Birds of Pet Paradise VB

09/03/2026

Welcome Theodore/Teddy Bundy🤣🤣 we are dna sexed male umbrella cockatoo baby that is still handfeeding. Please call the shop for more info on the cute, funny, cuddly boy.

08/31/2026

This beautiful girls name is “Cashmere” . She is our newest to enter the group chat. She is still hand feeding. Please call the shop for more info. 

08/28/2026

Amazing info on how to properly buy and feed chops and other raw foods for your birds. We love making it for you but it’s always about education.

🌱🦜 IT’S FORAGING FRIDAY!
💰 Feeding fresh doesn’t have to be expensive.
One of the biggest misconceptions about feeding parrots a diverse whole-food diet is that it costs a fortune. It doesn’t—especially when you shop strategically. And it’s cheaper than most pellets… and a heck of a lot healthier, too!

🌱 SPROUTING IS ONE OF THE MOST AFFORDABLE WAYS TO ADD FRESH FOOD.
A small amount of dry seed can produce a surprisingly large amount of living, fresh food after soaking and sprouting. Lentils, mung beans, millet, buckwheat, wheat, quinoa, and other sproutable seeds can be purchased inexpensively, stored for long periods, and sprouted in small batches as needed.

And remember: your bird only eats a small amount!
🥕 Instead of buying large bags of produce, focus on foods you can purchase individually or in small quantities:
🫑 1 bell pepper
🥕 1 carrot
🍐 1 pear
🍎 1 apple
🥭 1 mango
🥒 1 zucchini or yellow squash
🌱 A handful of green beans or peapods
🥬 A few Brussels sprouts
🍠 1 small sweet potato (yes, raw!)
🫐 A small container of berries
🌿 Small bunches of leafy greens

One pepper can contribute to several meals. One carrot can last multiple days. A few Brussels sprouts, green beans, berries, and peapods can provide even more variety without buying more food than your bird can eat.

🌈 The goal isn’t to buy a lot of each food—it’s to buy SMALL AMOUNTS of MANY foods.
Combine individually purchased produce with inexpensive sprouts, soaked seeds, herbs, edible flowers, and other whole foods, and you can create tremendous dietary diversity for surprisingly little money.

💡 Shop smart. Buy small. Sprout often. Rotate constantly.
Your bird gets variety, texture, moisture, color, phytonutrients, and opportunities to forage—without a huge grocery bill.

🌱🦜 Fresh food is affordable food.

Check out the options at the shop link on our page!

08/27/2026

Our capri macaw saffron is the most loving, sweetiest, cuddliest ever. Adaline, whose mom works in the Bird Department getting all the cuddles this morning. Please call the shop for more info

08/24/2026

Read the whole thing!

If you think this is “gourmet” food for birds, you might want to rethink your approach to avian nutrition.

I’m was invited to speak at another avicultural event on the “evolution of avian nutrition” which has me looking back and forward a great deal. Much of what has developed of the years has been an attempt at convenience… but there is nothing convenient about the keeping of the many different species we keep.

To truly know birds is to know that they require a diversity of food items that each have their own nutrient matrix, which can include hundreds of different bioactive compounds… many of which are lost during the processing of extruded pellets. Because of this significant loss, synthetic vitamins and other compounds are added to those foods in an effort to make them complete. But they aren’t.

Whole food items are critical to avian health and longevity. They can survive on ultraprocessed foods for a time, and some longer than others, but survival in our care shouldn’t be enough. Thriving should be a constant goal and satisfying not only physiological needs, but also mental/behavioral needs should be just as important.

I see many attempt to validate reductionist diets by saying “I’ve had good results” or “my bird always has eaten this” but how should we be measuring success? Birds are complex organisms that should be treated as birds, and that means treating them as organisms that have evolved to consume diverse items through a variety of foraging behaviors for most of every day.

At the Avian Nutrition Summit we hosted this past weekend, we heard from professionals who care for a wide diversity of species and all agree on a central point: You cannot beat, by any measure, real, living whole food.

Visit the link in our bio for more info.

08/24/2026

Chop and sprouts are back in stock!

08/22/2026

New toys have dropped! We got in more macaw toys all the way down to your small bird toys!

08/13/2026

Please call the shop for more info!

08/06/2026

Gold cap conures.