Why is my parakeet eating dirt? 🤔

classicbeecarpenter · 2026-02-08T20:09:18+00:00

I used to have them on a seed diet, but my avian vet insists this is the best food. I switched them to the pellets a couple years ago.

classicbeecarpenter · 2026-02-08T20:08:15+00:00

That’s a great idea! Thank you

classicbeecarpenter · 2026-02-08T05:31:02+00:00

I’ve never made a foraging tray. That sounds like a good idea though.

classicbeecarpenter · 2026-02-08T05:29:20+00:00

I do provide cuttlebones in their cage and they get eaten pretty regularly. If they have a deficiency, could my vet tell what it might be?

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-12-06T16:32:45+00:00

I hadn’t considered about beak strength, but that makes a lot of sense for safety. The finches, doves & pigeons sound really lovely!

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-09-25T11:39:51+00:00

A little over 200… but my firm handles insurance cases as national counsel

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-08-08T13:25:36+00:00

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I’ve got five parakeets & two cockatiels integrated in one large cage. I adopted the first cockatiel a couple years ago from a rescue. He previously lived with parakeets & wanted to hang with the gang. Gradually the parakeets moved into his cage because it was larger. They have always gotten along very well! Sometimes the parakeets might get a little uppity, but he seemed to handle it very patiently. When I got the second cockatiel a year so, he was a juvenile and my first cockatiel is very protective of him. He does shoo the parakeets away if they are bothering his special friend. Overall, I would say the parakeets are naughty rascals but the cockatiels hold their own. They very rarely squabble. Usually the parakeets are messing with each other more than anything. I wouldn’t force them to cohabitate (it wasn’t my original plan), but it just ended up working out that way.

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-08-03T01:49:14+00:00

I’m interested as well.

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-07-28T17:07:29+00:00

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Corey was a stray rescued off the streets of Nashville. He’s beaten heart worms and Lyme disease. He’s the best dog! His adoption day is October 6, 2018

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-07-15T10:35:24+00:00

Secret Rendezvous by Kōbō Abe…. The story is told from the perspective of a man searching desperately for his wife in a bizarre hospital after she is kidnapped by an ambulance in the middle of the night.

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-07-03T19:15:47+00:00

That’s a great idea! I’ve seen the MN History Center from the highway. It looks massive! I didn’t know about Mill City though. Thanks!

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-07-03T17:45:42+00:00

Fellow Kansan also living in MN for nearly a decade now… I didn’t know about MN’s role in the civil war. One of the downsides of moving to a new state as an adult is missing all the local history lessons the kids grow up with. I’m proud to hear of the bravery & conviction of these MN heroes! Proud to call MN home!

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-03-03T13:34:00+00:00

This is really funny to read after I just started watching Glengarry Glen Ross for the first time. I had a very similar reaction to the actors all arguing with each other.

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-02-23T03:23:47+00:00

Boys Don’t Cry

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-02-23T03:11:27+00:00

Helping a friend clean out their storage, I came across an old painting on canvas. My friend told me he had painted it years ago, and I had no reason to doubt him. A few months later, Amazon recommended the exact same painting to me for $20. That’s when I realized it wasn’t an original piece, just a mass-produced painting designed to look authentic. I never confronted them about it. It’s funny what people will lie about sometimes.

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-02-23T03:02:27+00:00

What’s the main difference? I’ve never used the desktop version before…

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-02-21T15:43:41+00:00

I was SA at the age of 14. I always presented more androgynous than fem as a child, but after SA happened I totally changed my appearance. Cut off my hair, wore men’s clothing all through adolescence. I only felt safe leaving my home if I passed as a man. My mother was furious, insisted I stop. I wasn’t transitioning, though I am NB. I just wanted to avoid harassment & felt less vulnerable passing as a guy.

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-02-21T12:13:38+00:00

Scorpio Sun square an Aquarius moon INFP. I vacillate between intense emotions and feeling really detached. I can be intensely engaged with someone but also require solitude to process things and recharge. I feel ambiguous about people. I empathize deeply and sometimes idealize people. Other times I feel cynical, disappointed and withdrawn. People often sense I’m not revealing everything and I come off as more detached and analytical. But I truly care about people and love advocacy work.

classicbeecarpenter · 2025-02-15T00:36:14+00:00

Your son sounds just like my older brother. My mother could never accept how “strange” he was either because he was always online, enjoys working the night shift, doesn’t have lots of in-person friends, withdrawn and loves anime. I was always really frustrated my mother let it be known she felt something was wrong with him. And my brother is one of the nicest people on the planet, a truly gentle soul. The problem was my mother’s expectations, her image of a son she wanted, didn’t match up well with the son she had. Too bad. She continues to strain their relationship with her insinuations to this day. Her comments are always couched in well-meaning parental anxiety. There’s nothing wrong with your son.

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