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It’s that time of year, yet again, when our poor light-confused parrot is egg-laying. Even though she’s without a mate, she is as protective and attentive to the egg, as if it were fertile.
| Posted on Feb 06, 2010 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(1) |
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I have, to my surprise, the makings of a great dinner right in my very own yard…...
Continued...| Posted on Aug 19, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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I’m convinced no dog should ever be fed a processed diet that contains grains like wheat and corn, both of which are high in phytic acids and enzyme inhibitors, prohibiting the body from properly digesting foods, limiting the available nutrients, causing nutritional deficiencies which can result in any number of disorders including epilepsy. In addition, a grain diet for dogs simply doesn’t provide the necessary amino acids.
Continued...| Posted on May 06, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and RealFood | Permalink | Comments(2) |
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I wrote this post contrasting and comparing my own birds, the type of life they live with our family, and that of a very special Cockatoo named Major…..
Continued...| Posted on Mar 29, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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Digestive System: Food and Feeding Habits
Metabolic rates, digestive system components, bird’s bill construction, beak variations between species, feet, talons, avian tongues, are but a few of the exciting topics at this site. Okay, so maybe this isn’t exactly right up there with finding the ultimate best New York Style cheesecake recipe (something else I should post), but it is pretty close if getting a deeper look into what can only be from the hands of an Intelligent Designer is something you consider exciting. Which I do.
Continued...| Posted on Mar 02, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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Several medical case studies are listed at: www.vet.uga.edu/IVCVM/1998/mcclure/mcclure.htm – discuss various factors which changed behavior of “pet” Moluccan Cockatoos.
| Posted on Mar 01, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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Meal time around our home includes the pitter patter of four-toed feet running across the dinner table. “Family style” takes on a whole new meaning when it involves large beaks helping themselves to your cranberry juice and oatmeal.
Continued...| Posted on Feb 18, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(1) |
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Sarah, my now 9-year-old daughter has grown up with the greatest imaginable playmate, our Blue & Gold Macaw, Buddy. Other children learned to walk by hanging onto furniture. Sarah used Buddy’s cage, she plastered against the outside, he plastered against the inside….
Continued...| Posted on Feb 15, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(2) |
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Two weeks after our doubting Pastor and his wife visited our home for Sunday dinner, he approached us after the Sunday service, asking if he could have a minute of our time….
Continued...| Posted on Jan 27, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(2) |
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The weekend after we returned from a month-long trip, our Pastor and his family came over for Sunday dinner. He wasn’t what you’d call an “animal person” but I realized he watched them more carefully than I’d given him credit when he asked, ‘“What’s up with the white bird“, pointing to KoeKoe, our Umbrella Cockatoo who was slumping on his manzanita tree. “He looks like Psalm 35, “I was bowed down in grief”.
“He is depressed, youlre right”, I nodded.
“Depressed”, he repeated, looking like a parrot himself, tilting his head to the side and inspecting KoeKoe from head-to-toe with one closed eye, “what does he have to be depressed about”.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my husband nervously tug at his collar and rub his neck meaning, “change subject, serve food, anything”.
“Some of the vet techs at the boarding facility were teasing him, telling him he had “chicken feet”, I explained, as if it were the most logical explanation in the world, all the while avoiding eye contact with my husband. I had a motive – try to get animals moved up just a little higher on the rungs of my Pastor’s mind, out of the “animals are dumb” category.
| Posted on Jan 20, 2005 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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