I've been doing my links like: [/c/cockatiel](https://lemmy.world/c/cockatiel)
No idea if it works or not.
There's a community here for parrots and one for cockatiels specifically! I've added a link to Backyard Chickens to the sidebar of the parrots community. 🙂
A lot of the psittacine medical knowledge base is actually from poultry research. They’re surprisingly similar anatomically!
One big difference is that hens lay eggs every day, that still blows my mind. A parrot risks death if they lay more than twice a year because they can’t recover enough dietary calcium quickly enough.
I have parrots which are the same as chickens but more manipulative. Subscribing.
How Marty lost his tail:
About a month ago, we were evacuated from our home because of wildfires. I wasn’t home when the evacuation order was given. I wasn’t allowed to go home to get my birds. Police officers kicked my door in around 1:30am that night and retrieved my birds! In the scuffle, Marty’s tail was ripped out.
Here’s my previous post about their rescue, if you’re curious.
It’s a cached Reddit post from web.archive so you aren’t giving Reddit any traffic.
I really miss my community there 🥲It feels like breaking up with a shitty boyfriend, but his grandma was really nice to you.