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FIRST Balanced Food Plan for Parrots

My “Balanced Food Plan for Parrots” is the first of its kind. And you can buy your copy now. Birds eat such a tiny amount of food so it is extremely important that each beak-full be packed with essential nutrients. My Balanced Food Plan uses my complete protein sprouting blend, Best Bird Food Ever!, as…

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Made in Nevada: Critter Connection

RENO, NV. (KOLO) — A Reno woman says she has developed the perfect bird food, which she calls “Best Bird Food Ever“. She has bred and studied the nutrition for these animals for more than two decades and in that time says she has discovered some fatal nutritional problems. Critter Connection Owner and maker of…

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Feather Destruction

Over Preening vs Poor Feather Quality

 The parrot discussed in this blog post is a member of the Healthy Bird Project. What is ‘over preening’? Many people assume that parrots are just too rough with their feathers. As a result, poor nutrition is never identified as the true cause. Feathers grown from unbalanced nutrition produce poor feather quality. And this means…

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Malnutrition OSB Sprouts

Let’s End Avian Malnutrition!

End Avian Malnutrition With Our ‘Balanced Exotic Avian  Food Plan’   The only way to End Avian Malnutrition for your birds is to feed them a specific combination and balance of foods everyday that provides these three things: 1. All of the hundreds of nutrients a parrot or finch must eat everyday must be in…

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Malnutrition Sir Charles sprouts

How Does Avian Malnutrition Harm Your Birds?

The Experts Explain From the textbook, Avian Medicine: Principles and Application, Patricia MacWhirter, DVM, explains, “Avian malnutrition [or undernutrition] can cause a specific problem or [completely] suppress a bird’s immune system.” Unless a parrot, or finch, receives the type and quantity of nutrients needed on a daily basis, malnutrition or undernutrition will result. Also from,…

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Sprouting Q&A BBFE OSB

Dispelling Myths on Mung Bean Sprouts

From: Dave H. To: Critter Connection Subject: Re: Your Order has been Received Hi Leslie I’ve just been discussing sprouting seeds and someone said: “Don’t do it with mung beans though as they have to be done in the dark or they are very sour” He also said: “I sprouted some a few months ago…

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Be Successful: Parrots & New Foods – Part 2

Slip the New In With the Old One way of introducing sprouts and other new foods, such as fresh fruits and steamed or raw vegetables, is to mix them in with the existing food you’re feeding. Out of curiosity, your bird will being sampling the unfamiliar items, and you can gradually begin to decrease the…

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Health & Nutrition OSB Sprouts

Why Feed Our Sprouting Blends

  Using diet and nutrition for healing and health is the foundation of my work with parrots and all birds. I want to make it easy for you to provide your birds the highest quality, sprouting blends available. And I want you to be successful in learning to sprout the correct way for the climate where…

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Health & Nutrition Sample: a balanced meal for a pair of Crimson-winged parrots.

How  Does  Avian  Malnutrition  Harm  Your  Birds?

  Avian Malnutrition Defined In the avian veterinary textbook, Avian Medicine: Principles and Application, Patricia MacWhirter, DVM, explains, “Avian malnutrition [or undernutrition] can cause a specific problem or [completely] suppress a bird’s immune system.” Unless a parrot, or finch, receives the type and quantity of nutrients needed on a daily basis, malnutrition or undernutrition will result.…

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