oh wow I found this thread http://groups.msn.com/BirdBrainz/macaws.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=79452&LastModified=4675449500615426007

I am a bad Macaw owner I have been giving him way more than 4 or 5 per day noone told me

Here is a site with average bird weights.  Can give you some kind of idea.  But with the internet yoou probably can find another chart with different statistics.  http://www.avianweb.com/AverageBirdWeights.htm

 

 

Indy

It is amazing to go back and see stuff I wrote years ago. I don't remember that at all.

I had a male scarlet who weighed 1250. He was certainly not fat. Good size, larger than most scarlets but I thought B&Gs were always larger than scarlets. I have seen some who were a lot bigger than Rio.

 

Remember it takes a small built bird and a big built bird to make an average weight. Go by averages only and no bird will be exactly what the charts say they should weigh.

If you can separate the breast feathers and look at his skin, you will see yellow if he's fat. Also you should be able to feel his keel bone (breast bone) easily. But, if you can feel his breast tissues stick out beyond the keel, then yep, he's overweight.

 

I had a fat fat amazon, my adorable Julie, who was so fat we couldn't feel her keel at all. She died as a result of a fall that ruptured her air sacs. She was too fat to land gracefully.  Her death was painful and horrible, so keep them a bit low rather than a bit high in weight.

Annie

It was great reading those old messages and I have cut back on the almonds to approx 3 a day, but every other day Dude gets a couple of pignoli nuts (in the shell), and he usually gets one half a peanut every day.  He's certainly not fat -- he usually weighs in anywhere from high 890's to 940's.

Sailor's first vet check was close to 1300 grams. Here I was thinking that she was on the thin side, but the vet said she has some amazingly developed muscles. Also said for her size she should be a bit over 1000. She has trimmed down some, but still remains at about 1100g.  

This question cracks me up.  I wonder why Abby the Human hasn't checked in with a response

lol ok what in the world am I gonna do I didn't mean you Abby I ment Abby  oh geeeeez the bird Abby you know who I ment .........

This is funny.

Goodbird has a Senegal named Annie and I do a double take every time she mentions her.

Don't feel bad, Cat. We knew who you meant.

Annie

Since someone else brought it up I must admit I've been biting my tongue and tying my fingers in knots not to reply in some sarcastic way to this post about weight and such and our human Abby.  Mainly because I know she would get me back double or triple.

 

And Annie's been driving me crazy lately!  She's chewing anything she can get her beak on--and not just a little......she's driven to total destruction!  Little green chainsaw

Didja see me flinch? Happens every time.

Annie