If you decided to bring the feathery pet, in the beginning it is necessary to learn, than he eats. By a big mistake will consider that it is possible just to buy ready-made feeds, and your bird will not need anything any more. So, than to feed a budgerigar.
As it is correct to feed a parrot
The main rule in feeding of any animals and birds – products have to be quality and fresh, without addition of chemicals. Besides, it is necessary not to forget to wash daily the dishes of the pet and to change to him water.On a question how often to feed a parrot, there is no definite answer. At these birds quite fast metabolism, and therefore do not leave them without food longer, than for three hours. Better only every day in certain time to fill to the pet all day norm of a grain forage. Thrust segments of vegetables or fruit into a lattice of a cage. Besides, it is necessary to remember that it is necessary to enter into a diet new forages gradually. Wait until your bird gets used to new food.
With what forage it is necessary to feed a parrotBasis of food of parrots is the grain mix consisting of oats (about 10%), a millet of different types (about 70%) and also 20% of other seeds - canary, linen and hempy, wheat, etc. Buy ready mixes which are intended for the sake of appearances your parrot. Mixes for other types may contain, for example, seeds of sunflower and peanut which for a budgerigar are excessively greasy food. However, in small amounts nuts and seeds can be given. As addition to the main forage it is useful to give to a parrot germinated grain which contains contains a large amount of vitamins. It is the best of all to couch better a millet or wheat. Besides, it is necessary to include in a diet of a parrot every day fresh vegetables, fruit and greens. It can be various berries and fruits: apples, pears, a citrus, cherries, cucumbers, carrots, etc. it is desirable to give them large pieces. Put in a cell of the pet and greens – leaves of lettuce, a dandelion, spinach. If necessary it is possible to give to parrots an animal forage, for example, the hard-boiled eggs.
What it is impossible to feed a parrot with
Parrots cannot be fed with the following products: - avocado, mango and papaya; - potatoes; - spicy greens (fennel, parsley, cilantro); - garlic and onions; - the candied fruit; - meat, fish, cheese, oil, seafood. Besides, it is not necessary to feed a parrot from a table d'hote. Such food contains very much for these birds of fat and salt and is capable to do harm to health of feathery.
What to feed a baby bird of a parrot with?
As a rule, newborn baby birds are independently fed with the goitrous milk by a female of a parrot. However it happens that young mom refuses or cannot feed cubs. Then you should take care of its posterity. Ptentsov is recommended to feed with the following method. Part baby food to rather liquid state and warm up mix to 37 wasps. A baby bird a back put to yourself on a palm down. Then, dipping a thin clean brush in mix, accurately you bring it sideways to a beak of a baby bird that it was convenient to it to swallow the hanging-down drop. You feed a baby bird until he is sated completely. Such feedings need to be carried out every 2 hour. Gradually the number of feedings should be reduced, and to add the prosyany squash prepared from the crushed millet to a diet. When baby birds reach 20 days, they need to be replaced in a cage and to accustom gradually to feeding from a spoon. It is possible to push it through a door. When baby birds are able to eat from a spoon after a while, cook to them more thick porridge. After that also gradually begin to enter grain mix into a diet of the grown-up cub of a parrot.