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Why Bird Pet Owners Use Bird Cage Covers

For the ordinary people who have no passion or no interest in raising birds, they would think that having a bird home cover is bad for the birds. In the contrary it is not. As a matter of fact, the covers will serve as their protection and will bring them a sense of security.

How to Compare Dove Tailing Jigs

Dovetail joints have been around for centuries for good reason. The basic construction requires notches be cut into the end of one piece of building material, typically wood, and matched with spaces cut into an adjoining piece of building material. When these two pieces are joined, they have a tensi

Life As a Pet Finch Owner

There are many places you can go to purchase pet finches. You can probably find them on Craigslist for free, or with adoption fees. You can certainly find them for $10-20 (for society finches and zebra finches) at almost any pet store.

Weeds of the Northeast

It is possible to define a cherry tree growing in a corn field as a weed. In discussing weeds of the Northeast, it might be useful to discuss invasive plants from outside the region that thrive in their new found Northeastern environments.

Care For Hatching Eggs

From the moment you receive or collect your eggs, care much be taken to ensure you give them the best chance of hatching. There is no way of knowing whether they are fertile until seven days when you can candle them, if they are not fertile, they should be removed from the incubator.

How to Dry a Bird After a Bath

It is important to bathe your bird on a regular basis. Parrots and other large bird species require a bath daily during the heat of the summer. The need becomes twice a week, during the colder months. A bath or shower helps the birds remove dry skin, dander and dead feathers more efficiently than gr

Common Bronzewing

Detailed bird profile of the common bronzewing: appearance, foods, habitat, behavior and reproduction. Includes tips for attracting common bronzewings to your backyard.

Tips to Keep Your New Pet Bird Safe

There are many things to consider when you own a pet bird, and keeping your bird safe and out of harms way should be at the top of your list. Most birds are able to outlive their owners, but they are still fragile little creatures and need to be taken special care of. You might have heard of an old

How to Raise Peacocks for Meat

Although peacocks, or peafowl, are rarely used for food today, they have traditionally been a culinary delicacy since the ancient Phoenicians. Using peafowl as a food source became less popular after the introduction of turkeys, since turkeys are far meatier than peafowl. For those who wish to raise

How to Make a Millet Bird Treat

Birds like food such as bugs, fruit and grains. One of the grains they like is millet, a round-shaped and gluten-free grain that also can be eaten by people and fed to livestock. Hanging millet treats for birds provides a good food source for them in the more difficult winter months. Making the trea

How Many Field Guides Do You Need?

Tips for which field guides you should own and how many may eventually be on your shelves, depending on your birding preferences.

Moths Found in Michigan

Moths are common and easy to observe; leave your porch light on in the evening and they will flutter and dive at it. With the aid of a flashlight, you can find them resting on flowers most evenings or spy them tucked into tree trunks during the day. There are many types of moths native to Michigan.

Pets - Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoos

Lesser Sulphurs are adorable, entertaining companion pets that require a lot of care. They thrive on attention and love to entertain and dance.

How to Build Shipping Cages for Poultry

Small-scale poultry raisers often have a need to transport their animals to shows or for market. Traditionally, poultry crates are constructed of wood, although chicken wire or small gap woven wire is used to reduce the weight of the crate. Important factors in a poultry shipping cage are ease of ac

Can Birds Get Fat?

Birds don't gain weight the way humans do, but they can look fat - learn why, and learn how birds keep their weight down.

How Do I Place a Chicken Egg in an Incubator?

Incubating fertile chicken eggs without the help of a hen can be easy and rewarding. You first need to understand the optimal conditions hatching eggs require. Additionally, you should be familiar with the parts of a good incubator. A few tricks, like marking the egg on one side, will also help you

Missouri

Photo gallery of all 50 state birds, including when and why each bird was officially adopted, what states share the same birds and information about seeing your state's bird.

"Tooki", owned by @KrystalFox648

Photo gallery of pet birds owned by Twitter users. Add your bird's photo to the gallery by tweeting it to @AboutPetBirds!