bedding

Hi everyone, I have cockatiel chicks dying a couple of days after hatching due to the wooden shaving bedding. The material keeps getting stuck in the chick's beaks and nostrils and they don't survive. What are the best low-dust wooden shaving materials that could be used in the cockatiel...

Hello all! I am new and very much learning from my mistakes, so please go easy. I'm doing an overhaul of everything that causes respiratory issues right now, and I realized that I'm still using normal cat litter for my cats (yes, I know, cats and birds don't usually mix but here we are). I've...

Hello everyone, I'm sorry if this has been asked before, I just prefer to get a direct answer to my question (just trying to be thorough :) ) Me and my boyfriend are considering getting a pair of budgies (we were thinking cockatiels at first, but just fell in love with these little guys). So we...

Hi there I'm searching for info regarding cage bedding, what is best or NOT and why? Can you give me some pros and cons:20:? We are using Walnut, because the store told us to. I used Corn with my cockatiel, but don't know if that is okay with a Rose Breasted Cockatoo. Love some input from...

SOOO, when my parrots were babies I used the pine shavings (dust free)... now cobb... you know for the bottom of the cages to help clean up... Boo likes to slide the bottom out and go underneath and nit pick and what he threw out his food bowl... I'm concerned that maybe he will eat some cobb...