How to Care for a Conure Parrot

Video Transcript

"To care for a Conure, you'd first need to know what the food requirements are, the nutritional requirements for your bird is. The bird also needs to have the proper size cage. And it's important to watch the spacing of the bars. This is only a show cage, but the spacing of the bar needs to be adequate that they can't get their head stuck, get hung on a band or something hung on the cage. It's important to watch your cage and the care of it. Conures need plenty of toys. They need toys that they can chew up and destroy. And they need toys that will stay permanent. So I suggest you buy some that are wooden, and that are for the purpose of being destroyed. Also it's important to rotate their toys. Just like a child, they get tired of certain ones after a while. If you rotate new ones in, then they have something to entertain themselves when you're not available to entertain them. Clean, fresh water is very important to Conures. There is an adage that you can give a bird water, and as long as water's in the bowl, it's fine. That's not so. Also, the bird needs to really have spring water, not the water from the tap, because it has so many other things added to it. But I have spring water that the birds can be given. I also use a water bottle, and they can drink water out of the water bottle very well. They have a bowl of water, also, but this is mostly for them to play in. To them to bathe in, or whatever they want to do. This is a nipple that we use. We hook it to PVC and it makes an automatic waterer, so that they always have fresh water at all times. I like this idea. It's not always convenient for everybody to use, or to know how to use it, but they're usually very simple to hook up. And, if you get them positioned to the cage for the right size bird with the right size nipple, it works very well that they always have fresh water and they have the proper water."