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Welcome to the African Grey Parrot Centre's new website, the site is relatively new but will be growing hugely over 2009 with even more useful parrot articles, useful resources and useful hints and tips about how to look after your African grey parrots.

You will already find all sorts of useful African grey parrot related information on this site from keeping parrots, how to look after them to the do's and don't on what to feed them, we have also incorporated a parrot forum for you to talk to other like minded individuals and experts.

For those of you who breed your own parrots and would like to advertise your parrots for sale and parrot related peripherals such as cages we have developed a classified ad section of the site where we are offering our services for FREE for the time being, it may even stay that way you never know!!!

We also have our own section of the site to show you the progress of some of the baby parrots we have bred and also there are testimonials from people that these hand reared babies now reside with.

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  • Eric Our Feather Plucked Grey Has Settled In! : I said I would keep you up to date with how Eric is getting on so here is the update you have all been waiting for… Sorry it has taken so long what with all the parrots and children I look after time gets a little short and also we are getting married in just [...]
  • Safe Wood & Tree Species To Use For Your Parrot Cages & Toys : If you are thinking about using natural tree branches for your parrot’s toys or perhaps as perches inside their cages (they can be extremely cost effective and durable whilst providing your parrot with a more natural perch and gnawing post) here is a list of safe and toxic natural wood branches and tree species for [...]
  • Missing African Grey Reunited With Hertfordshire Family : Barney the African Grey parrot is reunited with his beloved Hertfordshire family after Flying the nest! The 4 and a half year old African Grey who swears at the cats on a regular basis made his escape when a door was left open in the family home. Owners Ian and Courtney Sutton never believed they would get [...]
  • Feather Plucking African Grey Eric! : We went on a long round trip to the seaside yesterday one for the lovely pie, mash and liquor and two to collect a African Grey called Eric. I was contacted by a lovely lady who wanted to find a loving home for her grey as she could no longer keep him as she has [...]
  • Keeping African Grey Parrots Isn’t Hard If You Know How : If you decide to have an African grey parrot as your pet then you should be ready to take the commitment that you will care for him for more than 50 years. Keeping an African grey parrot is more complicated then you think and you need to be prepared. Far to many owners think that they [...]
  • There’s A Happy Ending To Our Little Lost Duckling Story : If you’ve been following our little lost duckling story you will be happy to hear that ducky was fine last night snuggled up to a small fleece jumper as you can see in the pictures below: This morning little ducky was trying to jump out of the box bless it. I had to take our [...]
  • Our Little Lost Duckling Story : Our little boy came in earlier and said he has been a baby bird under our brown compost bin!! Hummm i thought, i had a look and it’s a cute little ducking i picked it up after a short chase and have it at home now with me, I didn’t want to leave it in [...]
  • 3 Of The Best Parrots That Are Perfect to Train : Parrots are the most beautiful birds with great coloured plumage, they make fantastic pets. They can enthrall us with song and talking. They live long years and have life spans of around sixty to a hundred year. So, you can be friends with them for the rest of your life. These are the best types [...]
  • Nappies Created For Parrots : Want to let your pet parrot fly around the house? No need to get in a flap about the house being fouled – just slip a nappy on the bird to stop any danger of carpets, furniture and owners being splattered. The nappies are fixed with Velcro around the bird’s body and do not affect flight – [...]
  • Our Pet African Grey Mai Enjoying The Sunshine! : Well as the weather warmed up today me and the children spent most of the day in the garden tidying it up planting plants and vegetable seeds into the garden i thought it only fair to bring Mai our African grey out to join us. She use to chew her wing feathers off as she was [...]
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    Feather Plucking And African Greys Feather Plucking And African Greys

    Feather plucking is known to be a very nasty habit of the african grey parrot. They are notorious feather pluckers. It is said that the Timneh African Grey parrots are not as bad as the Congo African Grey Parrots when it comes to feather plucking. But this is not a proven fact.

    First of all any parrot keeper should ask himself why do parrots pluck their feathers. There are many different reasons for this nasty habit. The African grey parrot is a parrot species that need quite much attention from his human owner. If this doesn't happens then the bird will probably get bored and this can result to feather plucking. But belive me that the this feather plucking problem is very complicated because it's very hard to resolve it. There were cases when the african greys plucked their feathers because of getting to much attention. So you just don't know exactly how to treat your bird. Dietary imbalances, or environmental problems may also take to feather plucking. Some environmental problems could be smocking very much in the room where the parrot is kept or keeping him in a space with dry air. Also is recommended for african grey parrots to get regular baths or to be exposed to some kind of moist air. The african grey parrots shouldn't encounter any frightening experiences because this can take to feather plucking.

    If this nasty habit appears in you bird's daily activities than you should first see a veterinarian. He will probably try to find a physical explanation for the bird's problem. It's best to try to understand what the veterinarian explains and try to find some ways of resolving the problem. It is proven that the african grey parrot is the most intelligent species. His higher degree of intelligence, along with possible incorrect early socialization at the breeders and not understanding the bird?s intellectual needs when it becomes a companion ... Read More

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    Registration is FREE and will remain so forever, for the time being (possibly forever too) you may post adverts for FREE so if you're looking to sell your parrots and accessories i.e. cages, toys etc. for absolutely NO COST AT ALL sign up to our classified ad section of the site now... there's no catches honestly!!


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