VMD 513: Pet animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

CATCHING A BIRD

• Catching a bird should be quicker to minimize stress.
• Smaller birds can be caught inside the cage or if ‘finger tame’ directly from the hand.
• Larger tamed birds can be easily caught outside the cage by confining to a corner of a small room.
• Untamed larger birds should be caught inside the cage.
• Sudden darkness temporarily freeze the bird and small flash light can be used to locate the bird and can be caught.
• While using this method for larger parrots, adequate care should be taken, because the handler also have limited vision and even friendly parrots may bite when frightened.