Red-lored amazons feeding
Red-lored amazons feeding by:
Avifood Products
By Dr. med. vet. Friedrich Janeczek,
Veterinary practice is limited to Parrots,
Graefelfing, Germany
Significant improvement in the plumage of hand-raised Red-lored amazons after using Harrison’s® premium certified organic pet bird foods with Palmgloss® addition.
The Red-lored amazon (Amazona autumnalis) Steffi hatched in 2020 and was reared with commercially available hand-rearing food from day one. The breeder has decades of experience in this field and has relied on advertising in the relevant specialist magazines when choosing hand-rearing food. Steffi was raised without any problems.
During the clinical examination of Steffi in January 2021 in the Veterinary practice for parrots, Dr. Janeczek (www.janeczek.de) the veterinarian description of Steffi’s plumage as “smooth, but without shine, numerous feathers are punctiform or colored black at the edge” (see photo). The endoscopic examination showed a slightly enlarged liver with a slightly yellowish color. Based on these findings, the diagnosis of chronic liver dysfunction was made, mainly due to an unbalanced and fatty diet.
After this examination, Steffi’s nutrition was first converted to Harrison’s® High Potency coarse and after a few months on Harrison’s® Adult Lifetime coarse. Both food types were mixed with 10 ml Palmgloss® (www.avifood.com) per 450 g feed. Steffi responded positively to this food improvement, and the regrowing feathers are bright green without a blackish color.
The following photos show Steffi in winter 2020/2021 before the food conversion and in June 2021 in the current molting, although not all brownish feathers were replaced by new brightly colored feathers yet.
In order to demonstrate the clear connection between the plumage quality or plumage color and the quality and composition of the hand-rearing food in the parrot chicks, two Red-lored amazon chicks from the offspring in 2021 of the same breeding pair at the same breeder were fed from day 1 after hatching with Harrison’s®´handfeeding formulas.
Everything else remained unchanged. In the first 3 weeks of life, the chicks received the Harrison’s® Neonate Formula, for newly hatched chicks. Then this food was gradually mixed with the Harrison’s®Juvenile Formula. Palmgloss® was added to both types of food as a source of essential fatty acids omega 3 and 6 as well as carotene. Both chicks developed very well with this food as you can see in the below pictures. Their plumage is bright green colored and smooth without any blackish color.
You might also be interested in the following blog post:
https://www.wwbirds.co.za/dir/endoscopy-procedure-for-birds/
You might also be interested in the following post:
https://www.wwbirds.co.za/dir/illigers-macaw-breeding/
Here is a great post by Tony Silva on how to prevent obesity in amazon parrots:
https://www.wwbirds.co.za/dir/obesity-in-parrots/
Red-lored amazons feeding content creator: Petrus A. van Tonder
