Macaws are New World Parrots and Indian Ringnecks are Old World Parrots
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Cashew casings have acid in them. Many people are disfigured. You couldn't give them to your bird. I avoid buying cashews, on account of this. Workers are paid piecemeal, so wearing gloves might mean not earning enough - it slows them down.
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Wow, I generally try to buy 100% Aus made, grown, owned products.Cashew casings have acid in them. Many people are disfigured. You couldn't give them to your bird. I avoid buying cashews, on account of this. Workers are paid piecemeal, so wearing gloves might mean not earning enough - it slows them down.
Women in India pay the price for cashew nut demand as vegan diets rise
Some 500,000 people - nearly all women - work in India's cashew nut industry for as little as £2 a day.
I realized like 5-10 min after giving it to him that he was pacing around his cage "holding" it and scratching at it with his feet. I managed to get it off, but it took pretty signficant force. I've been chicken to give him another one in it's shell. So @RN48 I'd definitely recommend keeping an eye on them until you're sure your birdy can crack them open in their own!That's what i thought that they were a South American species and obvs Indian ringnecks being an Asian species and I do know just by my own two birds that "one size fits all" doesn't apply to our feathered friends
I didn't know this was a thing but I'll definitely have a read of it and see what it saysMacaws are New World Parrots and Indian Ringnecks are Old World Parrots
New World Parrots: Conures, Amazons, Macaws & More – Pet Birds by Lafeber Co.
Parrots can be categorized according to Old World psittacines and New World psittacines. Do you know if your parrots are "Team Old World" or "Team New World"?
I buy human grade organic nuts from my local supermarket because vets have told me the nuts and seed put into pet food is the lowest gradeWow, I generally try to buy 100% Aus made, grown, owned products.
I am pretty sure most of the nuts I buy are grown here (I usually buy them online but could not with the floods for the last purchase) but I will be extra vigilant about the cashews now that I know this. Just checked and the brand that we got last time from the local supermarket is form Vietnam- I expect they will also have similar issues to the women in India that article is about
That does sound cute on both accounts
Thank you so much for this! And yes I do always watch them when giving them new things they haven't had before to ensure there own safety but I think if that happened to me I'd be in the same shoes as you so I might deshell some and then when I'm home give the the shelled onesOne word of warning/question in this topic. Occassionally I've given Riley a pistachio in it's shell (Quaker, roughly the size of an IRN) and he just eats what he can get to without cracking it open. I don't known if he really knows his own beak strength. That would be fine, except once he stuck his top beak in the crack of the pistachio and got it stuck!
I do the same because I eat more nuts than my birds so they just share my supply.
Imagine her holding a tiny safflower seed and opening the shell and eating the kernel. She use to do it a lot but not much anymore.
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Problems after just one? I'm surprised, was it a small dog? With 2 hyacinths I have quite a lot of mac nuts around the 2 shelties that I have. We crate the dogs at supper time so they aren't around trying to get foods that the birds throw down or sling. After supper I sweep the floor before I let the dogs out. Piper comes in at around 19 lbs and Cameron 30 lbs. My vet told me that unless they ate a lot it probably wouldn't have much of an impact on them (I know just an opinion) So far we haven't experienced a problem but I am careful.
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I feed them occasionally.
I don't eat nuts really but I'd rather feed my pets better quality food stuffs as pets should get the same quality of food as humans
