencies for foraging behavior.

  • Converting Diet to Pellet Food For Birds

    Mother Nature has had millennia of experience in diet formulation, and the birds in their various natural habitats have evolved to fit the diets available to them in the wild. In the wild seasons change, availability changes, and one generation teaches the next what to eat. In captivity our birds are entirely dependent on what…

  • Creating foraging opportunities for your bird is not difficult. When food or treats are incorporated into toys, parrots will stay interested much longer.
    Parrot treats for Foraging & training
  • Misting & Preening Education

    Regular preening keeps the feathers clean and well groomed. Without misting your parrot regularly, flight feathers may quickly become compromised.

  • Desensitization to the Physical Exam

    Whether chicks are parent reared or cared for in a nursery by a caretaker, desensitization to the physical exam can be carefully implemented throughout the physical health assessment inspection of the chicks. As the chicks mature through the fledgling age, further desensitization will ensure the birds are more accustomed to the handling techniques utilized to…

  • Nature or Nurture: How Parrots & Birds Learn

    Educate yourself about the profound nature, the central core of each species of bird you are considering adopting as a companion.

  • Parrots & Birds: Positive Reinforcement Training

    A firm “no,”- or a sudden “Ah, ah, ah” is usually enough to deter a bird from an unwanted behaviour – provided the fundaments of respect have been established early on.

  • Offer safe, quality toys to your bird as an outlet to encourage natural bird behaviours, mental stimulation and to promote exercise.
    toys for Functional play
  • Training Your Budgie: How To Tame a Parakeet

    Happy budgie body language includes an all over feather fluff, happy tail wag, sitting up straight & tall, chirping.

  • Parrot Love: Reading Bird Body Language

    While aviculturists probably receive the lion’s share of criticism, in many places, even ordinary bird owners are sometimes called upon to defend the practice of living with feathered companions.

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