Our female conure, Chicken, had an egg-laying craze that left her egg bound. Four months later we were surprised to be faced with a similar situation.
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From the category archives:
Birds
Story of a captivating mother robin and her four babies.
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When you live with parrots, you play by their rules. Learn why for this author “the bird is the word.”
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Do you have wild birds flying into your windows? This tried-and-true method of preventing deadly bird window collisions is simple and inexpensive!
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Chicken, a 7-year-old female green-cheeked conure had been laying eggs until she became egg-bound with her ninth egg. The vet’s prognosis for Chicken was not good: unless that egg came out soon, Chicken could die. Find out what happened:
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Enjoy this short video of Liberty, a 7-year-old Jenday Conure. It proves the metaphor “bird brain” wrong!
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Every year in early spring, many female birds begin to lay eggs. Keith’s bird, Chicken, started laying more eggs than normal, and then showed troubling signs that she might be egg bound.
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Most people have known a bully. Bullies steal your lunch money, tell you what to do, and pick on people smaller or less fortunate than them. But what about when that bully is only four inches tall and feathered? Kiwi, our male maroon-bellied conure, is a bully. While he lacks thumbs to steal my lunch money or the language skills to make fun of me, it doesn’t stop him from bullying everyone he meets, regardless of their size.
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After waking every morning to find his bird feeder on the ground emptied of seed, this wild bird watcher played detective only to find the thief was a squirrel!
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“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” I’ve always enjoyed that phrase, first coined by Charles Caleb Colton in 1820 in his book Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, addressed to those who think. I’m not sure that counts for Neil Diamond cover bands or Spam, though.
Parrots are masters of imitation, and can often [...]
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As I detailed in a previous post, Contessa, my eldest parrot, experienced a bout of diarrhea recently, which is never a good sign in birds. When that bout turned into a smelly, messy weeklong malady, we quickly made an appointment with the vet.
We had to wait a couple of days to get in to the [...]
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