Birds

  • [Birds] Can owls digest chocolate pudding? Hits:179

    No they cannot. Anything involving chocolate is usually toxic to a majority of animals, whether pudding or not. If it's not part of their natural diet then I'd say that it's highly unlikely that they can, and it will likely make them ill. Gi...

  • [Birds] URGENT! Two baby finches dead, one survived, need advice ASA Hits:91

    I had three baby zebra finches being cared for by both parents. Yesterday while I was out my mom texted me that two were lying belly up at the bottom of the cage. The two (the ones we were fairly sure were girls) had no signs of injury or an...

  • [Birds] How do i tame my budgie? Hits:71

    I had her for a year and she is still afraid of my hand, how do i tame her to not be scared? Putting treats on your hand and using your finger as a perch to guide her to the treat.Repeat this twice a week and it should work out.I have used t...

  • [Birds] How can I make my parakeet like me? Hits:141

    Within the first few weeks that I bought her, she would let me take her out of her cage and play with her .. Now, she flies around like a madman if I even go to stick my hand in her cage .. Nothing traumatizing has happened to her that I kno...

  • [Birds] Can Chickens swim,, I have never seen a Chicken in the water Hits:55

    I have never seen a Chicken in the water,, have you? No they can't. Chickens can, and do drown in water situations. A fellow whom bought one of my hens told me that a stray cat chased her into a pond and she drowned. Strangely though I do ha...

  • [Birds] What is the biggest best quality food + cage for all birds? Hits:189

    There is no cage or food suitable for all birds. A greenwing macaw would rip right through a finches' flight cage, and finches would fit between the bars of the macaws cage. Different kinds of birds have different diets, too....

  • [Birds] instead of flying what do birds waste their time doing? Hits:124

    Well, studies show that 30% of the time birds spend flying they are doing it for fun. Birds are very social animals and spend a lot of their time socializing. They also look for food and eat food. A flock of macaws can easily turn a tree hea...

  • [Birds] Our one chicken has lost feathers on her backside.They have Hits:130

    now she is sunburned.She has been like this for months.A friend of my fiance's said she has a bacteria that will spread and we should put her down.Please help! What do you mean by bacteria, is there actually something growing on her back, or...

  • [Birds] I separated my parakeets. Was this the right thing to do? Hits:102

    I have two female parakeets that I've had for almost 3 years now. They used to get along fine, but then my one parakeet, her name is Pip, layed eggs. They are not fertile, but she is determinedly sitting on them and I'm not going to take the...

  • [Birds] how many chickens does it take to make a ton of feathers? Hits:182

    If you assume that the feathers account for 5% of a chicken's weight, it would take 20 tons of chickens to make a ton of feathers. At 5 pounds per chicken, that would be about 8,000 chickens. Of course, it depends what kind of chicken. They...