To give my quick opinion and rating on several brands of commercial bird foods, I am supplying the list below. Rather than take on one brand/variety at a time, I will explain how these foods are processed and how I personally...

Intestinal flora, commonly known as “gut flora” makes up the microbiome in any living creature’s digestive track.

Gut flora is naturally occurring in the intestines or digestive tract of all healthy creatures.

This blog post focuses on "pro-biotics" which are very different from "pre-biotics." I will be posting about the use of pre-biotics in a different post. 

If you or a friend of yours has a bird that experiences problems with toe-tapping, wing-flipping, head-shaking and/or seizure-like behaviors this blog may be of interest you and/or your friend. Read on!

Without enough Magnesium bones, beaks, feathers, nerve impulses, muscle coordination, brain neurons and heart health suffer greatly.

We all know that Calcium is important for proper bone growth and regeneration. Calcium is also necessary for beak health. It is also a major contributor to normal muscle tone and coordination, nerve impulses and neurological brain activity. If an overall diet is low in Calcium, or the body does not absorb Calcium the body will pull Calcium from bones. Pulling Calcium from the bones can lead to osteoporosis. What about Magnesium? How does it play in synergy with Calcium? Like Calcium, it is considered one of the most important major minerals.

Depending on the Internet page you land on you will find varying opinions regarding which fish oil is best. Well, this all depends on what you want to derive from the fish oil you, your family and pets consume.

Do you have a dirty bird?

We are often told that we need to bathe or shower our feathered friends once a week up to once a day.

Really? Is this true?

We have all heard and read the debates surrounding feeding eggs to our birds. Some of us believe eggs contain some of the best overall nutrition, for just about any living creature to consume. Others of us believe eggs are too high in cholesterol to feed to our birds or consume ourselves.

…and the kitchen sink!

I often tout the advantage of feeding a raw, whole food diet to our birds, using proper food combining methods. That is, learning and educating...

 

When taking the overall nutritional profile into consideration for any species of an exotic bird, we must first begin to understand where their species originated and the indigenous foods which grow in that region...  

Many of you have heard me say we don’t claim our Origins Wild Diets are total and complete daily diets; we believe you should be feeding some amount of fresh foods along with our artisinal morsels. We strongly stand by...