Parrot Books

[Rio Mom]

I found a couple parrot books that I bought 13 years ago when I was in college and dreaming of the day I would have a house of my own with birds.(I had a peach front conure as a child, and a couple cockatiels). The one is even bookmarked with an old movie theatre ticket from 1998 to see Titanic haha. I've been browsing through them tonight. The one is about african greys, and under diet lists seeds as the main staple! (copyright 1986 lol) The other is a "Guide to a well behaved parrot", I'm going to have to read through it and see if the advice in copyright 1993 matches todays advice.

 

[Rio Mom]

Looks like a no on the second old book too. The wing clipping pictures look very scarey! Chopping off pretty much every primary feather sounds crazy!

 

[IcyWolf]

Haha, I have quite a few old bird and reptile care books and the information is SCARY! The old bird books always have those diagrams of a "good parrot cage" and it is always a round cage, barely bigger than bird inside it. The reptile ones are pretty funny too, it's amazing how many of them aren't even called by the same common name anymore. I have a "reptiles of the world" book from, I think, the '70's and about half of the information in it is obsolete now.

 

[melinda]

I have alot of books that i have gethered over the years. I like to look back in them just to see how much the world of bird ownership has come. No longer the world of seed diets and small round cages. I like my old books but would never let someone borrow them that is thinking about getting a bird. I went through my books about a month ago and found one for fish keeping and the way they tell you to heat the tank was to have a large piece of slate under the tank and build a fire under it let burn for two ours and it should hold temp over night lol. I will have to find it for the year published.

 

[IcyWolf]

Not an old piece of literature, but, I just thought of something that kind of relates and I wanted to share here. I was at petsmart the other day getting the fids food, and I happened to take notice that they got new care sheets and they had one on african and asian parakeets. I grabbed one and took it home, I figured it would give me something to look at. The info in it seemed pretty good until I got to the part about cage cleaning. It said to spot clean the cage WEEKLY and fully clean MONTHLY! I cannot imagine having cages that haven't been cleaned for a month and I can't believe they are suggesting this to their customers. Do you guys think maybe it was a typo? Like it was supposed to say, spot clean daily, fully clean weekly? I imagine they have the same cleaning instructions for every bird, I wonder if they other pamphlets say the same thing? Sorry, like I said, a bit off topic but it kind of fit in with the "inaccurate info" discussion

 

[melinda]

The sad thing is most people that buy birds from stores like that get info just like that. They never think twice about it and after a few months they get tired of the bird and rehome it and the cage. But the cages look like they are 20 years old because of the lack of cleaning. Maybe you should kinda let them know of the mistake on the paper so they can fix it.

 

[oled]

If you look 20 years ahead how will the perrot information divergent from today?

 

[Atwee921]

Not an old piece of literature, but, I just thought of something that kind of relates and I wanted to share here. I was at petsmart the other day getting the fids food, and I happened to take notice that they got new care sheets and they had one on african and asian parakeets. I grabbed one and took it home, I figured it would give me something to look at. The info in it seemed pretty good until I got to the part about cage cleaning. It said to spot clean the cage WEEKLY and fully clean MONTHLY! I cannot imagine having cages that haven't been cleaned for a month and I can't believe they are suggesting this to their customers. Do you guys think maybe it was a typo? Like it was supposed to say, spot clean daily, fully clean weekly? I imagine they have the same cleaning instructions for every bird, I wonder if they other pamphlets say the same thing? Sorry, like I said, a bit off topic but it kind of fit in with the "inaccurate info" discussion

Ewwwwww!! If I did that you probably wouldnt even be able to see Sprites ladder under to poo!!!!

 

[merlinsmom13]

I have the guide to a Well Behaved Parrot, cr 1999. Its hilarious that Merlin decided to put his mark on this one. It has little triangle bite marks all over the front cover. He must have decided it was not good reading. lol

 

[Rio Mom]

I have alot of books that i have gethered over the years. I like to look back in them just to see how much the world of bird ownership has come. No longer the world of seed diets and small round cages. I like my old books but would never let someone borrow them that is thinking about getting a bird. I went through my books about a month ago and found one for fish keeping and the way they tell you to heat the tank was to have a large piece of slate under the tank and build a fire under it let burn for two ours and it should hold temp over night lol. I will have to find it for the year published.

Oh my! Can you imagine?! "Just set a fire in your house, and try not to boil your fish or burn your house down in the process" lol!