How to care for your new friend
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The first thing of course everybody wants to do is play with the new pet and cuddle it and give him/her their constant attention. 
This is very important but please keep the following in mind. The first few days are very stressful for your new bird.
    Your bird is scared, it has been taken out of the only environment it ever knew, it is now in a new cage, new surrounding
s without  his/her siblings to cuddle up to. Your bird is scared and  frightened and does not know you. It is therefore much
better, as hard as that is to do for a new pet owner, to leave it in its cage for a  while and only take it out every so often the
first few days for 10 minutes at a time. Give the bird a few hours to explore the new cage. There are new faces to get used
to, perhaps other new pets, like dogs, cats, the noise of children . All these will frighten a young bird and stress him/her 
out and it will take a few days to get adjusted to.
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MAKE SURE YOUR BIRD IS EATING RIGHT
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Any bird will be stressed going to a new home and this can affect  your new pets eating habits Make sure to inquire what 
your birds have been fed by your breeder.
    We try to give all new pet owners a bag of our pellet mixture . If you decide to feed your bird different pellets or a seed 
mixture, please do not change from one day to the next to new feed. Mix  the feed given to you by the breeder with your 
new feed, first 75% breeder feed, 25 % new feed. Everyday change this ratio so bird gets slowly used to new feed without 
upsetting him too much. Usually by the end of a week the bird will be used to eating the new food without any problem.
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What should I feed my bird?
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Our birds are fed a combination of pellets, seeds and fresh fruits and vegetables.
There are a number of good pellets on the market. These pellets are designed with all the nutrition and protein balanced 
for a healthy bird.  Pellets come in "Maintenance" and "Breeder". You want to purchase the "maintenance"  it is 
formulated for your pet bird. The seeds for the conures should be a good parrot mix ,vitamin enriched.

    Your bird should have a cuttle bone available at all times for his/her calcium needs.
They like apples (NO APPLE SEEDS, they are poisonous)  , grapes, oranges and just about any fruit and nearly all 
vegetables. These can be given raw or cooked.

    Also a good treat is an  occasional peanut. Please limit these, since they are very high in protein.  Another treat is 
raw pasta, they do like that.
DO NOT ever give your bird COFFEE,  CHOCOLATE, the caffeine is very bad for them,
and no AVOCADOS.

    Other than that, your bird can eat pretty well whatever you eat, but should have a low salt intake.

    And of course your bird should always have fresh water available at all times.

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