Parrot Health & Grooming

Just like people, your parrot may benefit from extra vitamins beyond what is in their standard diet. These supplements help ensure birds get all the nutrition they need and can enhance their plumage. An extra boost may be especially important in times of stress, molting, or environmental change.

Although a healthy bird will do much of its grooming itself, it will also benefit from some help from its pet parent. Safely trimming your parrot's nails is important to help prevent injuries or sore feet caused by overgrown nails. Trimming a bird's wings should only be done by a vet or someone with experience, but doing this can help prevent escape and injury.

Perch cleaners can also help remove stubborn, caked on feces coupled with specialized, non-toxic formulas meant for cleaning bird habitats are ideal to prevent your bird from potentially being exposed to harmful chemicals. Even though your parrot should be removed from the habitat during cleaning, some chemicals not meant for birds may remain on the habitat with an irritating smell to your bird or possibly a danger of your bird ingesting it.