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Susan
    10/20/09 at 08:22 PMReply with quote#16

Hey, thank you all again very much! I have tires a few of the bathtub methods...I need to get a better perch! Many thanks!!!!

susan
    05/23/10 at 06:47 PMReply with quote#17

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Originally Posted by Karen
Susan, relax!!!
Your bird will take a bath if he wants to. If you want to put some water in a spray bottle and make a fun game of spritzing the mist up in the air he will probably love it. Some birds even like to play in the water in the sink or take a shower with you. Try each thing. If it is cold out, towel dry and use your blow drier, most birds love that. If it's warm let him air dry. Feed lots of good healthy veggies and fruit, chicken and chicken bones are great, beef and beef bones. Here is a list of some goodies and good info to try. You are doing a good job, keep it up!
 
Bird food for your bird
 
1. Carrots
2. Yams or sweet potatoes
3. Zucchini
4. Broccoli
5. Cucumber
Chop food in chopper
 
Add: Raisins
        Bean sprouts
        Rainbow pasta, cooked or raw
        with or without sauce and meat
 
Treats for the top of the dish: different each day for variety.
       Peanut butter on a Ritz
       Bite size Shredded Wheat
       Cheerios
       Popcorn, no salt
       vanilla Wafers
       Graham crackers
       Cheese crackers or puffs
 
Use your imagination.
 
Your bird can eat most anything you are eating with these exceptions:
NO AVOCADO, CHOCOLATE, BOOZE, ICEBERG LETTUCE, NO CAFFEINE.
 
All fruits are good for your bird:
       pears
       melons
       bananas
       grapes
       papaya
       mango
       etc.
 
For your information: The birds can eat most anything you are eating including cooked chicken or beef with or with out the bones, spaghetti, pizza, couscous, cheese, cooked cereal, use good sense and have fun with it. Your birds life will extend by many years on a diversified diet. You can use frozen mixed veggies just run them under the hot water tap, no need to cook.
hi i own grey called roger 4yrs old i thought pears were a no no ?
birdlady1
    05/23/10 at 07:37 PMReply with quote#18

Pears are fine. All of my birds eat them.

harvey
    05/25/10 at 10:01 AMReply with quote#19

 
Bird food for your bird
 
1. Carrots
2. Yams or sweet potatoes
3. Zucchini
4. Broccoli
5. Cucumber
Chop food in chopper
 
Add: Raisins
        Bean sprouts
        Rainbow pasta, cooked or raw
        with or without sauce and meat
 
Treats for the top of the dish: different each day for variety.
       Peanut butter on a Ritz
       Bite size Shredded Wheat
       Cheerios
       Popcorn, no salt
       vanilla Wafers
       Graham crackers
       Cheese crackers or puffs
 
Use your imagination.
 
Your bird can eat most anything you are eating with these exceptions:
NO AVOCADO, CHOCOLATE, BOOZE, ICEBERG LETTUCE, NO CAFFEINE.
 
All fruits are good for your bird:
       pears
       melons
       bananas
       grapes
       papaya
       mango
       etc.
 
For your information: The birds can eat most anything you are eating including cooked chicken or beef with or with out the bones, spaghetti, pizza, couscous, cheese, cooked cereal, use good sense and have fun with it. Your birds life will extend by many years on a diversified diet. You can use frozen mixed veggies just run them under the hot water tap, no need to cook.

hi i own grey called roger 4yrs old i thought pears were a no no ?


Sorry but here we go again
Birds especially parrots can NOT eat most anything that we eat. The rule of thumb is WE humans can eat anything that birds eat even the clay they eat to detoxify the poisions they injest in the wild.
 Hot tap water contains all the rust and contaminate in your water system. I would let it defrost in the fridge and then leave out to become room temperature.

Most of the food listed for treats is as stated only used in a limited amount as they contain loads of salt and sugars that are not even good for us humans. Its almost as if you are adding salt and sugar to their water
Fruits are wonderful as long as you remove the seeds as they contain arsenic and other poisons. Thats why Avocados are bad as it contains arsenic.
I hope this will close the discussion  "PLEASE"
As always
harvey


tlmetro
    08/22/10 at 11:28 AMReply with quote#20

Someone please help.  I bought a baby African Grey(6-7weeks).  I'm getting some formula on his body while feeding.  Would I be able to bathe him? What should I do?
Thanks in advance.

birdlady1
    08/22/10 at 02:03 PMReply with quote#21

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Originally Posted by tlmetro
Someone please help.  I bought a baby African Grey(6-7weeks).  I'm getting some formula on his body while feeding.  Would I be able to bathe him? What should I do?
Thanks in advance.

No, don't bathe him. He's too young. Just take a damp paper towel (NO SOAP) and gently wash it down as best you can. When the formula dries, it's easy to just rub between your fingers and most of it'll fall away. If a little remains, don't worry about it.

I hope you have handfeeding experience because it's very easy to aspirate your bird and he'll choke to death. Not only that, but if you're not weighing the bird on a DAILY basis, how will you know if he's gaining weight and if you're feeding him enough? If the food is too hot, you'll burn his crop and surgery will be required. If it's too cold, the bird will not be able to digest it properly and he'll get sick.

What sort of instructions did you receive about feeding this bird who will have to be handfed AT LEAST for the next month?????

I'm not directing the next sentences necessarily at you, but I AM SO SICK OF BREEDERS SELLING UNWEANED BABIES!!!!! ESPECIALLY TO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO HANDFEED!

A woman called the store where I work to ask if we sold a certain type of handfeeding formula. She just had a hahn's macaw flown to Colorado from South Carolina and it was still being handfed once a day. Except it regressed and now required THREE feedings a day. This woman had never handfed in her life and had never OWNED a bird in a life. I RAGGED into her like you wouldn't believe.

Of course I didn't make the sale. But I sure wanted to track her down and beat the sh*t out of her.


tlmetro
    08/23/10 at 09:39 AMReply with quote#22

thank you Birdlady1.  your feedback was very useful.  Im going to start weighing him.  I did wiped him down with a damp cloth and kept him warm.
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