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From: ooblick@intercon.uucp (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Bird diets
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Date: 26 Jul 89 15:13:37 GMT
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In article <33457@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> o seeds are not 100% used and create a mess. Pellets are 100% eaten, so
>   you won't find seed hulls in every room in the house (I swear that my
>   cockatoo gets out of the cage during the day and carries seeds into every
>   room. Just to spite me. I keep buying more powerful vacuum cleaners. She
>   keeps getting better at throwing more and more stuff on the carpet.)

Well, not quite.  My cockatoos throw out some of the pellets too.  A bit
confusing that a bird would choose one identical item from another and that
one would end up outside the cage.  Unfortunately, if you are looking for
a clean up solution, pellets aren't necessarily the answer.

However, the Fenix feeders (sp?) with the high rounded back *do* cut down
quite a bit on cockatoo mess.  I highly recommend them.  A good vaccuum can't
hurt either :-)

Mikki barry
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