- Blueberry's second road trip.
Blue is right there.
- [Blonde woman] Is he happy about it?
- Yeah he looks happy.
(upbeat music)
Here's your two.
- [Blonde woman] You wanna show everybody where Blues
favorite spot is to be?
- Yes.
Blues favorite spot in the car
if we bring a perch in the car.
It will always be this one.
Its a shower one that we use in the shower with him.
It fits really good, he really likes it.
It fits in pretty good.
- [Blonde Woman] That is fantastic aye?
- [Blonde Girl] yeah.
You can pull it down and up.
You can put it in the middle.
How many more hours daddy?
- About two or less.
(crunching)
- [Blonde Woman] Is it clear?
- [Blonde Girl] Come on Blue.
Go Blue come on you can get it.
Get it Blue.
Turn you don't let go.
You keep it up here.
There's a hole in it but that's so you can put it on stuff.
- Blue, Blueberry.
All right guys, as you saw,
Blueberry just went on his second road trip.
It was a short one this time,
and there was no free flight involved.
So not as much exciting stuff going on,
but we actually went down to Sandy Utah
to work with some rescue birds.
So Blue didn't really get to be a part of that,
but he had a lot of fun in the hotel as usual
and in the car and loved it.
And the cool difference this time
is that he has some flight feathers come in,
or she you know it hasn't been a year yet,
so we're not making the gender official,
but you can kinda see on the wings
that there are some flight feathers coming in
last two major tail feathers
and Blue can pretty much fly.
Like you're getting lift
can fly all the way across the house.
It's pretty amazing turning the whole thing.
So we're really excited,
but it did make a little bit of our road trip
kind of nerve wracking
just because we had to be even more careful
and more cautious than we already were
about making sure that doors
and windows don't get open accidentally
because this little bugger could fly out
and make it pretty far so,
but instead of running across the bed nowadays,
now he was flying across the room, which was really fun.
I had a really hard time catching it on camera.
So I want to at least show you guys here in the house,
how far Blueberry can now fly.
Cause we're all super excited and celebrating it.
(mood music)
Wuh righto man I missed that one, you were just a blur.
I missed it.
Will you do it again?
Here fly.
Good.
Blue, Blue come Blue.
Good.
Go Blue.
Wuh good job Blue.
So although this video is really, really cute.
(giggling)
If I do say so, 'cause Blueberries adorable
and Blueberry loves road trips.
Doesn't get motion sickness or any of that.
I know that some birds do.
So I wanted to go ahead and address that in this video,
we've actually experienced this with one bird,
which is actually Sunny, our current project bird.
And I wanna address a few ways
that you guys can remedy this with your own birds.
The first thing is that there's no rhyme
or reason to why a bird may or may not get motion sickness
in the car or get car sickness.
So they just kinda get it or they don't.
In our experience with my own flock.
I've never experienced it with my own birds.
Sunny is actually my first experience
with a bird that gets motion sickness.
And Dave found this out when he brought him home.
So one of the things that we have to do to
make it way more comfortable for Sunny
is to not feed him at least two hours prior to taking
and hitting the road.
And that's because he will throw up his food
and that's not pleasant for anyone.
So to avoid his stomach, getting upset
and actually vomiting all his crop,
we just don't feed him before road trips.
And I found that even when I did
offer him food on a road trip,
which I normally do with my own birds,
he would not eat it.
So it's kind of a self-induced thing,
but now I've learned to just not put it out there.
He will only eat,
if he knows that we are going to stay put for a while,
we've parked, we've completely stopped moving for a while.
Then he will eat.
One of the things that you can do
is take your bird on a 15 minute to 30 minute road trip
and just see if your bird gets motion sick.
Some birds are more comfortable
with their cages being covered some are not.
This is something that you can play around with
and maybe even cover half the cage
and see which part of the cage they prefer.
They may want to see things moving out the window
and they may totally not want to
it's really a case by case basis.
So you'll have to kind of figure that out
with your own bird.
So a few natural remedies that you can do
for birds that are motion sickness
are ginger, basil and peppermint.
You can just simply make your own tea
and put any of those things in some hot water
and steep it for a few minutes
then take it out and give your bird, the cooled down water.
If your bird isn't crazy about ginger,
cause that is a little bit more of a spicy of a flavor
that they're going to taste
and either like, or totally dislike,
you can use the alternatives of basil or peppermint
and do it a little bit more mild
so they don't notice it as much.
So you can give them this water.
You can prepare it ahead of time,
keep it in a thermos or however you want.
It doesn't have to be served warm.
It can be served cool.
You wanna make sure it's never served hot.
So just kinda make it yourself though.
Don't actually go out and buy a human tea
and make that for your bird.
I really prefer you just actually use the peppermint leaves
or the basil leaves and just steep those
and actual chunks of ginger
and just do it that way
so that you know, that there's no caffeine in that tea
or anything, or any sort of additives
in a tea that would be made for human liking,
including any sort of stevia or sweeteners.
Of course, if your birds will eat these sorts of things
in little chunks or little bites,
then that would also be awesome
to incorporate into your bird
and give it a little bit of something.
I find that birds that don't wanna eat
or drink during road trips,
you can often give them little pieces of fruit
with kind of greens like the basil
or the peppermint stuck to it.
And normally they will, for example,
eat a sliced grape
with a little bit of the green stuck to it
because they are getting that hydration from the fruit.
So that's kinda when fruit comes in handy
is when you need to get some hydration into your bird,
but the bird is not necessarily wanting to eat pellets
or fresh veggies or anything like that.
Or you may not even be able to travel with it.
I personally don't travel with my seasonal feeding system
just because I can't keep it fresh
for the amount of time that I ideally would like to,
or the amount of time that my road trips usually last.
One of the things that has worked really well
for Dave and I with traveling with birds,
especially if it's their first time
is traveling during the nighttime
when they would normally be sleeping
so that they just sleep all the way through it.
This has been awesome for us.
And it's a really nice introduction
so that they're almost exposed to kind of that
ambient noise of driving and what's happening
and that vibration of the car,
but they're not exposed to all the craziness of the daytime
and all the activity.
So it does, it gets a little bit nicer,
I would say, probably have your bird covered at that point.
Just so it's uninterrupted sleep.
Otherwise, a lot of things you're dealing with at night are
lights streaming in and going by and flashing by
and that can be pretty distracting for a bird.
So for us, we don't personally cover our birds,
but that's because when they travel in a large trailer
and so they have pretty full sized cages
and it is dark in there, we don't have windows or anything.
So we control the lighting
with the lighting that we have installed
and we can turn it on or off
so that we can get control how much sleep they're getting.
So our birds aren't necessarily in the cabin,
but when I do have them in our actual truck with us,
I always bring a little cover, especially for Blueberry
and he has a little blanket
and that's something that we've always kept with him
to protect him from the elements to be honest.
It started out with needing to protect him from wind
or rain or cold, just going from the car to the hotel
or the car to anywhere else.
It just kinda keeps him safe.
And it keeps people from seeing what we have.
(giggling)
Cause you will get stopped if you have a bird
and, people wanna say hi
and poke at it and all those things.
And so I just personally like to keep
what kind of animal I have under wraps
and just safe from everywhere else.
And then also you can give them that darkness,
if it's starting to get dark around you,
you can kinda just go ahead
and give them that darkness early
so that they can successfully sleep
without light beaming in.
So that's the one time I think that I do actually
use a cage cover is with Blueberry
when he's traveling in the front of the truck with us.
So yeah, you can use any sort of blanket or whatever
what have you to just block out those streaming lights.
Another thing is you can put them kind of down lower
where they just won't get hit with those lights as well.
So it's really up to your bird
and what it receives as the most relaxing
and the easiest to kind of sleep in.
There's a lot of travel carriers
that are completely enclosed.
And so you don't even have to worry about a cage cover
because the cage is already technically covered.
And as long as you put the opening part towards a wall or
something, that's gonna block out that light
they'll sleep great.
So I hope these tips help you guys if,
especially if you are experiencing a bird
with motion sickness and how to kinda remedy it.
(crunching)
- [Blonde Girl] Come one Blue you can get it.
Lets just talk a little bit for him.
Oh, you put your foot on that.
Okay.
Got it for him.
Okay.
Blue you have to get this.
Come on Blue.
You can get it.
You don't want...
He really likes that.
Little Blue get after this.
Okay.
(crunching)
Oh my gosh Blue, you're making a mess.
(crunching)
You done?
No?
Come here show you guys totally what he is doing.
He is really getting it.
And it's me filming, hi.
Little Blue.
The thing, fell off the bed.
Blue, Blue.
Blue we have a big twig you can play with.
Sorry.
Little Blue want this?
(screaming)
Come get.
Yeah.
Gave him another option, but he doesn't want this.
You can get your fingers stuck in it
and then you can take it out.
Little Blue you want a ball?
Is this small ball that he can play with.
Move it there's three options.
He's only going after that little piece of wood.
So this is well.
(giggling)
He does not wanna share.
This is like a tiny thing of wood that they shaped
and it had a hole in it.
So you can add it onto string
and make your own safe bird toys.
Blue really likes that.
You have an itch.
Yeah give me.
Give me.
(screaming)
I think he's mostly teared apart this.
Great.
Okay you can have that back.
(screaming)
I'm gonna grab it.
I'm gonna grab it
I'll hold it for him.
So its still.
Blue look at this mess you made.
I'll show you guys he made a huge mess.
There's also some on the floor.
Back to Blue.