Enrichment For Parrots | Caged Exotic Birds Mental Stimulation and Enrichment | Why Enrichment ?
Channel: Jayden Joshua Aviculture
Date: 2022-07-18

Parrots are intelligent creatures which requires mental stimulation to avoid boredom. Birds enrichment should be a daily routine for all the birds you're keeping in your environment.

Provide them a right environment, ensure they're busy, make them happy all day.

Why enrichment is essential for your birds mental, physical and emotional health? How can you provide a highest quality of life ever for your birds in captivity?
Enrichment is essential for your birds life quality, because it allows them to express their natural behaviours.

A lack of enrichment can lead to behaviours such as:
- Feather Plucking
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Fearfulness around people
- Screaming
- Extreme Stress

By providing them enrichment, they become more confident, loving and healthy pets which effectively increases their overall life expectancy.

Simple ways to provide enrichment for your parrots:

1. Provide a variety of bird friendly toys to keep them occupied.
2. Provide fruits, vegetables, nuts to your birds in addition of seeds/pellets
3. Make sure you provide your parrot with enough space for their wingspan
4. Provide an environment where the birds feels safe and secure
5. Change their routine once in a while, routines include food habits, toys, place etc..
6. Give space for indoor breeding cage and outdoor flying cage, if kept in small cage, you should provide some outside flying time.

Final Thoughts

Parrots deserve an enriching environment just like any other pets. Remember, it's caged for life, but how you make that life happy and easy inside the cage is all depends on your great deal of dedication. It takes passion to raise these intelligent species in a properly sized enclosure, provides an enriched environment. 

Just because you like, just because you can(can afford), you can't keep these parrots if you don't know how to take care of it properly.

People who knows how to take care of these intelligent parrots will only raise what they can and never keep what they cant !

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Artist: Amine Rouita
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