Most birds have no odor nor do their droppings smell. If there is an unpleasant odor emanating from the cage or your bird, it’s time to inspect both for the source of the smell. If your bird is behaving normally, eating well, droppings are normal, not sitting puffed up all the time or picking at […]
Contact with a reptile is a major source of salmonella infection. About half the cases of salmonella in children under the age of 5 are caused by this. About 90% of all reptile pets carry salmonella. They may sometimes shed it in their feces, which causes it to remain on surfaces for a long period […]
Dehydration of food is a process that removes water. The pieces become smaller and more concentrated, but nutrition remains practically the same. Dehydrating food inhibits the growth of bacteria as well. Before there were dehydrators there was the sun. Early on people discovered that the sun removed water from their food which could then be […]
