The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bird Care & Training
Author: Jacqueline O'Neil
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780876053263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuick and easy guidance on how to create a safe and stimulating environment for your bird.
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The Simple Guide to Bird Care & Training
Author: Julie Rach
Publisher: TFH Publications
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780793821051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLoaded with color photos, tip boxes, and check lists, The Simple Guide to Bird Care & Training provides the tools needed to select the right bird, welcome it into a home, and then keep it happy and healthy. With chapters on feeding, housing, health care, and training, this handbook covers all there is to know about caring for an avian companion. The book also includes helpful tips and expert solutions to the most common situations faced by owners - from problem behaviors, such as feather picking and biting, to training issues, such as wing clipping and talking. Most importantly, the book uses compassion and humor to help owners transform a new pet into a cherished and well-adjusted member of the family.
Budgies
Author: Angela Davids
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Published: 2011-05-03
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1935484974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA budgie, as the common parakeet is typically called, is the subject of this Complete Care Made Easy pet guide that presents new and experienced bird keepers with insight into every aspect of selecting, caring for, and maintaining well-behaved happy pet birds. Angela Davids has written an ideal introductory pet guide, with chapters on the characteristics of the irresistible budgie, the history of budgies in the wild, selection of a healthy, typical pet bird, housing and care, feeding, training, and health care. The selection chapter offers potential owners excellent advice about selection of the color and sex, suitability of the delicate budgie with families, children, and other pets. In the chapter on housing and care, the author discusses selection of the right cage, placement of the cage, and the purchase of toys, cups, perches, and more. A bird’s diet is critical to its ongoing health, and the chapter devoted to feeding the budgie gives the reader all the info he or she needs about choosing the best diet, different types of seeds, greens, fruits, veggies, grit, as well as human foods to avoid. The chapter “Training Time” addresses finger training, towel training, perch training, and offers an easy-to-follow primer on teaching a budgie to talk. The final two chapters of the book will be useful for bird fanciers interested in learning more about the breeding and the basic color variations and genetics of this perfect beginner’s bird. The book concludes with an appendix of bird societies, a glossary of terms, and a complete index.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Teaching Your Bird to Talk
Author: Diane Grindol
Publisher: Howell Book House
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781582450650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuestions about teaching birds to speak pop up more often in bird magazines than any other type of training question. The answers are here. The book covers the underpinnings of bird behavior and speech; a variety of training methods and which kinds of birds they work best for; troubleshooting and problem solving; and the intelligence of birds and how it relates to their use of language.
Clicker Training for Birds
Author: Melinda Johnson
Publisher: Sunshine Books (MA)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParakeet
Author: Julie Rach Mancini
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2008-05-05
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 0470363533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly! Whoever coined the term "birdbrained" wasn't familiar with parakeets. They're smart as well as funny and entertaining. This guide helps you with everything from preparing for and choosing a parakeet to teaching it to talk and perform tricks. It covers: * Details on setting up a healthy home for your pet * Everyday care, including feeding and grooming * Veterinary care and common health problems * Normal parakeet behaviors * Parakeets and children Parakeets can live up to eighteen years. That's a lot of companionship from a colorful little character who will undoubtedly find a perch in your heart.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Choosing a Pet
Author: Betsy Sikora Siino
Publisher: Alpha Computer
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780876053416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat will it be--a dog or a hedgehog? A Gerbil or guinea pig? A cat or cockatiel or chinchilla? This book looks at 21 types of pets, each in its own chapter. 75 photos and drawings.
The Complete Idiot's Guide To Raising Chickens
Author: Jerome D. Belanger
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-04-06
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1101223715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders will flock to this book Raising chickens is a growing trend hitting urban and suburban areas, as well as the country. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Raising Chickens covers every aspect of raising chickens, whether one lives in the country, suburb, or city. People wanting their own supply of organic, additive-free, free-range eggs want to know how to keep their chickens healthy and egg producing. • How to choose what to start with-chicks, pullets, or hens • How best to feed and water • Coverage of the most popular breeds • Everything about eggs, including how to sell them
The Complete Pet Bird Owner's Handbook
Author: Gary A. Gallerstein
Publisher: Port Perry, Ont. : S. Mattacchione
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers all aspects of pet bird ownership, including selection, nutrition, behavior, home physicals, emergency medical care, preventative medicine and much more. --Publisher.
Lovebirds
Author: Nikki Moustaki
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Published: 2006-10-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1937049302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Nikki Moustaki certainly cannot resist the splendid lovebird, and her valentine to this irresistible avian wonder is the subject of this Complete Care Made Easy pet guide. This colorful guide offers vital information to both new and experienced bird keepers about this hookbilled parrot, covering all aspects of selecting, caring for, and maintaining well-behaved happy pet birds. Bird specialist and trainer Moustaki has written an ideal introductory pet guide about lovebirds with chapters on the history and characteristics of lovebirds, selection of a healthy, typical pet bird, housing and care, feeding, training, and health care. The chapter “A Look at Lovebird Species” gives readers a glimpse into all nine species. Although nine species exist--ranging from red faced to black collared lovebirds —only the peach-faced, black-masked, and Fischer’s are widely available to pet owners. The selection chapter offers potential owners excellent advice about the three main species of lovebirds and how to select the best one from those available commercially. In the chapter on housing and care, the author discusses selection of the right cage, placement of the cage, and all the necessary accessories. A bird’s diet is critical to its ongoing health, and the chapter devoted to feeding gives the reader all the info he or she needs about choosing a proper diet for the lovebird . The final two chapters of the book will be useful for bird fanciers interested in learning more about the breeding and the basic color variations and genetics of this beautiful small parrot. The book concludes with an appendix of bird societies, a glossary of terms, and a complete index.
