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Cockatoos
Books in Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series present basic information on a wide variety of pets for new or soon-to-be pet owners. Advice and instruction cover proper feeding, housing, health care, training, grooming, protection against hazards, and much more. Texts emphasize basics and are easy for all readers to understand, but most titles in this series also present facts that even experienced pet owners and breeders havn't encountered before. Each manual has been individually written by an expertamany of them professional breeders or veterinarians. All volumes are filled with full-color photos of the highest quality and with instructive line drawings.
64 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1989
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October 2, 2023
A short guide to buying and owning cockatoos.
This guide focuses largely on breeding and owning many cockatoos. It is not really particularly focused on the information that would be most relevant to 95% of cockatoo owners who have one or two birds and don’t plan on renovating their home to have an indoor/outdoor aviary.
I’d have appreciated more chapters on feeding, entertaining, and training, rather than half of the book being about breeding and architecture.
My biggest question when buying this books was what not to do, for example I know some ways of petting have meanings to the bird that are not obvious to me as a human. Are there parts of his body I should avoid? This information is oddly not included.
This guide focuses largely on breeding and owning many cockatoos. It is not really particularly focused on the information that would be most relevant to 95% of cockatoo owners who have one or two birds and don’t plan on renovating their home to have an indoor/outdoor aviary.
I’d have appreciated more chapters on feeding, entertaining, and training, rather than half of the book being about breeding and architecture.
My biggest question when buying this books was what not to do, for example I know some ways of petting have meanings to the bird that are not obvious to me as a human. Are there parts of his body I should avoid? This information is oddly not included.
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