Buying a parrot, people sometimes do not attach too great value to its feeding and think that packing of ready grain mix – all this that it is necessary for a bird. However why not to please the pet tasty and to make his diet more various?
Undoubtedly, ready grain mix is a basis of a diet of parrots, but there is a number of products which use in food, will bring additional benefit for health of the feathery favourite.
Germinated grain
It is necessary to feed with germinated grain all parrots, however it is most useful for representatives of large breeds. For a prorashchivaniye it is possible to use the grain which is contained in ready mix, in particular – a millet. Such grain is acquired much better and contains B2 and E vitamins.
Except a millet, it is possible to use special mixes for a prorashchivaniye which are available on sale in each pet-shop. Process of germination of grain lasts about 12 hours, this time is quite enough in order that content of vitamins in it increased ten times. It is necessary to add germinated grain to the main diet at least two times a week, thus it is necessary to watch that it did not begin "to wander". It is necessary to store such grain in the fridge, but no more than two days.
Fresh vegetable forage
Greens, fruit, vegetables and berries are extremely useful to health and good health feathery as it is an invaluable source of vital energy for each living organism. Before feeding, the listed products need to be washed up carefully under flowing water. Some products, such as kohlrabi, Brussels sprout, beet, haricot, green peas, it is necessary to blanch (to drench with boiled water). The cauliflower and broccoli need to be kept in boiled water within five minutes. Before feeding a bird with pieces of apples, pears and also sweet cherry, cherry and plum, it is necessary to take out stones. It is possible to add to a diet of parrots and purely washed up dried fruits, but it is desirable a home cooking. Besides, fruit and vegetable purees will be useful to birds to baby food, except for those from them which contain meat, fish and sugar.
Other products
There are products which can be added to a diet of birds in limited quantities. So, every two weeks can be indulged the favourite boiled quail or egg; two times a week it is possible to feed a bird with yogurt or kefir (fat content no more than 3%); periodically it is possible to add the porridges cooked on water to a diet of a parrot (without salt). Sometimes it is necessary to add to a forage of a parrot also something inedible, for example, pieces of cardboard or wood shaving. It becomes to create additional load of a beak of feathery.