A full-blown feeding is one of the principal conditions of a problem-free bird housing. Pets that dwell at people's homes in decorative cages commonly belong to granivorous birds. Owing to the name of the species people used to feed them only with seeds, that is not correct. Every season birds differentiate their nourishment due to their purposes when they live in nature. Birds like to diversify their feed with various kinds of animal forages, vegetables, fruits, tree barks and so on. That is why the diversity of feeds will bring your bird healthy.
Today you can buy bird seed almost anywhere, even on the web. You are to look after your birds and create natural conditions for them. That's why you are to feed them with various sorts of feed during the year.
A lot of birds can eat the same meal for a long time and don't show any symptoms of a disease. But as a rule, the consequences of such nourishment may be shown in the malfunction of moult, obesity, kidney illness and disorder of the reproductive function. Vitamins and proteins are also necessary for the birds' body because without them different infective diseases will appear.
So the basis of a bird's ration consists of grain mixtures. Different kinds of crops (wheat, millet, oats, maize and others) and seeds (canary seed, herbage seeds, seeds of lettuce) should be contained in this mixture because it is really useful for a bird's health. Of course there must be oil-yielding seeds such as sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, hemp seed and various nuts. Obesity can be provoked by oil-yielding seeds so you are to give little portions of them to avoid overuse.
Each bird has its own normal daily amount of meal so you are to follow that doses must not exceed the norm. For example canary's norm is one teaspoon, budgerigar would eat 2 teaspoon per day and so on.
You are to contain in the forage different greens, wild herbage, fruits, vegetables, fresh leaves and branches of trees. Animal feed should be included to a bird's meal as a source of proteins. You may give your bird boiled eggs, nonfat curds and small amount of minced meat. The periods of feeding with such forages are different. For a usual bird it must be given one time a week, for a bird that has molt period - twice a week and in the period of nestling - each day. You must also put in the bird's cage a feeder with pieces of chalk or small stones, they are important for good digestion and will give calcium to the bird's organism.
Also it is necessary to provide a bird with a spacious cage. A great number of pet stores may suggest you to have various cages if you incline to bird houses.
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