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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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All Feeding & Nutrition Articles

  • Metabolizable Energy of Sunflower Kernels in Goffin’s Cockatoo

    The proximate analysis of the seed kernels of sunflower, safflower and peanut, common food for captive parrots, indicated that they contain very high fat and moderate protein levels with comparably high gross energies.

  • Psittacine Pediatrics: Housing and Feeding of Baby Parrots

    Babies should be sitting on clean and dry bedding which is therefore changed at each feeding.

  • Nutritional Observations, Hand-Feeding Formulas, and Digestion in Exotic Birds

    Digestion in birds is a rapid and efficient process because of the specificity of their digestive organs, which functions to swallow, store, and chemically and physically digest the food.

  • The Aquisition, Husbandry and Breeding of Common Amazons

    Significant advances have been made in the science of breeding psittacine birds during the past decade. The wide spread use of formulated diets, the advent of safe surgical or blood sexing, increases in disease prevention through the development of specific tests and vaccines, improved techniques for hand rearing babies plus

  • Converting to extruded pellets is an excellent way to keep your birds healthy. It’s also easy. Follow our step-by-step guide and help your birds make the switch.
    Start converting
  • Basic Bird Nutrition: Parrot Food – What to Feed Pet Birds?

    Our parrots love their fruits and vegetables, and of course, caretakers love to offer these yummy items to their parrots. While fruits and vegetables, organic or not, seem like a natural part of any parrot’s enrichment diet, we do caution caretakers about using proper hygiene in produce preparations. We especially want to share our concerns…

  • Natural Products for Parrots

    When it comes to toys that are made from natural fibers or safe wood-it’s better to chew on them than a pet owner’s wall trim or furniture!

  • Geophagia & Clay-Cal Bentonite Supplement

    It is believed by many field researchers that birds do this to detoxify their digestive systems after consuming toxic plants or food sources…and to add missing nutrients to their diet.

  • Diet Conversions for Your Parrot

    A simple and safe way to convert most pets to a better diet is to start by cleaning the cage each evening, and leaving ONLY Tropican in the feeders.

  • Weigh your parrot on a weekly basis to keep track of their weight and monitor their health. This can help you detect any changes early on and take necessary action.
    Safe Weighing Techniques
  • Importance of Salt (Sodium Chloride) in Bird Food

    Many foods that people enjoy feeding their birds are much too high in salt. Snack items, such as fast food, chips, crackers, salted nuts and even canned vegetables (unless rinsed thoroughly), if eaten in sufficient quantities, may actually be toxic to birds.

  • How Safe is Your Bird’s Food? Ours is HARI safe.

    to ensure your bird is always getting safe, dependable, nutritious food. If it doesn’t have the flocks’ final approval, it doesn’t leave the Hagen Industries plant!

Choosing the perfect formula for your pet bird. banner

Choosing the perfect formula for your pet bird.

Companion parrots require a balanced diet that contains a nutritious blend of grains, seeds, nuts, vegetables, fruits, vitamins and minerals. Pet parents also need to consider the species, life stage and lifestyle of their pet bird.

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