Amazon Parrots – Care & Feeding
Amazon Parrots – Care & Feeding and bathing opportunities can include joining their owner in the shower, getting a spray bath, or jumping in their water dish and splashing water all about. Bathing is an important part of an Amazon’s feather health. Because of their love of food and their habit of begging for table foods from their owners, Amazon parrots tend to tip the scales toward being weight. An Amazon parrot needs a spacious cage with toys and swings spread out, as well as a play gym/play tree, climbing rope and/or ladders to scale to encourage movement and exercise.
Care & Feeding
Amazon Parrots – Care & Feeding parrot often has a hearty appetite especially for people food so owners need to make sure that they and other household members do not overdue it with treats and table foods. An Amazon parrot main diet should consist of a nutritionally balance manufacture diet as well as an assortment of healthy vegetables. Some fruit and healthy treats that pack nutrition instead of empty calories. Amazon parrots seem to relish the texture of food almost as much as its taste, and especially seem to enjoy Lafeber Nutri-Berries and Avi-Cakes. A properly cared for Amazon parrot that consumes a healthy, nutritionally balanced diet can live up to 60 years.
General Information
The colorful Amazon parrot (Amazona sp.) is one of the most common pet parrots keep in captivity. They originate from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the adjacent islands of the West Indies. There are numerous types of Amazon parrots, all with different color patterns. Some commonly kept Amazon parrots include the double yellow-headed Amazon, yellow-naped Amazon, blue-fronted Amazon, green-cheeked Amazon, and orange-winged Amazon.
Selecting an Amazon parrot
Amazon parrots may be purchase from pet stores or reputable breeders or adopt from numerous rescue facilities. Young birds may be easier to tame and train. And adapt more readily to new environments and situations than the old wild. Colony, or parent-raise birds that may prove challenging to tame.Hand-raised babies often make better pets since they have been completely socialize with humans. New birds should be expose early to different events (young and older adults, males and females, other pets, car trips, visits to the veterinarian, etc.) to help promote a calm, well-adjusted pet. Lively, alert birds that are not easily frighten are more likely to be healthy. All new birds should be examine by a veterinarian familiar with birds.