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  • A lot of the psittacine medical knowledge base is actually from poultry research. They’re surprisingly similar anatomically!

    One big difference is that hens lay eggs every day, that still blows my mind. A parrot risks death if they lay more than twice a year because they can’t recover enough dietary calcium quickly enough.

  • Marty lost his tail last month. Here's his current growth!

    How Marty lost his tail:

    About a month ago, we were evacuated from our home because of wildfires. I wasn’t home when the evacuation order was given. I wasn’t allowed to go home to get my birds. Police officers kicked my door in around 1:30am that night and retrieved my birds! In the scuffle, Marty’s tail was ripped out.

    Here’s my previous post about their rescue, if you’re curious.

    It’s a cached Reddit post from web.archive so you aren’t giving Reddit any traffic.

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    tryingnottobefat @lemmy.world
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