Avian Medicine:
Avian Nutrition
Nutrition Glossary
Nutrition Links
Frequently Asked Questions
Pet Bird Foods
- Formulated diets in avian nutrition
- Guaranteed analyses
- Expert panel on companion bird nutrition
- Nutritional content of pet bird diets
- Nutritional equivalency report: Comparison of a fortified whole-seed diet (Nutri-Berries) with a pelleted diet
- Nutritional strategies
- Reading pet food labels
- Use of Nutri-An Cakes for weight reduction and maintenance
Nutrition & Behavior
- Foraging as behavioral modification
- Nutri-Berries and Foraging: A neuroanatomic perspective
Nutrition & Medical Care
- Body condition scoring
- Body weight, normals
- Calcium in the avian patient
- Calculating energy requirements
- Clinical avian nutrition
- Emeraid Omnivore and the Emeraid Critical Care System:
Hand and gavage feeding - Iron storage disease in birds
- Nutritional management of gastrointestinal disease
- Nutritional management of liver disease
- Nutritional management of renal disease
- Nutritional management of obesity
- Omega-3 fatty acids: Information for the veterinary health professional
- Omega-3 fatty acids and atherosclerosis in birds
- Parenteral nutrition in birds
- Seeds commonly fed to companion birds
- Tube feeding birds
- Vitamin A: Information for the veterinary health professional
Client Education
- Dietary conversion – Download PDF Handout
- Feeding Your Pet Bird a Healthy Diet – Download PDF Handout
- Forgaging Behavior in Companion Parrots – Download PDF Handout
- Vitamin – Download PDF Handout