BIRD ARTICLES
| Conversion from Seed to Pellet Some birds take to pellets very easily, but others will need a little more persuading. Below are a few simple steps that can help with stubborn birds.... |
| Moulting in Birds - What's the big deal? Your birds are going through a moult, there are lots of lost feathers in your flights and everything looks a little shabby for a while....but is it really that big a deal? The answer is a very simple and clear YES... |
| Sales a Burden for Stressed Birds The bird sale season is well underway and though the sweltering temperatures of summer have begun to subside, stress and dehydration are both still major concerns for bird’s ear marked for this year’s sales... |
| What is extrusion cooking? Extrusion cooking is one way to combine a range of food ingredients into an easy to feed pellet... |
| Critical Caring There are few worse feelings in bird keeping than the realisation that something is terribly wrong with one of your most valued birds... |
| Polyoma Virus Polyomavirus goes by a number of other names, the most recognised name being Budgerigar Fledgling Disease or Papovavirus... |
| Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD) Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (or PBFD for short) is one of the nastiest, most aggressive diseases in Aviculture today, making it important for parrot owners to understand... |
| Metabolic Bone Disease in Parrots MBD is a multifactorial disease where the animal does not receive a balanced diet and subsequently develops abnormal bone growth, structure and strength... |
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Binding Nightmares |
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Metal Poisoning In Birds |
| Probiotics – Are they really important and why? Probiotics are used in the world of pet and breeding birds more frequently than you might think. Many bird hand rearing formulas, foods and supplements are fortified with them and probiotics are even available as a standalone supplement... |
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| Psittacosis in birds and people What is Psittacosis? Psittacosis is a highly contagious disease that can be deadly to birds and dangerous to people, which makes it a serious threat to all bird keepers.... |
| Maintaining water quality Bird veterinarians see a host of disease syndromes related to contaminated water – we call it “ the Grunge Syndrome”... |
| Managing Medications There are many occasions when your birds will require various medications. These may be Veterinary prescribed antibiotics, over the counter antibiotics, parasite treatments and various nutritional supplements... |
| Why some birds Feather Pluck Those of us that are bird lovers hate to see our birds with poor feathers. Nothing is more noticeable than a bird with a feather condition... |
| Artificial incubation of parrot eggs Everyone has a different reason why they put in the time and effort to artificially incubate eggs... |
| Air Sac Mite Air Sac Mite are a common cause of difficult breathing in Gouldian Finches. For many years these little mite have been a constant irritation to Gouldian breeders and have resulted in many deaths and poor breeding performance... |
| Are You Prepared for the Breeding Season? Breeding season is again just around the corner. You thought you could take a break after all your young were sold or paired up – not so! Preparation is the key to successful breeding, anything else is just a fluke... |
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Hand Rearing – what makes a good bird? |
| Reaping the Fruits of Your Labour – Young Bird Flights As the breeding season begins to wind down for another year, many of us will be lucky and have healthy young birds sitting on the perch... |
| Aflatoxins - Not a new problem More is being written and discussed about Aflatoxins. Many people have never heard of them and assume they are a new problem (or one invented by vets!). Not so, this is a problem as old as mankind. The only new thing is our ability to detect them... |
| Wild Bird Seed Woes How many times have you seen novices in the bird game feeding ‘wild bird mix’ to their aviary birds in order to save money or because they just didn’t know any better?... |
| Megabacteria in Australian Budgerigars Treatment of Megabacteria in Budgerigars by in water medication with soluble Amphotericin B.... |