bidiknme
Regular Member
Hello everyone!
i hope all you and ur lovely parrots are safe and happy. Today i have a question for you guys about pot soils.
So i have been trying to find new ways of enrichment for Bidik. I also asked here how to get dead giant tree braches in the house withouth getting bugs everywhere, but it was a dead end so i ended up buying two alive oil trees for bidik
One of them is huge and it is just outside the kitchen so while im cooking, he can watch me safely on top of his tree. He also loves to bite and rip tiny branches off the tree.
Last week i realized he was chewing volcanic stones on the pot, i got him away from them immediately. I asked the manufacturer what the stones had and he said they are bird safe but i am always very skeptical about people in my country declaring things bird safe, so i decided that i wont let Bidik near those stones again. So i covered the pot with sheets. But it was an eye sore so i decided to take all the stones out instead. So now the pot only had the plant and the soil. When Bidik saw the soil he went crazy and started playing with it. Then i though “omg, the fertilizer!” So i took him away from the pot, again. I did some research and as far as i understood it is not safe for parrots to play around plat soil cuz is has aspergillosis and anthrax etc, which are fatal to birds. So im planning to cover the soil with marbles and chewing stones for birds (i already put some as u can see in the photo). Since he loves to play around in the pot at least he will chew some calcium stones this, so win win .
But i have a question in my mind. If he loves soil this much, it means its his instinct and he maybe needs it? So should i find a parrot safe soil for Bidik and put it in a pot, and maybe add some legume and lentil seeds so they will sprout and he will play and eat safely?
Let me know what you guys think and your experiences.
Love <3to
i hope all you and ur lovely parrots are safe and happy. Today i have a question for you guys about pot soils.
So i have been trying to find new ways of enrichment for Bidik. I also asked here how to get dead giant tree braches in the house withouth getting bugs everywhere, but it was a dead end so i ended up buying two alive oil trees for bidik
One of them is huge and it is just outside the kitchen so while im cooking, he can watch me safely on top of his tree. He also loves to bite and rip tiny branches off the tree.
Last week i realized he was chewing volcanic stones on the pot, i got him away from them immediately. I asked the manufacturer what the stones had and he said they are bird safe but i am always very skeptical about people in my country declaring things bird safe, so i decided that i wont let Bidik near those stones again. So i covered the pot with sheets. But it was an eye sore so i decided to take all the stones out instead. So now the pot only had the plant and the soil. When Bidik saw the soil he went crazy and started playing with it. Then i though “omg, the fertilizer!” So i took him away from the pot, again. I did some research and as far as i understood it is not safe for parrots to play around plat soil cuz is has aspergillosis and anthrax etc, which are fatal to birds. So im planning to cover the soil with marbles and chewing stones for birds (i already put some as u can see in the photo). Since he loves to play around in the pot at least he will chew some calcium stones this, so win win .
But i have a question in my mind. If he loves soil this much, it means its his instinct and he maybe needs it? So should i find a parrot safe soil for Bidik and put it in a pot, and maybe add some legume and lentil seeds so they will sprout and he will play and eat safely?
Let me know what you guys think and your experiences.
Love <3to
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