It became fashionable to contain ravens as pets. However do not give in to fashionable trends or momentary mood. Before bringing to itself such pet, well think over everything, estimate the opportunities. Read everything that you will be able to find about education and keeping of a bird and once again well think. It is rather difficult to contain a crow in house conditions.
Instruction
1. A raven – very careful and clever bird. Differs from other representatives of family of vranovy in larger sizes. The wingspan reaches 120-150 cm. Brilliant, black plumage with a blue outflow, a beak massive. Lives everywhere, the exception is made by North America and North Africa. Meets, nevertheless, rather seldom. And it is extremely rare in the cities. As pets contains considerably more often than other representatives of family of vranovy.
2. Baby birds are taken at the age of 2-3 months. It is difficult to tame a six-month-old baby bird. Adult birds, with rare exception, are not tamed absolutely. The first 1-2 months you should be with a crow almost all the time. Porridges, cottage cheese, grated carrots, baby food without preservatives, beef pieces enter a food allowance of a baby bird. It is necessary to include calcium. Feed baby birds each one or one and a half hours. It is periodically necessary to take out a crow on the street. Use for this purpose a basket or a box. You watch that the baby bird did not overheat.
3. The raven – a large bird, and a usual cage will not be suitable for its contents. It is necessary to equip the open-air cage with the sizes of not less than 2х2 m. In the open-air cage place several poles perches or strengthen a tree with strong branches that it was convenient to bird to sit on them. Lay half of the open-air cage linoleum or make a metal pallet. Fill up it with sawdust.
4. Crows like to bathe. Give it such opportunity, otherwise it will try to be redeemed in a feeder. Daily, or at least every other day, put to the open-air cage a basin with water. After bathing remove a basin.
5. A raven – a bird active. Properly fix a feeding trough and a feeder, otherwise it will constantly overturn them. Provide the pet with a set of toys. Any objects of the small sizes will be suitable for this purpose, it is desirable brilliant. If the raven has nothing to be engaged, then he will find to himself entertainment. Most likely, will spoil everything what will be able to reach.
6. Give to communication with a bird not less than 2-3 hours a day, talk to a raven, it is capable to reproduce the human speech. Daily walk, let's do some flying. For this purpose it is necessary to take out it to the country. The tamed bird comes back on call of the owner. Not tamed and unexercised bird cannot be released. She can depart, be lost and die. It is possible to train a crow by a technique of training of hunting birds.
7. The basis of a food allowance of an adult bird is formed by meat: beef, boiled chicken, chicken necks and heads, meat of a rabbit, mouse, daily chickens. It is necessary to give also buckwheat and porridge, cottage cheese, berries, apples, eggs, carrots. It is impossible to give sweets, greasy food, rye bread, potatoes, a citrus. Products cannot be salted.