If the parrot is healthy and cheerful, maintenance of purity of feathers for it not a problem. The majority of parrots are rather clean to bathe independently, but the help of the person in this case too will be useful. At least to create feathery necessary conditions for comfortable and safe bathing.
It is required to you
- Vannochka-kupalka, spray or damp lettuce leaves
Instruction
1. For bathing of a parrot there are several ways. Try to choose that most of which of all to liking to your pet. In natural conditions wavy parrots and their relatives prefer to take a bath among the leaves of plants moistened with dew. Try to offer a parrot the bath filled with damp lettuce leaves - can be, he will like such option of bathing. At the same time the bird will regale on useful greens.
2. If you noticed that your parrot climbs in a drinking bowl and tries to bathe to eat thus, so sense to put in a cage a saucer with water or the bath-kupalku which is specially intended for parrots. Such bath is usually suspended on a cage door. Pour there pure warm water which temperature has to be slightly higher than room. It is necessary to offer a bird a kupalka once a week, but in hot summer days it can be done to a thicket. For bathing of a budgerigar 2 cm of water in a bath there are enough.
3. If the parrot ignores a kupalka, it is yet not an occasion to consider him dirty. Perhaps, he owing to young age just did not understand yet what needs to be done with this subject. Try to interest him in a bath, having put its favourite toy there. Parrots use a kupalka also more actively if near it to hang up a pocket mirror. It is also possible to fill in a dry kupalka a little forage that the parrot was accustomed to get there. Do not try to put a bird in a bath violently at all - it can become the cause of a stress, having for a long time discouraged I will scare to approach this subject.
4. One more kind of bathing which gives great pleasure to some parrots is irrigation from the spray. At the same time it is necessary to follow some rules. Remember that water in the spray has to be is notable warm as in air it quickly cools down. The water jet from the spray does not need to be directed directly to a bird - aim slightly above the head that droplets, falling, showered a parrot with a drizzle. In this case the rain, but not fog as too small droplets of water can get into airways of a bird is necessary and cause cough. Do not forget to remove before spraying from a feeding trough cage as damp grain can grow mouldy.