If you wish to keep your bird in auspicious conditions you have to pay serious attention to its feeding. Pets that live in people's houses in decorative cages usually belong to granivorous birds. But this fact doesn't intend them to eat only seeds. But in fact this sort of birds change their ration each time of the year in natural conditions. They can eat anything containing animal feed, vegetables, fruits and tree barks. So, feed your bird with large variety of meal and it will be healthy.

A lot of various stores today offer you to get wild bird seed. As you see you can't feed your bird an entire year with corns because it won't harmonize with their natural nutrition.

There are a lot of cases when birds eat the same feed for years and nothing occurs, but illnesses not always show themselves in a rapid way. But as a rule, the consequences of such nourishment may be shown in the malfunction of molt, overweight, kidney illness and disorder of the reproductive function. Vitamins and proteins are also necessary for the birds' organism because without them various infective diseases will appear.

The main part in a bird's meal must contain grain blend. It is very important for birds that the mixture should include different kinds of crops (wheat, oats, millet, maize etc) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds and lettuce's seeds). 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-yielding crops so you are to give little portions of them to avoid overuse.

Your bird must have a daily norm of its ration because each species has its own daily norm. Budgerigars should have 2 teaspoons per day and in the same time macaw is to have 4 tablespoonfuls every day.

Fresh feed consists of various greens, wild herbage, fruits, vegetables, also fresh leaves and branches of trees. And, of course you are to add animal forage to the bird's ration. It may be hen's eggs (only in boiled condition), fatless cottage cheese or small amount of nonfat minced meat. These forages are given to a bird once a week, in moult period - twice a week and only in the period of nestling - each day. Chalk or small stones must be also included in an extra feeder in a bird's cage. They include calcium and important for normal digestion of a bird.

Also it is necessary to provide a bird with a large cage. If you incline to bird homes you can buy them at every online pet shop nowadays.

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



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