Trim Down Your Parrot’s Nails… Naturally

If you’re anything like me, you more than likely hate clipping and trimming your parrot’s nails.

Well, I have a pretty large flock so trimming nails takes me a while! And they can get insanely sharp if not looked after. I definitely know that… I’ve had my eye cut from my blue throated macaw’s toe nail. He was just trying to get to the highest place (aka, my head) and his nail pierced my under-eyelid of my eye and sliced right to the eyeball!

My eye was swollen like crazy and I was on the verge of panic because I thought maybe something serious would happen to my eye sight out of my one eye. Birds aren’t exactly the cleanliest creatures… so I knew what could have been on that toe nail!

I took some meds to it right away and sure enough, a huge black chunk came out of my eye almost immediately. I didn’t have any serious damage aside from the deep slice that healed over within a few days. However, it was scary and avoidable. My macaw wasn’t being aggressive or mean, he was going at normal speed if not slower and had no idea he even cut into my face.

Not only can you implement sandy and cement perches (though beware, cement sucks the moisture from everything) but there is now this awesome, one of a kind perch that is called the Go Green Bamboo Perch from Wyld’s Wingdom!

The great thing about these bamboo perches is that it’s all natural. There’s no cement to take the moisture out of your bird’s feet and there’s no sandy sores!

My macaws are so powerful that they EAT the sandy perches. And the sandy perches I’ve got – which I think almost all are the same – only have the sandy part as a thin lining around the perch. But the actual perch is made out of PVC pipe… which they end up eating. These bamboo perches are literally just that… bamboo and pumice stone… in and out, and all the way through!

So, instead of having to go through the annoying time of begging your bird to let him allow you to trim his nails, or taking him to that horrific time at the vet… get some bamboo perches like these and call it a day! These will naturally trim down your parrot’s nails so that you don’t have to worry about getting painful scratch marks up and down your arms.

To find your own bamboo perches, simply do a search on google for “bamboo perches for sale” or something similiar. With that, I found the following websites selling these perches: Option one, option two, option three.