A Piece of Advice for Persons that Like Avocets
The main point in the housing of birds is a right nourishment for them. Usually the cage birds are a type of granivorous ones they can be parrots, canaries, pigeons etc. But it doesn't intend them to eat only seeds. But in truth this sort of birds vary their food every time of the year in natural conditions. The ration may contain animal feed, different greens, fruits and tree barks. That's why the diversity of forages will keep your bird healthy.
Today you may get wild bird seed almost anywhere, even online. But you are not to feed your bird only with corn a whole year because it doesn't really correspond to diverse bird nourishment in nature.
From the first view you can not indicate any disease after feeding your bird with the same forage for years. But with some time diseases will be revealed. Ornithologists observe such diseases as the malfunction of molt, obesity, disorder of the reproductive function etc. All these cases are conditional on wrong feeding of birds. Also there can be many cases of infective diseases because birds need vitamins and proteins in their food.
Grain blend is the most necessary part in a bird's meal. Different sorts of grains (wheat, millet, oats, maize and others) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) must be contained in this mixture because it is really helpful for a bird's health. Of course there should be oil-yielding seeds such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seed and various nuts. Obesity can be provoked by oil-bearing seeds so you are to give small portions of them to elude overuse.
Your bird should have an everyday norm of its ration because each species has its own daily norm. For example canary's norm is one teaspoon, budgerigar will eat 2 teaspoon per day and so on.
Also you may add in the blend different kinds of greeneries, fruits, vegetables, wild herbage, fresh leaves and branches of trees. Animal feed must be included to a bird's ration as a source of proteins. It may be eggs (only in boiled condition), nonfat cottage cheese or small amount of fatless minced meat. You should give such feeds to your bird once a week, but in molt period it will be two times a week and if it is a period of breeding - give it each day. In the bird's cage must be also situated a feeder with a piece of chalk or small stones, they are important for a normal digestion.
We have to say that birds need a large cage. If you incline to bird houses you can buy them at every pet shop nowadays.
And if you are a henchman of wild birds feeding you can purchase various window bird feeders in our internet store.
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