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Having a healthy parrot should be the major goal of every pet owner. Pet owners should understand how to have a healthy parrot because malnutrition is a major problem being faced by parrots. Malnutrition is a major problem because majority of parrot owners do not know the feeding style of parrots. Most pet owners just love the idea of having a parrot as a pet without taking into consideration the feeding aspect.

As a parrot owner, you should know what it takes to having a well fed parrot and understand the other factors that make parrots live healthily. In addition to feeding, one of the other factors is the mental aspect. This is more than just the diet for your parrot. Parrots are social animals. They are not birds that stay on their own throughout the day. They like to play with others and keep a lively life. And when the night comes, they desire sleep.

Here are some tips on how to care for the health of your parrot:

1. Like human beings, you should feed your parrot at the right time of the day. The feeding should include a balanced diet.

2. Keep your parrot away from the kitchen at all times. This is to prevent accidents from hot kitchen items and exposure to kitchen fumes.

3. Parrots are birds very sensitive to drafts. A draft is a thread of cold air cutting through warm air, thereby increasing a parrot body temperature. Hence, you should keep your parrot in a place where there is no draft.

4. You should not spray aerosols where you keep your parrot. Aerosols are chemicals which affect the respiratory system, eyes and throat of humans. Spraying such chemicals near your parrot will cause greater effect.

If you are a new parrot owner without experience on the behavior of these pets, how can you tell if all is well with your pet? these are some signs to tell you something is wrong:

a. Changes in appearance of feathers – A change in feather appearance of your parrot may be bleeding in feather shaft, short, clubbed or deformed feathers. These changes are signs that something is wrong and you need to visit the doctor.

b. Beak changes

c. The parrot is no longer showing interest in things that normally generate interest in him

d. The parrot now perches on two feet instead of one

e. Increasing weight loss

f. The parrot stands in a strange way

g. He now uses areas of his cage that he was not used to previously

There are other symptoms for knowing that things are not going well with a parrot. The most important thing is being vigilant. take time to study your pet behavior and this will easily alert you when things are not well with him.