Healthy Water for your Parakeet
Be sure your parakeet always has fresh water. Water is CRITICAL for a healthy parakeet. IT has to be clean. YOU would not drink water out of your toilet bowl with poop floating in it, would you?? Your parakeet is just as much a clean freak as you are - if not more so!You should change your parakeet's water daily. Parakeets (and all other living creatures for that matter) enjoy fresh water. Water that sits still for a while gets stagnant, scummy and slimy. Nobody likes to drink scummy water. Heck,
Make sure you keep the water dish up high where it won't have things falling into it. This can include seed hulls, feathers, millet, or other such things. Sometimes the occasional feather will drift in anyway, but again if you're changing the water daily, it shouldn't matter much.
Don't put any supplements or other items into the water. Some salesmen try to get you to buy 'liquid vitamins' that you put into your bird's water to super-nutrient the bird. Those vitamins can make the water taste funny, so now the bird isn't drinking the water at all and gets sick. The vitamins also promote bacterial growth, which can also make your bird sick.
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