by Pajarita » Fri May 22, 2020 8:38 am
Parrots should never be made to drink from a bottle. It's not only completely unnatural to them (they are all undomesticated species with exactly the same needs as their wild counterparts so everything in their care should be as close to nature as possible), it's also potentially dangerous - especially if you feed pellets. Parrots are not hard-wired to drink a lot or often, they are crepuscular feeders so they only go down to ground at dawn and at dusk (thus, no water all day long) and they evolved to eat a VERY wet diet (between 85 and 95% water content) so, when you free-feed dry food and use a bottle -that gives one single drop at a time- you are, in effect, creating a chronic case of subclinical dehydration in your bird. This ends up damaging their kidneys and liver.
Furthermore, a cage that has no set-up for bowls is NOT a bird cage.