Valentine’s Day is coming and we must not forget our Sweeties and their treats for Valentine’s!  Let’s Have a Snack Attack Feature Weekend

FEBRUARY 13 and 14th, 2010

Nutri Berries Parrot 2.25 lb size - Regular $33.95 - Feature Price - $28.85

Nutri Berries Macaw OR Parrot OR Cocktiel - 12 ounce - Regular $10.95 - Feature Price - $9.30

Sunny Orchard Parrot or Cockatiel - 10 ounce - Regular $9.95 - Feature Price $8.45

Sunny Orchard Parrot or El Paso or Garden Veggie- 3 lbs - Regular Price $32.95 - Feature Price $27.95

Tropic Fruit OR El Paso OR Garden Veggie Parrot Size - 10 ounce - Regular Price  $9.95 - Feature Price $8.45

Avicakes - Small Bird Size - Regular $7.35 - Feature Price - $6.25

Avicakes - Parrot Size - Regular $9.45 - Feature Price - $7.95

Just Tomatoes - Fruit Munchies Valentine’s Day Logo - (Apples, raisins, blueberries, sour cherries, mango, pineapple, raspberries) Regular Price $2.95 - Feature Price - $2.55

Mix and Match Order any 5 packages of Treats and order the following Specials to serve the treats (Limit 2 per Customer)

Receive a Carousel Treat Holder Small for $2.95

Receive a Carousel Treat Holder Large for $4.35

Receive a Pick A Peanut Small for $2.95

Receive a Pick a Peanut Large for $4.25

NOTE THESE SPECIALS Will be discounted when I process your order.

DISCOUNT COUPONS CAN BE USED WITH THE ABOVE SPECIALS!

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FEATURES OF THE WEEK –

SATURDAY & SUNDAY February 6th and 7th, 2010

Goldenfeast Hookbill Legume 25 oz - Regular Price -$12.95 - FEATURE PRICE - $9.75 (Limit 2 per customer)

Beak Appetit Buckets - Regular $6.85 - FEATURE PRICE - $5.25 (No limit but once a Bucket is sold out there is NO more!)

AviGreens - 113518 - Greens Super mix 8 ounce- Regular Price $24.95 - FEATURE PRICE - $17.50

SNACK SALE!

Grainola Bar / Large Hokbill Tutti/Fruitti - Regular $2.45  FEATURE PRICE - $1.90

Grainola Bar Large Hookbill Almond Delight - Regular $2.45 FEATURE PRICE - $1.90

Grainola Bar Large Hookbill Golden Honey Regular $2.45 FEATURE PRICE - $1.90

Grainola Bar / Large Hookbill Cajun Cashew Regular $2.45 FEATURE PRICE - $1.90

Grainola Bar Small Hookbill Sun Fun Regular $2.45

FEATURE PRICE - $1.90

STOCK UP NOW AND SAVE!!!

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GOOD BIRD MAGAZINE WINTER 2009/2010 arrived in stock today!  - $8.95

Some Articles include:

This Parrot Has Become a Problm

Getting Started with a Foster Bird

My Parrot Dosen’t Play with Toys

Building Trust with Nuts

Stick Training your Parrot

A Second Chance for a Senegal Parrot

Success with a Parent-raised Amazon Parrot

Improving your Parrot’s Visit to the Veterinarian

Empower the Human / Animal Bond with Positive Reinforcement

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PLEASE NOTE FOLKS

OUR SITE IS SECURE!!!

If you get a note saying “THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THIS WEBSITE’S SECURITY CERTIFICATE” it is due to the fact we switched Hosting Companies last month.  Our previous Hoster had us registered as healthybird.net.  Our new hoster has us registered as www.healthybird.net.  The search engines no longer see healthybird.net as a secure site.  We have put a redirect on but apparently it takes a while for healthybird.net to phase out.  Our site is on a dedicated IP address and is secured with a  security certificate with Geo Trust.

We felt it was important to advise you all of this as I know personally when I am looking up sites, if I see a Security Certificate warning I don’t enter!

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FEATURES OF THE WEEK –

SATURDAY & SUNDAY January 30 & 31th, 2010 

Petit Hookbill 25 oz - Regular Price -$12.95 -

 FEATURE PRICE - $9.75 (Limit 2 per customer)

Beak Appetit Buckets - Regular $6.85 -

FEATURE PRICE - $5.25 (No limit but once a Bucket is sold out there is NO more!)

Harmony Ball - 115985 - Regular Price $8.75 -

 FEATURE PRICE - $6.60

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Hard to believe we are almost at the end of January already!  Where did the month go.  Weather as is always a hot topic,  has been great here.  Customers in the west are actually have the nerve to email and tell me if they are not careful they are going to  have to mow the lawn soon, imagine! LOL  We are not quite that fortunate! 

Times are still a little tough for some folks with this crazy ecnomy.  Healthy Bird is here to help.  For the next while, maybe the full year, who knows!   

Every Friday we will send out an email advising of the Sunday Features of the Week.  These specials will be put on the Home Page of the Catalog and that famous blog we keep saying we are going to keep updated! LOL

FEATURES of the week will ONLY be available on SUNDAYS   These items will be 25-30% off and will be STILL be eligible for the Healthy Bird Coupon Discounts.  How great is that!!  

This email will be sent to all Newsletter Subscribers of the On-Line Catalog. If you want to receive this email, please go into your personal settings of the Catalog and check off that you wish to receive.  Same goes for you folks that NO longer wish to receive these notices.  Please go into your personal settings and unclick the box. 

We have just added a slue of new products to the site with more to be added this weekend.  If there is something you would like that you don’t see, please ask!  

FEATURES OF THE WEEK – SUNDAY January 24th, 2010 

GOLDENFEAST NUTMEATS AND FRUIT 64 OUNCE – Regular Price $39.95 – FEATURE PRICE - $29.95 

Nutmeats & Fruit is a sumptuous treat blend for all medium to large hookbills. - Ingredients: Dehydrated cranberries, dehydrated apples, shelled unsalted almonds, shelled unsalted (roasted) peanuts, shelled Brazil nuts, dehydrated papaya, unsalted cashews, dehydrated pineapple, shelled non-roasted filberts, dehydrated mangos, dehydrated flaked coconut, dehydrated banana chips, dehydrated dates, Calimyrna figs, whole apricots, dehydrated cherries, dehydrated strawberries, pepitas (shelled pumpkin seed), jumbo flame dehydrated white grapes, Dried Lactobacillus acidophilis fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus casei fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus fermentum fermentation product, Dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product, and Dried Bifidobacterium longum fermentation product, and natural flavoring

 GOLDENFEAST GOLDEN’OBES - Regular Price $34.95 - FEATURE PRICE - $26.25

For all parrot species including Eclectus Made with Organic Ingredients A Complete Diet Food Contains NO added vitamins, artificial or otherwise NO preservatives NO processed sugars The #1 ingredients is NOT corn NO dyes Goes well with Goldenfeast? foods & treat items Guaranteed to Please! Ingredients: Hulled organic barley, Roasted organic soybeans, Organic corn, Organic pureed papaya, Organic Triticali, Shelled almonds, Organic flax seed, Organic hulled oats, Organic alfalfa, Maltoferm malt extract, Organic Pasteurized honey, Organic Quinoa, Organic Kamut, Beets, Amaranth, Organic spelt, Apples (cored), Sesame seed, organic Fenugreek, Pureed organic Guava, shelled Pumpkin seed, Dried Lactobacillus acidophillis fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus casei fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus fermentum fermentation product, Dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product, and Dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product, and Dried Bifidobacterium longum fermentation product. Parsley, Fennel seed, Sweet potatoes, Carrots, Blueberries, Raspberries, Wheat grass, Star anise seed, Ginger, Echinacea, Red clover leaf and Cilantro. Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein (min.) 19.25%; Crude Fat (min.) 10.25%; Crude Fiber (Max.) 4.25 

AVICAKES – MACAW SIZE – Regular Price $10.25 – Sale Price $7.69

Avi-cakes - macaw 1 lb - Ingredients: Ground Corn, Canary Grass Seed, White Proso Millet, Hulled Oats, Sugar, Soybean Meal, Cane Molasses, Propylene Glycol, Ground Limestone, Glycerine, Whole Egg, Rolled Oats, Corn Oil, Dicalcium Phosphate, Corn Gluten Meal, Iodized Salt, L-Lysine (an essential Amino Acid), DL-Methionine (an essential Amino Acid), Choline Chloride, Ethoxyquin (a preservative), Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Niacin Supplement, Calcium Dipantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine, Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Ascorbic Acid, Selenium. Birds, large and small, are happiest when working. Natural work is precisely what Avi-Cakes encourage. Fresh, flavorful seeds (safflower, sunflower, canary, and millet), peanut halves, cracked corn, rolled oats, whole eggs, and nutrient-enriched pellets are bound tightly together in a bed of sweet, chewy molasses. Eating them is a challenge that birds love to meet! Avi-Cakes fulfill 100% of your bird’s nutritional needs in each delicious bite.

Save those  Birdie pictures and send them in to us to be included in our SQUAWK ‘N PIX. In fact, send us any picture of your birdies that you would like to see posted.  We have so many pictures sent to us and it’s just a shame that everyone is unable to enjoy them.

We have Focker doing double duty now so the poor boy’s kinda pooped!  We flew him over to Newfoundland for the past few weeks to help Corrina at Atlantic Skies Birdie Supplies get set up.  Visit him there at http://atlanticskyaviary.com/store/.  If you do not see what you are looking for on her site, please be sure and let her know as she would be happy to stock all your requests.

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Hello Folks

Happy Thankgiving to all.

Fall is definately in the air and our birds are into the fall moult.  Now is a good time if they are on a daily supplement to switch that up for a moulting supplement with a little extra added calcium. 

We just received today the Fall 2009 copy of GOOD BIRD MAGAZINE.  Containts such articles as “Simple Solution to a Fear Response”, “Parrots and the Importance of Flight”, “When a Parrot Won’t go Back into the Cage”, “Oops I Scared my Parrot” and a great article on “The Do’s and Don’ts of Harness Training your Parrot”. 

I know we were supposed to put another Hidden Picture on the On Line Catalog, but we sort of got waylaid with other duties as we “thought” our little American Eskimo was going to have leg surgery.  After sedating him, shaving his leg and underbelly, taking more xrays, the vet and myself have decided we are going to waiit a bit and try and strength the leg joints naturally with some sea mussell, genacol and lots of exerciese. We will re evaluate him in six months and make a decison at that time.  He is having joint and ligament issues which is not so good considering this has been going on since a baby with him and he is now only 2.  Poor guy looks pretty funny right now with one bare leg!  I warn folks not to laugh at him, he does have feelings! LOL 

Have you noted all the new toys.  Man oh Man we have lots.  We esepcially like the Bamboo Giant and Rawhide Giant.  These toys are LOADED with soft woods all suspended from a massive bamboo or rawhide log.  Very reasonabily priced I also might add!

 The Macaw Bridge is loaded with leathers and natural woods, great for parront owners who prefer not to give coloured woods.

 The Leather and Block Boing here is also an amazing toy.  These toys are for the birds you are nervous will get intertwined in toys with cotton or sisal rope.  ROPEFREE 

Coming into Stock the first week of NOvember we have some more great wood and leather toys along with a new table top play stand with natural wood perches.

 Means it is Thanksgiving Weekend, let’s see who is reading the Blog.  I know, I can’t say as I blame you if you have not been lately, as we have not been on the ball in keeping it updated, but we continue to promise to do better!  Seems time is at a premium lately!

SPECIAL:  Mention in your order you have read the blog and we will deduct 25% off your shipping costs!  Special runs until Midnight Monday Night.  I should also add that we have reduced prices on Harrisons, some Pretty Bird pellets, some Goldenfeast products. 

New in stock now, thanks to customers request we have new perches and swings.

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Hi Folks

Been awhile huh!  Our sincere apologies. 

As most of you know, not only do we supply all your parrots with their every need, we also breed and hand raise parrots.   After a lot of very serious considertion we have made the decision to downsize our breeding considerably  and found our profilic breeder parrots new homes.    Life has just been so busy with the store and keeping all your folk’s birds happy. We are keeping Arbie and Muffin (our Red Belly parrots who have always shared my office in the house with me), our Timneh greys Sherman and Corky and our Hahns Dudley and Dutchess.  Dudley and Dutchess are just a year old yet so they should not have the “urge” for a few years yet.  Or their focus in life could become as Arbie and Muffins, which is ensuring they know and see everything that is going on around them!  Making sure to tell me if it’s Breakfast or Supper time.  Ensuring I don’t forget bedtime or their treats.  Telling me his cage and/or water is dirty.  He hears my blackberry ding and is quick on the ball to tell me EMAIL!  Average, takes this boy a day and a half to learn a new word or phase.  Someday I must log all their words, phases and songs.

Our greys, well they are no better  They have laid a clutch of infertile eggs this year, but believe me when I say they have not mastered the art of copulating! LOL  As with the other two pairs I am keeping these two are more focused on talking to me and being pets.

  My office has three full walls of windows, and with dimensions of 16 x 20 there should be plenty of room to share with them! L  As all three pairs have quite an extensive vocabulary, it really should be quite entertaining by times!

We will miss raising babies as we truly adored doing so,  But hey, ya never know……….Arbie might one day wake up and figure out he is a male and stop worrying about being the centre of attention.  Muffin would be so happy.   I have never seen such a nosey bird, so in sinz with my moves, actions and words.  Last month I was moving a cage into my office for Dudley and Dutchess.  No sooner did I start rolling that cage across the floor and Arbie starts with Damn………….Damn……………Damn!  He knows before I get across that floor at least once, I am going to say Damn. Second fav’s, if something is going to fall, you can be sure before it hits the floor Arbie is going to yell “OH SHIT”

Words obviously I use too often  (not  good ones I might add with parrots around). 

Don’t hesitate to email if you are looking for a new companion parrot to share your home with as we do have an extensive clientele of breeders that we could most certainly lead you to nice hand raised babies.

We will not be removing www.lovebirds.ca website as it is full of very useful information.  We just will not be doing updates on this site.

Let’s get back to some Healthy Bird News. 

We have just now finished updating the catalog with a whole slue of new items arriving Sept. 18, 2009.  Seems we have quite a few beavers as one customers has said, in our clientele listing!  Hence why we have a lot of mega large chewing toys coming this week to hopefully last a bit longer than other toys have lasted!  If you go onto the catalog and click onto What’s New, they will all list for you.  I think I counted some 60-70 new items I put on the Catalog yesterday, so much too many to list here, sorry.

We now have Bee’s Wax candles in stock.  These are safe to burn in the presence of birds, so not only would be nice for those quiet dinner/evenings, but for power interruptions.  We have two styles coming this week that have 50 hour burn time each.

In stock also we have Wingabago’s in Small and Medium/Large.  The first order we received sold out very quickly, more will be in stock Sept 18.  Note the Stainless Steel Door can be puchased separately along with carrier covers and cotton perches.  Whoops, covers and perches not on the catalog yet! L

Wingdow Seats have also been a huge success and sold out very quickly.  More will be in stock this week.  These are items you almost have to see in person before you realize the high quality of them.  We have one customer that has puchased one to use in her shower.  Excellent idea for a person that loves to soak in the tub and have their parrot(s) sitting close by.  No poo falls in the tub!

Why do you suppose we have labelled this post “Find Arbie”?  We are going to test your patience!  Somewhere in the some 2,000 items on our catalog, instead of a picture of the product advertised you will see this picture of  Arbie.  Place your order, let us know where Arbie is and we will include a toy valued at $10.00 (our choice) with your order.  This offer runs until Sept. 20th.  Sept. 21 - Sept 29 we will have Dudley hidden for you to find with a new bonus for who finds him.

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Oh man folks are we behind or are we behind!  We have had so much going on, we dont’ know where to begin! 

Let’s see the month of July and early August has hosted our Customer Appreciation Day, saw two new adorable birdie arrivals at our house, company from almost all ends of the province, family birthdays and retirements, major store renovations and LOTS of new inventory.

So the question is where do we start!  Well let’s start with Customer Appreciation Day. 

Thank you to all who attended.  A good time was had by all, with LOTS of prices, lots of food and snacks and great company.  If anyone is missing a sweater and an umbrella, please give us a call.  We seem to have an extra of each here now!  We do have pictures to get up for you sometime this month! 

MIchelle - the recipe you wanted….

Cheese ball

1 envelope of Hidden Valley Ranch dressing

1 8 ounce package of creme cheese

1/2 cup or so of shredded cheese

Mix all together  and form into ball.  Puree 1/4 cup of walnuts and roll ball into walnuts.  Best made 3-4 hous ahead of serving time. Can’t get any easier than this!

Our summer has been so “behind” poor Louis who’s birthday was in June and his retirement from government after 36 years was also “supposed” to be celebrated the same month.  Louis comes from a large close knit family so we felt we almost had to have 2 celebrations.  One for family and one for friends.  After many cancellations, we hosted the family gathering the latter part of July and the friends gathering at our house early August!  The friends gathering was hosted just in time as two days after the fact he was scheduled with first meeting for his new position.  Retirement lasted a month, not even long enough to get property chores out of the way.

Of course we were no help as we asked for a new wall of shelving in the store.  Well one wall led to another, and then another, and well then you may as well do all four walls!  Nice pine shelving now matches the walls.  What a massive job that was and is still not 100%.  Making the shelves, moving out the old and in with the new, was the easy part.  With the amount of stock we have, restructuring and organizing is a HUGE job.  Every product now has a final resting spot, but lots of shelves have still to be organized.  If you can imagine the same time this new shelving project was underway, we had two massive shipments of new inventory! 

We now have in stock Wingdow seats, Acrylic Carriers, Featherbrite cage lighting, Featherbrite swag lamps, toys, perches, supplements, eggfood, list is endless.  Let’s forgo the “News” for a bit and get started on posting some pictures of new inventory in stock and then move on over and get it on the catalog for  you.

But before we move onto new product, let’s remind everyone about the Eastern Canada Avian Association Annual Gala this weekend.  Mapleton Lodge August 22 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Healthy Bird will be in attendance so if you are attending and have anything of interest you wish to see from our line of inventory, PLEASE email and ask us to bring along.  You can read more about the day on the website at www.ecavianassociation.com

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Hi Ya All.

Crazy days this month!! 

Must be the crazy weather.  And when I say Crazy Weather I don’t mean in a good way!  I am not a sun worshipper so the cooler days I rather enjoy, but the rain……………can take a hike any day!

Could you all please remember to update your address books with our new email.  arb@nb.sympatico.ca should be replaced with healthybird@rogers.com.  It is such a pain to change email addresses so you can be sure this was not done as a money saving venture, but I felt a year was long enough to give our old provider time to fix our wireless connections!!   Switched providers and Poof, wireless worked immediately upon changing wiring. 

And don’t forget this Saturday is Customer Appreciation Day!!  You are more than welcome to drop by and join in the BBQ, prizes, cake and fun, or take advantage on line of the TAX FREE day.  We will fill the blog with pictures and updates for you next week.

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