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  1. C

    How to administer meds to an untamed budgie? Liver issue

    My budgie got diagnosed with a fatty liver today. I've had her for around 9 years, got her when I was a wee little kid and I love her dearly. She's been prescribed 3 different liquid medications: hepato support, metronidazole, and enrofloxacin. I only have to give her 0.02 ml of each, but for 14...
  2. Nicole Bred

    Help! Did I mess up?

    Hello! Me and my boyfriend just yesterday bought a cockatiel (3months old from a breeder) and we brought him home and he sat with me while watching my boyfriend set up his cage, he was nice and let me pet him and all this jazz and once the cage was done we put him in to clean up. But that’s...
  3. hrafn

    Kamara's fear of hands and sticks

    Like all greys, Kamara is intelligent to a fault, and today she demonstrated that by letting herself out of her cage and running around the floor like a loon. I let her waddle around for a while in hopes she'd go back to her cage for bed, but she decided to go to sleep where she stood. Her...
  4. CanPowell

    Taming my Parrotlet

    I just purchased a 7 month old Parrotlet. He is not too tame. I have read it’s best not to stick your hand into the cage and grab him, but he will not come out on his own. How do I start to tame him, if I can’t get him out of the cage?
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