The Parrot Blog

This page should help you keep up to date on the latest questions and answers posted on our Ask the Avian Vet and Parrot Questions pages.

We will also add our newest pages and any major updates on existing pages.

Feb 8, 2010, New ringneck

I already have a 4 month old ringneck (not sure of the sex yet) and i just recieved a 1 year old ringneck as a gift. What is the chances of these two becoming

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Feb 8, 2010, Wound in my parrots tail

My parrot is just 2 months old. In the tail area, it tries to pluck a feather but blood comes , If I try to touch that feather it screams a lot. I have

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Feb 8, 2010, Butt Rubbing

Why is my lovebird rubbing its butt on the curtans

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Feb 8, 2010, cockatoo n lorikeet

i have a lorikeet n have had him for a little over a year n he is really good... but i have also invested in a baby sulfur crest cockatoo & i am wondering

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Feb 8, 2010, Feather loss

Hi, My pet budgie is loosing her feathers and her skin is all red and itchy. Her feet are also itchy and dry. We spray her with bird mite and lice spray

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Feb 6, 2010, Parrots in back yard

Parrots visit bird feeder Hollywood, Florid

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Feb 6, 2010, regurgetate

y do my female senegal parrot regurgete's her food back up after she's eats then eats it again?

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Feb 6, 2010, Rainbow Lorikeet breeding

Hi i have 2 paired rainbow lorikeets and 1 not paired. I have a nesting box that has soil and wood bits inside it. I juts wanted to know how do you no

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Feb 6, 2010, safe plants/flowers that are edible

I want to know if the decorative flower babys breath and its green fern like leaves/foliage is safe for a senegal to eat or to play with and pickthrew?

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Feb 6, 2010, Nanday constantly ruffles feathers and is losing some.

I just brought my nanday conure home and within a few days he has been ruffling his feathers every few minutes so they are always up and I am notiving

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Feb 6, 2010, cockatoo feather anatomy

We have a new cockatoo we adopted from a rescue. Although he is an over-preener, I've never seen him pluck. However, I noticed that there is a bare area

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Feb 6, 2010, Jami and Brenda painting and new carpet

Have 3 yr old green cheeked conure. Getting new carpet over a large area of main floor and painting living room where Mario's cage is. How do we keep

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Feb 5, 2010, Jack and Rose my 2 Green Cheek's.

I got my 2 green cheeks from a breeder near where i live. They were just babies(around 3 weeks old)i had to hand feed them. Jack flew first. i was so

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Feb 5, 2010, Ringneck sleeping

Does a 4 month old ringneck still sleep during the day. Mine doses off from time to time during the day, but is in perfect health

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Feb 5, 2010, 3 1/2 month old U2 will not accept hand feeding

We have had our new baby for over a week now, and she has started to refuse both formula and monkey chow (syringe feeding). Her overall health seems fine.

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Feb 5, 2010, My grey started biting his feet

my grey had a bleeding wound on his foot when I got up the morning of the 6th july 09 I took him to his avian vet they put him in a collar and gave him

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Feb 5, 2010, Charlie the Love of my life my little green person in a bird suit

This is Carol here and my little Charlie is the love of my life here everyday he's a little green quakerparrot with a great loving intelligent personality

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Feb 5, 2010, sun conure died suddenly

Cleaned my sun conures cage last night. She was active and walking on the floor and chatting as she usually does. When I came home from work tonight,

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Feb 4, 2010, lovebird perch sitting

My lovebird has started falling off of his perch. He can stand on it sometimes, but loses his balance. And I've noticed that he has begun to shiver as

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Feb 4, 2010, I need advice please. I really don't know what to do.

about a month ago I got a five month old sun conure, Sunny. She was the most perfect pet, a family member in a short time. We loved her so much. She was

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Feb 4, 2010, Cockatiel beak tumors

Have a cockatiel about 5 years old, has black bubble like growth on the edges of his beak (both sides). They grow to about 3mm then drop off...any ideas??

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Feb 4, 2010, Dizziness, poor balance and dull eyes

Hello there, I hope you can help me as this question is not specifically about a parrot. BACKGROUND: We live in Melbourne Australia and about 2 months

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Feb 3, 2010, lovebird weak neck

I'm looking into adopting a 3 year old lovebird that the owner describes as having a weak neck. He says that when the bird hatched he had a shaky neck

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Feb 3, 2010, indian ring neck behavier

why my parrot indian ringneck try to roll newspaper on the bottom of the cage

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Feb 2, 2010, Lovebird standing on one foot

Our lovebird is suddenly all fluffed up and standing on only one foot. He is not as social as usual, and is biting us - he usually just nibbles on our

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Feb 2, 2010, Donna, conure wheezing

I went home yesterday and I heard this funny wheezing noise. I noticed it was coming from my Sun Conure, Maui. Maui is 14 years old and has been a very

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Feb 2, 2010, sun conure personality change.

We took our newly adopted sun conure to get his wings and nails trimmed at the vet 3 days ago. Since then his personality has totally change. He wwent

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Feb 2, 2010, If one dies, does the other one die as well?

I had two sun conures. One of them died. Should i get the other one another mate? will it die as well

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Feb 2, 2010, Parakeet

My parakeet has been acting strange usally it is always singing and playful but latley he has been quiet just sitting and wont eat hes also been losing

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Feb 2, 2010, My Lorikeet Is Vomiting White Liquidy Stuff?

My Rainbow Lorikeet Stitch-is vomiting White liquidy stuff. He hasnt eaten anything besides his normal food n he has drank some water. he is not very

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