Re: Digest Number 217; Birds and Study

August 26, 2002

Someone asked if birds are demanding. Not to me. I have thirteen of them. But

they are messy. They also will eat a lot wider spectrum of food than common

seed. That alone is not a balanced diet. The main issue is cleanliness. If you

don't clean their cages often, they can get sick.

Birds live longer if allowed to fly every day. Mine have a room of their

own and an aviary in the summer.

As of today, I also have a new pet, an Iguana named Wasabi. He is about

six years old and 3.5 feet long.

Jerry

August 26, 2002

: Someone asked if birds are demanding. Not to me. I have thirteen of

them. But they are messy. They also will eat a lot wider spectrum of food

than common seed. That alone is not a balanced diet. The main issue is

cleanliness. If you don't clean their cages often, they can get sick.

:

: Birds live longer if allowed to fly every day. Mine have a room of

their own and an aviary in the summer.

My budgies fly free in my house whenever I am home. They generally prefer to

remain in the dining room and play on their playgym and fly to and from the

desk with the cages on and the kitchen table. I feed them greens and vegies

regularly (favourites are broccoli and carrot) and mixed seeds. I am in the

process of trying to find somewhere that sells pellets for budgies, as

everywhere I have looked here only sells them for larger birds. I clean out

the cages (dismantling them and washing everything) once a week and every

day I change the newspaper and empty the bottom tray (and any smaller

cleaning jobs that need doing such as cleaning a bunch of poopies off a

perch) several times a day as needed.

: As of today, I also have a new pet, an Iguana named Wasabi. He is

about six years old and 3.5 feet long.

Got photos? Iguanas are cute but it is illegal to keep them here. I am not

even sure if they exist here actually. We do have plenty of reptiles but no

pet ones yet. I believe that new laws regarding keeping pet reptiles are

supposed to be being introduced about now, but I have not heard anything

about it for the last few months.

Take care,

CZ

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