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[laducockatiel]

I had both my sun and GCC in her pak-o-bird for a while and they both were fine in it. I don't remember tails sweeping the bottom or not. I believe that the perch positions are adjustable even if it's too low.

Oh right, thats great news, thanks. I will hopefully purchase it soon and i will let you know how it goes.

Thanks again!

regards,
Laducockatiel

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[laducockatiel]

Get the Gold color. For some reason birds really like that color. It sounds dumb, but it was what the owner of the company recommended, and it really seems to be the case. They didn't want to come out after they were in there for a while.

Really? I've never heard that before, but I bet it's true lol. Ok, thanks for the advice.

[spiral71]

Get the Gold color. For some reason birds really like that color. It sounds dumb, but it was what the owner of the company recommended, and it really seems to be the case. They didn't want to come out after they were in there for a while.

my bird is really sensitive to specific bright color but i she has a fear of my yellow physio ball so i dont thinks she would be ok with the pack o bird, which is gold.

[spiral71]

Glad you had a good time Ladu! Did you manage to pull any useful info out of the nutrition talks? I wish I had fitted that one in too lol.

My take on the event: Very long post as I learned a couple of things that I think is important which other people may be interested in.

I got there 45 mins early in the end and was second in line for entry which I hoped would enable me to get tickets for the workshops. I did want to go to all of them but figured with the timings I wouldn't get anything else done if I did so I picked the veterniary one and the behaviour one. They only had tickets for the vets one left and they ushered us straight downstairs for it. The talk was good but I didn't learn much from it, it explained the dangers of wing clipping and showed a bird who's wing had been ''fixed'' by steralising old feathers from other birds and carefully glueing them to the remaining feather. It explained why seed based diets are bad etc. A couple of things I did not know got talked about. One being that alot of birds that are imprinted on people will vomit into their crops but not fully regurgitate the food. This means the birds stomach acids are sitting in the crop and over time causes so much discomfort it can cause plucking around the area. Apparently this is a leading cause of plucking round the next. Secondly Neil Forbes said that females (none breeders such as pets) that are fed a high energy diet such as seed are getting ready to breed but don't actually produce eggs are harmed internally as their bones begin to solidify instead of being hollow. Can't remember all the ins and outs but that was the general idea.
After a short question and answer session, making the nutrition lecture 15+ minutes late, we went into the main hall to have a look round.

The show itself was smaller scale than I expected but very brightly lit, unlike the shows at Stafford and Newark. There were many trade stands and also alot of bird charity stands which pleased me, I wasn't aware of most of them. I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't any discounted toys unlike at some other shows, although northern parrots did have a small discounted table for damaged or unpackaged stock. I managed to pick up a couple of perches cheapish and a multipack of woven tubes for £1 cuz the price had dropped off and he didn't know what it was, I found out after it should have been £5 lol. Also managed to pick up some stainless food bowls for a bargain as they retail at £5 in our local petshop and I managed to get 3 for that price. I maybe went a bit overboard with the toys given we are already overrun with them. Came back with a ladder, foraging toy, a swing and a soft wodden chew toy.

What I actually wanted was a new cage but there wasn't many of those around, about 5 different models, all by kings cages, then one each of their travel cages on display which made me grateful I didn't pick the small size when I ordered mine. I picked it up and the bottom fell straight out
At the end of the day the cages were all discounted but still not in my budget as I had spent a fair bit on food for us, perches, toys and disinfectant by that point..

We then watched a flighted parrot display, featuring a blue and gold macaw, an amazon and 3 patagonian conures which was good. I have a couple of pics which aren't much good if I'm honest.

The talk on behaviour was by someone, who's name I forget, from the world parrot trust. It was good but anyone with experience or has done basic research should already know what got said tbh, the talk would have been useful to someone in the reseach stages though. I managed to get in even though it was fully booked due to people not turning up.

I was rather disappointed that there were not many parrots there, I was hoping to see a few of the popular smaller species like the sennies and quakers to help me make up my mind as I've never met a sennie in real life.


All in all a good show but I don't think I will be going again if there is another next year unless they change the location. I just can't justify 7 hours travelling when there are other shows nearer to home that do offer good quality discounted equipment and toys. Definitely worth going to if your more local though!

Well, in the nutrition workshop they basically said not to feed your birds mainly on seeds or pellets but to give plenty of veggies along with a small amount of pellets and they said to pick wild flowers and feed them to your birds, etc. I think the talk on behaviour was by someone called Neil Forbes

Neil forbes has a veternary pactice in swindon he wrote parrotlpedia with anette de saules its supposed to be really good in its medical section at the back, i dont have it yet though, but i have read about it on other parrot forums.

[LadySaphine]

Wow, sounds like you guys had fun! As far as I know, we don't get ANY bird shows here, at least not in NC. Of course, they have dog, cat, small animal, and reptile shows but I haven't heard of a bird show yet. :/

North Carolina is not the best bird state as far as I know. Birdwatching included. :/

[laducockatiel]

Glad you had a good time Ladu! Did you manage to pull any useful info out of the nutrition talks? I wish I had fitted that one in too lol.

My take on the event: Very long post as I learned a couple of things that I think is important which other people may be interested in.

I got there 45 mins early in the end and was second in line for entry which I hoped would enable me to get tickets for the workshops. I did want to go to all of them but figured with the timings I wouldn't get anything else done if I did so I picked the veterniary one and the behaviour one. They only had tickets for the vets one left and they ushered us straight downstairs for it. The talk was good but I didn't learn much from it, it explained the dangers of wing clipping and showed a bird who's wing had been ''fixed'' by steralising old feathers from other birds and carefully glueing them to the remaining feather. It explained why seed based diets are bad etc. A couple of things I did not know got talked about. One being that alot of birds that are imprinted on people will vomit into their crops but not fully regurgitate the food. This means the birds stomach acids are sitting in the crop and over time causes so much discomfort it can cause plucking around the area. Apparently this is a leading cause of plucking round the next. Secondly Neil Forbes said that females (none breeders such as pets) that are fed a high energy diet such as seed are getting ready to breed but don't actually produce eggs are harmed internally as their bones begin to solidify instead of being hollow. Can't remember all the ins and outs but that was the general idea.
After a short question and answer session, making the nutrition lecture 15+ minutes late, we went into the main hall to have a look round.

The show itself was smaller scale than I expected but very brightly lit, unlike the shows at Stafford and Newark. There were many trade stands and also alot of bird charity stands which pleased me, I wasn't aware of most of them. I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't any discounted toys unlike at some other shows, although northern parrots did have a small discounted table for damaged or unpackaged stock. I managed to pick up a couple of perches cheapish and a multipack of woven tubes for £1 cuz the price had dropped off and he didn't know what it was, I found out after it should have been £5 lol. Also managed to pick up some stainless food bowls for a bargain as they retail at £5 in our local petshop and I managed to get 3 for that price. I maybe went a bit overboard with the toys given we are already overrun with them. Came back with a ladder, foraging toy, a swing and a soft wodden chew toy.

What I actually wanted was a new cage but there wasn't many of those around, about 5 different models, all by kings cages, then one each of their travel cages on display which made me grateful I didn't pick the small size when I ordered mine. I picked it up and the bottom fell straight out
At the end of the day the cages were all discounted but still not in my budget as I had spent a fair bit on food for us, perches, toys and disinfectant by that point..

We then watched a flighted parrot display, featuring a blue and gold macaw, an amazon and 3 patagonian conures which was good. I have a couple of pics which aren't much good if I'm honest.

The talk on behaviour was by someone, who's name I forget, from the world parrot trust. It was good but anyone with experience or has done basic research should already know what got said tbh, the talk would have been useful to someone in the reseach stages though. I managed to get in even though it was fully booked due to people not turning up.

I was rather disappointed that there were not many parrots there, I was hoping to see a few of the popular smaller species like the sennies and quakers to help me make up my mind as I've never met a sennie in real life.


All in all a good show but I don't think I will be going again if there is another next year unless they change the location. I just can't justify 7 hours travelling when there are other shows nearer to home that do offer good quality discounted equipment and toys. Definitely worth going to if your more local though!

Well, in the nutrition workshop they basically said not to feed your birds mainly on seeds or pellets but to give plenty of veggies along with a small amount of pellets and they said to pick wild flowers and feed them to your birds, etc. I think the talk on behaviour was by someone called Neil Forbes

Neil forbes has a veternary pactice in swindon he wrote parrotlpedia with anette de saules its supposed to be really good in its medical section at the back, i dont have it yet though, but i have read about it on other parrot forums.

Oh right, that's good to know.