If you decided to help birds to worry winter and to feed up them, it is necessary to know what forage they can give and what can only do much harm them.
What forage can be given to birds
With approach of winter, time when it is necessary birds especially hard, we have to surely help them to cope with a beskormitsa and cold. Many do not even guess that only 10-40% of forest little birds can endure winter. Of course, someone sincerely tries to help, spreading in a feeding trough a part of the daily menu - pieces of black bread, pasta with sauce, cottage cheese, salty fat, fried sunflower seeds and other similar viands. With all the heart, so to speak, share with birds and... kill with these products of trustful birds.
The fact is that their digestive tract does not cope with such improper food, there is organism poisoning, the diarrhea opens - and this is the most terrible enemy of birds on cold, they with guarantee perish from dehydration.
Lower types of a forage which can be filled safely in a feeding trough - they will help our birds to live till spring.
- Sunflower seeds crude - the best forage for birdies, has to make more than a half of contents of a feeding trough, sunflower seeds very much of a kaloriyna because of availability of vegetable fat
- Millet in a crude and boiled look, and also not polished (millet)
- Oats in a crude and boiled look
- Wheat - crude or boiled
- Riceis crude or boiled grain
- Meat - can be used as crude, so boiled (without spices and unsalted)
- Fat - only unsalted! Fat with salt leads to dehydration and death of birds! Pieces tie to feeding troughs or branches that it was convenient to birds to peck it
- Beef, chicken fat, unsalted, mixed with white loaf or millet
- The rowan, guelder-rose, hawthorn in a dried look which are hanged out on branches in the form of a beads
- The cones collected from trees in the fall fix in the winter on branches since to lying on the earth of a bird cannot reach because of a snow layer
- The acorns collected also till fall are displayed in feeding troughs and willingly eaten by jays
- Corn in the dried-up look
- Seeds of pumpkin, watermelon and melon - the excellent forage rich with fats and vitamins is willingly eaten by many birds
- Egg shell - a source of minerals
- The white dried loaf (rye it is impossible because of existence of the yeast pernicious for digestion of birds)
What forage is strictly forbidden for forest birds
We often leave some types of a forage in a feeding trough, believing that we bear the benefit to birds. It is impossible to feed birds in the winter with the following products at all:
- salty fat and meat (the guaranteed dehydration and intoxication);
- fried sunflower and pumpkin sunflower seeds (such seeds cause a diarrhea in birds, and in the winter for them it is pernicious);
- any salty, fried, spicy, sour food;
- fresh rye and white loaf (it is possible white croutons);
- bananas and citrus;
- milk and dairy products
to the neena scatter chewing gum in those places where birds can pick up it, they often take chewing gum lumps for bread pieces, willingly peck it and perish because of obstruction of a craw.
Hang out feeding troughs so that it was convenient to you to update daily a forage, but at the same time they were inaccessible for cats.