Jen's Exotic Pet Services

23/06/2024

Are you ready for some new family?

22/06/2024

If you are in the Springs near Garden of the Gods, please keep your eyes open for this little IRN. He flew away from his family this morning.

30/05/2024

Shaving Services for Rabbits & Guinea Pigs will be for Matting & Sanitary purposes ONLY.
Final appearance may not be show quality

18/05/2024

Here are the event calendars for the end of spring and the summer. 🧣🕶☀️🤿
**** The September calendar has been updated for a vacation ****
Call, text, message, or email to get your appointment.

15/05/2024

Blood feathers

Fun fact! 🦜 People are often afraid of blood feather because they fear their bird will break them and they will bleed. 🩸

However, these are completely normal and based on the species and feather type, a bird will molt and produce blood feathers 1-3 times a year! 🪶 There are 7 feather types and the one presented in the picture is a contour feather!

03/05/2024

To everyone who reached out to me while I was out of town, I am still working through all the messages.
Thank you for your patience, and I will be in touch soon!

01/05/2024

My workspace and some coworkers when I'm away.

26/04/2024

**RHD VACCINE CLINICS** RHD has been found in Calhan, east of Colorado Springs. While it's only been found in wild rabbits, Quill wants to make sure you know to keep your domestic bunnies away from wild rabbits and be careful when visiting other bunnies who may not have been vaccinated. We will be scheduling RHD vaccination visits for bunnies on May 7 and June 11 in the afternoon. Call now to schedule your appointment: 719-475-1747.

20/04/2024

Please help the correct way

28/03/2024

NEW TOYS!!!!! Pinecones are wonderful in so many ways

Get Creative2 PINECONE JUNCTION
Right now, the Ponderosa pine trees in our woods are generously sharing their beautiful pinecones, all to regenerate and keep this land full of sturdy 80' tall trees for hundreds of years to come. Seeds stay on the ground, pinecones come with me to be transformed into parrot toys. They are excellent, natural toy parts for foraging and exploring.
Visit this growing variety of Get Creative2 toys & foot toys at getcreative2.com. They all reside at the GC2 PINECONE JUNCTION!

13/03/2024

Turn out those lights, please.

We are heading into Spring Migration Season! A majority of migratory birds travel at night. You can help traveling birds by turning off your outdoor lights between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Learn more about our Lights Out campaign here: https://tracyaviary.org/conservation/projects/lights-out-salt-lake/

06/03/2024

It's almost Spring ☀️💦🌹🌾
Here are the calendars for April, May, and June.
Jen will be out of town from April 24th through May 1st. ✈️🧘‍♀️🧉
The Fountain & Golden events are canceled for April.

02/03/2024

Get your birds some new toys for spring!!
A busy bird is a happy bird.

Get Creative2 provides fun and educational avian workshops, focusing on enrichment, nutrition, health and wellness as well as offering a unique line of parrot toys, perches, swings and much more.

23/02/2024

Knock, knock, knock.
Tomorrow is my first event at the Pet Pantry & Dog Wash Mesa Ridge.
Spots are still available.

17/02/2024

I will be grooming today at Pet Pantry North. 🥶

04/02/2024

Pet Pantry & Dog Wash is now carrying TOPS pellets, one of the best on the market!

17/01/2024

We love the ones in our families.
To see and hear them with their own families, in their natural home, is BREATHTAKING!💚

01/01/2024

Welcome to 2024 ✨ 🐉

Here are the calendars for February 💝 and March 🍀.

Beginning in February, there will be an event every 4th Saturday at Pet Pantry Mesa Ridge in Fountain. The 3rd Tuesday event at Pet Pantry West will be discontinued.

Rates will be increased on February 1st. Find the new rates at www.jepscolorado.com

01/01/2024

Thank you to everyone who made 2023 a great year for Jen's Exotic Pet Services!
I appreciate each and every one of you!

2024 will be even better! A new grooming event location is being added to the schedule in February in Colorado Springs- every 4th Saturday I will be at Pet Pantry & Dog Wash Mesa Ridge.
A small rate increase will happen on February 1st.

21/12/2023

Creative ways to introduce healthy foods.

20/12/2023

Very good information to hold on to!

THE "NEVER FEED" with ECLECTUS DIETS.

Diet issues: 1) Never feed colored pellets. The dyes in colored pellets are extremely irritating to eclectus parrots to the point that those on a continuous diet of colored pellets have been known to chew on their flesh. (Chemical Dyes and Our Birds’ Health by Alicia McWatters, PhD.http://www.africangreys.com/articles/nutrition/chemical.htm)

2) Never feed vitamins UNLESS a medical veterinary test has indicated a specific bird is low in a specific vitamin. The best solution then is to feed diet items which provide that vitamin in natural form. Adding vitamins to the daily food as a routine practice often leads to muscle spasms known as toe tapping and wing flipping. This is the result of man-made vitamin A which cannot be easily flushed from the eclectus system and ends up creating an effect which blocks the natural uptake of calcium from the blood into the muscles. (GREG J. HARRISON, DVM, Dipl ABVP-Avian, Dipl ECAMS DEBRA McDONALD, P hD, BS c (HONS I) http://avianmedicine.net/cont…/uploads/…/03/04nutrition2.pdf)

3) Never feed eggs to eclectus parrots. They do not normally consume eggs in the wild, except for nesting hens who will often consume the shells of hatchlings or will consume infertile eggs. When fed cooked chicken eggs on a routine basis, veterinary necropsy reports on young birds that have died indicate plaque filled arteries. Owners of these birds indicate that they have routinely fed eggs to their pet eclectus parrots, sometimes as often as three times a week. (Dr. Paul Welch, described necropsy of parrot fed eggs every week, a young African grey.)

4) Never feed a diet consisting primarily of pellets to an eclectus parrot. Vegetable fiber and roughage is an important component of their diet. Recent research on eclectus diet has indicated the importance of fruits and fiber. (Dr. Rob Marshall's presentation at International Conference on Avian Herpetological and Exotic mammal medicine ICARE in Venice, Italy, in March, 2017 (youtube video is gone from the internet!)

5) Never feed pasta, breads, and related processed foods to an eclectus. These foods end up causing serious metabolic problems for these parrots. What works well for other parrot species may not work for eclectus parrots due to their long digestive tract which so efficiently pulls ingredients from all consumed foods.

PHOTO of ARUENSIS boy on left and VOSMAERI boy on right. Note the different greens. Note the tail tips!!!Vosmaeri baby boys and vosmaeri adults NEVER have any color except pale yellow in tail tips

16/12/2023

It seems like a never-ending thing.

12/12/2023

Yep. True for the most part.

09/11/2023

This is in the Denver Gazette (slightly different from the Springs Gazette article)

At Dingo's Natural Pet Foods in Westminster, Parker resident Jennifer Piccin-Shaw set up her tent, laid out all her grooming equipment and stood ready for any birds, guinea pigs, turtles

07/11/2023

If you subscribe to the Gazette, please check out this article!

25/10/2023

Here are the grooming event calendars for December ☃️, and January 🥶.

The December Dingo's Reunion event is cancelled. Jen will be out of town 🎼

Jen will be out of town January 13 - 19 🧳🧉🌴, so the World of Birds and Pet Pantry West (Tuesday) events have been rescheduled.

17/10/2023

Some of you have heard me talk about this.

13/10/2023

Spots are still available tomorrow at World of Birds for grooming. Get yours now!