Parrot Baths

[Rujvir_G]

Small questions! Will my parrot get sick if I give him weekly bath? Is that good, or should I do it twice a month?

[cml]

Water is great, but never use any soap or the like. The water should be quite cold. Mine prefers showering over bathing.

[Wolf]

I give my birds a good misting down every week, well all of them except one as she likes to bathe in a dish, so she bathes herself. Mine do prefer cold water when it is hot but the cooler it gets the closer to air temperature they like it.

[Rujvir_G]

I use the spray bottle most of the time, my parrot doesn’t goes into a bowl , that good?

[Wolf]

As long as the parrot is good with it, it is fine. I have 4 parrots and I have to spray 3 of them.

[Rujvir_G]

Are there possibilities of him getting sick or catching cold? Because winters gonna start and what precautions should I take for giving him a bath in winters.

[Wolf]

The primary concern would be to not let the bird get cold. Make sure that his bath is early enough for him to be dry before dinner time and keep him out of drafts while he is still wet. Some people use a hair dryer on its low setting to dry their bird, you just have to be careful to keep it moving so that you don't burn his skin with it. Some birds love it.

[Rujvir_G]

And wolf, you feed your senegal pellets and gloops? How much quantity food does he eat per day? Any idea? Because how much should they eat. Ollie doesn't like pellets but loves seed mix which I dont give him that much, I just give him pellets instead, which he eats just some of it, so how much should he be eating every day?

[Pajarita]

No hair dryer, please. It's not needed if you mist your bird with plenty of time for him to air dry as Nature intended. In the winter, they should only be misted when the room is nicely warm and in the morning because the afternoons are too short and you don't want him to go to bed with damp down. Both my senegals bathe in a bowl, by the way. They are not good bathers in that they don't really get their entire body wet but they are always clean and fresh smelling and, as they don't like to be misted, I just don't do it.

My senegals eat gloop (accompanied by one fruit, one veggie and one leafy green) in the morning and about two tablespoons of a cockatiel seed mix in the evening for dinner

[Rujvir_G]

Ill keep that in mind! and thanks alot pajarita!