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The Happy Bird Mom Edit
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items A practical collection for devoted bird moms. From spacious housing and better feeding tools to foraging toys, bath time supplies, easier cleanup and safer household upgrades. Because every species is different, always match cages, bar spacing, food ...
Sections
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Busy Beaks, Happy Brains
Bites & Better Nutrition
A Home Base Worth Chirping About
The Daily Mystery Mess
Portable Play & Travel
Splash, Splash, Feather Care
Busy Beaks, Happy Brains
Chewing, shredding and searching for food can keep intelligent birds physically and mentally engaged. Introduce new toys gradually, supervise early play and remove anything with broken pieces, sharp edges, loose loops or exposed hardware.
A natural palm and sisal toy with spaces for hiding appropriately sized treats. It comes in multiple sizes for different beaks.
PLANET PLEASURES Pineapple Foraging Bird Toy
A rainbow of colors made of popsicle sticks with alternating beads to help entertain your birdie.
CAITEC Featherland Paradise Popsicle Sticks Bird Toy
Features a variety of fun chewable materials such as mahogany pods, vine stars, a sola ball, and crunchy finger traps. Perfect fit for ringnecks, conures, Quakers, caiques, pionus, and Senegals.
Bird Toys Hanging Natural Sola Ball For Birds
The destructible design will satisfy your pal’s instinctual urge to chew and promote good beak health. Made with soft sola wood, a favorite of many small birds.
SUPER BIRD CREATIONS Sola Balsa Stack Bird Toy
Satisfies their natural chewing instinct with its soft and crunchy textures. Made with sola balls, mahogany pod slices, palm leaves, pinecones, coconut husk, vine and kraft paper cordage. For medium sized birds.
SUPER BIRD CREATIONS Sola Star Tree Bird Toy
Braided seagrass provides a preening outlet for medium birds to enjoy. Features colorful pine wood slats, a thick seagrass braid and a bell.
SUPER BIRD CREATIONS Seagrass Wafers Bird Toy, Medium
This toy has a soft inside and a tough outside to satisfy your bird's natural foraging and chewing instincts while also keeping his beak sharpness in check. It’s a great way to keep your bird occupied and prevent feather picking and boredom.
Wesco Pet Original Bird Kabob Shreddable Bird Toy
Made from soft, pithy wood, these toys are irresistible to hookbill birds, from parakeets to macaws. It satisfies their natural instinct to chew and is environmentally friendly.
WESCO PET ESPECIAL BIRD KABOB BIRD CHEW TOY
A soft, shreddable yucca toy for smaller birds that enjoy dismantling things because destruction is sometimes the enrichment.
WESCO PET Mini Bird Kabob Shreddable Parrot Chew Toy
Made from soft, pithy wood. They satisfy your beaked buddy’s natural instinct to chew. Natural and heat treated in a kiln, making them safe for the environment and sustainable.
WESCO PET Grande Bird Kabob Bird Chew Toy
A seagrass activity wall filled with textures for small to medium birds to explore, chew and manipulate.
SUPER BIRD CREATIONS Mini Activity Wall Bird Toy, Medium
A bamboo basket filled with palm, vine, loofah and other chewable textures. Best suited to compatible medium birds to large birds. Please check website specs for more sizing details.
SUPER BIRD CREATIONS Foraging Basket Bird Toy, Medium
Bites & Better Nutrition
Bird diets are highly species specific. These are some healthier choices for your birds and options to discuss with an avian veterinarian.
High potency is a great way to transition your feathery friend from seed mix to pellet mix. It is also great to use in birds that are actively breeding.
HIGH POTENCY SUPER-FINE
Just as above but with a bigger size choice for your feathery family.
HARRISON'S BIRD FOODS High Potency Fine Organic Pellet Bird ...
Another formulated diet option incase regular high potency isn't doing the trick. Cockatiels do not have spicy receptors. Peppers aren't spicy to them. My cockatiel enjoys eating peppers. If your bird does too, this can be a great short term option f...
HARRISON'S BIRD FOODS High Potency Pepper Organic Pellet ...
A maintenance formula made for certain healthy, non breeding small to medium companion birds after dietary conversion.
Adult Lifetime Fine - Harrison's Bird Foods
Another affordable option found in local stores that is formulated for birds such as budgies and other small birds. Healthier than seed blends.
FruitBlend - ZuPreem Pet
Natural fruit flavors, essential vitamins, and minerals to create a healthy, balanced diet that meets your bird’s needs.
ZUPREEM FruitBlend Daily Medium Bird Food, 2-lb bag
Another formulated diet option sized for birds such as cockatiels, lovebirds and conures. Any diet transition should be gradual and monitored closely.
ROUDYBUSH Daily Maintenance Mini Bird Food, 44-oz bag
A tactile food option that can add foraging activity to mealtime. Can also be used to train birds.
Sunny Orchard Nutri-Berries – Lafeber Company
These fortified berry-shaped nuggets have tropical fruits like bananas, pineapples, and papayas. Provide a change to pellet for a snack to forage on and train your bird with.
Lafeber's Tropical Fruit Nutri-Berries Keet, Tiel, Lovebird & Conure Food
A Home Base Worth Chirping About
Comfortable housing, a variety of different sizes and types of perches as well as easy to clean bowls create the foundation of a happier bird home.
A generously sized flight cage with ½-inch bar spacing for compatible small birds such as budgies, finches and canaries. It also has larger sizes for bigger birds. Confirm the spacing and dimensions for the individual bird before purchasing. Easier f...
PREVUE PET PRODUCTS Wrought Iron Small & Medium Birds ...
Natural branches provide different diameters instead of making a bird’s feet grip one identical surface all day. Select the appropriate size and inspect it regularly.
A&E CAGE COMPANY Multi-Branch Bird Perch, Brown, X-Large
Different widths are important to foot health and the natural shape and feel is something she favors over plastic.
4 Pcs Natural Wood Bird Perches for Cage
Got these to replace a few plastic ones we had. She really likes the natural ones. I also don’t see her popping as much on these compared to the plastic ones.
QUMY 2 Pack Natural Wood Parrot Perch
This rope perch can be made into different shapes to fit into your birds cage. This is her next favorite to have in her cage.
JW Pet Medium Comfy Bird Perch, 32 in.
We have both large-32in. and smaller sizes (like this one) of rainbow rope perches for her cage. We like to keep variation in her home. She loves to have at least one of these in her cage at all times.
JW PET Medium Comfy Bird Perch, 21-in
Say it’s a toy but it’s really a perch that swings. So it’s the best of both worlds if your bird likes swings.
Bird Rope Perch Ladder Toy with Bell for Parrots
A dishwasher safe, bolt on bowl that resists tipping and is easier to sanitize than plastic. Keeping an extra set makes daily bowl washing simpler. When we had sun conures, we got these metal bowls which they loved to use and eat from.
A&E CAGE COMPANY Stainless Steel Bird Coop Cup with Ring ...
The food dish we use for our cockatiel. We did take the top off as she likes to stick her head in her food. Compatible with any cages that have the slides for trays. We enjoy watching her eat too since it's clear plastic. Though the photo looks grey-...
Set of 4 Clear Transparent Bird Feeder Cups
The Daily Mystery Mess
For the mysterious debris that appear approximately five seconds after your bird returns to its' cage.
We use this in place of newspaper on the bottom of her cage. Easier clean up and harder for our bird to grab through the grates compared to paper towels. We no longer have to worry about her tearing up paper towels from the bottom of her cage. Please...
Play On Premium Super Absorbant Training Pads, 50 ...
Unscented and economical cut-to-fit plain-paper liner for under the cage grate. Replace it daily so droppings remain easy to observe.
Bryco Goods White Kraft Butcher Paper Roll 18x175
An unscented enzyme-based option for loosening cage messes. Move the bird to a separate safe space, follow the label and allow everything to dry before return to cage.
Nature's Miracle Cage Cleaner for Birds, 24 fl. Oz.
Useful for seed hulls, stray pellets and feathers around the cage. Keep the bird safely contained and away from the vacuum if the noise causes stress.
Black+Decker, Dustbuster AdvancedClean Handheld Vacuum Cordless, Compact Home and Car Vacuum with Crevice Tool, Rotating Nozzle and Charging Station
Another option to clean stray pellets, dried poop and feathers around the cage. Cordless .
BLACK+DECKER dustbuster Cordless Vacuum
Portable Play & Travel
An out of cage station for climbing, training and spending time with the human flock. Choose a size that lets the bird perch and flap comfortably. Feel free to garnish with toys.
A&E CAGE COMPANY Java Wood Table Top Play Bird Stand, Tan ...
This is the stand we purchased for our cockatiel to plop on our bed or any area, really, for her to be with us but on her own stand when we get tired of her pooping on our shoulders. She loves it. I put some fresh fruit or veg in the cup for her when...
Bird Play Gym Tabletop w Cup & Toy Hanger
A fold-flat, short-term travel cage with ¾ inch bar spacing for compatible medium-to-large birds. It is not appropriate for a small bird that could fit its head through the bars.
Prevue Pet Products White Travel Bird Cage, 20" L X 12" W X 16" H
Splash, Splash, Feather Care
Plain water is generally all that is needed for birdy bath time.
A removable bath for compatible small-to-medium birds. Offer shallow, fresh water and wash the bath after use.
Lixit Quick Lock Bird Bath
Creates a gentle mist for birds that enjoy spray bathing. Fill it only with plain, lukewarm water- never fragrance, essential oils or feather conditioning products - and let the bird choose whether to participate.
BeautifyBeauties 6.8 oz Continuous Spray Bottle