Friday, May 21, 2010
Can you keep a diamond dove & parakeet In the same cage?
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Every bird is different and it depends on if they can get along with each other... It's possible but not likely...I have a male eclectus and a femal african grey and they just "tolerate" each other... but they do try to get into litlle fights now and then... but then I know of a female eclectus and a cat that are inseperable. So really, you'll just have to see how well they can get along with each other over a couple of months before you consider putting them in the same cage.
Depends on the individual birds, but probably not. Parakeets tend to be extremely territorial of their cages, and become very aggressive to birds who aren't the same species.
Well, for quite a while, my quaker and two parakeets stayed in the same cage together happily. Until when he started getting older. He began to bite them, and things got ugly. I wouldnt suggest doing that. Good luck!
Can you feed coturnix quail chicks with chick starter?
can you feed them chick starter to baby coturnix quail instead of game bird starters?
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Yes, but I wouldn't do it for long term. Chick starter feed is packed with a lot of protein and vitamins that a quail just doesn't need because it is so much smaller than a chicken.
i think so.
ask your local feed store for the anwser
Yes, but make sure its ground really small, it should be the consistency of dust, anything bigger and you risk some serious digestive problems.
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Yes, but I wouldn't do it for long term. Chick starter feed is packed with a lot of protein and vitamins that a quail just doesn't need because it is so much smaller than a chicken.
i think so.
ask your local feed store for the anwser
Yes, but make sure its ground really small, it should be the consistency of dust, anything bigger and you risk some serious digestive problems.
Can you drink three olves cherry by it self or does it taste good with somthen?
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Do you think of anything other than booze?
Oh I love three olives (cherry) with pepsi/diet pepsi. Most of the time you can't taste the alcohol when you mix it with pepsi/diet pepsi because it tastes just like cherry pepsi...so watch out. You can drink a lot more than you think you're drinking.
why are you on this site with this stupid question
Can you Breed with one male and one female budgie and if so how?
Im just wondering because I have 2.
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Well if the chemistry is right between them they will. Often people have a couple and nothing happens. Nesting materials are a stimulus for breeding. Just watch them, you will notice their ceres (nostrils) deepen in colour and the male will be very attentive to the female with lots of feeding and courtship behaviour so you will know they are in breeding mode. Have a nest box available for them and see what happens. If there is plenty of mating there will be eggs. Good luck.
you need a male, a female, that are over 1 year old, provide plenty of green vegetables and cuttle bone, and of course a nest box. put them somewhere where they wont be disturbed, clean food and fresh water should always be available and besides some nesting material (newspaper etc...) you are all set.hopefully before you try to breed your birds you have an available vet should there be any complications and be ready to hand feed if you have too because the the parents dont always know how. make sure you know what you are doing before you try hand feeding or have an experienced person willing to hand feed just in case.
It's not about taking two birds and just breeding them, it's about the genetic blood lines, and high quality birds. Keeping a certain genetic blood line alive.
It's also governement law to band the babies.
Before you decide to breed your pair, ask youself a few questions:
Are they of quality to breed?
Is the cage big enough to fledge 7 full grown keets?
Do you have the money for an emergency vet visit?
Do you know how to hand feed?
Do you have a heat source like a brooder?
Are you prepared for death?
This is just a few questions to ask yourself that will prepare you for what to expect. It's just not as simple as putting a box on and two birds breeding. Splay leg, death and other things happen. Please take the time and read this board to some of the emergency questions that pop up to other readers. Some have had nightmares happen, all because they were not prepared.
Good Luck with your decision!
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Well if the chemistry is right between them they will. Often people have a couple and nothing happens. Nesting materials are a stimulus for breeding. Just watch them, you will notice their ceres (nostrils) deepen in colour and the male will be very attentive to the female with lots of feeding and courtship behaviour so you will know they are in breeding mode. Have a nest box available for them and see what happens. If there is plenty of mating there will be eggs. Good luck.
you need a male, a female, that are over 1 year old, provide plenty of green vegetables and cuttle bone, and of course a nest box. put them somewhere where they wont be disturbed, clean food and fresh water should always be available and besides some nesting material (newspaper etc...) you are all set.hopefully before you try to breed your birds you have an available vet should there be any complications and be ready to hand feed if you have too because the the parents dont always know how. make sure you know what you are doing before you try hand feeding or have an experienced person willing to hand feed just in case.
It's not about taking two birds and just breeding them, it's about the genetic blood lines, and high quality birds. Keeping a certain genetic blood line alive.
It's also governement law to band the babies.
Before you decide to breed your pair, ask youself a few questions:
Are they of quality to breed?
Is the cage big enough to fledge 7 full grown keets?
Do you have the money for an emergency vet visit?
Do you know how to hand feed?
Do you have a heat source like a brooder?
Are you prepared for death?
This is just a few questions to ask yourself that will prepare you for what to expect. It's just not as simple as putting a box on and two birds breeding. Splay leg, death and other things happen. Please take the time and read this board to some of the emergency questions that pop up to other readers. Some have had nightmares happen, all because they were not prepared.
Good Luck with your decision!
Can someone tell me why my parakeets eat there poop?what could i do to stop them?
i dont know why,but every time i look at them,they are at the at the bottom eating it.its so disgusting!somebody help me please!
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Are they actually eating their droppings? Chances are they are just "foraging" the bottom of the cage for any t*t-bits that may have fallen there...
A bird eating its own droppings is a sign of a mineral deficiency.You should provide mineral or iodine blocks which you can purchase from your local pet store.
Do you have a cuttle bone or mineral block for them, in their cage? If not, get one or the other, or better still, both.
it is just that they are hungry when you aren't there so they look for a substitute and i guess they are comfortable withthe taste of there poop
They are probably hungry-do they have enough food? If not then have a cuttle bone in there maybe.. And make sure you don't let the cage get too dirty, clean it often.
Mine dont eat their poop because they have adquate food, water, cuttlebones and toys. If they are eating their poop give them a raised floor so they cant get to it.
Feed them.
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Are they actually eating their droppings? Chances are they are just "foraging" the bottom of the cage for any t*t-bits that may have fallen there...
A bird eating its own droppings is a sign of a mineral deficiency.You should provide mineral or iodine blocks which you can purchase from your local pet store.
Do you have a cuttle bone or mineral block for them, in their cage? If not, get one or the other, or better still, both.
it is just that they are hungry when you aren't there so they look for a substitute and i guess they are comfortable withthe taste of there poop
They are probably hungry-do they have enough food? If not then have a cuttle bone in there maybe.. And make sure you don't let the cage get too dirty, clean it often.
Mine dont eat their poop because they have adquate food, water, cuttlebones and toys. If they are eating their poop give them a raised floor so they cant get to it.
Feed them.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Can someone identify this type of crow to me ?..?
I was taking the bus the home. when i arrive near my house i saw two crows thats triple the size of a normal crow, one of them was on a top of a garbage or recycling box.eating bread crums , the other one was too but it was on the ground..I kind of got this scary feeling about them...so i just walk on the next street around it..? do you know what they were?
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Some of the other poster are correct. You probably saw a mated pair of ravens. Ravens are related to crows, look similar, but are much larger. They are found all over CA.
They only thing scary about a raven is it's appearance. You have no reason to fear. They have more to fear from humans and will always avoid direct contact.
Here's more info on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/common_rave...
lots of crows can get to be really big just normally they dont get to close to us so we cant see how big they really are
Rather hard to say unless I know what country you are in...in the UK some crows are just massive.
crows are big birds. i wonder if it was some type of vulture u saw though.
Most likely they're ravens. They look like crows but are larger. Ravens also have a different call and slightly different shaped wings.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/allaboutbir...
That my dear would be a raven. They are much larger than a crow. Some people think they are the same thing but they're not.
well first look it up on the internet, but what it sounds like to me is a vulture they do look like that.
There are Crows %26 Ravens they look the same other than the Raven is a larger bird. Have a good one;~)
ally in your family some one i am not say Inga close one but some one you seen but not seen crow is good luck to you and family because it hap pends rarely they are watching over you do not scare just be happy then you see them whenever you want see them
maybe what you saw was a small turkey buzzard, theyre kinda pudgy type birds and all black.they eat road kill.
The only crow you would see in California is the American Crow. More likely you are seeing Common Ravens if they appeared large to you. They are both pretty common bird species.
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Some of the other poster are correct. You probably saw a mated pair of ravens. Ravens are related to crows, look similar, but are much larger. They are found all over CA.
They only thing scary about a raven is it's appearance. You have no reason to fear. They have more to fear from humans and will always avoid direct contact.
Here's more info on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/common_rave...
lots of crows can get to be really big just normally they dont get to close to us so we cant see how big they really are
Rather hard to say unless I know what country you are in...in the UK some crows are just massive.
crows are big birds. i wonder if it was some type of vulture u saw though.
Most likely they're ravens. They look like crows but are larger. Ravens also have a different call and slightly different shaped wings.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/allaboutbir...
That my dear would be a raven. They are much larger than a crow. Some people think they are the same thing but they're not.
well first look it up on the internet, but what it sounds like to me is a vulture they do look like that.
There are Crows %26 Ravens they look the same other than the Raven is a larger bird. Have a good one;~)
ally in your family some one i am not say Inga close one but some one you seen but not seen crow is good luck to you and family because it hap pends rarely they are watching over you do not scare just be happy then you see them whenever you want see them
maybe what you saw was a small turkey buzzard, theyre kinda pudgy type birds and all black.they eat road kill.
The only crow you would see in California is the American Crow. More likely you are seeing Common Ravens if they appeared large to you. They are both pretty common bird species.
Can someone help! i started raising turkeys this year. they do well up to 6 wks and then start dying off.?
they are getting something from the ground, mainly when it rains. their pens are covered from the rain, but water stills runs thru pens. i am now putting down plenty of pine shavings to help with sanitary concerns. i just don't have any way to keep off the ground when they get over 8 wks old.
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Getting something from when it rains sounds like botulism or salmonella. They'll spend a day or more looking drunk and then die.
Until you actually remove the organism, the problem will keep popping up. Take all the animals out of the pens while you use some stall cleaner to clean up their area. A concrete floor will cut WAY down on the problem, and is easy to install. Just get some quick crete and pour it on the floor of the pens, then smooth it with a flat shovel. Nothing perfect, just something to separate your birds from the water coming in.
With or without the quick crete floors, you can put down some wood ash (from a fire place or bonfire pit), or you can just buy the all natural wood coal (five bucks a bag) and crush it up. Pour this evenly over the floors, and it'll help neutralize the droppings which the organisms feed on.
Never use stall cleaner on a dirt floor. If you've just got a dirt floor and you can't put in concrete, then use a mix of one half cup bleach with a gallon of water and soak the area. This will cut down on bacteria build up.
It takes months to clear up a bad infection, and while you wait, you may want to get the terramycin poultry powder for your birds. Follow the directions closely. I personally use the terramycin livestock pills, as they are extra strength and can be cut up in a pill cutter for correct dosing (where as you can't accurately dose water where multiple birds will be drinking).
I don't raise turkeys, I raise ducks. But, ducks go through the exact same thing. We had a bout of salmonella early this spring, due to some heavy rains and dirt floors (we've been putting in concrete floors over the summer).
i have lots of turkeys too! what we do it put grasses and weeds down. they like it and it keeps it cleaner for a while but then yu have to redo it! they make messes quite quikly. but it's the sacrifice of having birds! lol
Commercial poultry farms do 2 things to help chicks of any kind through this sort of situation.
1. They feed Medicated Chick Starter. This costs about $6 for a 25 pound bag, and really helps the young birds.
2. They fortify the chick's water with oxytetracycline antibiotic. This is sold in a powder which you mix at a ratio of 1 teaspoon to 1 gallon of water. It costs about $5 for a bag containing 50 teaspoons full. Common brands are Aureomycin and Terramycin. I prefer the Aureomycin, which has much less dust.
These 2 steps will help young poultry chicks to fight off many common illnesses that plague young birds.
By the way, these products are perfect for pet birds as well.
Find these products at a farm supply store.
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Getting something from when it rains sounds like botulism or salmonella. They'll spend a day or more looking drunk and then die.
Until you actually remove the organism, the problem will keep popping up. Take all the animals out of the pens while you use some stall cleaner to clean up their area. A concrete floor will cut WAY down on the problem, and is easy to install. Just get some quick crete and pour it on the floor of the pens, then smooth it with a flat shovel. Nothing perfect, just something to separate your birds from the water coming in.
With or without the quick crete floors, you can put down some wood ash (from a fire place or bonfire pit), or you can just buy the all natural wood coal (five bucks a bag) and crush it up. Pour this evenly over the floors, and it'll help neutralize the droppings which the organisms feed on.
Never use stall cleaner on a dirt floor. If you've just got a dirt floor and you can't put in concrete, then use a mix of one half cup bleach with a gallon of water and soak the area. This will cut down on bacteria build up.
It takes months to clear up a bad infection, and while you wait, you may want to get the terramycin poultry powder for your birds. Follow the directions closely. I personally use the terramycin livestock pills, as they are extra strength and can be cut up in a pill cutter for correct dosing (where as you can't accurately dose water where multiple birds will be drinking).
I don't raise turkeys, I raise ducks. But, ducks go through the exact same thing. We had a bout of salmonella early this spring, due to some heavy rains and dirt floors (we've been putting in concrete floors over the summer).
i have lots of turkeys too! what we do it put grasses and weeds down. they like it and it keeps it cleaner for a while but then yu have to redo it! they make messes quite quikly. but it's the sacrifice of having birds! lol
Commercial poultry farms do 2 things to help chicks of any kind through this sort of situation.
1. They feed Medicated Chick Starter. This costs about $6 for a 25 pound bag, and really helps the young birds.
2. They fortify the chick's water with oxytetracycline antibiotic. This is sold in a powder which you mix at a ratio of 1 teaspoon to 1 gallon of water. It costs about $5 for a bag containing 50 teaspoons full. Common brands are Aureomycin and Terramycin. I prefer the Aureomycin, which has much less dust.
These 2 steps will help young poultry chicks to fight off many common illnesses that plague young birds.
By the way, these products are perfect for pet birds as well.
Find these products at a farm supply store.
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