I recently, as in yesterday, adopted a 3 month old green cheek conure. He has been great over the past 2 days and I have had no problems at all, but next week I am going on a trip from the 12-15th out of state with a couple of friends. My parents said they would feed it and replace the water everyday and all of the things that go into making sure it wont die from malnourishment, but they probably wont actually be spending time with it. Is it okay do go 3 days without interacting with him besides feeding him? Like will he be okay without getting playtime with me? This is the only trip I have planned for quite a while and 3 days doesn't feel that long but I don't want him to think I have abandoned him.
Traveling With 3 Month Old Conure
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Your parents can't use any non static cookware, or air fryers, the off gasses kill burds anywhere in the house
Non-stick Cookware/Coatings: The problems with overheated pans with non-stick coatings such as Teflon™ have been well-publicized, for good reason. High temperatures causes the coating to release a deadly odourless gas and your Parrot could be dead in minutes. Ideally, such products should not ever be used in a bird household.
What is not so widely known is that PTFE or polytetrafluoroethylene (and yes, I can pronounce it but only with care) is also found in some space heaters, stoves, ovens, stove-top burner bibs and liners, heat lamps, irons, griddles, bread makers, woks, waffle makers, electric skillets, crock pots, curling irons, and hair driers.
So this danger does not just exist in the kitchen. Carefully check the labels prior to purchase and to my mind, anything labelled “non-stick” is guilty until proven otherwise. Incidentally, I hung on to a small non-stick pan as I was convinced I could not properly fry an egg without one. However, I discovered to my delight that a well-seasoned cast iron pan worked just as well and I immediately disposed of the non-stick pan and haven’t looked back.
Cookers:
Heated cookers and hobs are obvious threats, as are pans with hot contents. Avian veterinarians can tell horror stories for days about birds flying into pans of boiling water, so keep all birds caged away from the kitchen when cooking.
Self-cleaning ovens have also been implicated in bird deaths, as are new ovens (and other heating units like space heaters). New appliances often have a coating of antirust protections that burn off after the first use, so be very careful. The fumes from this burn-off are definitely toxic.
Dishwashers have proven to be a risk if a plastic item falls into a heating element during the drying cycle, as the fumes from melting plastic are also quite toxic. I have also heard reports of problems with so-called “cooking bags” for roasting meats and suggest you avoid those products as well"
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I can attest to melting plastic. I had a tiny piece of plastic bag fall onto a burner, I knocked it off turned on the vent took a few steps and threw my cages outside, the burds were already falling off the perches and acting dizzy uncoordinated. I was able to accomplish this in seconds as the cages were by the door. They survived, but I feel a few seconds more and they would not have
Non-stick Cookware/Coatings: The problems with overheated pans with non-stick coatings such as Teflon™ have been well-publicized, for good reason. High temperatures causes the coating to release a deadly odourless gas and your Parrot could be dead in minutes. Ideally, such products should not ever be used in a bird household.
What is not so widely known is that PTFE or polytetrafluoroethylene (and yes, I can pronounce it but only with care) is also found in some space heaters, stoves, ovens, stove-top burner bibs and liners, heat lamps, irons, griddles, bread makers, woks, waffle makers, electric skillets, crock pots, curling irons, and hair driers.
So this danger does not just exist in the kitchen. Carefully check the labels prior to purchase and to my mind, anything labelled “non-stick” is guilty until proven otherwise. Incidentally, I hung on to a small non-stick pan as I was convinced I could not properly fry an egg without one. However, I discovered to my delight that a well-seasoned cast iron pan worked just as well and I immediately disposed of the non-stick pan and haven’t looked back.
Cookers:
Heated cookers and hobs are obvious threats, as are pans with hot contents. Avian veterinarians can tell horror stories for days about birds flying into pans of boiling water, so keep all birds caged away from the kitchen when cooking.
Self-cleaning ovens have also been implicated in bird deaths, as are new ovens (and other heating units like space heaters). New appliances often have a coating of antirust protections that burn off after the first use, so be very careful. The fumes from this burn-off are definitely toxic.
Dishwashers have proven to be a risk if a plastic item falls into a heating element during the drying cycle, as the fumes from melting plastic are also quite toxic. I have also heard reports of problems with so-called “cooking bags” for roasting meats and suggest you avoid those products as well"
"
I can attest to melting plastic. I had a tiny piece of plastic bag fall onto a burner, I knocked it off turned on the vent took a few steps and threw my cages outside, the burds were already falling off the perches and acting dizzy uncoordinated. I was able to accomplish this in seconds as the cages were by the door. They survived, but I feel a few seconds more and they would not have
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