Parrots as Pets

Written by SomethingCheeky.com in Bird Guide,Pet ParrotsLast Updated March 21, 2023

Pets are the best possible companions that a person could have, and they also provide their owners with a fun and rewarding way to kill time. Recent studies have shown that owning a pet may enhance a person’s overall quality of life, including their level of physical health as well as their overall happiness and satisfaction with life.

Birds, like many other tiny creatures such as ferrets, rats, and chinchillas, are maintained as treasured pets. A lot of people choose these feathery companions as pets because of the lower prices and cleaner habitats they need. In addition, keeping birds as pets may contribute to the overall splendor of a home.

We have a lot of detailed guides about parrots, use the index below to start your research, and have fun!

Parrot Facts and Information

Do you have an insatiable need for information on parrots? You’ll find out about the many classes and species of parakeets, how long the average parrot’s lifespan is, how to properly identify different kinds of parrots, and even which kinds of parrots make the finest pets. All of this information can be found in this guide. Let’s begin with its proper name in the scientific community…

Read Before Getting a Parrot Pet

Because parrots have been liked and popular among other bird pets, the idea of getting a bird as a pet other than a parrot is not something that comes to mind very often when one thinks of doing so. You are privy to and take note of the lovely multicolored talking parrot that belongs to your neighbor.

Few people were ever aware that it is almost impossible to acquire positive consequences from keeping a parrot pet if one is casual about selecting the sort of parrot they want. Because of your intense desire to get one, you decide to visit a “pet shop.” Let’s have a conversation on how to choose the best parrot as a pet so that it brings you joy, provides you with more advantages than downsides, and is also a good friend.

How to Take Care of a Parrot?

Parrots are among the most attractive and colorful of all creatures. beautiful because of the vividness of their colors and the splendor of their appearance.

Because of their high level of activity, parrots demand spacious enclosures. In most cases, the greatest home for your bird will be the biggest cage that you are able to purchase or locate. It is sufficient for your parrot to have a cage in which he can extend his wings in a horizontal plane; however, a larger parrot cage will provide your pet with more space in which to maneuver. In this manner, there will be as much activity as there possibly can be.

Make sure you find out how large your parrot will be when it is fully grown, especially if it is a baby or extremely small at the moment. Buy a cage that is large enough for your bird when it is fully grown, even if it is quite little right now. Because of this, you won’t have to go out and get two separate parrot cages despite the fact that your once-tiny bird has grown into a quite sizable young man. Consider adding bird cage accessories for your huge bird cage to let your parrot exercise and play.

General Care

Toys & Accessories

Environment

To maintain excellent health and prevent the transmission of sickness to other animals, parrots need a significant amount of attention, care and aviary accessories. In the following, we will explain how to properly prepare a parrot room to provide the best care for your favorite pet bird.

Aviary/Birdroom

Cage

Diet

Training

Health

Your bird’s heart, muscles, and ligaments, in addition to preventing it from growing overweight, will all benefit from receiving the appropriate amount of activity. If they are not fed properly and given little space to exercise parrots, Amazon Parrots, in particular, are at a high risk of becoming obese. You may use bird toys to entertain and train your birds while also feeding them a nutritious diet to keep them healthy. The ideal housing for each bird includes a cage that is not only spacious but also visually appealing and technologically advanced.

Safety

Entertainment

How to Take Care of a Baby Parrot?

Bird Show

Breeding Birds For Beginners

I’d like to inform individuals who are already familiar with the topic that this series is not intended for them. Its only purpose is to expose many beginner breeders who are afraid of the term breeding and the fundamentals of genetics in the hope that they will have even more satisfaction from producing lovely pet birds.

Breeding Knowledge

For Breeding Business

You may also find more breeding information by species in the next part.

Parrot by Types

Every week, thousands of pet bird owners from all around the globe write inquiries regarding their beloved parrots of different types. The questions vary from breeding to caring for and identifying their pet birds, among other things. Please return often as we continue to add new Questions and Answers to this website.

Conure

General:

Sun Conure:

Jenday Conure:

Green Cheeked Conure:

Dusky Headed Conure:

Patagonian Conure:

Nanday Conures:

Budgerigars/Budgies

General:

Parakeets (United States Name of Budgerigars/Budgies):

Breeding:

Show Preparation:

Parrotlets

General:

Breeding:

Lovebirds

General:

Breeding:

Macaws

General:

Military Macaw:

African Meyer Parrot:

Severe (Chestnut-fronted) Macaw:

Blue (Hyacinth/Hyacinthine) Macaw:

Cuban Red Macaw:

Buffon’s (Great Green) Macaw:

Lear (Indigo) Macaw:

Caninde (Blue-throated) Macaw:

Harlequin Macaw:

Hahn’s (Red-shouldered) Macaw:

Scarlet Macaw:

Greenwing (Red-and-green) Macaw:

Red Fronted Macaw:

Blue-winged (Illiger’s) Macaw:

Red Bellied Macaw:

Yellow/Golden Collared Macaw:

Miligold Macaw:

Spix’s (Little Blue) Macaw:

Catalina (Rainbow) Macaw:

Ruby Macaw:

Blue Yellow (Blue-and-gold) Macaw:

Cockatiels

African Greys

Cockatoos

Caiques

  • Are Caiques Good Pets?

Quaker Parrot

About Greater Vasa Parrots

Hanging Parrots

Fig Parrots

Senegal Parrots

Pionus Parrot

Are Solomon Island Eclectus Parrots Good for Beginners?

Lorys & Lorikeets

Are Hawk-headed Parrots Good Pets?

Are White Bellied Caiques Good Pets?

Amazons

Panama Amazon Parrots

Blue-fronted Amazon Parrots

Finches

Tiger Parrot

Rosellas

Racquet Tail Parrot

Poicephalus

For Birds Lovers

Other Birds

Canary Birds

More Resources

As you may have observed, there is a plethora of information accessible on parrot care. While the majority of this material is useful, some of it is not. My greatest recommendation for absorbing guidance is to base your conclusions on a range of sources. Accept no one source (including this site) as a one-stop shop for answers to your questions. Continue your search by visiting other websites, reading books and magazine articles, and speaking with your veterinarian and professional breeders. Based your knowledge on what the majority says, rather than what any individual says.

Check the original publication date of books; some are reproductions of far older novels. I just purchased an African Grey book that was apparently released in 1998. The first paragraph indicated that the majority of Greys are imported. Huh? I double-checked the dates and discovered that it was initially copyrighted in 1979. Reprint from 1998. Cute.

On the Internet, you may obtain knowledge that ranges from extraordinary to deadly. For example, there used to be a forum named “ask the experts.” Someone asked one of the “experts” on that site what the optimum diet is for Budgies and how long they live. According to the “expert,” Budgies should eat just seeds and survive for around 4-5 years. A Budgie given a seed-only diet dies after 4-5 years, not after 4-5 years. Feed a Budgie like any other parrot and it may survive for 10-12, even 15 years.

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