For The Parrots

Sprout's definitely got the best strut here! 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

Spring has sprung... 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

Do I have a theme song for each of my birds? yes, yes I do 😅 #themesong #petsong #parrots #parrotsoftiktok #greencheek #quakerparrot

Its Pistachio's world, we're all just living in it 💕 #conuresoftiktok #sweetbird #parrotsoftiktok #cuteparrot

Monkey really getting into his bath today! 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

Having chronic pain means sometimes I can't be as active when it comes to working with the birds, sometimes a session looks like this, some simple recalls while I lie down on the lounge. I try to give my birds everything they need which means finding ways to do that even when my health isn't 100% 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

Today is Pistachio's 4th Gotcha Day! I love this little ball of fluff so much! I couldn't imagine my life without him. Happy 4 years Pistachio and here's to many many more! ❤️ 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

Pistachio and Monkey enjoying some basic foraging on the new playstand. Easy way to keep them entertained and put of mischief for at least a little while! 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

Did you know parrots have a special gland that they use to keep their feathers in good condition? Commonly known as the "preen gland" the uropygial gland secretes oil that help with waterproofing and making sure the barbules of the feather are properly aligned for insulation and flight! Parrots will typically have a feather that looks a little different to the surrounding ones where this gland is located. I studied a lot about feathers during my ornithology course in my Animal Science degree, aren't they amazing? It's much cooler seeing all this stuff in my own birds compared to just reading about it in textbooks! It makes me so happy seeing Sprout properly take care of his feathers instead of just destroying them ❤️ 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

A little bit of training I did with the birds yesterday. I had started teaching Monkey to shake his head by softly blowing, Pistachio and Sprout didn't respond to it so I figured I'd just teach Monkey. Well, Pistachio saw that Monkey was getting treats for shaking his head, now when he want a treat Pistachio furiously shakes his head 😅 now it's just a matter of putting it on cue! Let me know if you want to see more training videos! 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

Foraging Fun

Foraging Fun! Sprouts stepped up his foraging game and now knows what to do when faced with this challenge! He knows that paper over the bowl means there's food to get to. When first introduced to this foraging I had a large hole in the paper so he could see the food beneath and just had to put his head through to get to it, then gradually reducing the size of the hole so he learnt he needed to rip it himself to get to the goodies inside! Now he's a pro like Pistachio and Monkey (though Pistachio prefers to wait for another bird to open it up first then get in there himself, he works smarter not harder lol)! 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all

Old Toy is Fun Now!

I made this book toy ages ago but the birds weren't all that interested until about a day or two ago and now it's the only thing Monkey plays with while out! It's this reason I rotate toys as well as leave some out that have previously not been interacted with, sometimes the birds decide that a toy they previously didn't care about is exactly what they want! Variety of toy types and components always being available means that there's always something the birds want to interact with! What are some toys your birds suddenly decided were interesting one day? 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all

Weighing the birds!

Weighing our birds! Parrots are prey animals meaning they hide illness very well, in the wild if they show signs of weakness/illness they are more likely to be targets for predators. This means that by the time they show outward symptoms they are quite ill. This is why it's so important to track our birds weight, weightloss is typically an early sign of illness so if we catch it we have a better chance of treating illness. I faced this first hand at the end of 2019 with Pistachio, he dropped 5g in about a day (that's a huge drop for a bird who barely weighs 60g), I took him to the vet as soon as I could and sure enough he had a nasty bacterial infection. He didn't show any other signs of illness until about 2 days later, luckily he was already on the antibiotics. If I had waited until he showed signs of illness it would have been much harder for him to fight it off. What I use for my birds is a basic jewelers scale (it reads in grams to two decimal points, it's not the highest quality but it does the job) that I have retrofitted by adding a small perch to. 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all

Here Monkey demonstrates how to introduce new toys with the Mini Bag! Monkey is pretty good at jumping into new toys but it's always a good idea to introduce them this way too! I reward for Monkey actively engaging with the toy and show him that I out treats inside to further entice him to tear into it! 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

A little session from today. Encouraging Sprout to play with toys. The idea here is for the play to become self reinforcing so that he prefers to choose to play rather than plucking/barbering his feathers. I'm not sure if this will make a difference to his plucking/barbering but it will help create some level of independence with him being comfortable playing with his toys. 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging

If I offer Monkey a bowl of pellets as well as pellets in his foraging toy he will always eat more from the foraging toy than the bowl! This is why providing foraging is so important, our birds WANT to use their brains to get their food! You'll have a much happier bird if you give their food with a bit of a challenge! (I just wish this toy didn't squeak so loud lol) 👉 Follow our day to day life in our stories! 🦜 Shop for toys and other products online 👇 www.fortheparrots.com/shop-all #fortheparrots #parrotlover #parrotlife #parrotgram #parrotsofinstagram #parrotsareawesome #birdtricks #parrotoftheday #parrotaddict #birdtoys #parrottoys #parrotenrichment #enrichtheirlives #parrothealth #foraging