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WAKEFIELD, West Yorkshire, UK
➡Parrot & Reptile Specialists 🦜🦎
➡Rescue & Rehoming 🦜🦎
➡Holiday Boarding🦜🦎 (PBFD & APV tested🦜)
➡Promoting Animal Welfare & Diet ➡Educational Centre
➡Pet Shop

www.feathersandtailsshop.co.uk
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🦜 Some really nice new natural toys that we are all excited about in store!! (Even more than this available!) 🦜
11/08/2026

🦜 Some really nice new natural toys that we are all excited about in store!! (Even more than this available!) 🦜

10/08/2026

CLOSING AT 2PM DAY!!
What a day! 😄

Open 10.30am - 3pm tomorrow!!

🦜 Everyones favourite parrot food is back in stock!! 🦜
10/08/2026

🦜 Everyones favourite parrot food is back in stock!! 🦜

Our recent arrival in our rehoming and resuce. Adorable Coco, an adult female Indian Ringneck.She isn't ready for rehomi...
09/08/2026

Our recent arrival in our rehoming and resuce. Adorable Coco, an adult female Indian Ringneck.

She isn't ready for rehoming yet but will be soon! Tested negative for Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease and Avian Polyomavirus!

Lots of new parrot toys have arrived 🦜
07/08/2026

Lots of new parrot toys have arrived 🦜

LIVE FEEDER FOOD HAS ARRIVED 🎉🦗
07/08/2026

LIVE FEEDER FOOD HAS ARRIVED 🎉🦗

06/08/2026

The Science of FEEDING THE RAINBOW! 🦜🥕🫐🥬🌺

When you look at a bowl filled with foods of different colors, you’re seeing much more than a pretty meal. You’re seeing biochemical diversity.

The colors in whole foods come from naturally occurring plant compounds—carotenoids, anthocyanins, chlorophylls, betalains, flavonoids, and many others. And different foods bring different combinations of these compounds to the bowl.

🥕 Orange & yellow foods can provide carotenoids such as beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin.

🫐 Blue, purple & red foods are often rich in anthocyanins and other polyphenols.

🥬 Green foods provide chlorophyll along with carotenoids, folate, vitamin K, minerals, and an enormous variety of phytochemicals.

🌺 Brightly colored flowers, fruits & vegetables can contribute still more flavonoids, phenolic acids, pigments, fibers, and other bioactive compounds.
But here's the important part:

👉 NO pellet, fruit, vegetable, seed, grain, flower, or leafy green provides everything.

And even foods that appear to provide the same vitamin or mineral aren't nutritionally identical. Whole foods contain complex mixtures of fiber, micronutrients and thousands of plant compounds that can interact with one another and with the gut microbiome, and many are lost during the processing of pellets.

That’s why dietary diversity matters.

A varied whole-food diet exposes parrots to a much broader range of nutrients, fibers and phytochemicals than repeatedly offering the same few foods every day. Different fibers can also provide substrates for different members of the intestinal microbial community—another reason variety matters beyond simply meeting vitamin requirements.

🌱 Don’t just think about individual nutrients as they work together. Think more about diversity.

Rotate the greens.
Change the vegetables.
Offer different colors.
Include different textures, plant parts and food types.
Keep the bowl changing.
There is no such thing as a “complete diet,” despite what any bag of bird food claims!

🦜 They need a diverse food system.

So when you're preparing that next fresh meal, ask yourself:
🌈 How many colors—and how many different plants—can I put in the bowl today?

📸 Show us your parrot’s rainbow! Post a photo of today’s bowl in the comments. 👇

Visit biobirdblends.com for ideas to diversify your bird’s diet today.

Lots of natural treats instock!! 🐕🐩🐕‍🦺🦮🐾
06/08/2026

Lots of natural treats instock!! 🐕🐩🐕‍🦺🦮🐾

I wanted to repost this fella again because he's genuinely a lovely chap, and I can not fathom how he's still here! If i...
05/08/2026

I wanted to repost this fella again because he's genuinely a lovely chap, and I can not fathom how he's still here! If it were up to me, I'd take him myself.

Though he has the face of an old man, Reuben truly has a heart of gold. Cursed with old age and MBD from a lack of proper care; He is looking for an end of life home where he can experience love and comfort in those final years.

If you want to see if Reuben would be the right fit for you, be sure to inquire. We would love to see him finally find his home.

Don't let the name fool you. Flame isn't actually on fire. He just acts like he is.Flame is a rescue that is long awaiti...
04/08/2026

Don't let the name fool you. Flame isn't actually on fire. He just acts like he is.

Flame is a rescue that is long awaiting his forever home. Notorious for his excellent feeding response and curiosity, we'd recommend Flame as a beginner friendly snake with a keen personality.

*Please note, Flame is not sexed*

Interested in Flame? We are taking inquiries!

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38, Westgate
Wakefield
WF11JY

Opening Hours

Monday 10:30am - 3pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 3pm
Thursday 10:30am - 5pm
Friday 10:30am - 5pm
Saturday 10:30am - 4pm
Sunday 11am - 2pm

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