BIRD HEALTH & WELLNESS

Feathers look effortless right up until the moment your bird starts losing them by the dozen and you’re finding little tufts on the cage floor, in the water dish, tucked behind the perch. A moult is completely normal — every bird does it, usually once or twice a year — but it’s also one of … Read more

A parrot that’s just finished a course of antibiotics, a budgie who’s gone off its food after a house move, or a canary that’s had a rough few days at a bird show — these are the moments when owners start typing “bird probiotic supplement review” into a search bar at 11pm, phone torch pointed … Read more

A cockatiel that sits fluffed on the cage floor, or a hen straining to pass a soft-shelled egg, is often telling you the same thing: something’s missing from the diet, and it’s usually calcium. Seed-based diets, however varied they look in the bowl, are notoriously calcium-poor, and it’s one of the most common nutritional gaps … Read more

Somewhere between the seed bowl and the vet’s waiting room sits a small brown bottle that most bird owners buy once, use for three weeks, then forget about in the cupboard under the sink. That’s the story of bird multivitamin drops for a lot of us — good intentions, patchy follow-through. And yet the science … Read more

Here’s a fact that catches most new budgie owners off guard: that cheerful bag of seed mix from the pet shop is basically feeding your bird chips for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. budgie vitamin drops under £15 exist precisely because seed, on its own, is a nutritional dead end — heavy on fat, light on … Read more

If you’ve noticed your parrot’s feathers looking rather lacklustre, or caught them sneezing more than usual, you’re not imagining things. Vitamin deficiencies in pet birds are shockingly common across Britain — and the consequences can be rather more serious than most owners realise. According to avian veterinarians, nearly 90% of bird health issues stem from … Read more