Monkey’s Hand

A full-blown alimentation is one of the principal conditions of a successful bird keeping. Usually the cage pets are a type of granivorous ones they are parrots, canaries, pigeons etc. But it doesn't mean that they have to eat only seeds. Every time of the year birds differentiate their meal owing to their necessities when they live in nature. Birds like to vary their meal with different sorts of animal forages, vegetables, fruits, tree barks and so on. So, feed your bird with large diversity of forage and it will be healthy.

Today you can get wild bird seed almost anywhere, even online. You are to look after your birds and create natural conditions for them. That is why you have to feed them with different sorts of feed during the year.

There are a lot of cases when birds have the same forage for years and nothing occurs, but illnesses not always show themselves in a rapid way. Scientists observe such illnesses as the malfunction of moult, overweight, disorder of the reproductive function etc. All these occasions are conditional on wrong feeding of birds. And a shortage of vitamins and proteins weakens the defense reaction of a bird's organism and makes it sensitive to various infective illnesses.

So the main part of a bird's ration contains grain mixtures. But the composition of the blend should be of different crops (wheat, oats, millet, maize and so on) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) because it is highly significant to keep your bird robust. Also you can attach there diverse oil-bearing crops such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and different nuts. Overweight may be provoked by oil-yielding crops so you are to give little doses of them to avoid overdose.

Every bird has its own standard daily quantity of food so you are to follow that portions should not exceed the norm. For example canary's norm is 1 teaspoon, budgerigar will eat two teaspoon a day etc.

You have to contain in the forage diverse greens, wild herbage, fruits, vegetables, fresh leaves and branches of trees. Besides, animal forage should be added to a bird's ration. It can be hen's eggs (only in boiled condition), nonfat cottage cheese or small amount of nonfat minced meat. These feeds are given to a cage bird one time a week, in molt period - two times a week and only in the period of nestling - each day. In the bird's cage should be also situated a feeder with a piece of chalk or small stones, they are important for a good digestion.

We are to say that birds want a large cage. If you incline to bird homes you may buy them at every pet shop nowadays.

For those people who like to feed savage and domestic birds we suggest also wild bird feeders.

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