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Harley loves warm beverages! I mean he loves them! We've discovered that the drink itself doesn't matter, as long as it's warm. Lately we've been giving him a bit of chamomile tea, but I'm tempted to try plain, warm water and see what happens. He ducks his head into the cup and audibly glugs. "Glug, glug, glug." And he drinks so much he squirts his poops for a few hours afterward. I think the warmth reminds him of being fed as a baby, since parrots feed their babies warm barf regurgitated food.
Comfort drinks.
UPDATE: It is, in fact, a bad idea to give a bird chamomile tea too often, although it's fine as a treat. Other options are healthy fruit and vegetable drinks, no extra sugar added. Just warm it up a bit in the microwave, and watch your bird glug! Tea options include rooibos or honeybush teas. Trader Joe's, of all places, has an organic honeybush tea. I haven't yet found a version of rooibos tea locally without a lot of extra things added (cinnamon, orange, anise, etc.). You can read more about both of these teas (and buy them, too) at Lifespan Tea.
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Posted on: 06/03/07, 16:50:34
Comfort drinks.
UPDATE: It is, in fact, a bad idea to give a bird chamomile tea too often, although it's fine as a treat. Other options are healthy fruit and vegetable drinks, no extra sugar added. Just warm it up a bit in the microwave, and watch your bird glug! Tea options include rooibos or honeybush teas. Trader Joe's, of all places, has an organic honeybush tea. I haven't yet found a version of rooibos tea locally without a lot of extra things added (cinnamon, orange, anise, etc.). You can read more about both of these teas (and buy them, too) at Lifespan Tea.
Comments
06/06/07, 14:32:04
I had a grey cheek that loved anything you were drinking. He got pretty tippsy at the beer tent one summer evening.
06/07/07, 19:14:37
I am strangely reminded of the little dog next to us when I was a child who would drink his mistress's cold tomato juice if she left it unguarded on the floor--or was it in fact her Bloody Mary? *g*
06/08/07, 09:47:00
I'm guessing it was a Bloody Mary! (That'd be my choice, anyway.)
The amazing thing is that alcohol is on the DO NOT GIVE list for all animals, and yet you hear stories of creatures having some and doing just fine. Or fine in the short term, anyway. You know, after they get over the hangover. And I think caffeine is on some of the NO lists, but Harley has had some coffee, and he's been fine. I feel better about the chamomile tea, but since it's used as a medicinal drink for humans, I want to do some research to see just how much might be good for him.
Everything in moderation, I guess, but some things you need to be more careful about.
The amazing thing is that alcohol is on the DO NOT GIVE list for all animals, and yet you hear stories of creatures having some and doing just fine. Or fine in the short term, anyway. You know, after they get over the hangover. And I think caffeine is on some of the NO lists, but Harley has had some coffee, and he's been fine. I feel better about the chamomile tea, but since it's used as a medicinal drink for humans, I want to do some research to see just how much might be good for him.
Everything in moderation, I guess, but some things you need to be more careful about.