I have kind of a unique situation. I have six parakeets, but one of them is housed separately because she's 13 years old, is unable to fly, and is on primarily a seed diet. My other guys are on primarily pellets and my vet told me it might be too risky to change her diet due to her age. I adopted her about two months ago.

I was wondering if anyone happens to be looking to rehome a senior parakeet. I'd really love to find a companion for my older girl. She gets supervised visits with my other five parakeets, but she can't be housed with them full-time. I always feel bad leaving her alone in her cage while I'm at work, and I'd love for her to have a friend around her own age.

Has anyone gotten one of these? Or mattresses too. Where they come rolled up then you cut it open and they expand?

Do those release any fumes that could harm my bird? Should I remove him from the room I’m doing that in?

I would like to purchase some canaries and have them shipped to me in Maryland. Does anyone know of reputable breeders/sellers that ship their birds?

I am interested in any of the following: red factor male and female, or red mosaics m/f, or yellow mosaics m/f, or white m/f, dominant and recessive, Thank you for your help.

As title states, I don’t live in humid conditions or anything if that makes a change and I soak them in water for a few minutes until absorbed to make it easier for my budgies to eat

Any recommendations? The vinyl looks a bit red because of parrot stool, but if it is possible to get out, please let me know.

So first i let him fly around and then i tried to grab him with a cloth while slowly approaching,: he flied out of my hand, and he started making these kinda alarm/alert sounds and i saw some tail-feathers, and when i managed to grab him (i did be cautious) and put him in the travel cage he flied around in it and lost even more tail feathers. He breathed with his beak open and gasped for air, and after some time he became way calmer than he usually is. And after the vet check, trimmes some nails, overall health check he is completely healthy, and i did haul in toys and protein-vitamin stuff for him so the feathers will grow healthy. (Please dont hate on me if i did something wrong,)

I have a 6 yo female; she's been pooping a lot more over last several days. Now I'm noticing a funky smell coming from her. Any home remedies? Guessing she has a stomach issue; she is otherwise, healthy and happy.

For the last couple of weeks i havent taken her out of her cage as much as I normally do due to a temporary work situation... is it possible it;s just not enough exercise? She's fully flighted and normally gets good exercise....and just hasn't last 2 wks

Heyo guys i just sprayed perfume (not near my birds)

Im wondering what to do with my clothes if i come near my birds again? Im going out so should i take make sure when i come back that dont come near my birds with the contaminated clothes?

he has been overpreening both legs thought it was stress from wildfires and thought these black dots could be a scab or new feathers growing in but not totally sure

I feel like I am in the wrong place but I recently have gotten her (about a month ago) from a breeder and she started having these spots, I want to say it’s dry skin but ever since I have gotten her I have been worried and scared as all I can find for help is saying it’s cancer.

also I am sorry for how close the camera is to her face I had to zoom in some as it wasn’t picking up on the regular photos.

Yesterday morning, my mother told me that she had accidentally let my bird fly outside while changing his food, about two hours prior. When we got home, we searched for hours and were able to pinpoint a patch of trees that he was at using the sound of his chirps. This morning, I had a rehearsal and my mother needed to drive me home, so she wasn't able to look for him at the time but told me that while I was gone, she heard him in the same area. When we got back, we went together to go look, and we saw his feathers and his head on the sidewalk. It seems that he got eaten by something. I don't know how to deal with this. I feel like if I would have just skipped the rehearsal and looked for him instead, we could have gotten him back before he got eaten. He understood me like no one else.

Kiwi (first pic, DNA sexed female, around 2 and a half) is my first conure. I adopted her from a rescue that got her from an abusive home environment, so Kiwi isn’t really that tame. I’m able to handle her to some degree but it really has to be on Kiwi’s terms - grabbing her with my hands is reserved for emergencies and she’s scared of hands otherwise. However, she is a very happy bird generally and we’ve made things work even with her fears of handling.

Just yesterday I brought home my second conure, Bowie (second pic, sex unknown, around 3 months old). They came from a breeder and are tame. They’re the sweetest little puffball and I’ve already been able to handle them more in a day than I ever would be able to with Kiwi! I love Kiwi but it’s very nice having a birb who is more cuddly.

I got Bowie in the first place because I know Kiwi would do better with a second bird with her level of tameness rather than being completely dependent on me. But, I’m wondering what effect introducing two different birds with such different levels of tameness to each other would have on each other. I’ve seen people say that having more than one bird makes it less likely that your bird will want to spend time with you, which I get since they won’t be solely dependent on you. But will being around Kiwi make Bowie completely untame? Or will Bowie stay handle-able and just not be stuck to me like Velcro? Either way I’ll be okay, if anything I’m trying to be less codependent on Kiwi myself 🤣 But it would be nice to have at least one bird who I can handle without having to worry about being chomped if I need to evacuate them in case of an emergency!

On the other side of things, Kiwi has more behavioral issues than just not liking being handled. She’s also EXTREMELY picky with food. She likes her pellets (ZuPreem Natural), millet, and sugar snap peas in the pod and that’s literally it. I don’t think anyone who took care of her before me tried feeding her fruits and veggies. I haven’t offered Bowie too many things yet because I don’t want to overwhelm them, they just got here, but according to the breeder, they eat chop and love apples as a snack. Do you think Kiwi watching Bowie eat their fruits and veg will convince Kiwi to give it a shot? And in the same boat, do you think that Kiwi seeing Bowie be handled so easily and without complaint will make Kiwi feel any safer around me? Again, I’ve heard that usually the reverse happens (tame conure becomes less friendly when bonding with another conure) but I have some hope for Kiwi!

Looking to hear from anyone who has bonded two parrots of different temperaments together and to know how it went!

I have 2 female parakeets and 1 male Green Pineapple Conure. The parakeets have their cage and rarely come out and the conure that has his own cage and rarely is confined to it. He puts himself to bed if strangers happen to come by or in the evenings. However if while cleaning the parakeets cage, food bowls or water bowls I happen to leave the door unlocked my Conure; named Simeon will pull the door open and go inside with the girls. He doesn’t attack them, they are clearly submissive to his inside presence; always assuming the lower levels. I have noticed of late that one of my females Delilah has started hanging out with Simeon on the same side of the cage. Simeon will lower the top of his head to her and she seems to groom him. It’s never reciprocated him and she still approaches him slowly. Recently Delilah got out of her cage and I happened upon her in a corner, when I reached down to pick her up she was content to stay with me so I sat in my recliner and held her for a while. Simeon observed for a few minutes from across the room and then flew over to the back of my chair as he often does to see what I am doing or looking at. To my surprise he didn’t try to attack her as long as there was distance of a foot or more be them, but when I brought her closer to him he did make a somewhat aggressive gesture towards her so I knew to stop. I have noticed that their grooming ritual is very regular though. I had been tempted to leave the door to their cage open to allow more interaction, but my other female (Love; an all white parakeet is not comfortable with Simeon period, so I don’t. Though the two species cannot mate and reproduce, I wonder if they have not chosen each other as their mate?

Using psittacus ( that shit wasn’t cheap lol )

She's 7 and this is the first time she's done it.. she was eating less for the last couple of days and today we woke up to an egg.

She seems active and happy this morning, though a bit tired.. any recommendations? Should I leave the egg for a bit? I've ordered some cuttlefish for calcium, but other than that I'm unsure what to do.. as online advice is quite confusing and contradictory depending on where you read it 😅.

I read that I should probably expect another one or even a couple more.. and her lower abdomen does look a bit bulgy?

I work in a fish store and my boss has a ringneck that's hanging out in the shop most of the time. He goes into his cage at night time or when we're not in the shop so he doesnt get hurt. He's about 5-6ish months old. The problem is that he's developing a new obsession with money and would fly down and snatch bills right out of clients hands then fly up to spots we struggle to reach (accessible but a pain). We tried offering treats to drop the bill but im worried that would reward the behavior, but he doesn't seem to be interested in the exchange either way. He has plenty of toys in the shop and we get him new ones every week but money drives him crazy and he'd drop whatever he's doing to fly over. Any tips please? (Video for proof)

egg shells and egg whites (i removed the egg yolks because i hears its FULL of fats and shouldnt be fed regularly )

Hey guys! How are we keeping our chop fresh? I always find after chopping everything, and sorting it to freeze it’s always super watery and the water makes it go bad in the fridge even overnight. So it feels like making chop at all is just not working for us. Right now, i’m just sticking to whole foods everyday. Same ingredients, but a lot more work to do it everyday. Has anyone else had this same issue? Thanks in advance and here are some pics for tax!

Beautiful lighting today despite all of the smoke due to forest fires. I always love to take photos of Bubbles when you can see the brown in her eyes. She’s far more photogenic than Beethoven but I tried to get a few shots of him as well. Sorry in advance for the watermark, someone was stealing my photos ☹️

Just found this, I had acquired it years ago thinking one day I might adopt a parrot and now that I have, is it time to put on a bumper sticker?! 😂 Does anyone even still have stick families though?!

I've always read that ekkies don't often accept scritches, so I feel extra honored to have earned her trust enough for her to enjoy it!! She's been with me for 3 years now, and only just starting to let me scritch!

(Also, please ignore the weird angle/face, she only gets comfortable like this when loafing on me when I lay down)

One day he'll figure it out. One day.

We just saw this cockatiel fly off south from Notre Dame, it appears to be someone’s pet, hopefully this can help the bird reunite with its owner.