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5 Things A Stainless Steel Bowl Can't Do For Your Parrot

5 Things A Stainless Steel Bowl Can't Do For Your Parrot

You bought the bowl every avian vet recommends. Good, so did almost all of our customers. Here's what it fixed, and the five things it was never built to do.

Dr. Michael Reynolds

By Dr. Michael Reynolds, DVMAvian Veterinarian, 12 years in practice

Steel was the right call. Plastic hides mould in the scratches, and you knew it. This is about the one thing steel can't change: the water doesn't move.

Reason01

It Can't Move

80% of the bird parents who bought from us last month were already using a stainless steel bowl. And a steel bowl changes nothing about the scene every bird parent knows: the tap goes on and he's there. “If you run the sink you pay the birb tax.” “We know she wants a bath when she gets under the faucet when we're washing hands.” Budgies scream at the sound alone. That's the whole claim in one scene: birds go for water that moves. A bowl is still by design, and steel doesn't change that. Better metal, same water sitting still. BirbFlow puts the stream he flies to your sink for inside the cage, where he actually lives.

Parrot drinking moving water
Reason02

It Can't Filter

Steel fixed what plastic did. “Plastic gets bacteria in the tiny scratches on the surface, so it's more difficult to keep clean,” as one owner put it, and steel doesn't scratch like that. Right buy. But a steel bowl holds the soup exactly as well as a plastic one. What he dunks and what he drops sits in the water until you change it: “30 minutes after I refill their bowl, it's nasty and smells awful.” BirbFlow is the same 304 steel, with the water moving through a three-layer carbon filter, so what he drops in is carried out between your changes. You'll still change it daily.

BirbFlow filtration
Reason03

It Has A Rim He Perches On

“The tiels would perch ON THE DISH with their butts aimed at the water.” That's not a cockatiel problem, it's a bowl problem: the rim is the best perch in the cage, and it sits right over his drinking water. BirbFlow's drinking surface is a shallow stream with no rim to sit over, so there's nowhere to perch above the water, and what does land is carried into the filter instead of stewing.

Rimless BirbFlow fountain
Reason04

It Can't Tell You He Drank

“I have a mark on the water bowl and almost never below the line.” Birds sip so little and so quietly that a bowl's level barely moves, and they won't drink while you watch. One in four of the bird parents we asked worried their bird didn't drink enough. BirbFlow's water-level window shows you at a glance that he did, and that the filter ran while you were out.

BirbFlow water-level window
Reason05

It Needs You Every Few Hours

“Change it 4x a day sometimes more. Washing the bowl out each time.” Keep the routine; every avian vet will tell you the same. But a bowl is only as fresh as your last trip to the sink. BirbFlow is the same stainless steel with the four things the bowl can't do: it moves, it filters, it has no rim, and it shows you he drank. Completely wireless, a pump that opens and rinses, dishwasher-safe parts. Try it for 30 days. If he won't touch it, send it back.

The bowl was the right buy. The fountain is the one upgrade the bowl can't make.

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Most of the water fountains I see in bird cages were never designed for birds they were designed for cats. When I look at a product for a parrot, I'm checking boring, specific things: is the water shallow enough that a bird can stand in it, are there gaps that could trap a toe, is there a cord within reach of a beak, and is the pump quiet enough that a nervous bird won't flee the cage. This is the first fountain I've seen that was built to that list.

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Dr. Katie

DVM, Avian Vet Consultant to BirbFlow

Kidney disease is relatively common in pet birds, and gout often isn't caught until the bird is already very ill. Hydration is one of the few things an owner can genuinely influence day to day but it's also the hardest for me to get them to monitor, because birds sip so quietly that most owners never actually see it happen. Anything that helps a bird drink more, and lets the owner see that it happened, is worth having.

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Dr. Alex Crowe

DVM, Avian Vet Consultant to BirbFlow

The water dish is one of the most underestimated infection risks in a cage. Birds dunk their pellets in it, drop feathers into it, and often perch directly above it bacteria counts climb within hours. I tell owners to change it several times a day, and almost nobody manages that in real life. A filtered stainless steel system that keeps the water clean between changes solves a problem I see in practice constantly.

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Dr. Anna Maria Wolf

DVM, Avian Vet Consultant to BirbFlow

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