Room birds as pets attract many people – they bring ease, lightness and good mood to the house. At the same time, that birds pleased you as long as possible, it is necessary to look after them correctly, and one of the most important aspects of the correct care for poultry are a balanced food and the correct feeding. For beginners the drawing up a various diet for a bird can seem a difficult task, and in this article we will tell about the basic rules of feeding of birds.
Instruction
1. In the habitat of a bird eat extremely variously, and their diet depends on the season providing any given food. In house conditions to completely repeat a natural chain of food it is impossible therefore you have to transfer a bird to the house forage made of various fruits, berries and seeds smoothly.
2. If the bird ate any ready-made feeds earlier, surely learn its brand and type to continue to feed a bird with the same structure. To change a forage, you transfer a bird to a new type of food gradually that change of a diet did not do much harm to health of a bird.
3. You do not feed a bird with the doubtful seeds covered with insecticides, poisons, a mold and excrement of rodents and small animals. Buying mixes of seeds, carefully sift, you clean and wash out them before the use. It is possible to dry seeds both on air, and in a gas oven at a temperature of 100 degrees.
4. Develop the regular mode of feeding at which the bird will receive standard daily rate of food daily at the same time. Besides a standard set of seeds, few times in a week add fodder mixes, insects and soft forages to a forage of a bird. Daily indulge a bird fruit, vegetables and greens – it normalizes its digestion.
5. Select type of a forage and frequency of feeding depending on the size, breeds of a bird and a way of her contents. If the bird lives in a small cage, it needs less forage as its physical activity is limited. If the fowls is kept in the open-air cage, she can give more forage.
6. In the period of a yaytsekladka the bird demands more forage, than usually. Depending on the size vary type of grain and seeds – for example if with you there lives a large parrot, he can be fed with large grain (oat, wheat, sunflower). Little parrots can be fed with a millet, a canary seed, porridge, seeds of salad and other small seeds.
7. It is possible to add abruptly cooked wheat porridge to a diet of birds, and corn seeds before the use should be soaked in water.
8. Be careful with food which is suitable for people, but is not suitable for feathery pets – do not give to birds alcohol, fat and fried and also meat and other products which can negatively influence health of birds.
9. From time to time give to the birds, especially, if with you there live parrots, fresh branches of a linden, a rowan, aspen, birch, and other safe trees.